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I have brown hair with a blonde patch on my right side and on the back of my head and my beard has blonde and red patches too. I'm thinking of dyeing my hair and/or beard black but I'm afraid that it'll be damaging. Is there really any difference between having it professionally done or doing it at home? I would greatly appreciate input from those of you who have dyed your hair before.
I wouldn't dye it, then you'll have to keep redying it
is a little happiness worth the maintenance of having to redye hair??? Yes. IMO, it is. Try something like "Just for Men" black beard dye or something else that is also non-permanent. Um...if you do dye your hair condition it well. Also, before beginning to dye your hair, put a generous amount of Vaseline around your hair line and slather behind your ears with it...that way when the dye dribbles down around the ears and nape of your neck (as well as your forehead) all you have to do is wipe the Vaseline off and the dye comes with it. That helps for not looking like a douche bag when your done. Id do it yourself, Ive know hairdressers and the like to do a very sub-par job, so do it yourself and take all the necessary precautions. Sometimes jet black looks phoney and un-natural, have you considered a dark dark brown??? That way, if you don't like dark dark brown, just dye it black. Easy. Just condition if you do it twice. Later and happy dying. (dying or dyeing??) :)
Is a LOT of happiness worth making the decision not to worry about it? Yes. IMO, it is.
Don't do it! I have a friend who dyes his hair jet black himself (natural color is red) and it looks terrible!(having an undercut doesn't help either). As Oyo says - he has to keep redying to prevent the red roots from showing :/. If you're going to have it done, get it done professionally. Good luck with your decision!
I wouldn't do it man. I dyed my hair black a few years ago, and it looked AWFUL. It looked very unnatural. I wound up shaving my head completely bald to get rid of it. If you really want to do it, I'd suggest trying some wash out hair color first to give you an idea of what it will look like.
The same thing happened to me. I dyed jet black my shoulder length brown hair last April and a few days later shaved my head bald. I had damaged hair and needed to cut it anyway, so dying it was good incentive, but that's beside the point. It looked very unnatural, and I didn't like the thought of having to dye the roots every few weeks, either, Natural is almost always best, in my opinion.
Dyeing your hair with HENNA won´t harm it and if you have brown hair there won´t be a bad look after the color is out.
Please keep in mind that your HAIR color almost always MATCHES UP with...
you skin tones. It is difficult to explain but EASY to spot.
For instance, if you dye a blond's hair black, 'something' won't seem right. (And the other way around, too!)
If that little blond patch bothers you (though I've seen some guys
with 2 or 3 of them
and they wore them proudly), then maybe...just maybe...you could dye
just the spot itself! Use a temorary dye to start and apply it
with a cotton ball to blend gently?
Good Luck
ps: My beard hairs are also blonds, browns & reds. No big deal.
I disagree with this, except, possibly, when it applies to redheads. I know too many counterexamples to your claim, including natural brunettes with pale skin and blue eyes and natural blondes with very tanned skin.
LucksKind is right. I can spot a dye job from a mile away. If someone colors their hair in a way that is dramatically different from the natural color, it's very obvious 99.9% of the time. Like he said, you look and see that something just isn't right.
Fine. I don't disagree with that. What I disagree with is that hair color is necessarily related with skin tone.
a bit. Let me just say that some people's skin tones do not
match up too well with their 'new' hair color.
It also helps if the eyebrows match with the hair.
My girlfriend in junior high had natural blonde hair and dark eyebrows. This is actually not uncommon. It's kind of like the difference between scalp hair and beard hair. It can be two completely different colors.
I agree with you, Victor. There were extremely isolated tribes in Africa not long ago where the people(who are by our modern terms, Black) had silver/white hair. Using the argument that hair and skin tone go together, the peopel should have been extremely fair skinned. They weren't.
I'm not exactly sure if the tribes still exist, but I would venture a guess that in the last hundred years they've mingled into the general population and lost the recessive(usually) genes that cause white/silver hair.
I'm not sure LucksKind meant that the color of the hair actually resembles the color of the skin, but that the two are related. For example, black hair looks really good with pale skin, while natural redheads with freckles don't look right with black hair. Anyway, that's what I think.
Like I said before, I see a pattern with redheads, but I don't see a pattern with anyone else. Your example just confirms this.
Well, it all depends on how black hair looks on you. Use a temporal colour. Redyeing is not an issue, because only partial coloured hair can look great (depends on your natural colour, and if you like it).
Hair is not damaged by good hair dyeing products. It's forbidden for dyeing products to alter the structure of the hair (at least it's for products here in Germany).
As for professional colouring at hair studios: I'll never ever colour my hair at home myself with products sellable in supermarkets. There are three reasons:
a) Professional products tend to have a higher opacity.
b) In a good hair studio, more than one shade of "black" or "blueish black" is available. Usually a good hair"cutter" will choose the right one.
c) Dyeing your hair is a difficult process. You may forget some hairs, or produce a mess in your bathroom. Why make your hands dirty if you can pay others for doing it ? :)
If it will make you happy, I say do it. As for it damaging your hair, I don't really know, but probably it won't.