What's your favourite Red Hair colour?

Henna is still my color of choice. After using it for so long though, my curls have been smoothed out. I want long, curly, red hair and it seems I can have long and curly but not red, or long and red but not curly, or curly and red but not long!

So I cut it all off and am now back to salt and pepper, waiting until it gets long enough for a Middy/Femme Fatale. Which is fine, I've gained too much weight to fit in my vintage clothes!

I finally found the colour i've been looking for a long time!
I like natural looking red colour.

Here's my haircolour nowadays!

Jirina said:

I finally found the colour i've been looking for a long time!
I like natural looking red colour.

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Beautiful! It's difficult to find a true, natural copper from a box/tube.
What's it called?

Jirina said:

I finally found the colour i've been looking for a long time!
I like natural looking red colour.

Here's my haircolour nowadays!

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WOW, you are a knock out ! Your red hair looks fabulous :eusa_clap

C-dot said:

Beautiful! It's difficult to find a true, natural copper from a box/tube.
What's it called?

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I second that! That is exactly the color I have been on the hunt for too. I always end up looking more purple tone then orange tone.

My problem with red is that it never seems to lift much lighter than my natural brown.

Jirina your color is stunning.

Jenniferose7 said:

My problem with red is that it never seems to lift much lighter than my natural brown.

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You probably need a higher volume developer - but with that comes damage!

I can get away with 5vol, because my hair is naturally red. When I was blonde, however, the red kept coming through, so I'd have to use 30 or 40vol. So I know your pain

I have done every home-dye shade of red there is. I am a natural light blonde, and the bright reds suit me best. The ones with orange tones, not the ones with violet tones. IDK how I can pull them off, but they are fabulous on me. I get the hairdresser to use WELLA Reds on me, and then have her put in a red "kicker" to dial it up. My hair is positively ON FIRE in the sunlight, and it makes me feel alive!


and in this pic, I have a lighter shade of red on the sides and the rest is the bright red. After time the sides fade to a strawberry blonde, which is quite striking in an updo.

Psycho Sue....I'm with you, WELLA makes the BEST red hair dyes!

After trying almost every shade of boxed and professional chemical red in the book, I'm a henna/cassia girl! I go for a brighter copper color than a deep red, so I mix the henna with cassia obovata to get a lighter colour.



there it is. It gets bright enough just fine for me as my natural hair colour is a strawberry-ish honey blonde.

~Psycho Sue~ said:

I have done every home-dye shade of red there is. I am a natural light blonde, and the bright reds suit me best. The ones with orange tones, not the ones with violet tones. IDK how I can pull them off, but they are fabulous on me. I get the hairdresser to use WELLA Reds on me, and then have her put in a red "kicker" to dial it up. My hair is positively ON FIRE in the sunlight, and it makes me feel alive!

and in this pic, I have a lighter shade of red on the sides and the rest is the bright red. After time the sides fade to a strawberry blonde, which is quite striking in an updo.

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Hey Psycho Sue You have amazing eyes & your hair is a beautiful colour !

Thank you.

c-dot, If you meant which my colour is called.

Well, i bought my colour from a hairdressers warehouse store. My colour is Keune's TINTA COLOR.
I admix two colours together, 7.46 medium copper red blond and 0/44 copper, which is a toner.
And the colours are quite cheap, two colours total was about 10€.
I dyed my hair two months ago and the colour is still good-looking, very natural, although a root growth of my hair.
(If it's called "a root growth" when colour is getting off in the root...)
The root grouwth is not very glamorous!

Blondie said:

Hey Psycho Sue You have amazing eyes & your hair is a beautiful colour !

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Awe Shucks, Blondie! You're super for saying that!

ZOMBI! I luvs ur hair color, so bright and pretty!

~Psycho Sue~ said:

ZOMBI! I luvs ur hair color, so bright and pretty!

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thanks! I have to admit I'm SUPER happy with it -- I was really happy to stop using chemical dyes, the condition and health of my hair is greatly improved ever since I started using more natural and plant-based things on it

It was a bit trial & error to get the right colour combo, but I'm so glad I did it! lol

zombi said:

thanks! I have to admit I'm SUPER happy with it -- I was really happy to stop using chemical dyes, the condition and health of my hair is greatly improved ever since I started using more natural and plant-based things on it

It was a bit trial & error to get the right colour combo, but I'm so glad I did it! lol

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How long does it last for you?

~Psycho Sue~ said:

How long does it last for you?

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pretty much forever.

I don't colour the length, I only colour the roots. What is on the length of my hair is a one-time-only full-length henna application. It has yet to fade.

Howdy ladies! This is my first post to the Lounge and I think it's a fitting one seeing as I had such a hellish time trying to achieve my perfect shade of red over a period of several months. Funnily enough, after all that bother, I'm back to my dark brown/almost black natural color (in an attempt to let my hair rest and become healthy again) but maybe sharing my experience will add to the wealth of information already listed in this thread. Before the whole mess started, I had jet black hair and had had it for years and years. That meant layer upon layer of black (box and professional) hair color that I had to strip off to achieve my desired look (think Little Mermaid or Jean Grey from the X-Men, I mean RED!!!). I bleached my hair twice to remove all that pigment and I was still left with dark brown ends but most of it was a lovely shade of Tweety bird yellow (now we're getting somewhere!). I bought a bright red shade from Sally's (and I can't for the life of me remember what the shade was exactly but it might have been either L'Oreal or Wella) and it worked like a charm. That red is what you see in my avatar and it was gorgeous. The only problem was that after I washed it for the first time (after the very first shampoo to get the dye out, of course), it faded like you wouldn't believe! I was left with a horrible coppery mess. Now, please forgive me all you ladies who sport copper tresses. I have not seen one shade of red that I did not think was GORGEOUS on this thread but it just doesn't look right on me. And it faded so badly in every subsequent shampoo that you could see some blonde coming through! It was awful.

Thankfully, at the time, I was attending cosmetology school and I became the class project, a science experiment of color correction. I went through every pure red in the professional Wella and Redken lines (both permanent and semi-permanent). I tried Matrix reds to no avail and was about to give up until I found Pravana ChromaSilk Vivids in Red. According to the professional website the ChromaSilk Vivids are semi-permanent hair dyes (they come in all kinds of crazy colors like silver, yellow, orange, pink, magenta, violet, green and blue) that CANNOT be removed with a color remover or bleached out of the hair (so much for semi-permanent ), but, of course, you can always cover it up with a darker hair color should you change your mind (and eventually, I did *sigh*). I really wish that I had taken pictures throughout the whole ordeal because I swear that my hair was a different color (a different shade red) at least every 2 weeks if not sooner than that. I'm back to my dark roots (literally) and the upkeep is nowhere near what it was when I was channeling Jessica Rabbit but I miss my red hair something awful! I just felt so freakin' glamorous. I'm sure I'll rejoin the ranks of the redheads one of these days, the siren call is just too strong for me to resist for too long. Anyway, that is my experience thus far with being a redhead. Sorry for the novel-size first post Hope this helped or was at least an interesting/amusing read. Ciao ladies!

Man, looking at everyone's beautiful pictures sure does make me miss my red hair, too but with the color fade, I just had to color it too often and it damaged my hair too much to keep it up. I could only grow it to about my shoulders when I kept it red (it's down to the middle of my back now). I too also used to use L'Oreal Mega Reds - Medium Intense Red Copper and it was lovely but now I use a deposit only color by Clairol (Preferences, I think) from Sally's in one of the dark brown shades. Although, last time I did it, they had one that was somewhat red (but still a dark shade), so, naturally, I chose that one. It came out as a dark brown with a red tint to it which was lighter in my natural highlights. The red tint didn't last too long - maybe about 2 weeks, but the brown part stayed in, so my hair is, at least, still pretty even in color.

Anyway, a little haircoloring tip that I have learned for getting a nice even color is to use protein filler - Protein Neutral is the name of the one that I get at Sally's. I discovered this about 10 years ago when I first started dying my hair red. Before I went red, I had artificial blonde highlights (that was all my mom would let me have at the time - she thought coloring my hair red was just crazy so, of course, as soon as I went to college, that's what I did). Anyway, when I colored red the first time with whatever shade I had chosen at Sally's it looked great...until I washed it and I suddenly had half red hair and half almost blonde again (and my roots had grown out a lot, so it was really noticeable). I went back to Sally's and told the sales associate what had happened and she recommended using protein filler next time I colored, which completely solved the problem and I have used it every time I have colored my hair since - even with my deposit-only color. (Of course, though, this won't even out your color if you have colored a darker color like brown or black in the past and you are now going lighter. In that case, you would still need to bleach out the darker color first. However, if you are going between shades of red, with the fade factor, it might do the trick - it definitely won't hurt )

Also, I try to stay away from the creme haircolors just because the few times I have used them, I always seem to end up missing some spots no matter how well I think I got it all in.

Jooooyyyy

Yay, I have a good red again!

It was a stupid, really dull, didn't-suit-me dark red. Then it was lightened for a photoshoot and was a bright bright manic panic-esque pin-red which suited me even less. Now it's pretty! Hooray!

Sorry about it not being a pretty glamourous photo like everyone else's. I was at a friend's birthday picnic at a park.

my new to lust after red...

which I am being slowly convinced to attempt soon......






more pictures http://www.fashionising.com/picture...hn-Spring-Summer-2010-Ad-Campaign-4796-1.html



I WANT........granted..my hair is shorter then that...but its that texture...so its so tempting to try it...