Oh my gosh, the foils are so much better! I got it done through a cap a few times when I was younger - NEVER AGAIN! It hurts like hell and doesn't do as good a job (esp. if you've got thick hair). The foils are definitely worth the money.

My hair is pretty dark as it is...its very milk chocolate brown colored which I love now, but the rest of my dads side of the family has even darker hair, almost black, which I always wanted. (Like Katie Holmes or Catherine Zeta-Jones) sooo my senior year of high school I bought a box of dye and ended up with BLACK hair. Ew I looked bad...I was not blessed with my Dads Italian skin, I kind of inherited more of my Moms Scottish coloring that matches her blonde hair better. I had to go to school the next day like that, for senior pictures AND my 18th birthday. Yuck.

My hair is naturally dirty blonde, but now that I think about it, I hav been coloring it forever. It all started with lemon juice and sun-in. (now that makes me shutter) I can remember loading it into my hair and laying out for hours in my parents pool. During the winter, I would load my hair with sun-in and blowdry it to get the same affect. My sixth grade year, I was the kid with the bright green hair, due to sun-in and chlorine. I was picked on soooo bad. Ultra swin could not touch what I had...we tried everything to get rid of it. During high school, I used a bunch of different washout colors. My sophmore year of college I finally had my hair professionally highlighted. Someone recommeded to me the place in the mall. It only took twice to figure out what a good colorist was, and this chick wasn't. Then I started going to the ritzy place that just opened in town...she had a mind of her own. I have always been religous about having my hair done every 6-8 weeks. John, my new colorist is wonderful. I have been in love with him for 5 years now. Lots of highlights in the summer, lowlights and highlights inbetween, and more lowlights with a few highlights in the winter. He always foils me...and I count down the days until I have to go back....it is sooo relaxing.

I used Sun-In, which is the devil, for years and years. Starting at like 7th grade b/c when you lay out it works better. :rolleyes:

But when I started marching band I quit doing that even, b/c in the summers I was outside so much my hair just bleached blonde on its own. So I didn't have to do much.

But this year, sigh - I was in the mall and saw my old manager and she commented on how "i love your hair dark!!". I almost died!!! It by no means was dark, but lots darker than it had been in my whole life.

So, during fall semester of my senior year in college - I went to Wal-Mart picked up some Nice n' Easy...and ta da. :)

My natural hair color(which I have not seen in quite some time) is a dirt brown color(so ugly) so I have been coloring my hair for some time. The past two years though, I have ONLY used the Feria line. I figure as much as I color it, I should use the same brand, so I am not mixing random chemicals on top of each other. Right now my hair is a pretty nice shade of auburn. I usually do a light brown/dark blonde during the summer, and DARK brown/red for the winter. Usually with some highlights thrown in. I am actually going to color it again tonight at some point in time. If I can find a color I like. My mom started coloring mine in 7th grade, and it has been everything from green to purple(on accident of course)

i've never highlighted my hair, but i've been a lifeguard for so many summers, and spent so much time outside as a kid, that in the summer my hair varies in shade from a dark reddish-brown (my real color) to this goofy copperish color to really, really blonde. you have to love the mix of the chlorine and sun.

when i was little my hair would turn really blonde, and i looked kinda goofy.....i was a little chinese kid with blonde hair, and then i'd have goofy roots after a while, so i'd beg my mother to cut my hair.

now, after the summer, i just color it back.

I started using sun-in when I swam on the community swim team the summer before 7th grade. Between that and the chlorine, my hair was FRIED! Took a long time to get healthy again (sun in is the devil! Do they still sell it?).

Probably had my first highlights when I was around 14. My hair is naturally a light brown/dark blonde and I had light blond highlights. My first time, they used the cap. My hair was pretty long at the time, I have no idea why they used the cap. The pain was incredible of them poking and pulling my hair through! Looked fabulous, but not worth the pain.

I would occasionally get highlights throughout high school, or do the random coloring on myself. Never tried home highlighting, but would dye my hair a lighter shade. Never tried any funky colors or anything too radical, that's probably why I never had any horrible hair stories to tell.

Though my senior year, I cut about a foot off of my long, gorgeous highlighted hair, and then bleached it pretty light. It looked TERRIBLE, I didn't understand back then that it was way too light for my features, especially when I don't wear a ton of makeup.

Now I get my hair highlighted & cut approx every 3-4 months by a wonderful stylist in Shadyside. He does a FANTASTIC job and usually does 3 different shades of highlights. He's not cheap, but not ridiculously expensive, and he's worth every penny :)

My hair is naturally dark brown, and while my mom thinks it's very pretty, the color is just too boring for me. So I was finally able to start highlighting my hair the summer before my junior year of college! :p I started out with some blonde highlights, just a few though b/c I didn't know how good it would look. I actually thought having a lot of blonde in my hair would be bad, but I have been highlighting it now for over a year and I get SO many compliments. I personally think it brightens up my whole face, but who knows. I hate having to touch it up b/c oif roots, but I have to b/c my roots look so dark now compared to the rest of my lighter hair. Luckily I am super anal about it so my roots don't ever get to the point where they're really noticeable to anyone but me. :)

I just died my hair a golden brown colour. It's all one colour now. I couldn't stand my roots anymore, and it just cost too much money for me to continue the upkeep.
I actually like my new brown colour. It'such darker than my natural colour. But eventually I want to get back to my natural colour. I haven't had my natural colour since I was 14 years old.