I’ve been dying my own hair for the past 17 years and have learned a few things along the way that I’ll share with you if you’d like to start out your own hair coloring journey.
I like to redo my hair every 3-6 months and have the option to change it up color-wise. I’ve learned to use demi-permanent hair color because:
- It will fade out and be ready to recolor in 3-6 months
- I can lighten it up by using come clarifying shampoo if the color turns out too dark
- When I go to highlight my hair back when I used permanent dye the bleach would turn the root of the highlight super light and then there was an abrupt line where the old permanent dye was applied and that part was a completely different shade of highlight… not cute!
I like to have lowlights and highlights. When combining the two I’ve learned that if the hair color gets onto a highlighted piece of hair, even if it is just for a second during the washing out process it will darken it. The just-bleached hair is thirsty for that dye and absorbs it instantly. That is why I usually do my lowlights one day and then highlights a few days later, so much easier to not have to be careful about the dark dye coming in contact with the bleached parts.
If you love the look of thick, full hair full of volume highlights give my hair so much of that with the dimension it adds. I liked the look of the overgrown dark roots and tried that on my own hair and discovered it made my hair look flat and thinner on the top/crown where I like to have the most volume. Now I add in highlights up there too, but more at the ends to create the cross between a heavy baylage/ or very toned down ombre.
Cholestero
l will protect the hair from getting colored if hair dye was to bleed onto it or touch it during the process. Its an easy step to make it more fool proof. I used to use SO much of it, but now with more practice I don’t use it all the time. You will see in the video of me applying my lowlights this last time I didn’t use it for the first half and then did for the second half, so watch the second half if you want to see how to use the cholesterol.
Have fun & don’t be too afraid of messing up! You can always fix it if it doesn’t turn out just as you had expected, and it only costs $10 or so for the supplies as opposed to triple digits $$$ at the salon.
As much as I’d love to not do videos, I love watching videos because it is so much easier for me to learn when I actually see someone do their thing. I have much to learn about producing and editing and staring in videos, but if you are interested in how I get my lowlights you can see the whole process in the video below. Happy hair dying!!