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Old 07-04-2006, 03:05 PM
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I hate to be a party-pooper, but they don't make "wash-out" blonde hair dye.

To go blonde, you need to remove the natural color first with a bleach (called lifting). The only "wash out" blond they make is really a toner, which is a way of slightly changing the shade or tone of hair that is 1) already blonde 2) already bleached.

So, if someone with brown hair wants to go blonde, they'll have to bleach it and there's no washing that out.

Depending on HOW blonde you go, you might now want to bleach your eyebrows. For one thing, it looks REALLY REALLY weird when it grows out. A lot of natural blondes and red heads have darker eyebrows (and body hair) than the hair on their head, so it doesn't really look unnatural to have blonde hair and brown eyebrows.

What you might want to do is try a product called "Sun-In" which is a very mild highlighting formula that works with the sun or a hair dryer to gradually and very naturally lighten the hair so that it looks "sun-bleached" rather than bottle bleached. Both of my sons use it and it looks very natural and really great. Very "surfer-dude".

And sorry if I sound like I'm giving a lecture - but I did go to school for cosmetology and I hate for people to waste money on something that won't work.

To lighten hair, you have to use bleach for "lift" and then use a color to "tone".

Fawn
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