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Angie4b1g

Angie4b1g

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Do you color yours? Always the same? Different for different seasons?

I like to go a bit darker with a hint of red for the fall.

Yesterday I bought what I THOUGHT was my usual fall/winter color but whoa boy it wasn't. My hair is RED, y'all. I guess I shoulda gone to the salon. :whistle

We'll see how it looks in a few days, but until then, I hope I have a lot of hats. :giggle

Any disaster stories for you?
 
I color mine. Loreal Excellence 9-1/2 (Light Natural Blonde) or 10 (Extra Light Natural Blonde).

The only times in my life that I've done a different color myself was an Ash Blonde that turned it greenish-gray (that took a trip to the salon to fix) and a Strawberry Blonde that turned it orange (that I toned down myself).

Therefore, I stick to my two colors and all is well in the world.

Hope your red fades a little so you can be happy with it. I love red, but I just can't pull it off.
 
I don't color my hair anymore but I used to get blonde highlights all the time. I thought I would save a little money once by buying a highlight kit at the store and doing it myself. Lets just say that I looked like a skunk and did not save any money because I had to go to the beauty shop to get it fixed. Never did that again LOL.
 
I've always been all-natural. I think it would be fun to mess with my hair color a bit, but I'd never want to ruin it myself and paying a salon to do it would probably bust my budget, especially since I already pay way more than I should to have it cut every 5 weeks. I always wanted to go with auburn highlights, though.
 
I have very dark hair, so if I use box dye it just seems to go an unappealing shade of orange :( So I do to the salon. I go a deeper shade of red in the winter, and a light shade in the summer.

summer hair -

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fall hair -

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I was very blond until my mid-twenties when it slowly started getting darker. My natural color now is dried mud with lots of gray/white highlights. :giggle So yes, I definitely color, although not as often as I should. I've got some pretty serious 2-inch "roots" right now. :whistle

I used to experiment with different shades of blond until the one time I ended up with a horribly unflattering orangey shade that required a salon trip to fix. The colorist told me I needed a level 10 ash blond, and that's what I've stuck with since – 2 boxes (I have really thick hair) of Garnier Nutrisse White Chocolate and I'm good to go! :thumbsups
 
my natural color is some sort of dirty blonde, but i've been using some spray color (e.g., sun in or similar) for a few years to get the lighter color i have now ... i spend something like $6/year on my color and no time LOL. i let it get a little darker in the fall/winter by not spraying as much - anytime i go to a new hairdresser they don't even realize i color my hair b/c it looks really natural.
 
I used to dye it auburn all the time- but just got out of the habit and I've been au natural for years. I have been wanting to get an ombre dye job at the salon, but just haven't got around to it yet! I've never had it professionally colored before.
 
I am pretty much all natural. I get "sun made highlights" during the summer months and it usually gets me by the rest of the year. I have strawberry blonde hair. I do get my hair highlighted about every THREE years. I went MEGA blonde for a year or so quite a while ago....but let it go back natural before I met hubby. As much as I hate the color of my hair, I guess I have to admit that it is kind of pretty...if you like strawberry blonde! LOL
 
I always colour mine. Except for once (and I forgot the number), I haven't found a colour I really like so I always change colour with every salon visit, whatever takes my fancy at the time. Nothing outrageous though due to work, usually in the light brown to reddish-brown range. I'd love to try purple/bright red/green/pink streaks.
 
Dana said:
my natural color is some sort of dirty blonde, but i've been using some spray color (e.g., sun in or similar) for a few years to get the lighter color i have now ... i spend something like $6/year on my color and no time LOL. i let it get a little darker in the fall/winter by not spraying as much - anytime i go to a new hairdresser they don't even realize i color my hair b/c it looks really natural.
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How often/much do you spray? Maybe this is what I should be doing. Mine is so much lighter in the summer, that when it darkens in fall I get all annoyed, and that's when I color it. Maybe if I could keep it a bit lighter I'd be less ticked off. :giggle
 
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Two trips ago to the hair salon I decided to have my hair colored by someone other than me and WOWZA was my hair ever red. Um, kind of purply/maroonish/red and it did NOT look natural. Ugh. I paid a ton of money and didn't really love the results. I did let her do it again this time, but told her she had to dial back on the red a lot! I wanted a warm dark brown... not crayola red! LOL!

I would love to go without color too, but i have a grey stripe in the front that has been there since I was 18 years old. You can only see it when I pull my hair back, but I like to do that once in awhile and think that stripe makes me look so old!
 
All natural... all the time. Except the 10 months I was in cosmetology school (I think it was required that we do weird strange things to our hair). My hair is so dark and stubborn, even the strongest bleach will only get it orangy. So unless I go darker (hard to picture me in black) I do nothing. I have some white highlights starting to appear - for now, they don't bother me enough to do anything about.
 
Yes!!!! I'd be totally gray if I didn't, so I go every 4 weeks for color and cut (today's the day!!)

I try to go lighter so the gray doesn't show so fast, but I'm always unhappy with lighter hair and my skin tone. I LOVE dark hair, especially in the fall winter with warm red undertones!!
 
I used to experiment with color a lot. My natural hair color is a sandy brown, but once I started playing around I couldn't stop...lol. My hair has been red, dark brown, blonde and black. In September of this year, I tried Henna + Indigo to dye it black and I love it. So I think it will be this way for awhile, or at least until I get the urge to experiment with more henna.
 
I've never colored my hair at all! I like this color. :) As soon as I find some grays, I plan to add some red to it.
 
I'm completely gray and have been since my early 20's. I have to colour every 4 or 5 weeks. Sometimes I get lazy and just do the roots at home between going in.
 
When I was in college, I dyed my hair purple for a swim meet...and it ended up GREEN. It. Was. Awful. Green is so not my color.

I used to get naturally blond in the summer and brown in the winter, so after we got married, I found some "highlighting mouse" to use in winter. Except that I lived in New Orleans, where humidity is like 10,000%, so all winter long I just applied the mouse to my roots and then put my hair up in a clip. So once I went home in the spring and actually blow dryed my hair, it was bleach blond, lol. It was very unnatural, and my husband made me promise no more color. So for the last 10 years, no color for me. I always told him that once it started going gray, I was going blond again. We'll see.
 
i have been coloring at home for 17 years! I use any brand med or dark blond and it works like a charm :) I did go to a salon for a couple of years and got color and pretty highlights etc, but it was just too expensive and a pain to sit there for so long.
 
I see the hairdresser every four weeks. I'm about 80 to 90 % gray she says so unless I want the skunk stripe at my hairline I HAVE to go. My hair is a really, really dark brown naturally and I color it the same now. My ex convinced me to go red about 14 years ago and that was an absolute disaster. My friends nickname for me is Snow White with pale skin and dark hair so that red just fought with everything, makeup, clothes, just everything. Your skin tone really matters with hair color.

The kicker is that my son (18) already has about 50 gray hairs. My 21 yr old daughter has a handful of them too. They say "Thanks, Mom!"
 
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