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Thu Apr 28, 2011 7:24 am  |
| I have dark chestnut colored virgin hair but want to put some VERY subtle and natural hi-lites in my hair...kinda like how your hair naturally was when you were a kid. I've heard of the balayage technique for coloring hair. Anyone tried it before? I do not want to put bleach into my healthy hair....is there a way of lifting a dark shade of brown without bleach? |
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Late 20's, clarisonic, Vit C serum, hormonal acne, congested pores, combination skin, living in Vancouver Canada |
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Thu Apr 28, 2011 8:08 am |
| BCgirl wrote: |
| I have dark chestnut colored virgin hair but want to put some VERY subtle and natural hi-lites in my hair...kinda like how your hair naturally was when you were a kid. I've heard of the balayage technique for coloring hair. Anyone tried it before? I do not want to put bleach into my healthy hair....is there a way of lifting a dark shade of brown without bleach? |
I am not familiar with balayage technique, but anything that lifts color has to use a chemical process of some sort. I remember girls using lemon juice and sitting in the sun.  You can have streaks (subtle) added with a very light blond regular color, it uses peroxide but it's no where near as harsh as bleach. I have done my youngest daughters very dark brown hair this way after she had breakage from a stylist bleaching highlights in. Waited until her hair recovered first of course! |
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I'LL SEE YOU ON THE DARKSIDE OF THE MOON.... |
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Thu Apr 28, 2011 11:31 pm |
| you could try henna. its messy but if you stick to it and find a method that works for you and use quality fine sifted henna it is almost like a pudding and does not clump off. i use henna fromwww.hennasooq.ca and they can give you further info on how to lighten your hair. |
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Fri Apr 29, 2011 5:14 am |
Balayage is when the colour is painted on to the hair but it's not wrapped up in foil. Something solid, like a piece of card wrapped in foil is used to place the hair on in order to have a hard surface to paint the colour on - then it's removed and you move on to the next piece of hair. It can be quite difficult to do by yourself.
I sometimes use a similar method to do my hair, but I just put on latex gloves and apply the colour with my fingers - but I have very short hair which makes this easy.
There are various lighteners that don't contain ammonia, so they're supposed to be gentler on the hair. |
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Sun May 01, 2011 4:32 pm |
| Giselle has these type of highlights which were big in the 2000s. I wanted baylayage, mostly just did regular foils. Not sure how "in" baylayage is anymore---- Giselle's hairdresser Harry Josh writes articles for various magazines, maybe Google & see what comes up. |
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Sun May 01, 2011 6:28 pm |
| Giselle popularised the look of having the ends of the hair a lighter colour than the rest - but you can use the balayage technique to colour the whole length of the hair. |
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