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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | I started coloring my hair a few months ago. I went yesterday to have it redone. She went a little over board with the color. I'm gonna keep it until it's time to have it redone agin but when I go back I would like to go back to my natural color. My natural color is very light blonde and I been coloring it a light brown with a redish tent. She had been leaving some of my natural color but she didn't leave any at all yesterday. So is stripping as bad as people say it is? Did anyone have any problems with it? |
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 Off the Wall Wacky
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Location: Louisiana | If I were you, I would suffer through growing it out. Stripping is very damaging to your hair, and it's very likely you won't get back to your natural color anyway. I would tell her you want to go back to your natural color gradually, she should know the best, healthiest, way to do it.
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  Ms. Marine
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Location: Texas | dashnlotti - 2014-10-16 9:46 AM
If I were you, I would suffer through growing it out. Stripping is very damaging to your hair, and it's very likely you won't get back to your natural color anyway. I would tell her you want to go back to your natural color gradually, she should know the best, healthiest, way to do it.
I agree. Stripping your hair is not a good idea at all. |
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Dont strip your hair, it will be so dryed out and damaged. |
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Location: Texas | I wouldn't strip it. I would either have her lighten it some next time or go back, tell her you're not happy with it and ask for highlights to lighten it up. |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | Don't strip it... It's almost healthier to GRADUALLY bleach it back to the closest shade of your natural color as you can and then after you get it back to the closest natural color to let it grow. I'm in the growing process right now... From Midnight black back to dirty blonde... and I dyed mine from a box when i was 18 just because momma told me not to... and i'm still trying to fix it years and years and YEARS later... baby steps. |
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Location: USA | How long is your hair? |
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Location: Cocoa, Florida | I'm a hair dresser for a living so here's my advice, if you want to get the color out of your hair that's in it now my best and healthiest advice would be to ask your stylist to soap cap it (a very mild diluted bleach mix with shampoo) and if she doesn't know what that is maybe its time to find a new hair dresser!! Anyway, ask her to soap cap it to pull some of the color out and then go back and deposit a toner (the soap cap may lift to an orangy color since you say you have some red tones in it-and there are things called contributing pigments in hair as well) so a toner over the "stripped" hair will bring it back to a more natural and lighter look. Make sure your stylist is good with corrective color, because that's basically what you're doing.
Another option that may be healthier is to heavily highlight your hair and lowlight the rest with an ash based color which will correct the red. Or highlight and tone. Again, this could go terribly wrong if your stylist doesn't know her color!!!
Good luck and I hope you figure it out! |
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Location: California | I agree. Don't strip your hair. I've made the mistake and am still growing hair back out.
Use a clarifying shampoo not made for color treated hair. It will pull out some pigment with a few washes and the red tones will lighten over time!
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | Ok. No stripping. My hair in a pony tail goes just below my bra strap. I'm afraid that anything except redying it close to my original color will make it orange. With it being light light blonde and putting the red in. It's not a red red. It's more of a copper color. You really only see the red when I'm in the sun. |
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