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Any Tips for Hair Coloring My Roots?

Sooner — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 16:56:49 GMT

I have lovely naturally blonde hair. With lovely gray roots. You get my drift?

SO, experts here, how can I keep the roots blonde until I can get to the salon? I have never tried to color my own hair.

Don't talk to me about going gray either. Not for me.

TIA!

Re: Any Tips for Hair Coloring My Roots?

camelot — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 17:20:42 GMT

You can't! It will never match the color you have from your colorist. Just won't.

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patbz — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 17:05:03 GMT

You might want to call Clairol helpline and ask what products to use in your situation. Back when I was coloring (towards the end of that time period I was covering my roots biweekly) I was mixing my solution, pouring it into a bowl and using a paint brush to paint it on roots. After I finished the roots I mixed in about 1/4 cup shampoo into the solution and coated my remaining " natural" hair.

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Travone — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 17:21:51 GMT

Do you have a Sally Beauty Supply near you? They could recommend the right products for you to use. I've been coloring my own hair for years, refuse to pay the price at the hair salon. It's very easy to do, especially for a blond. Give it a try. I use clairol nice and easy.

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CatsyCline — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 17:33:36 GMT

If you've never done your own color, don't even try it. Coloring roots only much trickier than all over color. To do roots correctly you part the. root area in small sections with a rat comb or color bottle tip and paint on the color. But there will be overlap of the new root color onto the blonde. If you don' get it right you get "banding'. That mean obvious shade difference. Then you time the color solution. With gray roots you need the proper shade level - blondes 8-10, Ash or gold. And the color needs an "N" Neutral for gray coverage. Timing varies depending on how quickly your hair "lifts" or takes developer. Plus you have to color the back of the crown. lots of factors.

i would avoid box colors . you don't know what you get and the blonde shades tend to run brassy

Re: Any Tips for Hair Coloring My Roots?

CatsyCline — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 17:44:02 GMT

@Travone wrote:
Do you have a Sally Beauty Supply near you? They could recommend the right products for you to use. I've been coloring my own hair for years, refuse to pay the price at the hair salon. It's very easy to do, especially for a blond. Give it a try. I use clairol nice and easy.

i pick up my color at Sally but i have been coloring a long time. i use ION demis and do some bayalage hilites w powdered bleach and developer.

sometimes the SA aren't always the best at advice. The first time i tried coloring on my own (eons ago) i used two shades of light brown from Wella and the 20v developer they recommended. the color came out 2-tone because i had a perm growing out and the color grabbed the permed hair and ended up with Level2 very dark brown while the crown and down to my ear level was level 5 warm brown. i had to get it cut off.

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Puppy Lips — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:41:07 GMT

@Sooner I started coloring my hair a few years ago. I started at a salon. I sometimes color my whole head myself. More often, I just do my roots until I can get back to my guy. I use root touch up. It does not match exactly to the rest of my head, but it is good enough and then just blends in after a few washings. My color does tend to lighten with time. I do use WEN, so I am not sure why that happens. Root Touch Up is very easy to use. Good Luck!

Re: Any Tips for Hair Coloring My Roots?

Shanus — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 13:39:47 GMT

@Sooner wrote:
I have lovely naturally blonde hair. With lovely gray roots. You get my drift?

SO, experts here, how can I keep the roots blonde until I can get to the salon? I have never tried to color my own hair.

Don't talk to me about going gray either. Not for me.

TIA!

@Sooner If you try to color the roots and match it to the rest of your blonde....you'll have a big mess. No one's going anywhere fancy for awhile & take comfort that more women than not will be sporting roots. Let your stylist work his/her magic when you return to the salon. Something to look forward to, right?

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roeroe1005 — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 13:53:21 GMT

I color my own hair. Unfortunately, as I've "aged", I need to do it more often.

In between, or when I don't have the time to do my whole head, I use Root Rescue. Clairol & L'Oreal both have their own version. They have a nice amount of color shades. Very easy to use.

Takes about 10 minutes and I get about another 3-4 weeks out of it.

p.s. - there is a newer gel version, which I tried. I wasn't crazy about it and prefer the "older" version.

Re: Any Tips for Hair Coloring My Roots?

Shanus — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 15:47:31 GMT

If you don't already have these products at home, aren't most places closed or certainly color choices are limited?

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Lipstickdiva — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 16:11:51 GMT

Grocery stors and drug stores aren't closed or closing. Hours might not be the same but they certainly aren't closed.

Personally, I would buy something like the Joan Rivers powder and try and fill in the roots. I don't have naturally blonde hair, mine is highlighted. I'm not even going to attempt to do a root touch up with any semi-permanent or permanent color because I already know how that is going to turn out especially because I have shadow roots done.

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RetRN — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 16:15:17 GMT

Wig sales will be increasing. Otherwise long hair will be the trend.

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suzyQ3 — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 16:18:43 GMT

I have the same problem as you, @Sooner. From reading the answers, I think I'm just going to grit my teeth and wait until it's safe for me to go in. I have never used color myself, unless you want to count the time when I was 13 and had my friend spray pure hydrogen peroxide all over my hair. That didn't go over well with TPTB. :-)

I am heeding the mandate to stay in as much as possible. So I really wouldn't be able to shop for color anyway.

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Grouchomarx — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 16:33:53 GMT

@Sooner wrote:
I have lovely naturally blonde hair. With lovely gray roots. You get my drift?

SO, experts here, how can I keep the roots blonde until I can get to the salon? I have never tried to color my own hair.

Don't talk to me about going gray either. Not for me.

TIA!

Blonde with gray roots is easy to do yourself. That is my hair color situation and I color my roots every 2-3 weeks at home. I use L'Oreal brand hair dye in light natural blonde. If you choose to do it, just try not to go too dark. Medium blonde will result in a dark blonde color in my experience. It is almost closer to a light brown.

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Icegoddess — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 16:35:00 GMT

I use L'Oreal Magic Root Cover-Up between colorings. It's a spray. You can get it at the drug store. My grocery doesn't carry the Red I use, so have to get it at the drug store. I mainly only use it on my part and in the area on the back of my head where I have swirlies and hard to keep covered with hair sometimes. If I get too much on the part I can take a wet q-tip and run along my part so my part isn't red.

I wouldn't try to actually color your roots. Your stylist will hate you. You don't want to have to get a color correction when you only wanted to get your roots done. But, she may not be able to just put pro color on top of anything permanent you might have used.

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ScrapHappy — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 16:50:21 GMT

I use L’Oréal magic root cover up & clairol root touch up. L’Oréal washes out once you wash your hair. Clairol is semi-permanent. If I find myself not able to get to hairdresser for a long period of time, I use clairol. I have dark blonde hair & it matches perfectly. I’ve even gotten compliments after doing it myself.

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Sooner — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 17:35:38 GMT

@Grouchomarx wrote:
@Sooner wrote:
I have lovely naturally blonde hair. With lovely gray roots. You get my drift?

SO, experts here, how can I keep the roots blonde until I can get to the salon? I have never tried to color my own hair.

Don't talk to me about going gray either. Not for me.

TIA!
Blonde with gray roots is easy to do yourself. That is my hair color situation and I color my roots every 2-3 weeks at home. I use L'Oreal brand hair dye in light natural blonde. If you choose to do it, just try not to go too dark. Medium blonde will result in a dark blonde color in my experience. It is almost closer to a light brown.

@Grouchomarx Thanks! That's helpful! I have a pretty light blonde highlited color so that's VERY helpful if a crisis situation arises!!!!

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Sooner — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 17:36:47 GMT

@ScrapHappy wrote:
I use L’Oréal magic root cover up & clairol root touch up. L’Oréal washes out once you wash your hair. Clairol is semi-permanent. If I find myself not able to get to hairdresser for a long period of time, I use clairol. I have dark blonde hair & it matches perfectly. I’ve even gotten compliments after doing it myself.

THAT sounds like what I'm talking about! Since I wash my hair every other day, that might work!

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Trinity11 — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 00:00:07 GMT

@Sooner wrote:
I have lovely naturally blonde hair. With lovely gray roots. You get my drift?

SO, experts here, how can I keep the roots blonde until I can get to the salon? I have never tried to color my own hair.

Don't talk to me about going gray either. Not for me.

TIA!

@Sooner , it is really easy if you have someone to help you in the back. Just go on YouTube and watch a tutorial. If you are blonde already just make sure you go one shade lighter than what you see on the box. I do my hair all the time and it is never brassy but a very natural shade of light blonde. Just be sure not to overlap and the last 5 minutes work it through your hair entirely. I put a plastic cap on my head while the color is developing. I order them from Amazon. The heat helps the color to develop.

Good luck! I use L'Oreal Excellence, it is great for gray coverage.

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Trinity11 — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 00:01:21 GMT

@Shanus wrote:
If you don't already have these products at home, aren't most places closed or certainly color choices are limited?

Amazon sells everything you need on line as does CVS.