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PM_Mama00 · #16 02-02-2005, 01:05 PM

I started doing Sun In in 6th grade. In 7th grade I started dying... my mom did it for me. It came out almost orange, so my cousin (a hair stylist) did it back to dark. Then we lightened it up a bit. I was a grunge girl, so I did the whole red food coloring or whatever color I was feeling that day. Yeah it sucked when it rained cuz it'd all come out.

My hair has been every normal hair color ever. Blonde, red, black, brown, auburn, bright red, you name it.

texas*princess · #17 02-02-2005, 01:11 PM

I highlighted my hair only ONCE in my life. I have really dark (practically black) hair... so I basically have to strip my hair to make it another color.

That said, I got really awesome orange-y red highlights my junior year in high school. I LOVED them. THey didn't look weird or anything.. they looked really good...and I had cute short hair at the time. I would have kept them going, but it was too high-maintenance for me, and I hated to think of what I was doing to my hair (stripping the color) for the end results.

I haven't got it highlighted since, and people always compliment me on my gorgeous locks

Wine&SilverBlue · #18 02-02-2005, 01:24 PM

I actually had the reverse situation. I have reddish/light-brown hair (it gets auburn in the summer but more brown in the winter months) and wanted to get highlights in 10th grade. I told the woman I wanted light brown highlights -- NO BLONDE -- because I thought it looked funny when people with brown hair got blonde hilights. She picked out a BLONDE color and said it would look different once it was actually on my hair -- but no. It was horrible. My hair looked almost greyish from a distance and the highlighted strands felt like straw. I eventually hated it so much that I washed my hair repeatedly with Ultra-Swim shampoo (for removing chlorine) and somehow it took the highlights out almost completely.

I have experimented with sun in as well, but greatly preferred it to my highlights. The sun-in never damaged my hair, and would just make it slightly redder (then again I only used very small amounts). But then again, I was going for more of a lighter-version of what I already had and maybe slightly redder, NOT BLONDE!!! I don't think brunettes should get blonde highlights unless they get their full head done and it matches their haircolor -- too many girls in my jr high had dark dark dark brown hair with a few platinum blonde streaks.

Nowadays I've retired the sun in, but occasionally I use "sheer blonde" shampoo/conditioner by John Frieda and I find that it brings out the red in my hair slightly.

RedRoseSAI · #19 02-02-2005, 01:39 PM

I've been getting natural-looking light blonde highlights (my natural color is dark blonde hair) since I was 15.

texas*princess · #20 02-02-2005, 01:42 PM

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Originally posted by Wine&SilverBlue
But then again, I was going for more of a lighter-version of what I already had and maybe slightly redder, NOT BLONDE!!! I don't think brunettes should get blonde highlights unless they get their full head done and it matches their haircolor -- too many girls in my jr high had dark dark dark brown hair with a few platinum blonde streaks.

LoL that's how it was when I was in Jr. High/High School. Almost everyone had super dark brown hair and bright blonde streaks. That was definitely NOT what I wanted... I thought they kinda looked like skunks

AUDeltaGam · #21 02-02-2005, 02:00 PM

I've been highlighting my hair since 7th grade

I have naturally dark hair, and I highlight it with light brown and dark blonde highlights

PhiPsiRuss · #22 02-02-2005, 02:14 PM

Even though I'm not a woman, I highlight my hair fuscia, blue and yellow.

It looks great!

GeekyPenguin · #23 02-02-2005, 02:27 PM

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Originally posted by RedRoseSAI
I've been getting natural-looking light blonde highlights (my natural color is dark blonde hair) since I was 15.

The same here, except I was 16, I think.

bruinaphi · #24 02-02-2005, 02:59 PM

I too have dark blonde hair. I used Sun-In in high school and started highlighting my hair sometime in college. Now I spend a lot of money every few months to basically keep my hair at its natural color (the ends turn plantinum blonde and my hair doesn't hold color). My colorist laughs at me somewhat b/c he knows he is basically coloring my hair to it's natural color using a combination of highlights and lowlights. The only real difference is that my hair has a lot more depth with the high & low lights than it would naturally b/c I am never outside anymore.

WVU alpha phi · #25 02-02-2005, 04:18 PM

I was 14, during my freshman year of high school. I naturally have really dark brown hair and I got it highlighted to a light brown. I went with cap highlights first because it isn't as dramatic as foil highlights. Over the years I kept getting lighter and lighter and my hair was practically blonde. Last year I just got sick of keeping up with it and dyed my hair back to my natural color.

#26 02-02-2005, 07:30 PM

I started getting highlights at 14. I would always get them a golden blonde color. I was wierd. Now, I really don't know what my natural hair color is.

Lady Pi Phi · #27 02-02-2005, 08:05 PM

I started at 14. I got blonde highlights in my natural brown hair. I did it for my cousins wedding. My mum had no problem but my dad was less than thrilled. But I didn't care what he thought.

carnation · #28 02-02-2005, 08:21 PM

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Originally posted by honeychile
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!

I'll come to you for advice in a few years--I'm sure that pretty soon, I'll have red-haired grandchildren!

RioLambdaAlum · #29 02-02-2005, 08:35 PM

I first did it when I was a junior in high school. I do it more often now than I did then and when I was in college...but just started doing it again within the last 6 months. Not the drastic too much lighter look.

ISUKappa · #30 02-02-2005, 08:58 PM

I got my first highlights when I was 18, though I'd been dying my hair myself for about 4 years before that (including the Great Purple-Orange-Light Brown Incident of 1996). I don't keep it up much anymore--I get a half-head set of foils in a dark blonde during for spring/summer and then do an all-over color in fall/winter. My senior year of college I got red lowlights which actually looked pretty good, but I couldn't afford the upkeep on them.

Normally my hair is light brown with a reddish cast.