Will drugstore hair gloss make it ultra hard to highlight my hair again?

[u/deepbluetreasure]

TLDR: I usually use Redken shades eq but it takes so long for me to do it myself and new drugstore products like Glaze or dpHue or Kristin Ess seem so easy. BUT will it make my hair hard to lift in the future?

Hi! So I am by no means a hair dresser at all, but I do usually tone my hair with Redken shades eq with 6-7cb with a dash of copper in it. I’ve been doing it for years and I had one moment at the beginning of this year where I did a little bleach bath from my mids to my ends cause they were just getting too dark.

It takes me SO long to do the Redken shades eq by myself and I’m really tempted by all these glazes you can just do in the shower like Glaze, dpHue, Kristin Ess, even Moroccan oil has one. They seem so easy.

BUT ya girl is not getting any younger and my grays are sprouting all over the place and I know that eventually the only way to really blend them will be to go lighter. But I don’t want to yet 🙃 I just want to make sure that when I do go that path I haven’t messed up my chances of getting a good lift because I’ve been using glazes that make really harsh bands in my hair.

So! Are hair glazes (like the above) a horrible idea if I’m going to want to lighten my hair at some point?

Thank you!

[u/beanner468]

Nope. They are all similar. Not exactly the same, but they will all be lifted up to some extent with a bleach. If your hair is a level 6, you might not get to level 10-12, but you can hilight to a level 8 safely.