1st blonde, now fading brown w/hightlights---> blonde?

HI!
I *had* very lovely platinum hair and then, under pressure from my advisor, added brown lowlights to make me look more "professional" for a talk I had to give at an american university.(early december) Now the brown has faded into an uneven dark blonde, and I just want my platinum back.

My hair is dry but not ravaged, meaning:

I probably wouldn't go out without frizz-ease or super-skinny in it, or some other sort of taming serum,
but I don't have to blow dry it or anything for it to look nice, natural drying is still okay.

I want to go platinum again, but I'm not sure if I should just go to a salon and have it bleached (the salons I spoke with said it would really dryout my hair, and that they wouldn't recommend it, but they would do it -- for a price )

I was thinking I could use color fix just to get the remaining brown out. Will color fix lighten it back white blonde -- or close?

has anyone done this before?
Should I just bleach,
or colorfix & tone
or colorfix and then bleach.

My mum is sending me the colorfix and it should be here on monday or tues. Please advise :)

thanks

Thanks for the reply Sara
But out of curiousity, why not use colorfix? I don't doubt you, I'm just a bit confused. Wouldn't the colorfix get rid of most of the remaining light brown dye?

I'm giving my hair 2 weeks more to seep in deep conditioners before I bleach I'm trying to be cautious.

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mel

colorfix will bring your hair to an orange state for you to recolor over..it will only lighten it a few shades, not enough to go platinum..it would be good if you just wanted a lighter brown or darker blonde, but not white platinum..also--if you go and read reviews about colorfix, most people claim it brought them orange, they recolored a blonde or light brown and a couple days later it went back to the dark color they started with.

what is a shampoo cap?


It sounds funny

Eagerly awaiting the UPS man with my hair be blonde arsenol.

My mum has informed me that she is sending:
2 boxes color fix
infusium 23 leave in
generic feria leave in conditionor
thermasilk blowdry coditioning/protective spray
john frieda platinum moisturizing shampoo
artiec white/violet
Revlon's bleach kit (for my roots)

powdered donuts

and a DVD of legally blonde (ha!) to inspire me through the reprocess.

-- So I will do a colorfix strand test and see what happens & then update you all

Strangely enough, I have a guide book to hair products, and in the appendix, it says Clairol and L'Oreal don't test on animals, which is wrong.

Anyway, there's Wella. Their company doesn't test (to my knowledge), except they were recently bought by the evil P&G empire. Wella has a good toner line. The only other kinds I can think of are veggie dyes (Special Effects, Manic Panic, etc). They have toners (a pale violet dye), but I'm not sure how well they work, as I've only used bright colors like red, purple, and blue before.

As for the bleach cap, here are instructions borrowed from the fabulous Supervixxen: " If you're only trying to go a little lighter, try a bleach cap.
That's bleach, 20 volume developer, and some shampoo...apply it to yer noggin, rub it in, and pop a shower cap on. Apply heat, and check at 10 minute intervals. I wouldn't leave it on longer than 30 minutes."

alyssa: first of all--I didnt just go into a store and read a couple haircoloring product boxes and proclaim myself an expert...I work in an upscale salon. I have gone to school for this and have experience in the industry.do you? Frankly,what Im trying to say is that im not desperately in need of education from you. I understand WHY colorfix sometimes results in an orange color--but my point was just that it WILL turn orange..Im sure shes not as interested in the chemistry of it as she is the result of her using it.....Also, I was not "advising" her to bleach her hair as you seem to think..I understand and know the results of rebleaching very well, I have several clients with her same problem. I was simply telling her the only way she could get back to platinum would be to bleach...Yes, it will damage your hair and cause breakage. I wasnt trying to "convince" her to bleach it--just informing her of her limited options. Im sure if her hair was previously platinum that she has already been told by SOMEBODY(probably her stylist) what bleach can do to her hair.Shes probably not completely oblivious to the harsh effexts.She is not my client and so it is not my job to give her the PROS and CONS of bleach.....I was simply replying to her inquiry about colorfix.

the color fix came yesterday, and of course, all reasearch has stopped and hair has become the consuming passion!

I had to use the CF 5 times, but it removed most of the brown, lowering the color of the lowlights to a medium reddish blonde. I used the beyond the zone last night after 3 CF applications, then did two more this morning and a dose of Fudge dynamite thereafter for 10 minutes.


I then....

I then used the nutrisse garnier blonidng kit (my mom sent it to me -- I would never buy garnier due to their animal testing policies. But i am a broke grad student, it was here, and it would be wasteful to chuck it). It lightened after 30 minutes down to a goldeny light blond with a bit of root in the super gold zone. It said you could do it for up to 60 minutes, but I lost my nerve after half an hour and had to rinse.

Then: 1 hour of deep conditioning.


washed with ARTEC white violet and normal condition after that.

There is a little unevenness, but i am a presentable, soft and managable light blonde. The artec knocked out most of the gold. In a few weeks, I'll retone and touch up the uneven bits, but I'm pretty happy with the total result -- particularly since my hair is NOT fried.

Will continue to use leave in conditioners and deep condition every 3 days or so.

:) Just wanted to update and share a non-disaster