Coloring Bohyme

You don't need to color or tone it, you need either shimmer-light's, or (my personal favorite) un-red mixed with conditioner.  Both are inexpensive and can be purchased at sally's beauty supply

In future just use a silver shampoo chick, its brilliant on bohyme 613 x

Toners never use 20 volume peroxide, it's more like 7-10 volume.  You don't need a high volume because you are not trying to lift color, just deposit it. 

When hair is too yellow I use Shades EQ in Platinum Ice or I have used the Scruples Platinum toner with great  results as well. 

So far, so good.  The hair still looks great and feels nice. I am having some tangling, but nothing to be alarmed about.  I am starting to think I was spoiled with the EP dark hair and even good quality light blonde hair tangles a bit.

 I will get some pics soon and post them.  I did try the purple stuff (I used the gold corrector in my own conditioner and also tried the unred after it) first but the difference in the color was still too much. I looked like a wierdo with a very cool pastel blonde at the top and yellow gold hair down my back.   It is totally my fault for ordering hair before I toned my own, and the 27/613 from bohyme is very golden.

I know coloring already bleached/toned hair is a bad idea and knew it going in, but it was either that or take down and throw it away and order new hair.  Even if the hair falls apart after a week I got a weeks wear out of it lol.

I have used many toners (I went to cosmetology school 6 years ago and made it most of the way, I'm a drop out who switched to nursing) that didn't require the 20 vol developer but didn't have the dramatic effect of what I use.  I pull a ton of gold no matter what I do, realistically I shouldn't even be a blonde but I just can't resist it.  My natural hair is officially FRIED lol.......but thanks to fake hair technology and lots of silicone I have gorgeous silky long blonde hair.

Thanks for all of the advice, it is so nice to have advice of the experts right at your fingertips....not to mention for free!  This board is the greatest!

I use So Silver by Matrix and it's amazing. It takes the brassy tones out of yellow hair and makes it pale blonde.

Edited by sammyJB - May 28 2006 at 10:30am

I have the same problem. Just received my very first hair, Bohyme #613 and it's too yellow for me! My own hair is very pale blond. What did you use to color your Bohyme and how long did you keep the dye on the hair? I don't want to color my own hair in a darker shade, cause I'm going to make a clip-ins and remain pale blond when I don't wear my extensions.

Ya know, I absolutely agree that the 613 is a yellowy blonde. It's not the same as my colour and it screams when I put it next to my hair.

Tangles, my first install with this hair I had dyed all of it (a mix of LG and protac) but when I got the sew ins I needed more hair and ordered some 22 which was super yellow again.  I never colored the 22, just stuck it in layers starting underneath and you are right, it totally blended with the other hair, but that was 4 oz vs the other 8 oz that are in there dyed.

The hair that I colored (I used hair color on part of it and then toner on the other part, both ended up about the same color but the hair that I used the actual color on feels better) doesn't feel any different than the hair I did not color. (BTW, none of the silver/purple/unred stuff worked at all for me, it does with my own hair but didn't phase the extension hair for some reason).

Since then I have experimented with a bunch of different colors and my favorite is the Loreal color from Sally's in the light irridescent blonde 9.2 (violet base) which makes the yellow hair a beautiful very light pale blonde with no yellow in it.  I left it on 5-10 minutes (aimed for 5, but by the time I actually got the water started and found the shampoo etc lol) and it is perfect.  I will say the stuff I left on longer got a little too ashy looking for what I like.....but the stuff left on for a short period of time is a perfect light pastel blonde.  The slightly darker shade, medium irredescent blonde is a really pretty color also (it is 8.2 I believe) and I have used it on my real hair before and also the extension hair and has turned out great.

I really like the jetset color #21 and the dlux mx613/24.......both are perfect pale blonde/no yellow colors with the dlux being slightly darker....but I love the extra length that Bohyme gives so I think I'll continue to use it and dye it when I get it.

Russiancat, it still looks more yellow than white but it does take the brassiness off. It's a great shampoo that I'd recommend.