Dark brown hair red streaks without bleaching?

Question

I have dark brown hair, fairly close to black. But obviously dark brown when it's down. I want to get red streaks in it, WITHOUT bleaching. Will it show? Or will it just look retarded? That's what my friend said and we got into a huge argument, so I've decided to ask on this. So please tell me from your experiences or what you know. Thank you!

Answer 1

It won't show very well, and there's a good chance your hair won't even 'take' the color.  Your best bet really is having a professional bleach and dye it.

Answer 2

i have a solution for you.

there's this product you can buy, its called:

Loreal Paris Colour Rays

its a type of hair dye meant for highlights

it comes in about 4 shades, red being one of them.

its a one step process which involves NO BLEACHING!!

and its recommended for DARK hair.

results are highly visible!

you can check it out here:

http://www.lorealparisusa.com/_us/_en/de...

hope this helped!

Answer 3

I did that with my hair, and depending on what type of highlight she uses it should show. It showed for mine, first week a lot, but after it started to fade away. I had blonde highlights the time before and they still showed 2 months later so i did it again. I like blonde better than red, although i thought red was gonna look better. I was wrong. It looks good the  first week or second but they fade fast...

Have fun. :)

Answer 4

I actually have dark brown hair also

and ive had red streaks

you need to ask for the bright red color and it will show up as dark red

it fades away quicker then any other color though

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but it looked pretty while it lasted =]

Answer 5

umm i had really dark brown hair. it looks black when im not in the sunlight. when i was younger i got red streaks in it and it showed up perfectly fine. I think it would be okay :]

If your not sure go to a salon or something.

Answer 6

in order to get any color u want starting from black.. u will have to bleach....because the pigment in the color is to dark...even if its dark brown..ur gonna have to bleach to get red streaks..

Answer 7

if you use semi permannet its not gng to be very cute, if you get a permanant maroon red then you can streak it and it will look fine. If your gng to use semi, youve gotta bleach.

Answer 8

i have that hair you talking about ill send u a pic if u want its perfectly normal

Answer 9

They are not going to show up without some lightening first.