HELP! STORY O MY HAIR! PICS&HTML!

Unfortunately I don't know if haircolor stripper is exclusive to the U.S.  I now reside in Brazil and have yet to find a color stripper here (though I have not looked for one since I still haven't had the need for it), so I don't know.  You can try folica.com though, they ship outside the U.S., also I have read in this forum that you can find a Sally Beauty Supply (a store where they sell beauty products, and carry Colorfix) in London's Picadally Circus.  I'm not sure if you'll find it there, but give it a try.  Sorry, I didn't realize you were from the U.K., I plan to visit there sometime, been in lots of places in Europe but not the U.K. yet.  Here's the direct link to Colorfix:

http://www.folica.com/one__n_only_Col_d312.html

Good luck with your locks and let us know how it turned out. ^^

You can either try to remove your current color now with Colorfix until your hair is light enough for you to put another color over it, or you can add highlights.  Red seems to be one of the toughest colors to avoid, believe me, I speak from experience.  You should stick to ash colors, and possibly add an ash intensifier (about 2 cm/1 in of the tube) if anything you put in your hair ends up reddish (which is my case). 

If you choose to go for the highlights, just add really thin ones, which should blend well with the rest of your hair so there won't be much contrast between the dark and light colors.  If you don't want your highlights too light though, you can always have your hairstylist use Colorfix (or whichever color stripper he/she might use) only where you plan to have the highlights, and then color over it with a color that's one shade or two lighter than your current hair color.

For future reference, any time you want to darken your hair from a lighter color, choose one shade lighter (ex.: you want a number 5 in your hair, use a number 6 instead) than the final color you want in your hair.  Usually, if your hair has been previously colored it'll be more porous and absorb the color faster, meaning it'll get darker than what you wanted.  Not only that, but also, it's best to darken it gradually so that you don't get a huge shock.  Also, you can always try lowlights first, before coloring your entire hair darker.

Hope this helps, good luck, and let us know what you've decided to do with your locks. ^^

I suggest putting some blonde highlights in the dark.
I wouldn't recommend bleaching all of your hair since it's been through quite alot already.
But on the other hand, I bleached my hair alot before but you have to be prepared to cut the damaged hair off... Not a good idea if you like having long hair. 

So…I used to have brown hair like this…

 

 

Then I put highlights in regulary and my hair went lighter

 

 

 

Then I tried to lighten it to dark blonde using one of those loreal dye and highlight kits but it went like this

 

 

So then I dyed it brown…but it was still gingery

So they I dyed it “brazilian brown”

 

..basicly black

 

So then it faded out over a period of 4 months to sort of a dark brown

 

Tried to lighten it, forgot about my roots so half my head was this

 

 

And the other half this

 

 

Now its just this

like a level 3 i would say

 

 

But I still want to lighten it for xmas because I look really ill with dark hair and olive (yellowy) skin.

 

 

I want something punky and lighter that will liven me up but NOT red

 

Please give me some suggestions im D E S P E R A T E!