Anne3
Your technique is great! It is the way most hairdressers mix colour! To take more than one color is the way to go, that way, you have a more natural color and it is richer.

Dancer

Mountain Ash,
I'm sure your hair is beautiful and suits you!
Dancer

I agree, CrossStichQueen, I'm not ready to let my hair show it's gray either!
Dancer

very artistic, Anne3!
Dancer9

I started getting highlights a few years ago just to lighten up my face and hair. Since, I've had some low lights too. Whatever. I listen to whatever she says. I just like a highlight look, not the all one color look so I'm paying for it!

I go whenever the mood strikes me. I am on no schedule, but probably should be.

Hi Dotsie, Highlights or low lights should be applied every three months. There are some who use high lights to help their roots.

This is done by putting highlights where you usually have gray comem out of soonest. The highlight blends with the grey to give you more time to do your roots! This is a really good way to give you more time between touch ups!

Highlights should be around the face to flatter it. Mine are light brown and very thin and in places that gray may come back so that I can wait for that root touch up.

Low lights give depth to color and are fantastic. Done in a deeper color, they give you deep colour.

Many times a hairdresser does your hair where it ends up looking like theirs or many of their clients so it's good to be creative and look at photos before you get your hair tinted or cut.

Some have highlights repeated every two months, (me,) because their hair grows fast, (mine is very thick and grows very fast which is a pain,)

Just more info,

Dancer

I'm a dyed blond. My real hair colour was a dark auburn,...but in the front I'm grey and the back of my head is still brown...If I left it natural I would look like a skunk. My hair lightens naturally in the summer...so no need to dye it then, but come winter and I have to go to the hairdresser's every two months. Yuck...I hate to go. It takes soooo long. They do strands and gab and some more strands and gab..It takes at least 4 hours! I think I need to find a new place.

I noticed Dancer you say "tint" the hair. And most of you say "color" your hair. I grew up with you "dye" your hair.
Am I the only one killing it with all the chemicals?

Dancer you are soooooo right about how stylist can make you look like every one of their other clients, or themselves. Couldn't have said it better myself. I've had that happen even after I've taken in a pic....it is so disheartening...cause you still have to pay!

Edelweiss,
It's just another way of saying "colour," or "dye,"
Dancer

Yes, Jaw Jaw, You've got to get STRONG with them!

Dancer