To highlight, or not to highlight?? Options

[loveneko]

Ok, so I'm black. Big Whoopie. That's a crucial piece of info so it had 2 go first. Jamaican to be exact. I have a perm, and ALOT of hair. It goes....ummm...if i were to cut my back into 4 parts horizontally it would go well into the first quarter....ugh, just know it's past my shoulders. I wanted to get highlight, Roman Bronze. I'm scared to get the real thing because I don't want my hair to pick out...I would kill myself!! So I got the temporary highlights, the spray in kind, I got the comb at first and i was so pissed cause it totally caked my sister's hair up! I tried it our fully on her, the one part of my hair that it went thru came out cakey 2, but the color showed a bit better. My natural hair color is all over the place, like my mom's it's dark brown and every now and then we'll get a streak of gold, for my mom, and light brown for me right above our ear that looks cool when you put it in a ponytail but eh..that's not the point. I wanted to know if it was okay to put temporary highlights in african american hair. I've already sprayed some in and I LOVE the change. Mayb I can put up a pic later, but i wanted to know if I would have to pay dire consequences later. I would be crushed if my hair started to pick out, so I want to know if its bad so I can just nip it now. My girl and I are going to the beach woohoo and the color matches my bathing suit lol! It also looks cool with my shades. I'll need to get sun screen so I don't turn 50 million shades of black (thats a black joke in case you didn't get it..... (~_~) lol)

[karmakiller]

Assuming that your hair isn't relaxed, or has had anything done to it that involves a chemical proccess, you should be fine. I don't have any first hand experience about this, just what I know from what I've learned. If you're going to do it yourself, don't go cheap. The key is to make sure that you have a good conditioner, because the typical drugstore dye tends to dry out African American hair (and most hair). If they're something that you really want and are unsure of the result you'll get, go to a stylist. What brand did you use that ended up coming out "caked on"?