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| Mon, 07-30-2007 - 9:46am |
Since I got such a great response to my work question, and really feel like it was helpful I have another question for you all. This is certainly not a serious topic but I am curious and trying to make a decision. I have always colored my hair. Nothing drastic but something usually going on. I am blessed with lovely mouse brown hair. I have colored it since I was in high school. Usually highlights. Sometimes lots making it pretty blond and other times subtle ones. Been red a couple of times but never anything too far from my natural shade as to look weird.
Anyhow now the gray is becoming a problem. For the past couple of years I have done an all over color (something similar to my natural color usually brown with a bit of strawberry) and then add high lights. The upkeep of this is getting a little much and I want to cover the gray. I just hate it. Last time I colored it I thought I might just leave it the dark color and not highlight. I hated it and thought it looked awful. So I was thinking of doing an all over blond. Nothing really light (not Marilyn) but a blond as I think I look best as a blond. Anyone here do this and how bad is the upkeep (roots). My hair isn't dark but next to the blond it may look like it. Although with the gray coming in more and more all the time it will be less and less dark.
So anyone willing to share?
Priscilla

At 45 I battle the grey as well. I dye the whole thing my natural color, which is a light brown with no highlights. The bleach and dye combination trashed my hair and I do not have the patience to sit in the chair for all of that or for the high maintenance it requires of doing it so often. I have a guy who comes to my house and cuts/colors for $60. I can work at my desk while the dye is working and if DS is here he cuts his hair then too. He uses a warm color so I don't mind having the whole thing the same color. My objective is to make sure it doesn't look colored.
While I haven't yet had to deal with the grey issue, I have colored my hair.
I've been red, blonde, several shades of brown, and simply decided against coloring anymore.
My hair gorws ridiculously fast, so for me the upkeep is so not worth it. I know for me, even though my hair is a fairly light brown naturally with lots of reddish and blonde highlights, when I colored it blonde, it seemed black once it started to grow- which only took a couple of weeks.
I wish I was more help, but I think the blonde will definitely make your roots seem darker.
Good luck!
Moody, not made to be a blonde
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Once I get it colored, I would only have to do the roots, that is part of the reason to change what I'm doing now. The way it is now color has to be put on all my hair every time because I have to color it all. Then go back and do the highlights. Too much damage to the hair. This way, once I pick a color, I will only have to do the roots and then occasionally refresh the color. My hair isn't in too bad of a condition right now, but I know if I continue to do it this way it will be.
Hey Pricilla. While I don't have brown hair, I have strawberry blond, I do get the top layer of my hair highlighted and then just touch up the roots when needed. I go lighter in the spring/summer months and then tone it down in the fall/winter months. It helps that my sister is a hairstylist too. :) Cheaper! lol However, these highlights are not so drastic that you can specifically see my roots when it starts growing out.
I would say that the blond would definitely be a lot of upkeep BUT that doesn't mean that you couldn't maybe go a lighter shade of brown or even a "dirty" blond. Do you do the at-home kits or go to a stylist? I was thinking that if you do the at-home kit, you could get the one (L'oreal?) that has the natural highlights in the color so it that it adds different tones to the color and doesn't look like one color all over. Did that make sense? lol
IMHO, I would go with the lighter brown or "dirty" blonde look so that it wouldn't be that much upkeep and would be simple for you. Then all you would have to do is touch up the roots but it wouldn't be THAT noticable when they grow out.
Hope this helped (and made sense!)! :)
Jennifer
I have gone to the at home coloring. I used to get it done at the salon but that was a luxury I had to give up as a single mom. I have tried a dark blond color but don't like it. without the highlights. It just looks too dark to me. I have had the highlights so much over the past 5 years or so I think I look older with darker hair. Probably just my perception.
I ran into a woman at Starbucks a couple of weeks ago that had a great color. She said her hair was a pretty dark brown and she was doing it herself. Gave me the brand and the number. I am planning on trying it. It looked very natural and it had been about 6 weeks since she had done it and it still looked great.