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I recently spent a lot of $$$ I did not have to have my hair low lighted and high-lighted. The original goal was to have my bleached red/orange/gold yellow hair darker. However, I got a hair color a tiny bit darker (very little) then what I had been dying it myself. No contrast in color at all. Looks the same to me. No major highlight either.
Here's the question, I read that you can use cold coffee as a way to make your hair darker. Has anyone else heard this? Also, after I did this could I use the powder hair bleach high light kit to put 4 or 5 strips of blond in my front.
Thank you!
Lisa
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RE: Darkening Hair Color with Coffee
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Post By Noelle (Guest Post)
(09/28/2008)
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I just tried the coffee method. I used 3 tbs coffee grinds (a starbucks decaff bold kind) and made 3 cups of coffee. I think this is too much. Then I mixed 4 tbs of plain yogurt with 1 egg and added a little vanilla extract for smell. Then I also added about 1 tsp olive oil and stirred. Then I chilled the coffee once it was done brewing and mixed it all together. It was too runny and created a huge mess in the bathroom, so if I do it again I will definitely make it more conditioner-like.
Then I did the best I could at getting it saturated evenly through my hair and threw an old towel around my head for about 15 min. Rinsed with warm water, re-conditioned with normal conditioner and dried. It is very slightly darker, if at all. My highlights are definitely still on the blonde side. My natural color seems the most effected, which seems contradictory, but who knows.
I'd recommend doing it because my hair feels really nice now (probably the mixture besides the coffee, but still) and my husband thinks it looks a bit darker, so maybe it is!
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Post By pikka (Guest Post)
(11/16/2007)
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I am 63 and have stopped doing anything to my hair for 13 years. It is shiny and I need no conditioner.
However, when I did do something and was poor at the same time I would pick a color of lighter shade for highlights. In a small dish mix EQUAL parts using stainless or plastic spoons about 1-2 tablespoons will do. Put caps back on bottles, tighten and put in box and put away until next time. It keeps. Use an old toothbrush or small cheap paintbrush to put mixture on a comb. Come carefully from roots where you want highlights, covering dark area. Leave on 3-4 minutes, then cover area already light on same strands. Leave about a minute. It's just to make it the same tone. After no more than total time of 5-10 minutes, wash your hair. After a few days, for darker color, use a box of darker shade you like, and tone a few darker strands. Then your natural color will be the mid tone. You can get 3-4 applications out of a box, and if you do it gradually, it looks natural.
But consider giving your hair a break eventually and only do highlights, because natural hair has more than one shade in it.
As for dye with natural things, I wouldn't do it until hair is back to its natural self. Coffee or a solution from dark walnut hulls shouldn't do anything to normal hair, but if you've done a lot to it, who knows what it will do, both being kind of acid. Certainly could relax a perm. But if you've only had your hair done once, maybe no big deal if you wait at least a couple of shampoos between what you just had done and your experiment. You can also buy toner from hair places out of which you could make a rinse by itself and it might equalize the colors to some degree if you applied it over all color variations.
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Post By laramay (Guest Post)
(11/15/2007)
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I heard about the coffee dye too. Dye is pretty expensive and doesn't last very long lately, so I use the coffee rinse whenever I wash my hair to make the dye last longer. It doesn't seem to hurt my hair, just keeps it the same color longer. But you have to be a brunette to use the coffee, won't work on blondes or redheads. Try it and see.
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RE: Darkening Hair Color with Coffee
I haven't tried the coffee myself, although I have read about it & using sage tea - and I do my own highlights by putting regular drugstore hydrogen peroxide on very dirty hair - and then using color shampoo - I recommend that you experiment with those techniques - and don't forget dark RINSES for a temporary fix. (Roux is the most common brand at beauty supply stores.) But beware - they are not waterproof, if you sweat on your head, as I do!
I have worked out an inexpensive regimen that works very well for me.
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RE: Darkening Hair Color with Coffee
I don't know about the coffee, I would think that a kit to darken it would be better (and faster) then do the bleaching.
If you have a beauty store, Sally's, nearby I would go to them. You can get salon quality ingredients for a good price, buy the card if you think you'll be back, it's on $5 and WAY worth the price very quickly.
Also, I just heard of this great thing called ColorFix by One n' Only, it's a dye (permanent) remover product, you can then dye to what you want. Maybe try that?
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