Comments on: Francesca’s secret for fabulous hair color

By: Kristin

Kristin — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:11:20 +0000

This is an old entry, but I had to say that a) that photo has been debated by hennaheads for a long time and is almost certainly fake and b) henna doesn’t have to be dramatic. I use a light, diluted gloss of henna on my dark-blond hair, mostly for its fantastic conditioning benefits, and I’m not Irish-setter red from it yet: it adds coppery highlights that light afire in direct sun.

The key is to use pure, fresh good-quality henna and to strand test first and go easy.

Also, my #1 favorite hair color? Fuchsia Fatale. Cthulhulovesme is right.

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:18:02 +0000

My mother and I were both “blessed” with chicken-shit brown hair - medium tone, greyish cast, no highlights. Ugly, ugly, ugly, especially as we both have pale skin. My mom went through the frosting and the highlighting and in in her 40’s finally settled on red hair. She’s now almost 70 and the hair is still red, and she looks fabulous, and a good ten years younger than her real age.

I went through brassy blonde, platinum blonde, orange, red, green, black, white and purple before settling on red with blonde highlights. Costs a fortune but the payoff is immeasurable. It’s a great feeling to know that your hair coloring is flattering to your skin tone and meshes well with your life and personality. I’ve never understood women who were afraid to color their hair, or who thought it was “fake” to do so, but I suppose I came by the dyeing naturally in my family.

By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 05:42:03 +0000

Henna has been responsible for an awful lot of washed-out-eggplant-heads. The colour in the picture looks both synthetic (amusing, considering it’s not synthetic!) and unflattering. Nobody should pay for “Burnt Tomato Sauce” hair.

By: cthulhulovesme

cthulhulovesme — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:10:20 +0000

My natural hair color? Almost-black.

My hair color of choice? Kelly Green. Some of us look better in crayola shades.

By: KateriBella

KateriBella — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:04:07 +0000

My hair color is its natural, dishwater blond color. My hairdresser played with my hair for a good half of an hour before she added my first time ever, professionally done lowlights for fall/winter. She was so excited that she got to play with “virgin” hair (I had dyed it a couple of times in college, but that was several years ago — long enough that everything was back to its natural color). I love her because she’ll tell me straight whether or not a style would look good with my perpetually round face (she has one too, so it’s a perfect match!). Find one that isn’t afraid to tell you what’s going to look good or not (not only do I have “mostly virgin” hair, but while it’s baby fine, there’s a lot of it)!

By: Abbey

Abbey — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:03:06 +0000

My hair is my natural dark brown. I finally managed to grow it all out into my natural colour and I couldn’t be happier. My hairdresser looked at it and went “people pay me for this colour”. I’m a university student so it’s nice to not have to worry about paying for hair dye to cover up obvious roots.

By: Misalexis

Misalexis — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:25:11 +0000

I do not think that there is anything wrong with the shade of red that the girl in the picture has. Her hair looks beautiful, healthy, and she has the right complexion and it looks like the right age to pull it off.

By: dinazad

dinazad — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:53:42 +0000

Errrr… what’s wrong with henna? I’ve been using my favourite auburn shade of henna for the last twenty years or so. Love the way it adapts to my natural hair colour. And since I’m pretty salt-and-pepper now, highlights make themselves, since the white hair get’s a coppery sheen and the dark hair remains auburn.

By: Despina

Despina — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:46:19 +0000

Ciao, bella Francesca!

I’ve often thought about trying the L’Oreal Couleur Experte, but I’ve had a phobia about home highlighting ever since my last endeavor in the late 80s, which left me with a head full of gawd-awful orange streaks.

Any advice on how you do it so expertly?

Love the blog — keep the fabulousness up, girlfriends!

Despina

By: Ashe Mischief

Ashe Mischief — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:14:15 +0000

I’ve been coloring my own hair since I was in seventh grade (about half of my life now!), and just today, one of the owners of the salon I frequent says to me, “You have such a beautiful haircolor. I know I say that every time you come in.” At which point my hair stylist says, “And she does it herself!”