Tell them to get used to strangers rubbing their heads "for luck", others to avoid them for "bad luck", and brats that try to play "connect the dots" with their freckles!!

And buy them mascara at an early age!! :)

I started using Sun-In in about 6th grade. I routinely used it until 9th grade, when I started coloring my hair. My sophmore year I was platnium blonde. (talk about horrible upkeep!) My junior year I decided to go strawberry blonde, that on top on the platnium color turned pink. I went to my stylist to have her "fix" the problem. She colored it brown, but with too much ash so it turned green! There was nothing I could do but let it grow out-- hair was too weak to re-color. So most of my junior year it was a shade of green (that was a horrible year!) Over that summer I got it colored brown with blonde highlights. I maintained the highlights until a year or so ago. My hair is all grown out (yeah!) but I just made an appointment for color-- not sure what I am going to do with it but I am ready for a change,

Re: Attn: Women who highlight their hair...
 

I was 19. I used the L'oreal Brush On stuff in Burgundy that I'm sure you remember. My parents didn't know about it till I came home, LOL. ;) I seem to remember one of my friends doing this in the middle of our dorm floor by the elevators...it must have been an extraordinarily boring night. I was like "OMG it's so bright, don't put too much on" and of course the next time I did it was like "OMG isn't there any more left? Did you put EVERY DROP on my head?"

Then of course I permed over it, and it turned a coppery color, which I'm sure would have upset some people but which as far as I was concerned was like getting 2 color jobs for the price of one. God, I'm so 80's.

My hair is REALLY dark and REALLY dense, and at the time had no gray, so it was pretty hard to mess up. Everyone's hair is different though. If you've got any gray you need to cover - and you want highlights - please, says the Voice of Experience, get it done professionally.

When I was in 8th grade (1993-1994) was the time that it started to become WILDLY popular for everyone and their mother (pun intended) to highlight their hair. But for my friends and I, it was not 'beauty shop' highlight, it was Clairol :) I dyed my naturally brownish hair auburn and it stayed around for an awfully long time (much longer than 24 washings). Before I first highlighted it, my hair had natural blonde highlights. After though, my more reddish highlights that were natural were accented by the dye and never seemed to go away.
Nowadays I still highlight--I get a partial foil. Blondish highlights. However, the highlights that I have now look similar to the natural highlights I had as a kid. Most people don't notice that I highlight my hair unless they actually see me on a day where I haven't washed it, or if they look REALLY carefully at my hair when it's up in a ponytail (when the darkest parts of my hair are noticeable). Over time, hair gets darker and I missed the blonde it used to have, so just before prom Senior Year of HS (1998), I started highlighting it. Ironically, most people didn't really notice, and when I came to college, no one had ever seen it before, so they all thought it was natural. That's usually the comment I get. However, I've never done a full foil because I think that it would be too noticeable. I don't like it when it's obvious that someone dyes their hair--I prefer it when it's just 'natural highlights'

Re: Re: Attn: Women who highlight their hair...
 

Yeah. Come see DA's middle daughter who is senior colorist at a very upscale spa in Cherry Creek North in Denver.

Bring a lot of money. My granddaughter needs shoes.

When my hair started darkening around 7-8ish, mom started streaking my hair. (I did pagents as a kid.)

In Middle School, I used Manic Panic about every other week. (I still heart Green Day.)

In high school it was always extreme red hues.

Now and back when I was in college, I went back to lots of highlights, though ironically, I dye it darker brown, before doing the highlights.

I have dark dark brown hair and first got it professionally highlighted honey brown for my Sweet 16.... it looked great at first, but I got fed up with having to get my roots done all the time and how after a few months the color would just look gross. I let it grow out which was difficult, then missed my highlights and got it done again before my senior prom (oy).... 1 1/2 years later, they're almost gone, (next haircut). I LOVE my dark hair now and find that the Miami sun has lightened it a bit and Brilliant Brunette makes it look absolutely gorgeous! So I'm done with highlighting.... at least for a while. ;)

I have natural highlights. My hair is dark brown, but I've always had blonde and red streaks that get more intense when I'm out in the sun. So, I've never really had the need for salon color.

I have medium-dark brown hair naturally, that turns almost reddish when exposed to the summer sunlight. I first dyed my hair when I was about 14, it was the Exuberance kind (anyone remember that?), and was Apricot colour (kind of a light reddish). My older sister is a natural redhead, so I knew it would look ok on me and it did. :) Then I did an auburn colour, which washed out pretty quickly. After that I didn't try to colour it again until I was about 15-16. Again I went red, but when it faded and grew out it didn't look weird because it wasn't too far from my natural colour as I'd done it in summer.

Fast forward to last summer. I finally got professional highlights, light auburn and golden red, that looked fantastic! Now I can't decide if I want to get the same colours again or a new look.

LOL! You could be telling my story (except, I'm much older than you, and back in my day, we punk rock wannabes were called "posers!"). Oooh, that stuff killed my hair!

Now, I will not do anything to my haircolor that I can get at the grocery store!!! Nope. My colorist rocks...she may charge an arm & a leg, but it's the only thing I treat myself to, and I love not being mousy-brown-no-color-lady!!!

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)