xinte
May 25, 2006, 12:55 PM
Hi All,
I used to have a fantastic hairdresser who came to my home every 6 weeks to colour my hair for 10 years, I loved how she did it, but unfortunately she had to move away because of her husbands job. This has been over 6 years and I have tried unsuccessfully to re-create the colour myself at home with various semi-permanents bought in the stores, but they never look the same. I do have more grey hair now but still don't want to use permanent colour. Before my hairdresser left she wrote down what she used in case I found another hairdresser: 7/73 colour bath, use half tube to mix slightly stronger or half 8/73 and half 6/73.
Obviously I'm not a hairdresser so I don't know what she means by a stronger mix, I'm sure the numbers refer to colours, but when I used to watch her mix everything up in a bowl, she put in with the tubes, some white liquid out of a bottle, which I think must be developer or peroxide and some conditioner.
What I would like to ask is how much of this developer should I use per tube of colour?
I know everyone says just go to a proffessional, yes I have done this in the past and paid one hell of an amount to come out with almost black hair when I asked for very light brown just to cover my greys. I have no faith whatsover in them and would love to have a go myself at home. Any help would be really appreciated. My hair is past shoulder length and very thick, reddish light brown with grey of course . Thank you
I used to have a fantastic hairdresser who came to my home every 6 weeks to colour my hair for 10 years, I loved how she did it, but unfortunately she had to move away because of her husbands job. This has been over 6 years and I have tried unsuccessfully to re-create the colour myself at home with various semi-permanents bought in the stores, but they never look the same. I do have more grey hair now but still don't want to use permanent colour. Before my hairdresser left she wrote down what she used in case I found another hairdresser: 7/73 colour bath, use half tube to mix slightly stronger or half 8/73 and half 6/73.
Obviously I'm not a hairdresser so I don't know what she means by a stronger mix, I'm sure the numbers refer to colours, but when I used to watch her mix everything up in a bowl, she put in with the tubes, some white liquid out of a bottle, which I think must be developer or peroxide and some conditioner.
What I would like to ask is how much of this developer should I use per tube of colour?
I know everyone says just go to a proffessional, yes I have done this in the past and paid one hell of an amount to come out with almost black hair when I asked for very light brown just to cover my greys. I have no faith whatsover in them and would love to have a go myself at home. Any help would be really appreciated. My hair is past shoulder length and very thick, reddish light brown with grey of course . Thank you