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Sherry Amethyst Offline Posts: 20 Texas Gender:	Do you color your hair? Sep 17^th, 2004 at 2:23pm Just curious about how many if any of you color your hair? I do because I hate my natural color and it helps with my oily hair. Ofcouse I only do the roots when it grows out. Thought I'd ask.
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Re: Do you color your hair?
Reply #1 - Sep 17^th, 2004 at 2:44pm

I colour mine! It's hair in a bottle!
Been doing so for the last 10 years. I usually use Feria...but I've also tried that Garnier one as well.

Because I colour red, it tends to be a bit more difficult to keep up. It looks great the first couple weeks, but then it gradually gets a bit brassy the longer I go before doin it again.

I colour because I hate my natural colour too. Its too ashy, (from what I can remember of it. lol)

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Re: Do you color your hair?
Reply #2 - Sep 18^th, 2004 at 7:10am

I color my hair. My hair improved after I started coloring it, it seems like it has more body and is actually healthier. I have dark brown hair that is almost black when my natural color brown faded at the ends I decided to do it black, that was ten years ago. I color the roots about every 5 weeks and sometimes once a year or even every other year I color all of my hair right down to the ends. I used to use Ultress but lately have been using Garnier (which I really like).

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Re: Do you color your hair?
Reply #3 - Sep 18^th, 2004 at 1:38pm

I wanted to go natural for the health of my hair, but
now I've got these grays coming in. I'm not ready to
go gray right now, as it kind of makes me look too
washed out. I don't want to use henna right now, either. Has anyone heard of Revlon Colorsilk? I thought
about buying it but when I saw it on sale (no ammonia)
but it also sounds like Garnier is a favourite, too. I'm
kind of scared to colour my hair at home, but the salon
gets expensive.

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Sherry Amethyst Offline Posts: 20 Texas Gender:	Re: Do you color your hair? Reply #4 - Sep 18^th, 2004 at 2:32pm I tried Revlon colorsilk and didn't like it much. The color fades very quickly. I now go to the beauty supply and get Loreal's Excellence in Baby Beige. I really like it and it is simple for to do at home and I save quite a bit on doing it that way.
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Re: Do you color your hair?
Reply #5 - Sep 18^th, 2004 at 4:25pm

I've got salon highlights that I haven't kept up since
May because I want my hair to be healthier. I don't
care for my natural color, either. I use to get auburn
highlights but they faded so fast I switched to blonde.
BIG MISTAKE! Anyway, if it weren't for these grays
I would just let it go for awhile so it could get back
to healthy. I've heard good and bad on Colorsilk.

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Re: Do you color your hair?
Reply #6 - Sep 18^th, 2004 at 6:20pm

I've tried Revlon Colousilk ages ago....I don't remember much about it except that it faded pretty quick.

Babyfine, I know what you mean about the salon gettin expensive. Out here, it's REALLY expensive. I have always coloured my hair at home. The only time I ever went to a pro to get it done was last year when I was invited by a friend who works for Revlon to sit as a hair model experiment. It came out really nice. One of the longest lasting, best dye jobs I've ever had. Its a good thing it was free though. If I had gone in off the street, it would have cost me €120!! OUCH!

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Re: Do you color your hair?
Reply #7 - Sep 18^th, 2004 at 8:16pm

Oh, I know what you mean! Since I already have these
highlights I'm Kind of in a quandry. I don't want to do
permanent colour at home over these. I'm scared to
try henna because I've heard you shouldn't use it over
chemically treated hair. Might wind up with green hair! Shocked

Anyway, the grays are just in the bang/fringe
area which I can live with for awhile.

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Re: Do you color your hair?
Reply #8 - Sep 25^th, 2004 at 8:33am

I've colored my hair in all of the rainbow! But I'm trying to get it healthy as much as possible. I'm currently at a medium brown, which I really like on me, even though my natural color is black. Sometimes I should go back to black and let it grow out naturally, or keep on dyeing it a medium brown (doing roots only). Both colors are pretty. Some people always envied my natural black hair because it was so glossy and silky. I forget what that was like. The last time I had really natural black hair without color was 5 years ago lol. For some reason I was bored with it when I should not be! Wink

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Kate Emerald Offline Posts: 328 Linköping, Sweden Gender:	Re: Do you color your hair? Reply #9 - Sep 26^th, 2004 at 8:19am Black hair is stunning, Aeryn. Why don't you let your natural color grow out again? /Kate
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Re: Do you color your hair?
Reply #10 - Sep 26^th, 2004 at 8:41am

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I'm currently at a medium brown, which I really like on me, even though my natural color is black. Sometimes I should go back to black and let it grow out naturally, or keep on dyeing it a medium brown (doing roots only). Both colors are pretty. Some people always envied my natural black hair because it was so glossy and silky. I forget what that was like. The last time I had really natural black hair without color was 5 years ago lol. For some reason I was bored with it when I should not be! Wink

Wish I could trade hair colors with you Wink

mine is brown and I color it black cause I love black so much. Cheesy

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Re: Do you color your hair?
Reply #11 - Sep 27^th, 2004 at 6:54am

I hate my natural color too. It's a super super light ashy blond. I get low lights at an Aveda salon because I can never find a color in a box that looks good. I can't go too dark with those or my hair will turn a weird color. I only get a 1/2 head of lowlights every 4 months. It's $60 and I usually get a cut at the same time for $40. That is a bit expensive, something like $300 a year. BUt my boyfriend gets a hair cut at a barber every 2-3 weeks and pays $15. That's like $260 a year, so I figure I'm just spending the money differenly. And Aveda has BEST color of anything I've ever seen.

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Re: Do you color your hair?
Reply #12 - Nov 4^th, 2004 at 5:27am

No. I don't color my hair. At the moment I love my natural color, but there are times when I wish I was a brunette. Or have a raven hair. Or have anything else but my natural color Roll Eyes

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When I get this mood a walk in nearest shopping mall (or any place with lots of people) helps. Coloring hair is very popular here- quite often I notice that I am the only person in a crowd who hasn't colored her hair.
I suppose that one doesn't notice it if there is nobody to compare with...but coloring really damages hair and kills its natural shine. And though there are special products for colored hair, none of them works perfectly, at least in the common cases when hair is dyed repeatedly.
Yes, some colors are lovely- as colors. I understand people who are willing to exchange their natural quality of hair to the color they have dreamed of. It's their choice, and I just wish that they have made it well informed.
I also believe that there are people whose hair quality actually benefits from coloring. Only, based on my "research" they seem to be a very small, happy minority.

Though one's natural hair color is nearly always something that she hates at least occassionally, it is often from the artistic point of view one of the colors that naturally matches to her skin and eyes. Also, the colors that one wears around heir hair will have a huge effect on how it looks. For example, if I wear a certain shade of light gray near my hair, the whole hair looks somehow sickly yellow. Raspberry red, on the other hand, makes it look very beautiful.

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Re: Do you color your hair?
Reply #13 - Nov 4^th, 2004 at 1:59pm

Colouring definatly compromises the health of one's
hair, theres no doubt about it. I'm a chemical junkie-
first it was perms, then it was highlights in red and 'blonde ( I'm a natural med-light brown). If you go
black, brown or red, that is not nearly as damaging as
going lighter, as I was doing, because those only colour
over your hair as opposed to bleaching it. With my
ultra fine hair- chemical processes are very damaging
but I can get away with doing highlights over the few
grays(brown or red highlights) without doing too much
damage if I baby it afterwards. But I don't know if my hair will grow really long if I continue to do that. If I was
going to keep my hair shoulder or mid back length I don't think it would be a problem. But I want hair as
long as it will grow. I keep thinking about henna, because I love red- but I'm scared of the mess and results. I marvel at these celebrities that seem to change their hair colour every other week without
doing much damage. Every time I see a picture of Julia Roberts, for example, she's sporting a different hair colour- without doing an y noticible damage to her hair!
Last summer she was highlighted blonde- the last picture I saw she was back to dark auburn( which looks
great on her) If I did that my hair would all fall out!!!! Shocked

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Re: Do you color your hair?
Reply #14 - Nov 4^th, 2004 at 2:08pm

Oh I know what you mean about the celebrities. I can't figure that out! They must have a team of stylists at their beck 'n' call to do emergency treatments on their hair because NO WAY could real people do as much as they do to their hair and still have any left over.

Then again, maybe their hair isn't in as good nic as we think. Photoshop does amazing things to people! LOL Wink

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