Thanks! The red was my favorite too, the pink was fun but the hicolor is permanent so after a while I got bored with it. The red though I absolutely loved but it fades and has to be redone and after a while the hair starts to need a rest and then growing it out is sooo much work. less

Oooh. That reminds me. I bought a glossing kit but I'm afraid to use it over my semi permanent pink cuz the box says it "may" lighten the hair a bit. Will it pull the pink out? Or help seal it in? (never admit your a hair girl in a crowd of women. we WILL ask for advice. hehe) less

I'm not sure what you meant by "natural" or "unnatural" colors. When I think "natural" I think of henna.

Do you mean like, pink and stuff?

I used to dye my hair shades of red, maroon, "Black Cherry" (more cherry than black) But, now I like "Bright Black" from L'Oreal's Feria which is a cool black with blue highlights. The blue gets rid of all the red in my hair, and covers the gray nicely.

I also just bought a bottle of Beyond the Zone Color Jam 2 in Midnight Blue, because the blue highlights in the dye was starting to fade. I didn't bleach my hair out (I'm Mediterranean, we do NOT bleach out well. We turn copper.) I just used it as a rinse, it didn't take as well as I would have liked, I think next time I need to leave it on longer.

I'm looking for a job right now (the home business is going bust and my health won't tolerate hospital shifts at this point) so I am trying to keep it fairly "normal" looking. A little blue or purple highlights won't hurt though.

At this point, my once red-brown hair is heavy black. I love it like this. less

Lol,

Glossings are not supposed to lighten hair color, they simply deposit color ontop of the color you have. Glossings don't use peroxide strong enough to lighten hair color, thats why. So if you go for a lighter hair color than yours it won't lighten your hair, all it will do is give you the shine from the color in question (example: golden brown-you'll have a golden shine)

I don't know that it will pull the pink out unless it's like a really dark color, then it would basically sort of hide it. But the pink would stay underneath. What color did you choose?

A word of caution...if your kit came from the drug store/pharmacie they use harsher chemicals than those products used by hairdressers and it COULD lighten hair, I can't guarantee though, I have never used those types of products. Only hairdresser "professional" stuff. Seems so snobby, lol less

With HiColor's red



With HiColor's magenta..the magenta looked a bit more hot pink and less red in person..that was just not swell lighting.

I really hope that works and shows up! less

Welcome! I love the deep reds that some people can pull off. When I did a dark box color I also mixed with an auburn and it was so pretty! You could only really see the red in the sunlight though. But I didn't want it to be that noticeable anyways.

Now wait a sec...you have to explain something to me. The top one washes out? While the bottom doesn't? less

Screw getting a real job and help me start a cult. We can dye our hair and dress like slutty goth fairies instead of wearing white robes and flowers in our hair while playing the harp. We'll limit ourselves to thorns, or poisonous or carnivorous plants for head decorations. We can still play the Harold, but only if it's electric and we tear up with it and write dirty lyrics, er, make that chants, since we'll be in a cult and all. There are enough gullible people out there to brainwash to avoid finding legitimate and meaning employment. less

I used L'Oreal's Feria [italic}Bright Black.] It has a touch of blue in it, to keep the color cool and it keeps the natural red down. (which I like, but not when my hair is black, it looks brassy with black hair.)

I got some Beyond the Zone Color Jam 2 which the woman at Sally (A cosmotology shop) said is close to Splat or Manic Panic, but a little easier to use, and the blue is really nice and easy to use. How blue it takes is how long you leave it in. I was a little scared (because I only used the Feria a few weeks ago, the black was still there, but the blue high lights were fading and the grey was starting to grow out) so I only left it on a few minutes. It looked good (I don't have a picture) and My Man and my kids liked it, I think later today I may use it again, but leave it in the whole 20 minutes. Maybe on the underneath of my hair, near the part and at the tips.

It's good stuff, it doesn't smell bad (no peroxide) and is easy to use. They say to use a "tinting brush" which I don't have. I used cotton make up pads. It worked pretty well. You HAVE TO wash the blue off your sink and your skin right away though. It got on my acrylic nails (even though I was wearing gloves, I think either when I was cleaning it up, or when I was putting it away) and the nails are stained blue.) We have a cultured marble sink and I have to remember to put newspaper with plastic bags under it next time. less

That's why I'm alternating with the Beyond the Zone Color Jam 2 blue and believe or not, "Fancyful" black rinse. I know, the "Fancyful" is "old lady stuff" (My mom always had a bottle of the red on our tub for her hair when I was a kid) but it does put a black rinse OVER your hair until the next shampoo, and with the blue from the Jam 2, it should stay until I'm ready to use my next bottle of Feria Blue Black. (I already bought it, I have to be in the mood to do it, so I always have a bottle in my house.)

I also don't shampoo every day. It just ruins the dye job and makes it fade too quickly. TONS of conditioner, too, especially on the ends.

I'd like to try some of that Shine stuff. On top of the blue black.

Carrie Ann, what brand are you using? less

One of my daughters did her hair this color. It looked great, but it faded SO quickly! She went from Cherry Red to pink in just a few shampoos. Then she re-dyed it, and it turned maroon (which is the color I used to have all the time, and she said, "It's an old lady color!") so her boyfreind's mom did it a darker red-pink and it looked great. That was in the Spring and it's all faded out now. She's almost back to her original color. less

Ok, I got bored and found pictures too, apologies for the picture wall

Splat blue:


Splat purple:


Not a great picture of me, but the bright red is Splat, as well as the glimpse of purple, and the hot pink you can barely see is Atomic Pink from Special Effects:


And this is the Color Rays Fuchsia on me, always looks red, lol:
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Mine would last maybe a few wekes and then start to fade slowly. That's with permanent red dye though, with the temporary stuff it didn't last even that long. I did it with manic panic once and within a week it was looking orange. My biggest issue with it is that I absolutely cannot stand my hair orange..so whenever it looks the tiniest bit orange I really start to not be able to stand it.

I love maroon hair! I've had it every shade of maroon..from a dark auburn to bright red maroon like Sharon Osbourne's. I love Sharon's hair and she's the perfect example of how fun hair is ageless!

Man all this talk makes me want to go red just in time for Christmas..I could look like a festive elf! LOL I definitely think I'm gonna have to at least do some streaks! less

I'm not crazy about orange on myself, either. My complexion doesn't support that coloring. That's why I never bleach out my hair. I have too much melanin, and bleach always leaves it brassy or coppery looking.

The first time I dyed my hair was when it was "cool" to dye your "wings." (Yeah, I'm that old. ) They turned coppery orange and I didn't know how to get the color back (I was only about 13 or 14) my mother told me redying it would turn it green (she was probably wrong) so I had to let it grow out. UG.

Bright Red for Christmas would be SO cute.

As for going really dark, no I don't think I'll ever get it out, unless I were to go for a professional bleach job, which I'm not going to do. I've been maroon and shades of red for so long, I like the newness of the blue black, so I think I'll leave it like this for a long time.

Show us if you do it Red for Christmas. What about a single green streak? Total coolness. less

Yup, in fact to get my hair died black when I went from white blond to black I used peroxide, the softer kind which is used to seal in color. The stronger peroxides (20,30,40) basially lighten natural hair color and the coloring chemicals enter and alter the hair color. The softer peroxide (10-15) does not bleach hair, it just "deposits" the color. Hope that clears that up. less

So, if my hair is dyed Blue Black, a "soft" peroxide wouldn't lighten it, but a stronger one would? Would I be better off going to a salon for this? (Like I have the bucks for this, now. ) But, for the future, I'm assuming most of the commercially available stuff is "hard" peroxide in the glossing kits?

In our state, certain things you buy at Sally requires a Cosmetologist's license, but I guess I could ask the woman who works there.

I'm assuming, "don't buy the glossing kit at Walgreens, if you have really dark hair. Unless you know what you are doing." Right, is that what you are saying? Either that or have a pro do it? less