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Kelly


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I am kind of a bumbling idiot about all things that have to do with hair.

I went to get my hair done a couple days ago. I went in with this picture and asked what I would have to do to get my hair to this color, short of bleaching it. (My hair is naturally light brown but I've been dying it dark brown for years)


She gave me some highlights that she called "relights." I don't really know what that means exactly (and google isn't helping me much) but basically she somehow got my hair pretty red without having to use bleach.

She explained everything to me before she did it, so I guess it's my fault for not really understanding what she was saying, but I basically came out with really bright red, skunk-stripey highlights over my dark brown hair. It's not so bad toward the end where all the hair sort of mixes together, but it's pretty ugly at the roots. I like the color, but I do not like how stripey it is, or how brown the majority of my hair still is.

So my question is: Can I just "relight" my whole head so it can all be that bright red instead of highlighted chunks of red? Will going through the process again somehow fuck up the sections of my hair that have already been "relighted"?

I just wanted to talk to you ladies first in case you know anything about this - since clearly I cannot be trusted to hold or understand a conversation with my stylist, seeing as she explained to me what she was doing and I still came out totally surprised at what was on my head.



-- Edited by Kelly on Thursday 14th of October 2010 09:11:49 PM

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Can you go in and have your hair relighted heavier to blend in some of the stripes at the root? I know highlights can be done with different "heaviness" levels so I would imagine relights could too.

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according to this link I found, relights only color the parts of your hair that were already highlighted. (It sort of makes sense... highlight to make it lighter, then "relight" to add more color?)

http://www.pgsalonpro.com/?p=156&cat=26


Interesting, but uh... not really sure what that means for you. Maybe they can give you heavier highlights and then relight again?

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I would think that adding additional highlights (or relights - whatever) to blend would be your best bet. You might also ask the stylist to do a toner on your whole head to just blend and generally polish the final look. I have always found that my highlights blend much better when the stylist is conscientious about toning (when I went blonde, we had to tone twice).

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