Hair Coloring

[channlluv]

Thank you, Muirenn and Catrin. That article suggests that up to 70% of hair can fall out about 2-3 months post acute trauma like surgery. That is it, I think. The loss has sort of tapered off the last couple of days, thank goodness. It's still a lot, but not as much as last week.

I got my hair cut today and the stylist said that the previous highlights/bleaching could cause the blonde parts to break and fall out, but not so much the darker parts. My fall-out has been all-inclusive.

She did say she saw some breakage, though, although it's hard to attribute that to any one cause. Could be the way I comb it out when it's wet, or from the bleach. She suggested I lay off on the highlights for a bit and if I want to cover the gray, to go with the darker color only/roots touchup, and pull it down to blend with the longer hair so it's not so abrupt a change. Like underlights instead of highlights.

I like my hair short. Well, short for me. It's at my shoulders. I can still pull it back into a ponytail for riding.

Roxy

[WindingRoad]

Ok between getting paranoid about all my hair falling out and the terrible smell of the dye I opted to stop at the first color. I actually really like it now. It always takes a few days to 'grow' on me before I decide if its good or bad It's darker but no one is going 'OMG your hair' when they see me. I feel when my hair gets too light it washes me out and I just don't look good. I think my normal hair color isn't too far off from the color I dyed it. It is kinda strange though because I went with a light ash brown which usually has NO red but I definitely still have a hint of red in there. Must be those redhead genes

[Gypsy]

Ok between getting paranoid about all my hair falling out and the terrible smell of the dye I opted to stop at the first color. I actually really like it now. It always takes a few days to 'grow' on me before I decide if its good or bad It's darker but no one is going 'OMG your hair' when they see me. I feel when my hair gets too light it washes me out and I just don't look good. I think my normal hair color isn't too far off from the color I dyed it. It is kinda strange though because I went with a light ash brown which usually has NO red but I definitely still have a hint of red in there. Must be those redhead genes

My hairdresser recently told me that dark hair is made up of red pigment (it just varies in the concentration of it, to get brown, black, hair). Blonde hair has yellow and red in it (variations in amount equal the different colors).

We were discussing this because my mom was there with me and she was getting her hair lighten up to blonde (she's never been a blonde) and the hairdresser kept checking the color as he lightened it. I asked him about that and he told me that's why a lot of hair turns orange when it's dyed incorrectly.