How to avoid going green! (Hints & Tips On Colouring Hair At Home)

Member Name: essjay

Product:	Hints & Tips On Colouring Hair At Home
Date:	14/03/03 (2520 review reads)
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Advantages: None unless you want green hair

Disadvantages: Green hair

Once upon a time there was a young girl who in the late 80's had a lovely perm and dyed blonde hair.

One day when the curly perm had almost grown out and the young girl had managed to grow her hair to her shoulders she had it cut into a smashing looking one length bob.

The young girl had always been 'a one' for dyeing her own hair and now she had a lovely new barnet, the straight style threw up a problem with root re-growth. A two tone blonde with a couple of inches of mucky looking brown at the roots was not a fantastic look.

I know, she thought, why not buy some brown hair dye and go back to the natural look.

She did.

She dyed.

She cried.

Taking you back now to primary school art classes, the young girl had forgotten that mixing brown paint and yellow paint gave you green paint. Had she thought of it and applied it to hairdyeing techniques she might have figured that yellow hair + brown dye = green hair.

A few desparate phone calls and a hair cut later the young girl rid herself of the evil green haze that had covered her head. She vowed never to dye brown on top of blonde again.

The moral of this story is, if you must do hair dyeing yourself, and you want to go from blonde to brown, use a red first. This does, in fact, turn your hair pink; but means that then using a brown on top gives you brown hair not, khaki green.

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