Bleach Blonde Cover-up

Hi,
the first thing i have to ask is why is a 14 year old dying her probably very lovely thick natural hair???
Not to get judgemental on ya, coz when i was 14 i dyed my hair as well. But really, couldn't she just be buying pretty hair clips instead? Or goth punk hair clips. Or whatever look she's into that would be cheaper on your pocket.

ANYWAY, i had platinum blonde hair all last year (bleached) and i am naturally dark brown. Here is how my very expensive hairdresser turned it back to brown. I will tell you and you can do it a lot cheaper!!!! :)

1. she dyed it red first. Permanent red colouring. You can buy Permanent red dye at the market.

2. straight after washing that red dye out and while it was still damp, she put permanent dark brown dye on my hair. If your daughter's hair is lighter, you would use a mid brown permanent or whatever final brown colour you want.

3. that's it.

Then you need to condition it a lot for the rest of your life :)
or until it grows out. whichever comes first :)

Basically, all the colour has been bleached out of that lenght of hair, so you need to put the coluor back in. You can't go straight to brown, you have to go red first.

OTHERWISE IT COULD LOOK GREEN.

This is because brown hair actually has a lot of blue hidden in it. And blue over yellow looks green. Trust me on this. Go red first!!!! You need to deposit a lot of red back in. You are reversing the bleach process, which goes brown to red to orange to yellow. Now you want to go yellow to red to brown.

If you do red permanent, then brown permanent, her blonde will be covered. You may have to very occassionally put in a brown semi's, as these can add gloss and pump up the hair shaft, and add more colour richness, but i doubt it. Personally i wouldn't bother. Just condition it and grow it out.

By the way, I would be calling that hairdresser and telling them they are terrible! If you complain over the phone, they might offer to fix it up for free. The technical terms for what I told you are "red filler" for the red dye as it fills the hair up, and then just brown permanent.

hope that helps
good luck.
everyone has a bad hair story i think. it's what makes us human :)

PS: when i was 14 i was bright pink so there you go.