Just wanted to follow up with some things I discovered.

1st, I found the lava orange (that reputedly glows under black light ---it says it on the actual bottle)
on cutout at Hot Topic. They had it for $15/bottle...........it was reduced to $11/bottle and then put
on the half price table to I made out like a bandit buying three bottles for $6 each.

I opened it up and put it under blacklight and it just doesn't seem like it is UV reacitve, though.
It also looked far redder than it is supposed to be (I know that color always looks different once you've
put it on and I haven't tried it yet).................I went out and got one bottle of Bright *$*##@*$#*$ Yellow)
to mix with it so we'll see.

But even more interesting, someone read this post and my recent blog about my tour and turned me on their
company in Nashville that is making eco friendly, non-toxic and not tested on animals temporary dyes that
glow 'BY THEMSELVES" in the dark (with out a black light).

I went to the website and it looks fantastic and really bright and they have ORANGE!!!! yeah,
I just don't know if I have time to have them ship it to me before I go on Thursday to Gothenborg, Sweden.

Thanks for all the help and check out these iGlow people in Nashville

www.voltagehairgel.com/iglowspecial.html

ahhh in other words you have the same color hair i do, wink.

honestly i have seen se over bleached and over my magenta, and it just lasts like crazy period. some of it is the persons hair, given but i think more is after care. how often do you wash? what shampoo and conditioner do you use? example i get a month out of my magenta before it fades and i have an inch worth of roots i can no longer ignore. even at that the fading isn't that bad. but i recently did someone else's hair with same dye, and... in less than a week it was faded terribly. i had to redo it. i asked her what shampoo she used, and she got all sheepish. i see her again tomorrow and we will see the results of her switching shampoos.

i prefer using the magenta to bleach because i have long hair and it damages it significantly less. i have beautiful split free hair. and the se conditions to boot. so it is up to you. loreal has many colors and i have seen some that are in the shades you would enjoyor you can always go a high lift light blond, however the se wouldn't look as good over some of their shades till you got some fading. for best loreal results to use with se use a 40 volume developer with it. this will give you highest lift and highest fade factor.

another option i just did a pale pink streak with is ion highest lift ash blond with a 40 volume developer yet again. now for an orange overlay i wouldn't use ash but something with a gold base in their lightest shade. i have a blue tinted pink having both atomic pink and cupcake so ash is great for me.

my hair grows ultra fast too and i have found no answer to that. if lazy just throw se over roots. not as good an effect but can patch you through.

sorry it took so long to respond and if you have more questions feel free to pm me. i am online all but weekends late in the day. but often forget to check this tribe since i get distracted elsewhere. hope this is all helpful.