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Post by ~summer~ on Sept 9, 2024 17:42:53 GMT
If you highlight your hair blond how often do you go?
I used to be able to go at least 10 weeks. But right now it’s only been 7 weeks and I feel like I’m due. The grey roots are not helping!!
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smartypants71
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Post by smartypants71 on Sept 9, 2024 17:49:40 GMT
My natural hair color is a darker blonde. I do balayage, so I go every 3 months. Fortunately the gray blends in enough that 3 months works out.
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Post by lisae on Sept 9, 2024 17:56:20 GMT
My natural color is a light brown. I used to do an all over color with highlights. This we have switched to highlights and lowlights. I go every 8 or 9 weeks. It mostly covers the gray. It's more of a blend.
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River
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Post by River on Sept 9, 2024 17:56:57 GMT
I go in about every 6 to 7 weeks for grey roots and do a touch up on blond highlights every other time I go for roots, so 12 weeks between highlights. Although, it's starting to be a struggle to wait 6 weeks.
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amom23
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Post by amom23 on Sept 9, 2024 18:00:44 GMT
I go every 6 weeks and have my roots colored. My hair tends to become very blonde from the touchups so several times a year my stylist adds lowlights. I haven't done actual highlights for years now. I have way too much grey to get by with just highlighting. My sister still does and it's not working for her, but I'm not going to be the one to tell her LOL.
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Tearisci
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Post by Tearisci on Sept 9, 2024 18:03:32 GMT
I go every 6 weeks for a foil with high and low lights. My natural color has gotten darker and grey over the years so it does take me a long time to process. My hairstylist says that I was meant to be a blonde and I told her I was as I was growing up but after most of my hair fell out due to malnutrition from being hospitalized, it came back totally different.
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Post by Zee on Sept 9, 2024 18:31:01 GMT
Ugghh I've gotten so gray! I do a base warm light brown with blonde highlights about once a month.
If I try to go more than 6 weeks I feel like I look washed out and unhealthy. My natural hair and skin colors are ashy brown and very pale. I just look tired without color (hair and makeup!)
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Post by needmysanity on Sept 9, 2024 18:35:24 GMT
I get my roots touched up every 4 weeks but he only does the highlights about every 4/5 months.  This is me 4 months into the highlights. |
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Sept 9, 2024 18:38:07 GMT
I go every five weeks for my roots with a light brown. She only does blonde highlights every other visit and sometimes by the end of the summer we even skip a highlighting because I've gotten enough lightening/brightening from sun exposure. ~summer~ - You probably need to ask about something designed more to address the gray roots specifically. The highlighting alone eventually won't do it. Ask me how I know. Lol. |
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Post by ~summer~ on Sept 9, 2024 18:45:01 GMT
I go every five weeks for my roots with a light brown. She only does blonde highlights every other visit and sometimes by the end of the summer we even skip a highlighting because I've gotten enough lightening/brightening from sun exposure. ~summer~ - You probably need to ask about something designed more to address the gray roots specifically. The highlighting alone eventually won't do it. Ask me how I know. Lol. you’re probably right. I know highlights don’t cover grey…I love my highlight guy but likely need to start addressing the grey separately. |
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Post by ~summer~ on Sept 9, 2024 18:45:34 GMT
I get my roots touched up every 4 weeks but he only does the highlights about every 4/5 months. View AttachmentThis is me 4 months into the highlights. very pretty hair! |
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Post by ~summer~ on Sept 9, 2024 18:47:01 GMT
Ugghh I've gotten so gray! I do a base warm light brown with blonde highlights about once a month. If I try to go more than 6 weeks I feel like I look washed out and unhealthy. My natural hair and skin colors are ashy brown and very pale. I just look tired without color (hair and makeup!) I am the same way. My natural hair color now is a dull brown. It’s sooo much better with fresh highlights. It’s just so expensive and takes so long. |
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Post by needmysanity on Sept 9, 2024 18:55:19 GMT
I get my roots touched up every 4 weeks but he only does the highlights about every 4/5 months. View AttachmentThis is me 4 months into the highlights. very pretty hair! thank you  |
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Post by MichyM on Sept 9, 2024 19:03:56 GMT
I have my hair colored (gray roots) every 8 weeks. It is a light to medium subtle strawberry blonde. I have foils done every other or every third appt. For the first time in a year or more, we just added low-lights instead of highlights. they are a lovely copper blonde. I love the look.
Anyhow, color every 8 weeks, foils 3-4 times a year.
Having blonde hair makes the gray grow out less noticeable. As does the fact that I have curly hair.
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Post by cadoodlebug on Sept 9, 2024 19:28:26 GMT
Every other haircut so about 10 weeks.
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Post by KikiPea on Sept 9, 2024 19:34:24 GMT
I have really dark natural hair, but do balayage every 6 months. I do it just for fun, as opposed to covering up anything, so I don’t care about the roots at all. I don’t have much gray yet though, mostly just tensel.
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Post by Merge on Sept 9, 2024 20:07:05 GMT
I get my hair done every five weeks. I alternate between getting just my roots colored (warm brown level 6) and having both the roots done and the highlights touched up. So highlights happen every 10 weeks.
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Post by peano on Sept 9, 2024 20:29:39 GMT
I have medium brown hair with some red in it. I color it around every 4-5 weeks (it’s short so I have to get more frequent cuts to maintain the shape, and I am starting to get more gray). I do blonde highlights typically 2x a year. Late summer, early fall and spring usually.
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peabay
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Post by peabay on Sept 9, 2024 20:38:22 GMT
I have blonde hair that has gradually darkened into a mousy light brown, dark blonde. So I've gotten 1/2 head of highlights for years but my stylist and I decided next time we're going whole head. I don't have much grey, just blah lack of color.
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Post by cmpeter on Sept 9, 2024 20:40:34 GMT
I have medium brown hair and get highlights every 12 weeks (along with color for my minimal grays).
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Post by mollycoddle on Sept 9, 2024 20:45:07 GMT
That is why I decided to go gray when I hit 50. I had blonde highlights for years, and really liked them. I got highlights about every 6 weeks. But as my fast-growing hair went gray, I had to go more often-and get root touch ups. Then my stylist said that I should consider adding low lights. It was too much. Luckily my gray hair is a nice color. I just wasn’t willing to do that much upkeep.
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Post by MichyM on Sept 9, 2024 22:51:12 GMT
That is why I decided to go gray when I hit 50. I had blonde highlights for years, and really liked them. I got highlights about every 6 weeks. But as my fast-growing hair went gray, I had to go more often-and get root touch ups. Then my stylist said that I should consider adding low lights. It was too much. Luckily my gray hair is a nice color. I just wasn’t willing to do that much upkeep. If mine went gray pretty, I'd do it in a heartbeat. You are so lucky! I was a natural redhead, and just lost pigment (as many redheads do) over the years to a really dull, awful gray. Once I got to about 40% gray we went from highlights and "getting by" to permanent color. I will be coloring until the day I die. My son has orders on that, and to get those pesky chin hairs plucked regularly ;D |
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Post by AussieMeg on Sept 9, 2024 22:59:34 GMT
I get a half head of foils every 8 weeks. If absolutely necessary, I can stretch it out to 9 or 10 weeks, but my preference is 8. I get blonde highlights with a few warm / brown ones thrown in. I find it helps to disguise the regrowth. And if my regrowth starts looking particularly bad towards the end, I will use my Rosewood shampoo.
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Post by peasapie on Sept 10, 2024 2:01:29 GMT
I can go three months but I get hi and low lights so the regrowth doesn’t show as much
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Post by Lexica on Sept 10, 2024 2:28:07 GMT
I used to get highlights added every 8 weeks or so. Except in the summers when I was outside so much that my hair lightened all over naturally. Then the pandemic hit and it was a couple years without even a hair cut. When I finally got back in for a haircut, my hair had started to turn a very light blonde to white color. I swear, this is what I had been paying to achieve for years. It still hasn’t turned grey, but it is a light blonde with white streaks that look like I have paid to add them. I could not be any happier with it. My mom’s hair turned a whiteish color also. I am so happy that I didn’t end up with grey. I will take white any day. I have thought about having a few dark colors woven into it, but I am actually pretty happy with it the way it is.
Another weird hair thing…my leg hair quit growing. It had slowed way down, only requiring shaving once a month, but now, at 70, it just quit totally. I have never been very hairy, and since I have always been blonde, it was never easy to see. Same with my underarm hair. It just stopped growing.And I am not complaining about it.
I do have a few white chin hairs stubbornly popping up. I have used a hot wax to rip them out by the roots for years and for the most part, they have stopped growing back in, but I still check it daily and find a few chin hairs. And even though I check daily for chin hairs with my magnifying mirror, I will occasionally find a dark long hair growing out of my neck! The first time I saw one, I thought it was a cat hair stuck on me since I had just been brushing the cats. I tried to wipe it off with a damp facecloth, then realized it was actually growing out of my neck! Disgusting! How it grew that long overnight, I don’t know. I am really careful to check daily, but still find a hair about an inch long once in a while.
My mom had this issue too. She couldn’t see very well and would bring me her tweezers to check and pull any that I would find on her. I never saw chin hair on her though. She may have done something without telling me about it, but I doubt it since she had no embarrassment asking me to pull the black neck ones.
My older sister spent a fortune having electrolysis on her mustache and chin areas. She would go to her dentist’s office and pay them to numb those areas, then go to the electrolysis appointment. She said she was not going to be in a nursing home with a full mustache some day. And she could certainly afford to have it done. Her hair has always been a light to medium brown and her arm/leg hair was quite visable. My waxing was not expensive and was good enough for me, thankfully.
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