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    Default I too have a coloring question-too many options

    So, my hair is dark brown underneath with a light brown on top and some nearly invisible highlights because they were highlighted before the last color and only faded through. I have about 2 1/2 - 3 inches of root showing (havn't colored since december) and am wondering what type of highlights would be best for me.

    Either way, I want something very subtle because my hair is getting too dry and damaged from previous color, and I'd like to eventually (may take a few years) just have a few highlights throughout and grow the rest out to my natural color.

    So, I'm thinking, should I do few but all- over highlights, half, a friend said something about highlighting in like a circle, like leaving the middle unhighlighted because it's less damaging but still getting the top and the underneath.

    Also, for the way my hair is now (as described at begining) should I do foil highlighting method, or would baliage be better because it blends into roots more leaving me able to leave my hair alone longer?
    I'm just worried that the baliage method might be too thick of a highlight size or be too light at the bottom ( it;s lighter at the bottom and fades into roots at top, french method, looks like natural beach hair) and may look strange against my dark brown underneath?

    Either way, I wouldn't be doing very light highlights. Probably something more along the color lines of Alessandra Ambrosios highlights ( more winter or fall, she gets a bit too blond in summer for my taste) or mischa bartons more natural looking hair. Point being to try and leave most of my hair unhighlighted so I can grow it out. But I still need it to not look strange with the colors I already have, along with my several months worth of light brown roots-though the roots are a very similar color to the dye I've got growing out right now.
    And I really like the style of highlights ambrosio has... would I achieve that through foil or could I do it with baliage?

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    Default Re: I too have a coloring question-too many options

    Okay, from what you've described, here's what I'd do if you sat in my chair:

    1. full head of foils excluding the nape area (for the most part, highlighting this area is pointless. You wouldn't natually lighten there and no one will see it), of both high and low lights. I'd only highlight your outgrowth. A lot of stylists pull bleach from scalp to ends and repeated applications over previously highlighed hair is what will cause crazy damage. The low lights, in a rich, warm medium-deep brown, will help to add some depth and demension to your highlights.

    2. Between the foils I'd apply a neutral, toasty medium blonde demi permanent color. It wouldn't change the medium brown base you have on top dramatically, it would just make it richer and warmer, help the previous color and the new highlights to "melt" together, and give you a lot of shine. A demi-permanent color wouldn't cause any further damage your hair.

    3. Depending on what color your highlights pull to, I'd tone them with a light, warm, beige blonde demi-permanent at the shampoo bowl if needed.

    I really only do baliage on super short women's hair, men's hair, or on those who only want a few face framing highlights. You just can get as close to the scalp with that technique and the absence of foil makes it impossible keep the bleach from bleeding onto hair that you don't want to be highlighted- especially on the back and sides of the head.

    If the foils are placed diagonally in the hair, in a "harringbone" pattern, in the direction the hair naturally wants to fall (typically, forward), the out growth is much more blended and can go longer between applications.

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    Default Re: I too have a coloring question-too many options

    Forgot to add, since the only permanent color being applied to your hair is the highlights, you'd be able to get to your goal of your natural color with highlights only, comfortably without an akward phase.

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