Anyone do lowlights with gray hair?

Anonymous
To sort of blend the gray - as an alternative to single process coloring? What were the results?

Continuing my endless back-and-forth about what to do now that my (mostly) gray has grown in during the pandemic. Lowlights seem lower-maintenance and an alternative to just going back to my former hair color (single process and highlights) routine.
Anonymous
I think this is very common and what my stylist recommended for my black hair, which is starting to gray.
Anonymous
Lowlights are great. They are very easy to maintain.

Lowlights also are a great bridge if you do ultimately decide to go full color because the change won't be as big.
Anonymous
What are lowlights? I’m 60% gray and it looks awful as I haven’t been to the hairdresser in months. When I do go, I get single processed color, however, it doesn’t take long for the gray to start coming in again. I need to figure out something to do with my disaster hair. I was thinking of blonde highlights.
Anonymous
Lowlights mean a shade darker rather than a shade lighter than your natural hair.
Anonymous
I had to check the date to see if I wrote this. I had all-over color and now have been growing out. I don't care for full silver - age discrimination if nothing else, esp as I'm younger than I look with full-on gray. But I have a lot of gray for my age and don't like maintaining every 3-4 weeks either. Made my hair so dry.

Anyway, I have also been thinking about low-lights as an intermediary measure. Not sure if I need to wait until all the former color is out? And I am worried they will go brassy.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:What are lowlights? I’m 60% gray and it looks awful as I haven’t been to the hairdresser in months. When I do go, I get single processed color, however, it doesn’t take long for the gray to start coming in again. I need to figure out something to do with my disaster hair. I was thinking of blonde highlights.


I think it depends on your natural base (non gray) color. Mine is about the same amt of gray and highlights to blond were good because it blended with the gray well. HOWEVER, my base color is mousy brown and blond highlights only with gray and brown coming in was so multi-colored even just a month in.

I had to do blond base + blond highlights. In other words, you can't avoid the base color if your hair is naturally light, I think -- but if i am wrong tell me!
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Lowlights mean a shade darker rather than a shade lighter than your natural hair.


So if my hair is 80% gray in front and more like 40% in back -- and the color itself is a 5/6, darkish brown - and I grow out the dyed-blond part, which I am:

Can I get really dark lowlights into my hair? Like a 3/4 (wouldn't that be almost black)? Or why can't I dye 5/6 - because it fades?
Anonymous
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