La_Bart
New Member
Hi, I'm trying to achieve a rich warm chocolate brown base with caramel blonde balayage pieces round the front and scattered through the back just from mid lengths to ends. I know you will want to know what I have on my hair at the moment so here goes. Since is used colour B4 last year I stayed pretty light balayage with a base of a warm level 7. I stupidly decided to get highlights and all over colour in summer, they used loreal in the salon I went to. End of summer this year I put a mix of demi perm redken shades eq cream a mix of 5bc and 7wn all over as I didn't like the highlights, leaving out some sections that were blonde and glossing the whole lot with shades gloss mix of 9nb and 9aa hoping to produce a warm caramel. It looked good..warm aurburn but faded so quickly.
I want to go darker and richer for winter but keep some balayage pieces a little lighter and warmer. I decided on loreal majirel 5.35 as the base, not wanting to overlap bleach, I foiled some pieces out of the way and smudged the base colour down as far as I wanted it to go, then did the same gloss formula as above all over on wet hair after washing the perm colour off. I also had half of it cut off at the same time into a shoulder skimming graduated bob so a lot of the over processed damaged hair has gone. This was done just yesterday.
The colour looks nice but it is much warmer and a bit lighter than I expected, still very auburn. I was hoping for a rich, chocolate brown with subtle warmth/red tones under light. Whatever goes on it lately it seems to want to pull a similar shade of auburn. Also the pieces I left out that were blonde do not stand out against the darker base as I had hoped.
What do you suggest I do? I want to do it again within the next couple of weeks. As I want a rich base colour should I use another perm? Especially as the demi perms don't seem to last on me? And if I want to get the definition between the base and the balayage would I be better off colouring the whole lot with the base and then taking the balayage highlights through after?
Are there any brands/formulas you would recommend to achieve the desired results?
Sorry for the essay but I know it's hard to advise without knowing what is already on my hair.
I want to go darker and richer for winter but keep some balayage pieces a little lighter and warmer. I decided on loreal majirel 5.35 as the base, not wanting to overlap bleach, I foiled some pieces out of the way and smudged the base colour down as far as I wanted it to go, then did the same gloss formula as above all over on wet hair after washing the perm colour off. I also had half of it cut off at the same time into a shoulder skimming graduated bob so a lot of the over processed damaged hair has gone. This was done just yesterday.
The colour looks nice but it is much warmer and a bit lighter than I expected, still very auburn. I was hoping for a rich, chocolate brown with subtle warmth/red tones under light. Whatever goes on it lately it seems to want to pull a similar shade of auburn. Also the pieces I left out that were blonde do not stand out against the darker base as I had hoped.
What do you suggest I do? I want to do it again within the next couple of weeks. As I want a rich base colour should I use another perm? Especially as the demi perms don't seem to last on me? And if I want to get the definition between the base and the balayage would I be better off colouring the whole lot with the base and then taking the balayage highlights through after?
Are there any brands/formulas you would recommend to achieve the desired results?
Sorry for the essay but I know it's hard to advise without knowing what is already on my hair.