QuoteReplyTopic: Help please Posted: February 04 2005 at 8:55pm
My hair is naturally medium brown. Last year from April-August I had it dyed black and every time I went to do the roots I re-dyed all of my hair too (big mistake apparently?). Anyway I decided I was sick of black hair in mid-August so I used a color removal kit on it first and then bleached it twice and used a blonde dye on it once to try to get most of the orange out. It was still pretty orange so I dyed it light brown. All of this happened over a period of 5 days.
The light brown looked good at first and I really liked it, but it kept fading until it got to a dirty strawberry blonde color which is okay I guess. I decided to give my hair a break because I didn't want it to get even more damaged. Now I've got about 3 inches of regrowth and would like to dye my hair a little darker than my natural color, but I am not sure if it would work. Is my hair damaged so badly that it won't hold color at all or did the light brown dye just fade because I dyed it so soon after bleaching it twice? I would dye it but I am worried that the regrowth will get darker but the rest of my hair will just keep fading and not hold any dye.
It fades because even though you were dying it black, it was still getting a little peroxide which was lightening the color of your hair underneath the dye. Then of course all the bleaching lightened it plenty, it's porous and now has trouble holding on to dye.
Please go to a salon to have it done, for 2 reasons. One is that since it's porous, it's going to fade, so you'll want to choose a shade that's a little darker than what you really want, but you don't want one that's going to come out black (a salon will help you choose the shade that is likely to fade to the right color to match your roots). Also, a salon professional can look at your hair and see exactly how damaged it is, and know what should or shouldn't be done to it at this point. If you did it yourself, you risk getting a lot of breakage if this turns out to be one too many dye jobs.
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