Comments on How to Get Great Hair Highlights At Home

Try putting lemon juice in your hair. Whether in the sun or not. It will naturally make your hair a lot blonder. I grew up in the Florida Keys and me and my friends use it all the time. I am a natural blonde and have been using lemon juice for years. My other friends do it also, it works great on all hair colors; red, brown, dirty Blondie, etc..

When I first started to die my hair it was dirty blond. I dyed my hair and when it grew out it was a really dark brown, like it could even pass as black. So I went from blond to black. Now I use peroxide to lighten it and I love it. The only bad part is the ugly roots, so I re-apply peroxide about every 2 weeks.

I have dirty blonde hair and have started using Pantene beautiful blonde shampoo and conditioner. I have found it helps lighten my hair little by little, naturally. I also like taking a paintbrush and dipping it in the conditioner. They, as if you are highlighting your hair "paint" thin stripes where you would like highlights leave it in for at least four hours and up to a day. Although it made my hair temporarily greasy, I found it gave me natural blonde highlights.

I think it depends on which Sun-In you use. A long time ago I used Sun-In and it made my hair look so nice and natural, but now I can't find the same one at any store. They have this new one that's supposed to have extra strength to make your hair change color more quickly, and it sucks because it makes your hair orange. I hope I'll be able to find the old one because I really miss that beautiful, golden, reddish color it gave me. For your information my hair is very dark, so if you want blonde hair with Sun-In, then you'll probably get it if your hair is lighter or if you use more than I did. I was actually trying to dye it blonde, but I couldn't believe how nice and natural the red looked on me, so I stopped blow drying and decided to leave it like that. Stay away from any Sun-In that says something like Super Sun-In on the bottle; unless you want orange hair. Just try the mild one, even though it might take longer to change the color. It's worth it and it makes your hair look great! Good luck everyone!

I used a L'Oreal product (usually great), but instead of reddish auburn my hair turned pinkish burgundy. I cried! I soaked my hair for hours and hours (probably twice) in virgin olive oil and it did tone down the brassy look a lot; it made it a duller brown which was much better than the pink tones! I also washed my hair several times with T-Gel dandruff shampoo, which helped darken it as well. Just a tip for you!

Sun-In is probably fine if it's only used once, but don't go overboard like I did. You can use Sun-In during the winter to prevent dark roots, but this damages your hair. I started to get annoyed with having to do my roots all the time and realizing that the color looked sort of fake. Now I have to go to a salon to dye my hair back to its natural color and grow out the Sun-In, which is definitely a pain and is expensive. I highly suggest using a 3/4 lemon juice and 1/4 chamomile mixture. Also, you may want to add some aloe vera to the mix to avoid drying out your hair. Apply the mixture in small sections, not all over. That way it won't be as obvious when darker hair grows in. This natural mixture is not as extreme as Sun-In. It's better for your hair, more gradual/natural, and will be much better for you in the long run. Good luck!

My friend used Sun-In, these things happened: 1. Her brown hair turned orange 2. Her hair thinned dramatically. 3. Her hair stopped growing 4. After one week she had ugly, dark roots.

John Freida Lemon Lights is amazing. And it smells awesome. too! I sometimes use it when I want my hair to smell amazingly good. I used it when I went to Jamaica and my hair came out perfect. I use it in the shower with a dab of conditioner and leave it for 3 minutes and it adds some color. I love this stuff.

If you are using henna powder, be sure to mix it with some cream. The cream that I used was Johnson's Day cream, but I'm sure Olay and L'Oreal would do as good.

After you use the lemon juice, don't straighten it right away, give it a day. If you straighten it too soon the color comes out!

You can dye all of your hair or create funky highlights w/ Kool-aid. Just mix the powder with enough water to create a paste. Use an eyebrow comb or toothbrush to comb in highlights or just smoosh it all over. Wrap your hair in Saran Wrap for 20 minutes, rinse and voil. Red flavors like cherry, and yellow flavors like lemonade are ideal. You can use blue, green, orange, purple, but only advise this if your into punk rawker hair. Washes out after about a month.

If you want your hair to be sun-kissed blonde and your afraid of your hair turning a copper color, then do a test strand.

Orange juice really works! I used some by pouring a little bit down my hair, (you can also use it in a spray bottle). I let this sit in for about an hour, then I took a shower. My hair is now so much brighter!

A lot of the comments about Sun-In are from people using it improperly; it says right on the box to not use it if you have dark hair. You have to remember Sun-In is also pretty much diluted hydrogen peroxide. Would you spray hair dye, or peroxide in your hair every day? Of course not. So why do that with Sun-In?

There is a Mexican manufactured shampoo that is safe and effective for the lightening of hair, it is called Grisi (I recommend the Grisi Gold bottle). You can find it in the ethnic section of most chains and WalMart (if you live in a city). It uses chamomile flowers to gradually bring out your natural, blonde highlights. They also have Grisi conditioner and Grisi spray-on chamomile formula. It's huge in Latin America. I've been using it on my hair since I was 19, I am now 22, and people think I'm a natural blonde.

Mix iodine and baby oil in a spray bottle. Spritz hair. The baby oil will condition your hair and the iodine will give it auburn, blonde, funky highlights. Also, it's a great tanning formula. But it takes a couple washings to get the baby oil from hair.