What would you do??

[andcar]

I've been coloring my hair for 5 years. Yesterday I realized my hair looks like complete crap. I have SO MUCH breakage that when I blow dry & iron my hair, you can see them standing, or when when I pull my hair back, the little baby hairs where my bangs are are just floating up, they don't even get held back by the bobby pin. 

So, along with the breakage, the texture of my hair is not the same. I remember my hair being really nice curls, and now when I let it air dry, it's as though some parts are straight, but a gross fizziness as opposed to the entire head of hair being curly. I'm wondering if it may be due to stress (5 college courses & work) or maybe just because of the coloring of the hair. I had stopped the dying, for 5 months so I had a good 3 inches of roots and I just couldn't take it anymore - went to Sally's, bought color, & dyed it.

I don't know what to do, I want my pretty virgin hair back. I obviously know the only way to get it back is to completely let it grow out, I am taking Hair, Skin, & Nail vitamins in hopes that it will somehow help this process. But maybe I should cut it?? 

Advice... please 

 

[Bonnie Krupa]

yeah i would cut some of the dead ends off and try some deep conditioners

 

[andcar]

I've been trying to grow my hair out. But because of this I've been thinking of cutting it a little above my shoulders, right now it's about 2 inches past it. This whole texture change kind of threw me off guard, and it's made me kind of sad.

 

[zadidoll]

Originally Posted by andcar /img/forum/go_quote.gif


I've been coloring my hair for 5 years. Yesterday I realized my hair looks like complete crap. I have SO MUCH breakage that when I blow dry & iron my hair, you can see them standing, or when when I pull my hair back, the little baby hairs where my bangs are are just floating up, they don't even get held back by the bobby pin. 

So, along with the breakage, the texture of my hair is not the same. I remember my hair being really nice curls, and now when I let it air dry, it's as though some parts are straight, but a gross fizziness as opposed to the entire head of hair being curly. I'm wondering if it may be due to stress (5 college courses & work) or maybe just because of the coloring of the hair. I had stopped the dying, for 5 months so I had a good 3 inches of roots and I just couldn't take it anymore - went to Sally's, bought color, & dyed it.

I don't know what to do, I want my pretty virgin hair back. I obviously know the only way to get it back is to completely let it grow out, I am taking Hair, Skin, & Nail vitamins in hopes that it will somehow help this process. But maybe I should cut it?? 

Advice... please 

My advice, go get your hair trimmed. Hair needs to be trimmed on a regular basis - at least once every six to eight weeks - so that it doesn't develop split ends. Once you get split ends the split will travel up the hair shaft which in turn causes more damage up the hair.

Stress will not affect your hair, your hair is dead and has been dead; what ever you ate, your health at the time the cells were being made, etc that would have affected the result of your hair but once it's grown out nothing you do to your body will affect your hair.

Some questions. You mentioned you went to Sally's bought dye and did your own hair.

1. What kind of dye and developer did you use? Most store kits are 10 volume peroxide while more developers sold at Sally happen to be 20 volume, 30 volume and go to 60 volume (though I don't think Sally sells 60 volume anymore).
2. Did you use the standard 1 to 1 ratio? That is 1 bottle (2 oz) dye to 1 bottle (2 oz) developer. Unless the packaging states otherwise the ratio is 1:1.
3. Did you dye just the roots or did you apply color all over? To minimize damage to your hair the best thing to have done was dye the roots only and extend the dye to your previously color hair no more than a 1/4 inch to blend it in.
4. How long did you leave the dye in your hair before washing it out with shampoo?
5. Did you condition your hair after?
6. Do you perm or chemically straighten your hair? If so when was the last time you did?

For now I would recommend getting a deep conditioner or an oil and follow the directions on the packaging. Use at least once a month. But in the mean time go get those ends trimmed and keep your hair regularly trimmed until the damage grows out. Keep in mind this will take months depending on how long or short your hair is.

 

[andcar]

Originally Posted by zadidoll /img/forum/go_quote.gif

1. What kind of dye and developer did you use? Most store kits are 10 volume peroxide while more developers sold at Sally happen to be 20 volume, 30 volume and go to 60 volume (though I don't think Sally sells 60 volume anymore).
2. Did you use the standard 1 to 1 ratio? That is 1 bottle (2 oz) dye to 1 bottle (2 oz) developer. Unless the packaging states otherwise the ratio is 1:1.
3. Did you dye just the roots or did you apply color all over? To minimize damage to your hair the best thing to have done was dye the roots only and extend the dye to your previously color hair no more than a 1/4 inch to blend it in.
4. How long did you leave the dye in your hair before washing it out with shampoo?
5. Did you condition your hair after?
6. Do you perm or chemically straighten your hair? If so when was the last time you did?

For now I would recommend getting a deep conditioner or an oil and follow the directions on the packaging. Use at least once a month. But in the mean time go get those ends trimmed and keep your hair regularly trimmed until the damage grows out. Keep in mind this will take months depending on how long or short your hair is.

1. I used Ion Color Brilliance, and 20 developer.

2. Yes, it was one tube of color which is the 2 oz, and the 2 oz of the developer. I made sure it was 1:1.

3. No, I applied it all over. I had blonde highlights and I wanted to go darker and more red, so I changed the color all over. .

4. I left the dye in for 35 minutes before washing it, just as the instructions said.

5. This I did not do. I only use conditioner once a week, and when I do use it I only put it on my tips.

6. I've done the Keratin about 5 times, but the last time I did that was this past March. I haven't done it since, and 3 months after I did it, I actually cut 5 inches off my hair.

Is there a deep conditioner you recommend?? My mom tried telling me the other day that she puts oil once a week, and the next week she puts mayo. Personally I don't want to smell like a salad.

 

[zadidoll]

I use a variety of deep conditioners over the years. Right now I've been using the hair conditioners that have been coming in my subscription (Birchbox, Testtube, etc) boxes but at Sally's I've bought and used one that comes in a vial (Queen Helene Cholesterol Hot Oil Treatment & Placenta Hot Oil Treatment). You put the vial in hot water for several minutes then apply to your hair. When I use to dye my hair I would use Queen Helene Cholesterol Hair Conditioning Cream. I've also done the egg yolk and olive oil mask (one egg yolk, 1/4 cup olive oil, 1 tsp lemon juice - blend together, apply to hair for 15 minutes then rinse with lukewarm water). Ion makes a good deep conditioner and repairer. Over the years I've used so many, and liked so many, things but the one thing I always did was get my ends trimmed once every two months which isn't hard for me to do since my mother is a cosmetologist. I've only once had absolutely no results with any conditioner - deep, oil or normal - and that was the first and only time I ended up shaving my hair completely off (aka GI Jane), it was after a bad hair dye which left my hair looking like a dog's matted coat. Come to think of it that was also the last time I dyed my hair.

 

[13Bluestar97]

...for a Klondike bar lol it just reminded me of that XD

I use three types of deep conditioners in my hair, since I swim twice a week. I would get the split ends trimmed yes, and if you want long hair, I'd suggest using a long hair shampoo like Pantene Healthy Lengths. I've heard horse conditioner's an option....