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    Posted: February 23 2006 at 4:42pm

hello,

 

I just highlighted my hair with bleach 5 dys ago. The color is very blonde and I do not like it . I want to dye my hair brown and was wondering if I can do it myself without my hair turning green. My hair was highlighted professionally but I do not want to go back I just want to dye my hair brown without sitting at the salon. Can I do this without my hair turning green?

 

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What don't you like about it? I'd wait a few more weeks and see if it grows on you.  If it doesn't have it fixed at the salon where you had it done.  You'll need to tint back the highlights, which takes some work. 

 
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Originally posted by sand28 sand28 wrote:

hello,

 

I just highlighted my hair with bleach 5 dys ago. The color is very blonde and I do not like it . I want to dye my hair brown and was wondering if I can do it myself without my hair turning green. My hair was highlighted professionally but I do not want to go back I just want to dye my hair brown without sitting at the salon. Can I do this without my hair turning green?

 

thanks

As a HairStylist I read this message forum often and I see many of the problems in my salon that some of you have here on these forums so I thought I'd type a little informative post.....I asked for it to be stickied but it never was....you can read it here.

http://www.hairboutique.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=40328& amp;PN=1

When you lighten your hair you are removing the natural pigment in the hair strand. If your going darker you need to put that underlying pigment back into the hairstrand which is usually done by "FILLING" the hair before you add the darker color to your hair so your hair has the proper underlying pigment to accommodate the darker color. If you just color over blonde hair with Brown you will end up orange or pink and you'll be very sorry.

To do a tint back as it's commonly called going from light blonde to a darker color you need to fill the hair with a filler. It usually depends on how dark you are looking to go but fillers come in 3 base colors....Gold, Orange & Red. You would probably want a slight bit of ash in your formula....not too much though, so you don't pull so much red in your hair especially if you are adding brown which has red in it's formula. Hope that helps to answer your questions.

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I tried going from blonde to medium brown once, and my hair turned green.  The best way of getting hair dark again is by first dying it red and THEN going browner from there.  
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thanks, for info. What red color should I put in my hair to cover the blonde first and then what brown color, becuase I want a choclate brown, not a light brown and not dark brown.
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Originally posted by sand28 sand28 wrote:

thanks, for info. What red color should I put in my hair to cover the blonde first and then what brown color, becuase I want a choclate brown, not a light brown and not dark brown.

 

Before you go brown you need to fill your hair with a filler. It depends on the color as you would need to look at their fillers as their usually is a chart that shows what color filler you want depending on the final hair color desired. Typically for medium brown or darker it would be a red filler....which is usually mixed 1:1 with water and put on the hair for 15 minutes or so to fill the hair then the color is put right over it and processed as normal.

 
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