i love style needs to get their hair did

Might work better if you start with damp hair, too.

ljubljana - my color fades really fast, too. My stylist's solution is to go darker so it at least fades to something attractive.

Standard color fade avoidance techniques include not washing your hair every day, staying out of direct sunlight, avoiding pools (or wearing a cap). I usually don't wash my hair for a couple of days after the original coloring, although I have no idea of that helps.

And maybe you need a different brand of dye? I'm guessing it's like anything else - different formulas work better for different people.

No pool for me, but I do wash my hair every other day - have tried to reduce, but then I feel like a greaseball. Yes, next time I go in I'll ask about brands. I love the colour she uses now so would be a shame to switch, but needs must. It doesn't so much fade to a lighter colour uniformly as just disappear altogether from certain random strands, leaving them flat out grey!

i'm thinking of doing something with color, maybe highlights in the front?
no idea, have never done anything but all over bottle color

Highlights can do wonders for a person. I tend not to like flat one color hair. Not talking just blonde highlights but like lighter brown or red ones - whatever just something to break it up a bit.

that's what i need -- was thinking bright gold/orange/red burst around the face and top to make me look less like a corpse

Are you going to DIY or go to a salon?

prob salon -- i want it to look good!

Oooo if you don't have a salon in mind I highly recommend where I go and my specific stylist.

Meanwhile, talk me out of buying blue clip in hair extensions from etsy.

link!

That's not talking me out if it, Julia...

http://www.etsy.com/listing/67163810/electric-blue-clip-in-hair-extensions

greys don't hold color as well - they tend to be a bit more porous iirc.

Damn, did not know this but it fits.

the lighter the gray/white hair, the less it seems to hold color. when my mom went white, she tried having her hair dyed at shishi salons, but it always came out beige. rly unnatural-looking.

jenny, don't buy those. they look like the sort of thing that seems incredibly fun and then they just sit in a cabinet unused once u buy them and then buyer's regret etc.

Ew, no, don't buy those things unless it's for Halloween*. They look like fishing line.

*I have worn blue clip-in hair extensions for Halloween before.

It's not for Halloween. It would be because a friend of mine got blue streaks in her hair and it looked amazing so I asked my stylist and she was like "…" so I thought "Extensions?" but you are both correct and I thank you for your wise counsel.

I have some lavender clip in hair extensions that I bought from Ulta... they are remy human hair, and I actually love them!

When they are in they blend into my hair really well.

These are the ones I bought

http://www.ulta.com:80/ulta/browse/productDetail.jsp?productId=xlsImpprod3030055

I saw a 40 something year old very matronly looking lady wearing those feather extensions in her hair today. It wasn't good.

I think there's a way to wear these things without it looking gauche. When I do wear mine, I usually am wearing all black, and the pop of color is kinda cool. I also put them pretty far back on my head, underneath quite a bit of hair.

The feathers are always horrible, though.

x-post - yes, I could see that working well

The feather things need to die.

I am puzzled by the feathers bc I always see fashionable young rich blondes wearing them and "feathers in your hair" seems like a non-mainstream thing.

Those etsy extensions are real hair.

i hate those feather things!!!

i wish my hair would grow faster.

Me too.
Also many xps above re highlights: never underestimate the power of lowlights.
Also I'm dying the underneath layer of my hair purple and blue because my daughter wants me to look like this girl for winter http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110825223709/monsterhigh/images/3/39/MonsterHigh-Abbey7.png

sunny <3

amazing

You are one of the few ppl who could actually pull that off awesomely irl, sunny! Pics please!

Ive decided to wait until after a work conference I'm attending a couple of weeks from now. Is purple hair okay in IT? Probably but I don't know for sure.

On TV it is.

so tonight i decided to get my hair lowlighted and trimmed and again, this dude does the most amazing blowouts and my hair looks really great tonight, but surely spending ridiculous amounts of money (i'm embarrassed; i think his prices went up?) is insane for an end result that probably only i can notice.

like i know ppl pay a lot of money for a 'natural' look but i also feel like i should have some kind of hugely noticeable difference for paying a lot of money!

i made a point of tipping the shampoo girl bc she said she enjoyed playing with my hair and that it was the ideal texture for stylists to work with. lol, crafty. i bet she tells everyone this.

idk, if it makes you feel good, then it's worth the $$ imo.

i think part of it is principle... i've had some really complex things done to my hair for a lot less money.

Yeah, gonna get mine coloured/highlighted again in a couple of weeks and although I love the colour, the whole deal takes not much time, is pretty straight forward, and costs stupid amounts. I would like to ask about getting lowlights as well as highlights but then I would be paying such silly money that I would feel embarrassed. (Probably. I guess I should ask).

Cost per wear of hair totally justifies $$$, imo. I mean as long as you aren't going into stupid crazy debt or anything.

Also: cheaper thatn eqivalent time with therapist amirite?

Yes but like T, I expect to be, you know, transformed into a different person!

Also my hair expenses are in addition to my therapist expenses.

okay. conference is over:

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6226/6231990096_a8bbaaae49_o.jpg

yay!!

What did Ms. Beeps say?!

I like the color a lot!

I did it this morning before work after she had left for school. We shall see!

I love it!

Beatle's reaction: 'ahhhh......huh'

Good thing I've got you guys to give me props. Thanks, ladies

Great color! Love it!