u/drjeangray

I’m almost done with a pet portrait. I just wanted to put it up and see if anyone has any notes. I want to work on the wood texture, the white window frame and the range of shadows and highlights on the pet fur. What do y’all think?

Okay this is a long story. First, I LOVED my natural color. I’d grown it out the longest It had ever been. In recent months it started to look frizzy at the ends and while I was actively saving money to get it trimmed up, I thought, “why not do a clear gloss?!” … I follow the directions, used a 10 vol with a wella clear (I think?) and while its processing I read the label on the developer and see it says, “light lift” 😧 noooo! I’m fascinated with color theory and achieving a specific color using several colors with different properties is like magic to me. I’m an artist and color combos in art don’t have the same outcomes as they do in hair color. I digress…

I have Irish ancestry so my hair always pulls red. So my gentle 10 vol lift was a lighter reddish hue. I figured I could either try to get back my natural color or go lighter for the summer. And y’all, I KNOW better, but I got an IGK 9GB. Gold beige. 😑 initially I’d planned on mixing it with like a neutral violet but that color sold out. It turned out exactly how you think, orangey strawberry blonde. Side note I’m not a fan of IGK formulas cause my hair feels like I bleached my hair to within an inch of its life.

With my skin being pale, it now looks pink next to my hair color and I’m trying not to hate it but it’s hard!

My next plan was to use a Schwarzkopf Blondme Acidic toner but will toner even do anything without going even lighter? Im ok with toning it darker if the result is getting the orange/yellow out. I’m gonna laugh so hard if the only color correction that’ll work darkens my hair back to my original color. 😂 all that for nothing except now my hair feels fried.

The other option is the Malibu C Un-do products.

Photos posted above.
1). Hair styled after 9GB
2) Hair unstyled after 9GB
3) natural color

Any advice would be MOST appreciated. Please be gentle.🫣

Okay this is a long story. First, I LOVED my natural color. I’d grown it out the longest It had ever been. In recent months it started to look frizzy at the ends and while I was actively saving money to get it trimmed up, I thought, “why not do a clear gloss?!” … I follow the directions, used a 10 vol with a wella clear (I think?) and while its processing I read the label on the developer and see it says, “light lift” 😧 noooo! I’m fascinated with color theory and achieving a specific color using several colors with different properties is like magic to me. I’m an artist and color combos in art don’t have the same outcomes as they do in hair color. I digress…

I have Irish ancestry so my hair always pulls red. So my gentle 10 vol lift was a lighter reddish hue. I figured I could either try to get back my natural color or go lighter for the summer. And y’all, I KNOW better, but I got an IGK 9GB. Gold beige. 😑 initially I’d planned on mixing it with like a neutral violet but that color sold out. It turned out exactly how you think, orangey strawberry blonde. Side note I’m not a fan of IGK formulas cause my hair feels like I bleached my hair to within an inch of its life.

With my skin being pale, it now looks pink next to my hair color and I’m trying not to hate it but it’s hard!

My next plan was to use a Schwarzkopf Blondme Acidic toner but will toner even do anything without going even lighter? Im ok with toning it darker if the result is getting the orange/yellow out. I’m gonna laugh so hard if the only color correction that’ll work darkens my hair back to my original color. 😂 all that for nothing except now my hair feels fried.

The other option is the Malibu C Un-do products.

Photos posted above.
1). Hair styled after 9GB
2) Hair unstyled after 9GB
3) natural color

Photos posted above.
1). Original hair,
2). Hair styled after 9GB
3) Hair unstyled after 9GB

Any advice would be MOST appreciated. Please be gentle.🫣