Attn: Women who highlight their hair...
 

How old were you when you started highlighting your hair? How much lighter than your natural shade did your parents let you go?

I was 16. And I had honey blonde highlights...much lighter than my natural shade of hair.

I was in college, my freshmen year..........i went a few shades lighter with the blonde. I still do it now, I love it!

I was the first person in 8th (age 13) grade to have my hair highlighted. :D It was actually my mom who talked me into it! Strangely, I caught hell from a lot of my classmates at first. :rolleyes: My hair color was almost black, I had honey brown highlights. She didn't really care how light, but she suggested not going any lighter than honey brown.

it was either freshman or sophomore year of college. I had light brown/blondish highlights put in. i still get it highlighted today, but it varies everytime what i do.

I started when I was 17 and, at first, I only got a few strands of hair done. I naturally have light brown/dark blonde hair so I got a few medium blonde strands. My parents were cool about it but, then again, I was a lot older when I started highlighting my hair.

I put a little more highlights in my hair now than when I was 17 since my hair has darkened slightly with age.

I hated my red hair when I was growing up - the teasing is awful. So, when I was a freshman in high school, I lightened my hair for the first time. By my junior year, I was a platinum blonde! I kept it that way until my sophmore year in college, more because I got sick of the upkeep and people saying that, "Eew! You have red roots!" than anything else.

And here I sit, considering a streak or two again - but only in a lighter red, and done professionally!

Honey, you have beautiful hair! Now that you're a grown up, I'm sure you realize that women pay big bucks to try and replicate your color. But it's really hard for a non-natural redhead to pull off that look, IMO!

Thank you so much, KR!!

But growing up with no visible eyelashes or eyebrows, and a ton of freckles was not always a piece of cake! I always thanked my lucky stars that it wasn't curly, too!

When I was only 11, I put on some of my mother's mascara, just playing around, and BOTH of my parents suggested that I start wearing it every day. Believe it or not, I always wanted black hair!

I will be the first to admit that I was a Sun-In girl when I was in jr high. My mom wouldn't let me dye my hair permanently, but she would let me damage it to no end :rolleyes: .

I was a punk rock wannabe back then so I tried to get bleached streaks in front of my dark brown hair... with bleach... yup... I was a dork.

When I was in high school I was allowed to dye my hair semi permanent. And in college, I went and got highlights at the college salon. They weren't bad... but the haircut I had was terrible.

I've done the Feria highlight kit and the Loreal dye and highlight kit... but it grows out so strange so I've nixed ever doing highlights again. I like my mocha brown hair.

LOL, when my oldest was an infant her eyebrows were so blonde they were practically invisible so I used brown eyebrow gel on them just to see what it'd look like. Poor li'l thing looked like a mini Groucho Marx!

Lol, this is a pretty funny story. I have natural very light golden blonde hair. When I was in 10th grade (age 15 or 16), I was sick of my hair and wanted a change. I went to Ulta and bought a box of that hair dye that is supposed to wash out in 6 to 9 washes. Now I know that blonde hair is more absorbant, so I assumed it wold take 15 to 20 washes, or two to three weeks to get out of my hair. The color was called something like "Rockin' Red".

I died my hair and it came out bright red! I loved it but thought it was too bright...so the next day I washed it twice. I dried my hair and it had turned bright pink! Yes, pink is my favorite color, but pink hair?!?! I continued to wash my hair as often as possible without doing too much damage, but four months later is was still a pinkish shade with light blonde roots. My mother suggested I go get something done to it, so I went to a new salon because my old girl had just moved (big mistake). The lady ended up dying my hair a light brown and I was so upset that she had to give me half off a half head of foils to lighten it up! lol.

Luckily, it's two years later and time and the sun has lightened my hair back to where it was. I don't think I'll ever me dying my hair again, however!

ROTFL!!!!!

My much, much older sister used to take me to the beeach when I was younger. She would used that in her hair, so she put it in mine too. I went from dark brown to almost bleach blonde in one summer!

Sun-in is of the DEVIL!!! :mad: