Colouring Hair at Home!

[Kirstie_x]

Evening All,

I was supposed to be getting my hair cut and coloured on Thursday but due to my money going elsewhere this month (damn weddings!!), I'm going to have to cancel and have bought some hair dye to do the colouring myself. I have done it before tonnes of times but I'd really like some advice so it goes as well as it possibly can as I have a party to attend on Saturday night.

I'm naturally dark brown but the colour I have at the moment has some reddish tones to it. I want to dye my hair a dark chestnut brown and run some blonde highlights through it. At the salon, they do this at the same time but as I'm not an expert, how is best for me to do this? Should I put the chestnut brown over all of my hair and then once I have washed that out, put in the highlights?

Thanks,
Kirstie_x

 

[VIVA.GLAM]

You can get your hair done fairy cheap and well at college. They need the practice, you need your hair doing and there is someone watching over them and helping them along so you're in good hands and you don't have to spend a fortune. It's worth spending a little to get it done right in the first place. So many people have attempted what you're hoping to do and it doesn't turn out right. Then do you try and fix it yourself? And it may end up worse. I'd hate for it to go wrong for you and ruin your evening. It's not just your evening that would be ruined either. We're not at liberty to advise you on how to colour your hair yourself so I don't want to sound like a party pooper but I'd go and see a pro. If not, definately try at your nearest college. x

 

[VIVA.GLAM]

I mean fairly cheap! Oops!

 

[sparx]

Site rules say that advice on home colouring is not allowed.

If you're going to do it anyway, home highlights by yourself are a recipe for disaster, you need someone who can section and weave highlights in. Box highlight 'wands' are bad. Box hair dyes are even worse.
You won't be able to lift a red base to a blonde without knowing the science behind it, so please go to a professional... or cheap college. My local college is £10 a colour and cut.

 

[NeelieGel]

I am always amazed that people even consider doing colour and highlights themselves. As a fully trained and long time experienced hairdresser I give a lot of thought and care to doing clients that are coloured all over and highlighted. It is very skilled and only really competent hairdressers should do it.

Let me be blunt what you will end up with orangy patches in your hair. Not highlights. Highlights are achieved by skillful sectioning and weaving, and then skillful judgement on the level of peroxide used, the length of time it is left on etc etc. How on earth do people expect to do this with no sight of the back of their head and no method of actually seeing what the colour is doing up there.

Sure put a one colour semi over it if you like but highlights as well???? NOOOOO.