ladies highlighting your hair

[JennaTX]

For the past year I have been getting my hair highlighted to cover the gray hairs that I am getting (yuck!). I have brown hair and I get golden/blonde highlights about every 4 months.

I also have very fine, thin hair and it seems like getting the highlights is starting to damage my hair.

I am 35 and going gray is not an option for me! Not yet at least.

So if you color your hair, how do you protect it? Do you use a certain product? Only touch-up your roots?

 

[PixieDust32]

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[WatchinCaptKangaroo]

You may want to stop highlighting it and go to straight dye for awhile. Highlighting usually involves bleach of some sort which fries hair.

That said I use a mixture of products on my formerly highlighted hair (it's growing out). Garnier Frutice (the entire line), I also find that salon products do work a bit better (I use TIGI and Redkin), check your Target and/or Wal-Mart because they have started selling pro lines there.

 

[dzneprincess]

I buy the Shimmer Lights shampoo at Sally Beauty supply. You cant miss it, it is in a purple bottle and I think it is by Clairol? But it is called shimmer lights. I love the way it smells! But it keeps my highlights fresh. You only need to use it once ot twice a week. I would definitely reccomend getting your highlights touched up more often than 4 months though. I usually go about every 8 weeks, but I could do it every 6 weeks. ( I am too lazy to get there every 6 weeks)

 

[JennaTX]

I would definitely reccomend getting your highlights touched up more often than 4 months though. I usually go about every 8 weeks, but I could do it every 6 weeks. ( I am too lazy to get there every 6 weeks)

If I got them done more often though, I think that would "fry" my hair even more.

 

[Christine]

I have thin, fine hair and get a highlight every 3 months or so. I've been doing this for years and the only time I've ever looked "fried" is when the go too blond (I am a medium-to-dark brunette). The best thing you can do is to find a better stylist. A good highlight should not fry your hair. You want to ask for two colors: one a darker blond and then, say, a caramel (they would call this a low-light). It is still a highlight, but it is a darker color and it doesn't really go to blond so you will have less of a "fried" look.

Also, realize that gray hair usually comes in more coarse and wiry. It will be different from your regular hair. Having the gray highlighted may give your hair the appearance of being fried when it is just coarser.

 

[Beastlover]

I have medium brown hair, and this is what I am doing:

Girl does foil highlights...just around my face and the top of my head...you know, the hair you would pull back if you were just doing a 1/2 ponytail. Then, she takes regular color and applies it to the bottom 1/2 and all the clumps inbetween the foils. I do that every other color.

Inbetween color is the regular color again applied all over the roots only...this covers the grey inbetween highlight/color, saves my hair and my pocketbook. This also cuts the "highlight growout" effect.

Essentially, every haircut I am doing a color. We just alternate the highlights with every other haircut. Hope this is not too confusing...

 

[Marseeya]

I'd recommend a good quality salon shampoo AND conditioner. Ask your salon for samples if they have any and find one you like! I usually use Nexxus Therappe and Humectress. There's another one there that's some kind of olive oil shampoo & conditioner that I love.

I've been using salon shampoos for years now and I definitely notice a huge difference when I switch to a store bought shampoo. They are more expensive by the bottle, but in the long run it evens out because you use less of it.

 

[ducklite]

I have medium brown hair, and this is what I am doing:

Girl does foil highlights...just around my face and the top of my head...you know, the hair you would pull back if you were just doing a 1/2 ponytail. Then, she takes regular color and applies it to the bottom 1/2 and all the clumps inbetween the foils. I do that every other color.

Inbetween color is the regular color again applied all over the roots only...this covers the grey inbetween highlight/color, saves my hair and my pocketbook. This also cuts the "highlight growout" effect.

Essentially, every haircut I am doing a color. We just alternate the highlights with every other haircut. Hope this is not too confusing...

How funny! Thta's exactly what I did for a long time. I'm now in a phase where I'm changing style everytime I get it cut, so no highlights until I decide on a "permanent" style.

Anne