I have dark hair.
I go to the cheapest hairdresser one earth (bless her heart) but it's still too expensive.
I highlight my hair & I stretch out the appointments due to cost.
I only go twice a year.
Yuck, I know.
Has anyone highlighted their own hair & had any success or should I just keep doing what I'm doing?
I really don't want to spend the money even twice a year but I like the highlights.
I don't want to color my hair one dark color (I know that being the cheapest) at home.
I've been tempted but just chicken out & make those 2 appts a year.
A freind of mine did it herself and it was terrible. She cried. She had to go get it fixed and it costed a lot of money to fix. More then if she had just gone to get it done right. Dont do it.
I would pay! Treat yourself twice a year at least! You deserve it and it would probably cost more to fix it if you mess up!!
I'm a professoinal stylist. While I have absolutely nothing against at home hair color, and have advised many people how to do it... I would not recommend at home highlighting, especially on hair your color, because even in the salon we usually have to end up toning the color to perfection, and we have special lighting and techniques for highlighting dark hair.
Unless, you don't mind looking like a tiger or calico cat, then dropping even more money at the salon to fix the color... I have had to fix so many horrible at home highlighting jobs, where women come in crying and desperate... and they are costly to fix.
To save money at the salon you can... shop around for better prices, you can go to a beauty school and ask for a senior student, you can call around to high end salons and ask if the apprentice is taking color clients, or you can ask your stylist for partial or focal highlights instead of full highlights.
Think if it this way... you are not a professional stylist. You get what you pay for.
You go cheap and do it yourself and end up with a botched job then you are out MORE money to fix it plus your hair is more damaged.
Go to a professional. In the long run, you look better and you need to occasionally do something for YOU.
You're better off leaving it to your hairdresser. I have tried it in attempt to save money and ended up with an awful brassy color that took more than one trip back to a salon to fix, costing me so much more money! Just keep doing what you're doing. Hair color is one thing that's best left to an experienced hair stylist.
Just last week I googled...."how to highlight your own hair at home" as I was going to do my daughters hair for her.
There are lots of tips...
Here's one:
http://www.howtodothings.com/fashion-and-personal-care/a3...
I do mine all the time. I have never been to a professional to do it.
I messed up one time only. I did not leave the lightener on long enough and it was more yellow than I like. I like a while blonde and not the golden blond color.
I think that once you do it you will see how easy it is and how versatile. The one thing that some women do is to pull the hair through a cap, bleach the pieces, then put a certain color on it to make sure it is the right color they want. I think this is way too much work.
In my opinion I have always had better luck with Clairol over L'Oreal. Just my personal preference.
Depends on how much highlights you usually get. If you get the whole head highlighted - then, definitively go to a salon. If you only get a few strands - you can try, but be ware! If you have a dark base - it is way harder to get it right, trust me, I tried. I always ended up running to a salon and paying for a color correction. Finally, I learned to color roots myself (with a mix of two colors done every 3 weeks at home) and I always get the highlights professionally (about every 5-6 weeks at the salon), (mine is a total overhaul from a dark brunette to a highlighted very natural blonde so it is an art work in itself and I would not dream of messing it up).
