i love style needs to get their hair did

that looks fantastic, ffm!!

i'm sure yours looks great, too, vp! i kind of wish i could do white blondness. instead, i'm living vicariously through my friend who can. she was blonde, but was questioning going super white and i was like YES YES DO IT and now every time she considers going blonder i'm like NO WHITER!!

FFM that color looks delicious. VP pls post pic of hair color.

my dream blonde is the same as heidi montags color

its hard to get a non air brushed pic of her but this is close (ignore the billionaire tool clinging to her)

http://earsucker.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/heidi_montag_spencer_pratt.jpg

tehresa, b&b worked fine on my bangs but i think i have a much lower standard of hair cleanliness than you do. so, uh, judge how you think my hair looks and make a decision! now that i'm blonde i've ditched b&b and do the baby powder thing again.

also i want to go more blonde, much lighter and cooler, the way my hair used to be, but my hairdresser won't do it because "i don't need to be more blonde". i wasn't a fan of what she did to my hair last time either (i've been going to her forever and this is the first time i've been like wtf so maybe it was just a bad day?). i'm thinking of going ahead and cheating on her. so inexpensive nyc salon suggestions are welcome.

Sunny the latest issue of Bust gave three thumbs up to something called "Lulu Organics Hair Powder in Lavendar and Clary Sage," saying among other things that it smelled amazing. It is, however, FORTY BUCKS which seems silly.

My hair is getting lighter via getting gray. I'm standing firm in my embrace of this process; gabbneb would be so proud.

fuck hairdressers and their opinions of what you should look like. really...FUCK

oooo! thanks quincie!

i had a $5 coupon, so i got some john frieda clear glaze today. the reviews on m-alley are stinko, but i'm hoping for at least a little boost.

oh give us the lowdown when youre done. I use the JF platinum to champagne glaze but its disappearing off shelves like they arent making it anymore.

similiar occurance w/ JF platinum to champagne conditioner

i'm using it tomorrow morning and will report back, never fear.

i used to use the "midnight expressions" shampoo/conditioner, and my bf made so much fun of the name.

haha

hey im sure you all have beautiful straight or wavy hair but has anyone heard about something called a hot comb? I saw it on the tyra show the other day and its was straightening the shizz out of this ladies hair!

shizz = shitty frizz

my best friend has used one since she was a kid. i tried hers once but couldn't get the hang of it. hers is really '70s-looking and bulky.

oooh that sounds intersting!

i am trying to figure out a) what color i should do b) where to get it done c) if i should keep growing this mess or chop it off again d) if i should buy a curling iron so i can pretend i have long pretty waves even though i just have mostly straight hair that does weird things that are not waves.

it is a lot of pressure.

Sunny I need your help! I'm almost sure it was you who was extolling the virtues of I think it was White Rain hairspray? For controlling the shizz? Anyhow I can not find the post and need more details!

was it white rain or aqua net?

Heidi Montag's hair is very brassy and fake looking to me.

My stylist told me that when you highlight hair it gets more body (which I need), because the process breaks part of the hair and that makes it stick up or something. She said the tendency of healthy hair is to lie flat.

What products should I use? I am hair illiterate.

I can never get anyone to give me 50s style bangs bc they are all convinced that it categorically looks bad.

Joan Woodward had it going on

http://www.stinalisa.com/joannewoodward.jpg

i had a $5 coupon, so i got some john frieda clear glaze today. the reviews on m-alley are stinko, but i'm hoping for at least a little boost.

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oh give us the lowdown when youre done. I use the JF platinum to champagne glaze but its disappearing off shelves like they arent making it anymore.

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the dollaramas in canada got a massive shipment of copper to scarlett red glaze and they were selling for $1, so I picked up 5-6 bottles each of shampoo, conditioner and glaze - also got a few the year before when the blonde stuff came up for sale in dollarama! I think that they are repackaging and sold their old labelled stock.

FWIW I love the glaze and find the shampoo/conditioner make my hair really soft

yeah i love them too but suddenly platinum to champagne has just disappeared. all i see are clear, , brunette, red and "honey to caramel"

VP ive got to deal out a big ol' RONG to you on Heidi's hair color. maybe you ned to see it action on the mtvs. when the sun (ie camera lights) shine through it it GLOWS.

Not the best positioned photo but this is as close as i have gotten so far:

http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/783/20070321008gq9.jpg

quincie i cant remember where the white rain thing was. you'd think it would be here! ill do a search.

Try this:

AUGUST: the month that's ALSO a cool ADJECTIVE: a WDYLL thread

My hair is getting lighter via getting gray. I'm standing firm in my embrace of this process; gabbneb would be so proud.

http://www.theradreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/19w_borat_wideweb__470x2720.jpg

forgot to use the glaze this morning. i think i'll give it a try as a treatment on dry hair tonight post-gym.

I liked the Frieda shampoos! And my boyfriend of the time liked the smell. Unfortch the shampoos for medium-brown darken my blonde streak so I gave it up.

Honestly re color, I think if you have pale skin with rosiness, you can get away with anything from medium brown to pale yellow-blonde, and to the coppery reds. I've even had black hair before and altho my eyebrows needed a little boost to match it, it didn't look half bad. (Think Dita VonTeese, who I believe is naturally a blonde, and a couple of other people I know who've been dying their hair black for so long no one even knows it's fake anymore).

For the duskier skin colors, incl the Sicilian velvet olive my friend Caro used to have, I just can't imagine anything but that perfect dark brown...I think that's where the red and purple highlights come in.

re: hairdressers deciding how you should look, it's doubly frustrating because i've had the color i'm thinking of before and SHE is the one who did it for me! so why was this a good idea a couple years ago, but now it is a bad idea and i'm stuck with a darker, redder shade?

i am too scared to do it myself, going lighter.

serious home bleaching is always better when done by/with friends. that way you have someone monitoring your hair at all times, and you can chain-smoke together and make jokes about spontaneous chemical combustion.

Argh, I finally used the Feria I bought 6 weeks ago, thinking it would be similar to the Hydrience shade I loved. But no, it is very much light reddish blonde now, rather than a warm golden brown. Also, much more frizzy ;_;

The other thing I liked about Hydrience is the the package of pre-coloring conditioner stuff - which was Pantene, but why can't I just buy separately?? All I could find was a L'Oreal primer online.

Feria is a dodgy one. Sometimes its great, sometimes not.

The only blonde i will use is l'oreal preference dream blonde which also comes with a pretreatment primer/conditioner for the ends of your hair so they dont get damaged in the process. my fav shade right now is called "Alluring Peony" which, of course, I call "alluring ponies"

schef maybe an ash blonde (to get out the red) immediately followed by the blonde you want?

i must see a photo of Laurel with blk hair

ya really. i had no idea of her secret goth shame!

Umm. I did it to go as Veronica Lodge for Halloween...was supposed to be temporary dye but guess what? Black doesn't wash out. I only have two photos from that night, but apparently my (Italian-Am) then-boyfriend quite liked it.

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/LimitedLiabilityGirl/ModestMakeout.jpg

Cute! I think black hair makes everyone look great for the first week (and ho-hum when the novelty wears off for 80% of the people)

Home-made Veronica sweater and blue comic book-style highlight visible here:

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/LimitedLiabilityGirl/ModestPonyboyVeronica.jpg

awwwwwwww

Sorry, that was a little TMI.

sunny, i want to use the dream blonde but i am afraid of putting it on my whole head to lighten up everything properly. because it's already been bleached (i lol dyed my hair black early this year and had to have that removed). what are your opinions on the matter, as a lady who seems to be an authority on blondes?

Do you guys have Blondissima in the states? That's what I always used when going from dark to blonde, then a honey blonde on top to even the bleached hair out. Never Feria though.. sorry you had to learn this the hard way, Jaq!

well i bleached my hair twice in the last year too with that l'oreal superblonde and i got some breakage from it. the dream blonde isnt increasing the breakage. in my long and sometimes tragic experience with blonding, its only the blue stuff that does the damage.

have you dyed your hair with anything with henna in it? that can be a real bitch to get out and it might be worth waiting to grow it out?

there is blondissima here. also if you opt for l'oreal superblonde it will get out the red but dont leave it on too long. also be aware that where it says its one step to color on the box its an out and out lie unless youre trying to pull off a Donatella Versace.

once the superblonde makes you white blonde, most blonde dyes will just wash out ie youll have white hair but i have found one that will (VERY suprisingly for me) hair a very nice shade of blonde:

http://www.walgreens.com/dbimagecache/133985.gif

i have noi idea why but this is the only brand and color that will bring you back from white post-superblonde

I cant see laurel's photos :( workblocked

I use the L'Oreal Superblonde for my streak but I only leave it in til it's brassy yellow, I don't wait long enough for it to be whited out. Esp not with re-doing the roots and overlapping slightly every couple of months.

yeah. thats a smart way to go.

if youve had the evil henna on your hair you go with the real bleach you get this littl eprogression: black/red -> brassy orange -> clown orange -> clown yellowy orange -> dayglo yellow -> paler yellow -> ahhh blonde