Comments on: How to Get Great Hair Highlights At Home

on 6/23/2009 how do I mix a partial highlighting solution? I don't want to use it all up at once, and want to experiment without using what I need and then throwing away the rest. When I color my hair, I only mix half the color agent and half the peroxide. It works ok to mix the rest at a later date and I save money! I don't know how to handle the highlighting 'mixers' where one is powder and one is liquid. How can I find out what the ratio to mix together is. Thank you!

on 6/2/2009 really informative!!!! 5*

on 3/9/2009 I have done the whole spray bottle with hydrogen peroxide thing and it WORKS, my hair was light brown and now is a nice honey blonde color. I sprayed it on my dry unwashed hair and then let it dry for like an hour ( have a alot of hair) then deep conditioned looks great!

on 2/19/2009 drrr

on 8/10/2008 Ths is all strangely funny indeed. I used to wash my hair with lemon juice as a scalp replenisher but stopped for no p[articular reason a couple of months ago. These days my hair has been looking very dull and boring and i couldn't understand what had happened to my natural shine & multitoned hair color.
I realized that it had been the lemon juice my hair had been missing.

I would suggest all th lemon juice sceptics to use the lemon juice but go about your day to day activities as you normally would. Sitting in th sun for lengthy periods waiting for miracles to happen with your hair exposed to UVB/UVA rays will obviously damage your.

on 6/23/2008 When it comes to hair once you damage it, you have to wait until it grows. For some that's a long time. I think with these kinds of articles the person who used themselves as the test-specimen should definitely put their picture up close for all to see the results. Clorox is way.. too damaging.
While three drops may seem negligible, I don't feel comfortable with that.Some people have incredibly strong hair. My niece is one of those, she parched her hair, via bleaching and gels and within a few months her hair was healthy again. What a brat!! I have never seen anything like that,but like I said her hair is strong. Other people may have non-virgin hair and that is my concern regarding the bleach. Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to respond.

on 6/8/2008 My hair was very long and was a light brunette at the top, caramel in the middle and a very light brown and shiny color at the bottom. I wanted to lighten my hair to some form of blonde while making my hair color even.
I already knew Sun-In was a horrible product for most, so I never tried it, but I wouldn't recommend it. What I did was brew enough chamomile tea to fill a bowl in which one could fit their hair in, and filled it up to a little more than halfway. then I added a little more than half a cup of pure lemon juice, 1/2 cup of olive oil, a FEW drops of honey and hydrogen peroxide, and just a LITTLE bit of bleach, like 3 drops! then squeeze some of your favorite conditioner, preferably John Frieda's sheer blonde conditioner. (That stuff REALLY works!) Also add some yellow food coloring if you want particularly golden results. Mix it all together thoroughly, gradually adding som

on 2/23/2008 I bleached my sisters hair from a dark blonde to a very lite pale yellow then i bought her shades eq in9v and 9nb and told her how to apply it and be sure to wach closely so it doesn't turn graysh purple. well she calls me today and tells me her hair is alite violet. Help! any good advise would be so good.
thanx, juls

on 1/30/2008 When I was 14 I used Sun In on my hair and it turned red/orange. I had hair like Lucille Ball! It would have been fine if I really looked great in it, but I'm more of the blonde/brunette type. I over-did the Sun In though so I have no idea how it would work in just a few applications. I would spray it on constantly and blow dry my hair afterwards.

on 1/28/2008 What works for me and others that I know is a mixture of water and hydrogen peroxide (50-50 percent). I put ten small capfulls of each in a disposable cup and mix. After you wash your hair and it's wet, apply a mixture on with rubber gloves (or a spray bottle and no gloves) and leave on hair about 40-50 minutes and then dry with hair dryer. The lightening process isn't drastic and it's a slow process. You can go as light as you want. I have medium ash blonde hair now and it looks like I got it done at a salon. The peroxide won't turn your hair orange and it hasn't damaged my hair. Matter of fact it made my oily hair even better. You might want to use a good condtioner if you have dry hair. Hydrogen Peroxide isn't a harsh chemical like bleach is.

on 1/28/2008 What works for me and others that I know is a mixture of water and hydrogen peroxide (50-50 percent). I put ten small capfulls of each in a disposable cup and mix. After you wash your hair and it's wet, apply a mixture on with rubber gloves (or a spray bottle and no gloves) and leave on hair about 40-50 minutes and then dry with hair dryer. The lightening process isn't drastic and it's a slow process. You can go as light as you want. I have medium ash blonde hair now and it looks like I got it done at a salon. The peroxide won't turn your hair orange and it hasn't damaged my hair. Matter of fact it made my oily hair even better. You might want to use a good condtioner if you have dry hair. Hydrogen Peroxide isn't a harsh chemical like bleach is.

on 7/16/2007 okay kewl glad i stumbled across this site as was looking for tips to lighten hair or to bring out the natural highlights within lol!

"by Andrea on 11/22/2005
Hair - I see that it says to use henna. Henna is NOT a lightener. It will turn your hair a reddish maroon and is supposed to be used on skin and not hair. Warning - just in case."

^ just to say henna IS for hair not only for skin, and there are various shades ie brown henna, copper/red henna and black henna, which are for skin or hair!
if you use the henna that doesn't colour your hair eg henna wax, it makes your hair like silk and brings out the colours.
your husbands will love it! inshaallaah :)

on 3/20/2007 I think we all know that what works on some hair ends up being a disaster on others-myself included. But when I came accross this site yesterday, I tried out the chamomile spray. I mixed 1/4 cup of the strongly brewed tea with 1/4 cup of lemon juice, and a few drops of honey. I doubted it would work, considering that I can't sit in the sun this early in the year. After leaving it on for a half hour before showering it off, I discovered it actually did get my hair lighter. It even kind of blended the line between my roots and my dye job. The only thing you should remember is that (like mentioned before) don't let mixtures with a high content of lemon juice like this one set on your skin. (And believe me, you'll know when it does.) Hope it works out for you as well as it did for me!

on 2/12/2007 This page is named "how to get great hightlights at home" and I think it should be about just that. How To Do It At Home....
and for a "professional" to tell people NOT to do this defeats the whole purpose of the article, which is for those of us who are tired of paying enormous prices for something that is easily done at home. We want to share tips and experiemces, not hear that we should go to a salon. If you have been a colorist for years, then you don't need to be leaving advice for people to go to a salon, but advice for How To Do It At Home, remembering that is what people came to this page to learn. How to DO it, not how to NOT do it. Pretty unprofessional of a professional to think that they are the only ones with sense enough to paint some highlights on someones head. They are easily done and there are lots of places where you can get tips, watch videos of how it is done, especially the Loreal site. It has step by step instruction, tips, photos, and everything you need to know. Keep searching the web because this page will not help anyone.

on 2/20/2007 This page is named "how to get great hightlights at home" and I think it should be about just that. How To Do It At Home....
and for a "professional" to tell people NOT to do this defeats the whole purpose of the article, which is for those of us who are tired of paying enormous prices for something that is easily done at home. We want to share tips and experiemces, not hear that we should go to a salon. If you have been a colorist for years, then you don't need to be leaving advice for people to go to a salon, but advice for How To Do It At Home, remembering that is what people came to this page to learn. How to DO it, not how to NOT do it. Pretty unprofessional of a professional to think that they are the only ones with sense enough to paint some highlights on someones head. They are easily done and there are lots of places where you can get tips, watch videos of how it is done, especially the Loreal site. It has step by step instruction, tips, photos, and everything you need to know. Keep searching the web because this page will not help anyone.