Dyeing my Curly hair black!!! Help please!!

I re-dyed my hair black a couple of days ago.. I used EXACLY the same semi permanent dye as before and my hair came out tonnes darker.. lol I mean I'm really happy... just thought it was kinda wierd..:P

hope everyone's having swell hair days..:D

You must be quite pretty! post pics if you can ;)

If you are gonna risk the permanent thing,
use the Garnier Nutrisse box I post earlier.

I swear, it is the darkest darkest vampy black.

I've tried them all. Don't choose something like Blue black or "soft" or "natural" black because it'll end up lighter.

I hope you want your hair black for a long long time. This stuff stays, if you want it off for another color then your hair will suffer like mine.

The red highlight situation is more likely a result of the hair not being completely covered with the color. when you go lighter, this is often not as noticeable. However, when you go darker, it's very easy to miss spots. When I went back to my natural color (black), I missed several spots. I simply waited a few days and went and bought a black rinse shampoo. took care of it :)

catalope wrote: If you used level 2 color when you dyed it brown, then you don't have to wait too long. Level 2 doesn't damage hair too much. Black is on the opposite extreme of bleach blonde, so it's really intense. You'll notice that it stays longer than other colors, even if you are using level 2.

Thats not neccesarily true. It also depends on the volume peroxide you use. You can use anywhere from 5, 10, 20, 30, 40 or high lift in any color from black to blonde. Granted the blonde colors will have some lifting action, but I have seen just as much damage from people using the darker colors as well...

I have waist length, curly hair which I've been dying permenant black for years. Probably because my mother did it all her life and as soon as the first white hair showed up (at 18) I started dying it.

First off, the perm color is very damaging to your hair, it splits my ends and dries my hair out badly. I neer realized how bad, until my hair just wasnt growing anymore, was tangling really badly, and as breaking off.

I recently aquired a client (I'm a publicist) who owns a salon in NYC (Salon Zoia...it's in the east village) (http://salonzoia.image411.com ) and she gave me a free hair makover. She told me to stop coloring my hair with perm color because i was causing tons of damage, and she said to especially stop using a dark black, because it was making me look older (i'm in early 30's).

She said Brown's are softer on your featured. I can go with that now, becuase I AM older...but when I was younger in my NYC heyday, the pitch black head of hair was the thing.

Now I'm going to go with the dark brown with sublte highlights (done in the salon) to give my hair movement and it looks awesome. Her colorist Scott, is a miracle worker (not to mention funny as well) and he showed me hwo I could cover my whites and get a rich dark color without totally frying my hair, which is what a lot of the perm colors do. He also said I could use rinses and henna rinses w/out damaging my hair.

Hope this helped some

LOL........... I am gonig black next weekend... I have totally put it off long enough... hehe Wondering if anyone has found that the semi-permenant dyes actually wash out? If I use black am I going to end up blotchy? and if so could I just fix it by using the darkest shade of brown or something and working my way lighter gradually again? LOL K so I'm more likely to think "screw the after effects" and just do it.. lol BUT meh... decided to be cautious... hehe basically what I wanna know is.... "Will I end up looking like a freak at some point in the near future?"... LOL says the 20 year old college student who prolly looks like a freak mostly anyways cause she hasn't had her coffee.. LOL it'd prolly add to my "morning" appearance... Blah it's late and I'm typing nonsense I'd better scoot... hehe

ARGH!!!!
my buddy scared me into going dark brown instead of black... I totally prefer it darker.. SOOOOOOOO Now I need to go black... I used semi-permanent colour... Level 2... I'm wondering how long I should wait before putting black over that?

Hmmm shoulda gone with Black in the first place!!!! ARGH!!!

ARGH!!!

My buddy can't make it over this morning... *sigh* and I'm all ancy to dye it... maybe I should just do it myself... lol I got the L'Oreal colorSpa moisture actif in Ebony... lol I'm thinking that'll come out pretty darn black...

To dye myeslf or to wait... hmmm... I kinda like the idea of having someone there I can share the blame with if it turns out rediculously bad.. (lol)

ARGH... the anguish.. *now I'm just being dramatic*

hehe I'll see how long I can hold out... !!!! :P

Hey! I have naturally curly hair and dyed my hair black and it's just fine (def stay away from permanent dye - I made that mistake and now I'm letting it grow out!) Good luck dying!

LinnY