Hair Styles | Short, Prom & Celebrity Hairstyles | Hair Care- The Hairstyle Blog

Help . . . my hair highlighting went too brassy!

Here is a recent hair high lighting, hair coloring question on my comment board from Linda,

My best suggestion here is, don’t try to fix a bad hair highlighting job yourself! . . . Stop! The next step is a critical one. Although it can be fixed, it will take a good hair colorist to get the right hair color formula and application to correct this.

When it comes to hair highlighting, low lighting or any other hair color changes that involves darkening or lightening by more than two hair color shades, you would do yourself a BIG favor by leaving the job to a reputable colorist. Even a colorist can get it wrong, but they should know how to fix it.

I’m afraid the manufactures of hair colors have made it look waaay . . . to easy to be your own hair colorist at homeManufactures of hair colors have made it look waaay . . . to easy to be your own hair colorist at home. I’ve colored hair for years and I wouldn’t attempt to do highlights on my own hair for these reasons;

1. The technique of foiling in hair highlights (which is the best procedure in my opinion) is a learned skill. The width of your sections and the width of pieces of hair to be highlighted in each section have a specific affect. I don’t have the dexterity to be able to do this on myself, and I know how it’s done! I want someone who has done this over and over and over again, they have perfected the technique.
2. The hair color or colors you choose to weave in combine for the over all affect.
3. If your using bleach, you need to be able to assess when the color has been lifted to the desired shade, by watching it and then get it off your hair quickly. You would have a very hard time recognizing when the right timing is to do that.
4. Bleach shouldn’t touch your scalp, or it can melt into the roots and make them totally bleached, instead of just highlighted. Then you need the right level of hair color to tone it back to the shade you want.

Do you see what I mean? It goes on and on for the little things that can, and will go wrong with a home hair highlights

I afraid I may sound like a broken record here, but, it’s your hair, your messing with . . . your crowning glory . . . what you will first see everyday when you get up, get out of bed and look in the mirror . . . YIKES

I know coloring can become an expensive procedure, but for Lisa, at this point, the next step she takes may mean the difference of making it right or making it SO wrong that the only fix would be to cut your hair it off.

Technorati Tags: hair coloring, hair highlighting, hair low lighting, hair color correction