Why, you highlight your hair, of course!! As a stylist, I kind of have this down. (visit here for some of my work) There is a lot of bending, and twising, and turning, and super cramped arms, and the use of multiple mirrors is absolutely necessary (I use 3)... but it saves $100 or so and I can do it whenever I feel like it, though I don't do it nearly as often as I should... can you tell?
Another perk, is usually when I get my hair done in fancy salons, there is almost always tiger striping (when the color bleeds out of the foil around surrounding hairs, leaving ugly stripes of color). I don't know what is up with that, I can understand a rare instance of slippage, but every time!? It is easier for me to tiger stripe on my own hair since I can't really see what I am doing, and tension is really hard to control in the foils... but it is rare and hard to see when I do it, easy to fix and mask if I'm too lazy to fix it. Plus, I have complete control on how heavy I want the highlighting, which parts I want to leave out of the foil to add dimension and allow the color to grow out...
I was feeling the need to go dark, especially after I digitally darkened my hair in my last post, and the weather is cooling down (thank heavens), but I was out of the supplies to do it, so I just highlighted it instead. I love a little snow bunny hair when everyone else is going darker anyways. I plan on going in and adding some platinum pieces and lowlights similar to the photo below, but a girl can only do so much in one night, and I need to get more color.
ps... can you believe I sold these vintage safety steampunk glasses for $18 within two hours of listing them in the vintage section of my shop? Perhaps I priced them too low, even though I was so very tempted to keep them!?
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It looks great! Your natural color looks very similar to mine.
I'd love to be able to highlight my own hair (especially now that I'm out of a job and would like to save the $). But I can't. Is there any good all over color? I was thinking it may be easier for me to do that myself and then it would be easy to touch up my roots. I'm just afraid of having a gross outcome like I used to get back in high school. ;)
I don't think I've ever seen vintage safety goggles. Very cool!
Great job with your hair! It looks good! =)
I love Beauty posts, and yes please please please write more about it!
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Love the highlights!!
Bring on the beauty and glam posts. Pretty, pretty please!
you did such a GREAT job and i looove beauty posts! more please! :)
I am a do-it-yourself gal too. I have no training, but after seeing it done about a hundred times you get the jist. It does look great, I am always to scared to go blonde, It would be very obvious if I messed that up, but gently fading in different colors is a nice way for me to boost the contrast. I <3 your blog, and thanks for the tip with the witch hazel, I will definently have to try it on my next camping trip!
my hair is too light for highlights. I tried low lights once but it made my hair look gray instead of platinum.. or what ever the heck this color is!
yours looks wonderful! and I love you with those very awesome glasses on!
heehee!
thats really cute! thanks for stopping by and your kind words yesterday :)
Love the lowlights!
love the platinum/lowlights mixed hair. and i think more beauty posts would be good!
Yes! Please keep the beauty posts coming!
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