What toner should i use?HELP

sharon, it seems u've already put ur hair thru considerable stress, what is the base color of the toner u are using? If ur looking to cancel out orange, an ash or green toner is what u should have used; if it's yellow u wanna get rid of, u'd have to use a violet toner; if there's too much green in blonde, you would have to use a red toner. Colors themselves also work as toners, but usually only the type u can find at a beaut supply like Sally's. For example, let's say u had bleached ur whole head blonde but it turned out orange, (as it does in most cases!) then u would have to get a light ASH blonde shade hair color to cancel out the brassy orange. If u leave in a toner, not color, for too long tho like u did, it might actually turn the color of the toner itself, like violet or green, so i've heard.

Anyway, i really think u should get this fixed by a professional, i kinda got confused when reading ur dilema, no offense! What did u mean by the color of the actual mixture was dark brown? Was that the color it turned when u mixed the toner and the developer?

Ooooh ok, so u actually used a color to tone the highlights ok. Well normally colorgloss is just meant to be used with an activating lotion rahter than a regular developer, which is perhaps why u got such confusing results w/ the gloss. Once color is activated w/ a developer or activating lotion it oxidizes and thus gets darker. Just a little FYI

In any case, gloss isn't actually damaging to ur hair, but if u leave it on for so long it normally gets very dark. The longest u should leave it on is maybe 20 minutes.

Anyway, the best bet would be to get the clairol activating lotion for their color gloss but i don't see why it wouldn't work w/ logics colorgloss. So u basically want the highlights to be a more brown shade?

Well u could if u want. First i suggest u use Head and Shoulders or any dandruff shampoo for that matter, to fade the existing color on ur head, and like u said wait abt a week. Then u should go over to sally's and get Clairol Radiance colorgloss along w/ the Clairol Professional Radiance Color Infuser (lol i'll give u the exact name, that is basically the activating lotion...) Anyway, just a little note before i proceed any further, don't worry if it comes out too dark, glosses generally do that, but they soon fade to the color on the swatch.

I would suggest getting a shade two levels lighter than ur target color, or one level lighter if u really want it dark. Maybe dark ash blonde but its up to you. Anyway here is the color chart: http://www.clairolpro.com/dispensary/swatches/radiance_swatc hes.html

Along w/ the instructions: http://www.clairolpro.com/dispensary/pdf_html/en_Radiance.ht m

Btw, it says to leave it on for only five minutes on highlighted hair but you can do 10.

To Missy La Fay, lol i hope you don't mind me using ur topic to give someone else advice, sorry lol!

I just did this with the colorgloss myself, only it was orange I was getting rid of. Watch your hair when you put it on. Mine got dark in less then 5 mins.

The instructions for the colorgloss is on the bottle. You just have to peel back the paper, and you might need more then one bottle if your hair is long. I did.