I've been coloring my hair black for the past 8 years, and never missed any spots........so I thought. I have noticed some big ass visible brown spots underneath my hair...(My natural hair color is ugly mousy, diarrhea, light brown) I use two bottles of hair dye because my hair is so long. And I color my hair every 5-6 weeks, to get rid of the ugly brown spots, AKA: roots.....except for the hair underneath. I do not know why , and I just cannot get those god damned missed spots....its so frustraighting...ahhhhh!!!!
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Xena
  • Re: Pain in the ass hair coloring....ahhhhh!!!

    Thu, April 17, 2008 - 8:53 PM
    so, if you go to the beauty supply, and buy the bottles and the peroxide separately, instead of a packaged box, heres what you can do. Get yourself the 30 volume peroxide instead of the normal 20 volume. Mix the coloring as directed on the colorant (most likely 1:1). Say you've mixed one ounce of peroxide and one ounce of developer. Use a half ounce of water to thin it out and bring the H2O2 level back down to 20. It will basically make a thinner mixture that will be alot easier to spread out to each hair strand. :)
    ANother thing you might do is go to a professional once every 6 or 8 months, to get in there and really get good coverage on anything you'd missed in the past several home jobs. :) Good luck!
  • Re: Pain in the ass hair coloring....ahhhhh!!!

    Tue, April 22, 2008 - 9:21 AM
    I have the same problem with the back of my head. For some reason, when I first dye my hair it looks fine, but several days later the black washes out and the brown underneath shows through - a big circular patch on the back of my head. Very special looking. My cousin (who is my hairdresser) says that certain parts of some people's hair just doesn't hold dye well.

    When I was dying my hair black with blue sections, I would get my oldest daughter to help me. Only fair, since she gets hers dyed professionally (gotta get that right bleached out look to resemble your favourite anime character, don't y'know?). Yeah, if someone owes you for something, I'd say pressgang them into helping you ;)
    • Re: Pain in the ass hair coloring....ahhhhh!!!

      Tue, April 22, 2008 - 10:33 AM
      This is only somewhat related, but who knows, it may help...

      A lot of goths (self included) *swear* by a Japanese hair dye manufactured by a company called Bigen.

      It has no ammonia or peroxide or the carcinogens that are in American hair dye (and illegal to put in hair dye in Japan, as I understand).

      It comes in different shades of brown, all the way to Gottthhhhh!! Black. It is gentle and it doesn't stink. It also doesn't stain skin as badly if you get it on your neck. It is easy to mix (mixes with water) and works in about 20 minutes.

      You can find it at beauty supply stores in the (duh) hair dye section, and I recently discovered that Wal-Mart carries it, but they hide it in the section of various oils, conditioners, and stuff for Black people's hair (IE it isn't with the Revlon/Loreal hair dyes).

      Oh, it also costs about half of what Revlon/LoReal hair dye costs.

      slade

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