QuoteReplyTopic: update to my black to orange nightmare Posted: August 26 2005 at 6:41am
Basically what I found out from the hair dresser is that when you have a light color to begin with example: Blonde, Light orange etc. and you put a dark haircolor on top whether it is permanent or semi-permanent it stains the hair. Which makes it alot harder to dye over it, unless you continue to use dark colors. I was also was told had I used a filler before applying the dark color over the lightier color that I may not have had the extensive problems that I had trying to lighten my hair.
Now it will be a gradual process, no quick fixes here. I am still a strawberry blondie - orangey color. But it is more one color than it was. Then I will wait a few weeks, and dye again. It may take 2 more times to get it to where I would like it to be.
Also just to add, I thought that I was gonna have to have my hair cut because of the damage. I have been using Nature's Therapy Mega Repair recovery complex. It has worked wonders for my hair. Feels soft. I switch up with Keragenics revitalizing Protein Pac.
quick history of my nightmare.....it all begin when I got my long highlighted hair cut short, and then the back of my hair was my natural color which was medium brown (i think...lol ) oh yeah it was! I decided I wanted it all one color so I was gonna use something not too harsh on my hair. I work at Sally's Beauty supply and we sell some pretty good semi-permanent hair color. I decided I would use Colorgems in the dark brown color to make sure I got the coverage I needed. The thing about it was that it said Dark Brown but it came out Black as night. Anyhow after 6 months with no touch ups and no fading I decided it was time for a change. I tried color corrector (not), colorfix - 3 times (not even a budge) then I decided to use bleach. Bad Mistake - made my hair the brightest, funkiest orange ever which I have lived with for a little while. It all did alot of damage to my Hair.
I realize to get my hair to the color I want, that it will have to be ahcieved in steps, but I could no longer go around with a hat on my head. So, today I decided to buy protein filler which I applied first then I added a blonde toner with blue-violet base, and also a tube of red/gold corrector plus to the Mixture......it has improved the color 150%. It has toned it down wonderfully, again it is still not where I want it to be, but I can live with it.
I then followed up with Keragenics revitalizing Protein Pac which I left on for about 30 minutes with a towel covering my head. It feels great and doesn't look too bad.
I will never, never put another Dark Brown or Black color head again!
Anyway sorry for the long post, but I see there is alot of us out there trying to go from Black to a lightier color with the luck of ORANGE. So, I just wanted to share my experience, and maybe help someone else.
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) oh yeah it was! I decided I wanted it all one color so I was gonna use something not too harsh on my hair. I work at Sally's Beauty supply and we sell some pretty good semi-permanent hair color. I decided I would use Colorgems in the dark brown color to make sure I got the coverage I needed. The thing about it was that it said Dark Brown but it came out Black as night. Anyhow after 6 months with no touch ups and no fading I decided it was time for a change. I tried color corrector (not), colorfix - 3 times (not even a budge) then I decided to use bleach. Bad Mistake - made my hair the brightest, funkiest orange ever which I have lived with for a little while. It all did alot of damage to my Hair. 
