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Another thought: I did a rough calculation of how much it costs me a year for single process color, and the number is around $1,000. That’s just base color, not highlights, toner or haircuts. Then I thought about doing that for the next 10 years. Imagine the handbags I could buy with that money!
I was strawberry blonde as a baby and child, then my hair turned a deep reddish Auburn in my teens. A friend of mine pointed out that it had started getting quite grey when I was in my 30’s. I hadn’t even noticed the amount, other than plucking a few here and there. At that point I researched what to do, because I could not see myself coloring my hair every month and dealing the the grow out lines and damage, so I decided to get a few highlights to blend the grey in with the red and the small amount of blonde I still had. My hair lightens super easily because of my original color so it was not too much maintenance. Forward to my 40’s when I had salt and pepper hair and that was not a fun phase, realizing I was grey but not enough to go completely without some sort of chemical alteration. Eventually the need for highlights became less and less as people asked how I had achieved my silver or platinum color and I realized it was my own color!! How exciting!! So I would say the whole process probably took 20 years for me to go gray but 10 years of needing highlights every now and then to blend the dark hairs with the silver.
Thats really nice...its a slow proccess but I believe that its a great way of doing it....Congratulations on joining us all and showing your journey.Today was my first appointment with my stylist since I decided to let the gray come in. I went in with some trepidation because I thought she’d hate the idea, but to my surprise and delight, she embraced it. We talked about a couple of different approaches and decided to do a highlight/lowlight combination. The biggest issue is that my natural color is cool, but the single process color we’ve been using is warm, so she needs to balance that out so the hair coming in will blend better. The lowlight color she used is closer to my natural color. She did warn me it will take a few times of doing this to get to the point where it blends better with my naturally cool tone, but she said to wait at least 10-12 weeks before we highlight again, because it will get easier to blend if I let more grow in. This will be a nice change from going in every 5 weeks!
The interesting thing is, when I first brought it up, she took a couple of photos of my hair before she started putting in the foils. I asked if she was documenting the progress, and she said, “The number one question I’m getting right now is how to grow out gray hair.” So I think I’m going to be an example for her to show other clients!
Here’s the result after today’s appointment. I’ll try to remember to have her take photos as we go along over the next several months and post them here so everyone can see.
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Today was my first appointment with my stylist since I decided to let the gray come in. I went in with some trepidation because I thought she’d hate the idea, but to my surprise and delight, she embraced it. We talked about a couple of different approaches and decided to do a highlight/lowlight combination. The biggest issue is that my natural color is cool, but the single process color we’ve been using is warm, so she needs to balance that out so the hair coming in will blend better. The lowlight color she used is closer to my natural color. She did warn me it will take a few times of doing this to get to the point where it blends better with my naturally cool tone, but she said to wait at least 10-12 weeks before we highlight again, because it will get easier to blend if I let more grow in. This will be a nice change from going in every 5 weeks!
The interesting thing is, when I first brought it up, she took a couple of photos of my hair before she started putting in the foils. I asked if she was documenting the progress, and she said, “The number one question I’m getting right now is how to grow out gray hair.” So I think I’m going to be an example for her to show other clients!
Here’s the result after today’s appointment. I’ll try to remember to have her take photos as we go along over the next several months and post them here so everyone can see.
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Today was my first appointment with my stylist since I decided to let the gray come in. I went in with some trepidation because I thought she’d hate the idea, but to my surprise and delight, she embraced it. We talked about a couple of different approaches and decided to do a highlight/lowlight combination. The biggest issue is that my natural color is cool, but the single process color we’ve been using is warm, so she needs to balance that out so the hair coming in will blend better. The lowlight color she used is closer to my natural color. She did warn me it will take a few times of doing this to get to the point where it blends better with my naturally cool tone, but she said to wait at least 10-12 weeks before we highlight again, because it will get easier to blend if I let more grow in. This will be a nice change from going in every 5 weeks!
The interesting thing is, when I first brought it up, she took a couple of photos of my hair before she started putting in the foils. I asked if she was documenting the progress, and she said, “The number one question I’m getting right now is how to grow out gray hair.” So I think I’m going to be an example for her to show other clients!
Here’s the result after today’s appointment. I’ll try to remember to have her take photos as we go along over the next several months and post them here so everyone can see.
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