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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The other post made me start thinking about the increasing amount of gray hair that is invading my head.  My natural color is a medium-dark chestnut brown. My hair is long and straight but with some body.  I need to cover the grays but I don't want highlights, I just want it to look like my natural hair but without the gray.  Last year I had a single-process demi-permanent color done and it made my hair darker and kind of monochromatic.  (I would have said it was monochromatic before but I guess it does have natural subtle highlights/variation.)  I don't get to the salon that frequently so now I want to go permanent rather than demi, and I'd like to avoid having obvious roots while it grows out -- I don't have THAT much gray so I think this is possible.

My hair is actually one of the things I really like about my appearance so I don't want to f*** it up.  Any suggestions for what type of color/process I should look for?  Also, any recommendations for a good colorist in Arlington, FC, or Tysons?  Thanks so much![/quote]

I am the other poster:).  I just remembered what a good friend told me she does to avoid the mono-chrome look....every third or so color session she gets highlights.  This way when the conditioning demi-rinse is put over the highlights there will be some natural variation from the underlying highlights.  She went gray prematurely so has been coloring her hair since her late 20s.  I am new at this at 43.

I used to love the demi-rinse but now I year into it I think all of my natural hair variations have been covered so it is much more monochrome.  I think I am going to do one round of highlights..then the demi-rinse through the summer because the sun in summer wreaks havoc on higlights.

I'll post a pic of two photos I like...[/quote]

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