Friday, October 26, 2012
Highlights at home: D.I.Y
Earlier on in september, i posted about how i lightened my hair without bleach using Garnier Color naturals in 110 Sandy blonde, the post for this can be found HERE.
Although i was originally pleased with the results, i felt that after a couple of weeks my hair had darkened and dulled. I really wanted a brighter more obvious blonde, and although i really didn't want to use bleach, i had to.
I decided to look into highlighting my hair at home, i researched it for hours on youtube and i found that the easiest way for me to do it would be to use an at home highlighting kit rather than the foiling method.
This is the result! lovely blonde highlights and wearing my new crown and glory hair extensions
This is how i did it:
I used the Jerome Russell highlighting kit:
Within this kit, you're given a highlighting cap a plastic cap to cover, a long needle hook to pull the hair through the cap, bleach, developer conditioner, a mixing tray and a dye brush.
Step by step:
1. Do a strand test, depending on your starting colour, you may need to leave the bleach on your hair longer to get the desired result.
2. Begin by combing your hair back off your face, and place the highlighting cap on your head
3. On the highlighting cap will be several holes to pull your hair through. Using the needle hook, either pull hair out of every hole, or every other hole (depending on the desired amount of highlights). The cap is also broken down into sections so you can choose to add all over highlights, or just crown highlights.
4. Once you've pulled your strands through the cap, mix the bleach and developer together in the mixing tray and add to the hair pulled out.
5. Cover with provided plastic cap and leave to develop, make sure to watch the colour so you know when to wash it off.
6. Once desired processing time is reached, wash the bleach off and apply the provided conditioner. I also added an extra deep moisturiser as bleach can be quite damaging. If you find that your result is a little brassy, buy a silver toned shampoo to tone the orange down, such as touch of silver or shimmer lights by clairol.
I found a good video on how to use this technique on youtube:
although its a different brand, its the same process!
Although i was originally pleased with the results, i felt that after a couple of weeks my hair had darkened and dulled. I really wanted a brighter more obvious blonde, and although i really didn't want to use bleach, i had to.
I decided to look into highlighting my hair at home, i researched it for hours on youtube and i found that the easiest way for me to do it would be to use an at home highlighting kit rather than the foiling method.
This is the result! lovely blonde highlights and wearing my new crown and glory hair extensions
This is how i did it:
I used the Jerome Russell highlighting kit:
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(image from google)
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Step by step:
1. Do a strand test, depending on your starting colour, you may need to leave the bleach on your hair longer to get the desired result.
2. Begin by combing your hair back off your face, and place the highlighting cap on your head
3. On the highlighting cap will be several holes to pull your hair through. Using the needle hook, either pull hair out of every hole, or every other hole (depending on the desired amount of highlights). The cap is also broken down into sections so you can choose to add all over highlights, or just crown highlights.
4. Once you've pulled your strands through the cap, mix the bleach and developer together in the mixing tray and add to the hair pulled out.
5. Cover with provided plastic cap and leave to develop, make sure to watch the colour so you know when to wash it off.
6. Once desired processing time is reached, wash the bleach off and apply the provided conditioner. I also added an extra deep moisturiser as bleach can be quite damaging. If you find that your result is a little brassy, buy a silver toned shampoo to tone the orange down, such as touch of silver or shimmer lights by clairol.
I found a good video on how to use this technique on youtube:
(video found on youtube, user: skindeepbeautytips)
although its a different brand, its the same process!
Monday, October 8, 2012
Review: Crown and Glory hair extensions
Recently i've been looking to purchase new extensions, but i always have trouble finding the right type.
Although i have very fine hair, i like to buy very thick hair extensions in order for them to blend more and have a certain look.
I usually look for double wefted extensions as they offer more thickness, until i stumbled across crown and glory extensions when they started following my twitter. They offer QUADRUPLE wefted extensions! this means each piece you clip into your hair has FOUR wefts of hair.
Reality TV star Louise Thompson from made in chelsea is known to wear them!
the website can be found here:
http://www.crownandgloryextensions.com
The set i bought are 18 inches in the colour 18/613 (200 grams), also known as blonde highlights and cost £89.99. The hair comes in a huge range of colours to choose from. Each set comes with 7 pieces. Here's an image from their website on where each weft goes:
i know they might sound a little pricey, but for the amount of hair you get, and the quality, its definitely worth it! Websites like foxylocks sell the same amount of hair for £118. You definitely make a saving using their site.
Here is them taken freshly out of the box. Look how thick they are!
The hair is made out of grade A indian remy hair, which means that the cuticle of the hair is kept completely intact. If your extensions are not remy, it means the hair has been chemically stripped and usually wont last as long.
My experience:
I absolutely love these extensions, i've been wearing them for a week and their texture is still the same despite the heat products i've used! Ive had foxylocks extensions before and i find that i much prefer these purely for the thickness, shine and quality of hair. I thought they might weigh down on my head a little but i've had no problem with that so far. Absolutely love them :) I feel like they're more of an investment as they will last a lot longer than my previous sets bought.
If you want to see a tutorial on how these are clipped in, let me know!
Here is a picture of my hair without the extensions:
Although i have very fine hair, i like to buy very thick hair extensions in order for them to blend more and have a certain look.
I usually look for double wefted extensions as they offer more thickness, until i stumbled across crown and glory extensions when they started following my twitter. They offer QUADRUPLE wefted extensions! this means each piece you clip into your hair has FOUR wefts of hair.
Reality TV star Louise Thompson from made in chelsea is known to wear them!
the website can be found here:
http://www.crownandgloryextensions.com
The set i bought are 18 inches in the colour 18/613 (200 grams), also known as blonde highlights and cost £89.99. The hair comes in a huge range of colours to choose from. Each set comes with 7 pieces. Here's an image from their website on where each weft goes:
i know they might sound a little pricey, but for the amount of hair you get, and the quality, its definitely worth it! Websites like foxylocks sell the same amount of hair for £118. You definitely make a saving using their site.
Here is them taken freshly out of the box. Look how thick they are!
The hair is made out of grade A indian remy hair, which means that the cuticle of the hair is kept completely intact. If your extensions are not remy, it means the hair has been chemically stripped and usually wont last as long.
My experience:
I absolutely love these extensions, i've been wearing them for a week and their texture is still the same despite the heat products i've used! Ive had foxylocks extensions before and i find that i much prefer these purely for the thickness, shine and quality of hair. I thought they might weigh down on my head a little but i've had no problem with that so far. Absolutely love them :) I feel like they're more of an investment as they will last a lot longer than my previous sets bought.
If you want to see a tutorial on how these are clipped in, let me know!
Here is a picture of my hair without the extensions:
My hair with the extensions:
I layered mine though to make them blend more with my natural hair length
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