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I color mine all the time but I don’t go for “natural” colors much

when my hair was short I would do blonde now and then… but now that its to the middle of my back.. that would be way too damaging.  

I bleach my hair white/blonde and it is a nightmare to keep up to! I think it’s worth it though once you find what works right for you

These are mostly things to consider before dyeing your hair any color -_____-

I’ve been dying my hair blonde for the past 6 months, and although it can be expensive, I really love it! I like how people treat me differently now too. Everyone used to think I was shy and reserved when I had brown hair, so they wouldn’t talk to me, but now that my hair is blonde, everyone is so much more chatty around me. Honestly, I think I should have been born a blonde…lol.

I go to a salon that uses “Up to 7″ bleach. In one dye, it goes up to seven shades lighter. I have naturally black hair and I’ve been dying it since seventh grade. I recently decided to go white, and it only took two bleaches to get it platinum. My hair is healthy and full, and it looks gorgeous. I think everyone should try blonde at least once.

I used to be blonde when I was a kid.  I wish I could go back, but now my natural color is medium brown.  I’d ruin my hair if I tried to dye it blonde.

@opheliatohamlet@xanga - I’m a natural blonde, but I dye my hair brown. However, I’ve experienced the opposite as you. Ever since I went brunette, I get a lot more attention! Guys just seem to dig brunettes more. Although I liked when my hair was blonde, I love my hair as a brunette. I also get taken more seriously. That is always a plus.

I bleached my hair so I could dye it red. It looked pretty awesome on me though I have dark skin. I ended up messing up the dye job the first time. I had bleached it too long and it came out as a bright red. My friend re-did it so now it’s darker but my roots are already brown again from new growth and it’s only been two weeks. It’s not a perfect job but I like it now. 

I did some subtle lowlights at the beginning of my first semester at my new school, because I wanted to go darker without fully dyeing it, and it actually looked really good. It was so much easier to just grow out because it faded into my natural color. I might do it again this fall  :)

I had highlights and while I did like them, I’d have to agree that coloring your hair can be very pricey and troublesome.  I’m back to my natural color and like it much better

Coloring your hair shouldnt damage it that much. I bleach/color my hair regularly and my hair has never fallen out and is still soft. You’re doing something wrong.

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I dyed the sides and back of my head blonde and left the middle black. I used dye in a box, over-processed my hair, and it fell out in a week. Worst day of my life. My hair is african-american so moisture is needed all the time. The blonde sucked the moisture even worse that my natural hair color. 

I got a cool hair cut after that. I dyed my hair jet black 1 month later, and my hair looked and felt healthy. Then 6 months later, dyed it reddish-brown. It needed deep conditioning but it did not fall out like the blonde hair did.I think the dark the hair color dye, the less damage occurs to your hair.

I used to be blonde. Then I made some “friends” who thought it was hilarious to call me “Blonde” even though I’m smart.

I actually was dyeing my hair from when I was about 17 until last summer. (I was 25.) I just can’t afford to keep up with it anymore. I’d love to (because I finally found a nice dark color that I love). But realistically, I can’t spend that much anymore. And I’m not about to dye my hair from a box mainly because I couldn’t trust myself with it.

I’m interested in seeing how my hair is after I get rid of all of the dyed hair. (It’s about half grown out.)

Oh I did the horrific blonde-on-top-black-on-the-bottom look once. I was less blonde and more.. brassy. It looked awwfffull on me. Now I just have little blonde chunks on either side of my face, and they stay a nice white blonde for me, and I love it I usually change my hair a bunch but once I did the blonde pieces I fell in love.

A lot of these points are similar to dying hair black (except the damage and expense). Its hard to get your hair back to normal after dying it black. That looked equally awful on me, I think my skin tone is just meant for brown hair lol

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I do full blonde highlights in the summer.  My friend does them for me, but I only pay $60 for them.  During the winter months I go more for the darker colors.  Chocolate, dark red, that kind of thing.  I prefer my hair blonde though.  With the blonde, the blow dryer, and the flat iron, my hair gets pretty jacked up.  I use Aussie moist shampoo and conditioner and the 3 minute miracle, plus Tresemme Heat Tamer Spray and my hair is as soft as could be.  

I get really nice highlights for $80, every three months as well.
Yes, that’s expensive however the most expensive factor is that you’ll have to buy special products for your hair not to look dark and fried.

I have really long hair. I am NOT willing to spend that much to go blonde. I think I’m more of a deep red that blonde

I agree with everything, esp the last one. I once had realllllllly bonde hair that happened by dyiing it blonde and then letting the sun do the rest and I had it like that for a little over a year, (i still ergret getting rid of it) but I one day decided to dye it brown and my mom went out and bought a box of ash brown dye and it turned it pretty light brown and then the next day I was starting my sophomore year of highschool, so I went through the whole day until one of my friends came up to me and said “you’re hair is a tint of green” I was soo pissed, I made my mom go buy two more boxes and we figured out it was the color, my hair just didn’t go well with ash brown I guess lol. I laugh about it now, but the first day of sophomore year in highschool you don’t want green hair lol

-Autumn

oh yea, i’ve tried to dye my hair with revlon like 3 times. but my hair is super dark, almost black, so every time it turns out orange. haha i’ve realized, like mentioned in your post, one must go to the salon for blonde hair.

I went with bright pink highlights (the way one would ordinarily do blonde highlights) in my medium brown hair for my senior year of high school. I loooooved it! It was a shock to my peers/teachers when I came back that way in September, which was quite entertaining to me. I was voted “most serious” in my HS class and nobody would have expected it of me. Sweet. I’d love to do it again but… *sigh* I’m all grown up now and I can’t have that in the “Real World.”

I would never go to a salon to dye my hair. I do mine at home every six weeks with a bottle of £5 hair dye. Getting it done “professionally” is such a waste of money in my opinion. It’s not difficult to do it yourself at home.

I’m naturally a dirty blond and I dyed my hair red and instantly regretted it. It was sort of on impulse and red is so tricky to get rid of! I kept the red for nearly a year then went to get it dyed back to blond in the salon. Now it’s currently light brown with platinum highlights, but the brown still has a reddish undertone :c.

I’ve been blonde my whole life but I still lighten it every two months or so… I agree, it does not work for everyone and skin tone is a very important component. 

Coloring your hair shouldn’t damage it if done properly. In the past year I went from platinum blonde, to dark brown, to honey blonde, to light blonde and now to a bright orangey red… my hair is in excellent condition, and I do it all myself. 

Box dye is atrocious for your hair, and usually bleaching kits or blonding kits from a drugstore box don’t have enough lift to go to a bright blonde, hence why you say box dye doesn’t always work. I recommend if you’re going to go blonde, to either learn how to do it yourself (website: http://killerstrands.blogspot.com/ is amazing for this), or go to a stylist who doesn’t damage your hair (the most common mistake is overlapping bleach over already bleached pieces, which lazy stylists do when they highlight hair).

I think most people don’t look very good with blonde hair if they weren’t born with it. Sticking to your natural hair color is the best option, but that is just my inexperienced opinion talking. 

I don’t dye my hair anymore. I like my natural hair color now but a long time ago I didn’t. I dyed it all sorts of things until my aunt had that icky dye cut out of my hair and I’ve never been better.

daaaamn $150 for highlights?! I pay $25 to get my hair dyed one color, and $10 for each additional color… so I generally end up paying $55, for cut, color, and eyebrow wax… and I always leave a $5 tip, so $60 once its done. 

you’re right though, it is really expensive to dye your hair the opposite shade of your natural… I’m a blonde, but I love my hair black, sooo if I wanna make sure my roots dont look horrible, I have to dye my hair every month-month and a 1/2… my hair grows prettyy fast