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Regrowth challenges
  • princessbgirl

    My hair is prematurely gray, borderline white, on nearly my entire head. I have incredibly thick, v coarse hair which grows at a v fast clip.

    My stylist had been coloring my hair for years. However, over the past year, my gray has grown more resistant to her processes. Her colors no longer took to my hair.

    This, coupled w my hair's v quick regrowth, led me to make the switch to at home coloring. My original hair color was dark brown. I have tried to keep it anywhere from a light to medium brown, since I started coloring it so many years ago. I use Sally Brand's gray magic in my Clairol dye and it seems to do the trick. Except for one problem...

    When I color at home, my dyed roots do not blend well w the rest of my hair. I have experimented w several different colors, and still seem to get a line of darker color about two to three inches past my scalp line. My hair is so thick that it takes me nearly 45 minutes just to make sure that I hit every root in my head when I color.

    I am getting married in three months! How can I make sure that my color on my regrowth blends w my already processed hair? How can I solely color my roots and ensure that I hit every strand of my v thick hair? Your ideas will be very helpful. Thanks so much.

  • sarahf
    In general, my understanding is that the process should be that if you use permanent dye, you use it only on the roots, and try to match it with a semipermanent dye to refresh the ends.   But if you can't match it, that's a pain.  If you use semipermanent or demipermanent, I think you can re-do your whole head safely every 6 weeks or so (it won't cause as much damage to your hair as permanent dye).  But from the sound of it, your hair may not take the semipermanent dye.  Sorry not to be of more help!  Obviously, I'm a consumer not a hair professional...
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