highlights to cover gray hair?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I had a stylist suggest highlights to cover but I figured this was just because it's more expensive and time consuming. Highlights are typically double the cost of a single process color and trickier to get what you're looking for. It takes more skill from the stylist. I'd personally stick with single process.

Single process is definitely easier and cheaper. It also looks like you applied shoe polish to your head.

Not with a good stylist and high quality color.

I have a good stylist who uses high quality color. You just can't get any dimension if you are coloring every hair the same color.

[Anonymous]

I do this. I used to color + highlight and it was killing my hair (and time and budget). Now, I am growing out the overall color and just getting blond highlights. I like it. One problem I have is that because my hair is about 75% gray and 25% brown, the blond blends in with the gray well, but not as well the brown. So, the re-growth where the gray is coming in after the blond looks very natural (the contrast isn't as much) vs. where the gray is coming in after the brown (where there's a greater contrast). But, overall, the contrast in re-growth is less than when I colored AND highlighted.

I don't mind people knowing there's some gray. I think at my age, 50, it looks a bit unnatural to have zero gray. More importantly, re-growth of gray + brown looks silly given it's impossible to perfectly match the brown... so I was winding up with 4 colors: the highlights, color - and then at my roots, gray and brown.

Basically, I'm eager for 100% gray so I can just get blond highlights (or maybe I'll even leave some gray areas behind and mostly dye). I do have mostly gray in the front and with blond highlights I think it looks good.

No searching for the gray hairs to highlight (OP, your new stylist was searching to - what, color every gray hair?!).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP again. I know now why my stylist said it couldn't be done. I talked a new stylist into doing it, and it looks great, but she literally spent over an hour searching through my hair for grays. I kept apologizing and telling her I had no idea how hard it would be. I can't ask her to do this every month (how long it will take for my grays to show again).

How much did it cost?