Do you dye your hair?...

[billiebrat]

I was born blonde and have very fair skin and blue eyes. When I got pregnant with my daughter and my hormones went psycho, my very curly hair went straight and got darker. I couldn't stand it, so I started dying it to a medium golden blonde. The curls finally came back, but I still have to help the color. My stylist does it usually, but if I have to on my own I like Perfect 10. I just did it tonight, there were some oddballs in there I don't even want to think about, so *poof* they're gone.

 

[Akane]

I've been trying to go for more of the brown and less red so I've just been adding acids like lime juice to get the henna to release more color. I also use the 2 darkest henna mixes that lush sells. Someone said to try coffee grounds and I've debated it. My hair is an odd mix of nearly black to light brown. It was bright blond until about 5th grade when it turned dark brown by the end of junior high. Both my sisters had the same thing with their hair around that age. This summer when it sun bleaches naturally I thought about getting the really red henna and trying it. It could be cool. My boyfriend comments on the redder highlights my hair gets just when I use the jasmine and henna conditioner from lush. After using henna only 3 times over the past 4months my hair went from my hairdresser telling me it's so damaged she'd have to cut most of it off to her commenting on how thick and strong it is. Henna is a lot of work but well worth it and henna does not fade out of your hair. It has to grow out before the color is completely gone.

 

[debilorrah]

I have been dying my hair since I was about 12. Mainly because my natural color is a meduim brown, in other words mousy brown, and without color it just hangs there with a few waves. When colored, because color opens the hair shaft, it gets more manageable and looks way better.

Right now I need it done. I usually have a light weave with red undertones.....

 

[sara]

My hair was black when I was born, then very blonde through first grade, then brown, always straight as a board. Then I started to die it blonde, too much upkeep, so colored it light brown. After chemo I lost it all, it came back dark brown with tight curls. Then I lost it again for my stem cell transplant, back to black, and wavy. Now I got highlights put in it to cover the greys popping up..

 

[debilorrah]

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WOW!!! So many changes!!! I had a friend that had chemo and her hair was blonde blonde and straight. After chemo, she didn't lose a lot of her hair, but what came back was brown and curly. She has the prettiest hair now.

 

[Chickerdoodle13]

Wow! I think it's so interesting to see how many red heads we have here!

I use Garnier "Pomegranate" hair dye. I believe it's permanent, but it never seems that way! I always tell my mom (Who does my hair for me when I'm home) that it really doesn't matter what color it comes out because it fades in a few days anyway!

I have a picture of me when I did my hair the last time with this color. This time my hair came out more red and a little lighter. I LOVE the way an actual auburn color looks, but I just can't seem to find that exact color. This color seems to fade out into an auburn though.

Since this picture, I've gotten a hair cut (With side bangs) and re died my hair once. Unfortunately the pic doesn't show my hair color real well, but you can kind of see it. I have to get an updated picture!

 

[redhen]

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very pretty hair!...it looks SO healthy!...mine sucks!..

..and i love the color also!.....

 

[Chickerdoodle13]

Thank you! When it's short, it really can be a pain in the butt! When it's longer, at least it has enough weight to keep it from flying up all over the place!

I'm a type 1 diabetic and I've been told that one pleasant side effect is having soft, shiny hair...two things which I've always been lucky enough to have!

 

[Catalina]

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Try the red! I've tried adding coffee grounds- it adds a lot of brown - which is OK, but I like the shiny red color.
I know what you mean about your hairdresser, mine poo-pooed henna and said it would turn my hair copper-red or green and now she wants to sell henna in her shop!

This is how I look with henna and plastic wrap on my head. When I first started using henna I would wrap plastic bags around my head!

I was a real bag lady.

This is a pic of my mom and me. (I'm on the right) You can kind of see how red the henna makes my hair. In full sunlight it's RED.

 

[pips&peeps]

My best friend is a hair stylist. She moved about 300 miles away about 10 years ago and I have not had a good perm since and have not forgiven her either.....

But, with colors, if you want it to last, use a semi permanent color. Permanent color fades faster especially with red. It's just the opposite of how it reads.

I went red after my divorce back in '91. (I was married a whole 10 months

) I finally got tired of it a year and a half later and had to bleach all the color from my hair to get rid of it. Then the blonde just grew back in.

Now that I am 40 and have had three kids it is a little darker and not as stylish as it used to be. I get a perm whenever I get free time and since I have so much hair it usually takes 3+ hours to get it done.