I have brown hair and I want to have blonde highlights. My only problem is my grey will come through at the roots. What can I do please?
By Helen
Add your voice! Click below to answer. ThriftyFun is powered by your wisdom!
If you get a lot of blond highlights put in, your blond hair will camouflage the grey and make it less noticeable. However, if you are dying your hair brown, and then want to add the blond highlights, it may not work as well.
In my 40's and early 50's, all I used was blond highlights. Now, to get the same effect I use the products that will give you a triple colour effect. Nice 'n Easy triple effects is what I use. And I just ignore the roots most of the time. Why not? Sometimes I use a root touch up.
A product called 'Sun In' was all the craze when I was fixing hair in the late 1960's & 70's - I know what I did to get golden highlights in my dark blonde hair... I took a large bottle of peroxide [the kind you can buy at the drug store, CVS, Walgreens or even Walmart now a days]. I would pour out half of the bottled peroxide into one of my quart canning jars, cap it off and save it full strength for later - then I would add tap water to the original bottle and a large squirt of lemon juice. Shake the bottle up and either putting a squirt handle on the peroxide bottle' or transferring 'it' into a smaller bottle with a squirt handle on it.
From there I would stand in front of my makeup light's (there were 8-65 watt bulbs) around my bathroom mirror for about the time it would take you to put your makeup (15 to 30 minutes).
I did this little routine daily and within a couple of weeks the women at the neighborhood bus stop (women took the bus to visit friends across town or to go shopping 'down town' as there wasn't a Walmart, Kmart etc. invented then). Their husband's used the 'one owned family car' to take them to work. Any way the ladies began to notice how I had slowly turned into the young lady with the different colors of blonde streaked throughout her hair in different hews of her natural color of dark blonde.
So be adventuress and try it... the cost will only be the price of the peroxide [less then a dollar].
If you have light to dark brown hair peroxide will draw out the red hews within the color itself - just like it changes the lighter hair colors into lighter hews of light brown; dark brown hair will come out with different hews of red to golden brown in it - gorgeous looking in my book.
The good thing about this is that It is harmless to you, your hair and the environment. Within weeks your natural hair color will grow back out, should you want to go back to your natural color. If not continue to spritz your hair 'periodically with this peroxide mix' and then stand in front of the makeup lights 15 to 20 minutes.
Good Luck and have a great time...
Add your voice! Click below to answer. ThriftyFun is powered by your wisdom!
