Hi guys,
New to this forum, so please bare with! (Hairdresser since 2009)
I have been doing foil highlights on my sister's hair for years now (sometimes just bleach other times a mix of bleach and 6/7 all of which are weaved 3 bleach to one 6/7), but for the time it takes was hoping to find an easier alternative by way of all over tint. I have my reservations about these as the high lift blondes are renowned for going orange/gingery but never used them. That aside, she insisted on trying out-so I purchased XP100 12.1 to counter any warm her hair has a tendency to throw out and get rid of brassyness on her blondes,I use XP range from sally's having been a previous Wella freak. As expected,roots went ginger and mid lengths and ends were a mixture of creamy blonde and pearls. In natural light the root glow was far too warm and so attempted to put a 10/1 Wella over them to tone- which made a marginal difference but not enough. I resorted to slicing through all the roots with bleach + 3% a week later, which brought them up obviously but the overall look was bad. I left it a week and then weaved 6/7 with 3% through the whole hair. Although the application was fine the end result was still not as expected- leaving us with a very lavender/grey look overall to her hair. I am at a loss what to use from here as everything I would normally use/do that is fail safe has not worked. I don't want to put anymore bleach near her hair, but need to restore blondes somehow and introduce some warmth/life back into her hair. The final alternative will be to bring her darker blonde (6), but even then I am scared of what to use, because the hair just doesn't seem to respond the way I would expect it to
All advice greatly received.
New to this forum, so please bare with! (Hairdresser since 2009)
I have been doing foil highlights on my sister's hair for years now (sometimes just bleach other times a mix of bleach and 6/7 all of which are weaved 3 bleach to one 6/7), but for the time it takes was hoping to find an easier alternative by way of all over tint. I have my reservations about these as the high lift blondes are renowned for going orange/gingery but never used them. That aside, she insisted on trying out-so I purchased XP100 12.1 to counter any warm her hair has a tendency to throw out and get rid of brassyness on her blondes,I use XP range from sally's having been a previous Wella freak. As expected,roots went ginger and mid lengths and ends were a mixture of creamy blonde and pearls. In natural light the root glow was far too warm and so attempted to put a 10/1 Wella over them to tone- which made a marginal difference but not enough. I resorted to slicing through all the roots with bleach + 3% a week later, which brought them up obviously but the overall look was bad. I left it a week and then weaved 6/7 with 3% through the whole hair. Although the application was fine the end result was still not as expected- leaving us with a very lavender/grey look overall to her hair. I am at a loss what to use from here as everything I would normally use/do that is fail safe has not worked. I don't want to put anymore bleach near her hair, but need to restore blondes somehow and introduce some warmth/life back into her hair. The final alternative will be to bring her darker blonde (6), but even then I am scared of what to use, because the hair just doesn't seem to respond the way I would expect it to
All advice greatly received.
