Hair bleaching gone wrong! Advice needed...

Oh boy, did I go wrong.

I'm a hair color newbie and I wanted to bleach my dark brown highlighted hair, then tone it to a medium / dark ash blond. I did a lot of research on bleaching hair beforehand.

So I bleached my hair twice with 30 volume purple bleach for about an hour. After the second bleach my hair felt very damaged in the shower so I've decided not to bleach it further. My hair is currently yellowish with brassy undertones, orange near the top and sides and a bit hot on the roots (though I did them last).

I used a blue / violet toner over the bleached hair: Wella White Lady and Silver lady. It helped but I still have a ton of orange near the top.

What are my options at this point? I still want that very cool, medium to dark blond but I don't know if it's possible.

The color I wanted (used a makeover website):



After 2 bleach sessions:




After toning: (my current hair color)







UPDATE: Used a semi-permanent in level 8 light ash blonde that runs dark- my hair is now a cross between a dark natural blond and light brown (looks slightly redder than the photo). In a month when the SP fades I'll attempt a third bleach to remove any orange and get a true medium blond. Thanks!

MY CURRENT HAIR COLOR (directly after coloring):







Edited by Aristides - August 27 2009 at 6:06am

Hello,
The bleach I used is called Prism Lites in Violet.

Thank you so much ladies -

I actually decided not to bleach a third time and I just applied a semi-permanent light ash blond with a blue base, which toned down the orange and gave me a dark blond / light brown. I'm like the way it looks though I will try bleaching out the reddish tones next time when I touch up my roots. Thank you so much for your input!

I've added a photo update of my hair above

Hey, I'm so glad it worked out for you! I would have been lost. I am so scared to try home-coloring, haha. But why did you use semi-permanent to fix it or not permanent? The semi permanent will fade the red tones will reappear. If you used permanent, you won't have to worry about coming back to it. But you fixed it for now greatly! =)