Hi Everyone,
Long time member here, but have never really posted much and I haven't been on for a very long time. Anyhow, after years of having shoulder length hair and thinking I'd never be able to grow my hair long, I finally have been able to! It must be all those prenatal vitamins I continued to take after I had my twins. And of course I LOVE the length. It's currently getting close to bra strap length and I would love to get it even longer. The problem is, I have gotten myself into a dangerous cycle of highlighting every three months and then having to have regular trims which will obviously keep me from achieving any progress with growth.
Knowing this, I've been entertaining the idea of quitting the highlights. The last time I went, which was last week, we decided to throw in some lowlights so I wouldn't get too blonde and guess what? The ends of my hair absorbed that dark color like a sponge and now it just doesn't look too nice. It was a real wake up call, frankly...though my hair doesn't
look damaged, it obviously must be to have taken such an awful color on the ends. My stylist always insists on bleaching and toning. We never discussed using a high lift color...if it's gentler on the hair, I would be all for it. I guess my question is, is it even possible to go lighter and keep long hair healthy? Has anyone here been able to do that? If I have to choose, I'm choosing to keep the length. I know growing the color out will be awful though.
I guess I should be thankful that the ombre is in right now.
Would love to hear opinions/advice. Thanks!