QuoteReplyTopic: Hair color advice, please! Posted: November 01 2010 at 11:54am
I have dyed my hair all ranges of colors, but for the past two years I pretty much color it at home. (Salons can be a bit expensive, so I've adopted the "do it yourself" approach.) Anyway, I want to ask how to get rid of red hair and transition to a golden brown. As you probably already know, red fades quickly but still manages to reappear when you apply color over it. Ahhh! It's driving me bananas!! Anyway, last week, I dyed with a brown from Sally's (l'oreal feria "dark golden brown" or somewhere along those lines,) and added an ash brown (green base) by wella with a 10 developer to help tone down the red and deposit some brown color. My hair is noticeably brown now, but it's soooo dark and STILL LOOKS RED in the sun. How would you suggest I go about trying to go a bit lighter and more golden? Do you think I could achieve this with a boxed dye? Garnier? Loreal? If so, should I use a blonde shade to make it a lighter brown? I can run to my neighborhood Sally's as well, if someone can give me a formula to follow. I hope someone has time (and interest) in responding. Thanks in advance!! And sorry for my lack of knowledge or funds to go to an expensive color specialist
A box of dye won't change it, as color won't lift color. If you really don't like it and want to get rid of it, there are things you can try, but I'm not sure what is going to work for sure. (I'm not a pro). I have never tried Feria, and if I remember right, it is a metallic based dye. If this is so, its going to be really hard to remove, (and based on questions I've seen here, it IS really hard to remove). A chelating shampoo should do it (removes metals, you may have to buy it online, or check the Sally, I haven't looked for one there).
Other things people usually use to try to fade color are: ColorFix, Color Oops (you need to rinse really well after those to remove color, again, not sure if it will work on Feria), stripping shampoos such as dishwashing liquid, any shampoo that calls itself "clarifying", or regular shampoo mixed half and half with baking soda. None of these would probably remove all the dye, but they may fade it to a lighter level you may like better, then you can redye again with a lighter brown (test strand, since your hair is porous, you may get unpredictable results). What base of brown dye you'd need would depend on what color your hair comes out if any of the dye you have on gets lifted off. Green wouldn't be advisable if all the orange/red comes out. Be aware that with products like colorfix, you can wind up with orange hair because your hair can wind up the color it is without dye (in most people this is often orange if they've dyed it, as developer contains peroxide), so you may want to be ready to go back to the Sally with a hat on...don't do this right at closing time!
No matter what you do, you'll need to condition really well after doing any of that, all very drying.
Edited by Susan W - November 01 2010 at 4:05pm
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. How would you suggest I go about trying to go a bit lighter and more golden? Do you think I could achieve this with a boxed dye? Garnier? Loreal? If so, should I use a blonde shade to make it a lighter brown? I can run to my neighborhood Sally's as well, if someone can give me a formula to follow. I hope someone has time (and interest) in responding. Thanks in advance!! And sorry for my lack of knowledge or funds to go to an expensive color specialist 
