QuoteReplyTopic: Bad color job attempts Posted: November 07 2004 at 3:15pm
Hey all! Newbie to the board here. I had originally planned to go dark (natural) for the winter.
My natural color is an grayish brown, and I had a full weave of highlights throughout from a summer color. I had never tried a store blonding product, and I was really naive about it, but I decided to go for it (don't know what I was thinking).
Mom always did my hair, and she was able to purchase supplies from a place that sold the salon stuff (like toner!) but I don't live near her anymore. She has definitely told me before to stay away from it, but I ignored my inner voice. So home I went last night, to be blonde. Well as you all can imagine, I ended up with a bright orange color. I hated it. Back to the store, and again I naively bought permanent color.. this time it was a medium brown.
I colored it this morning, and I now have a dark red color.. it's terrible. I want to say I'm done, but I'm not. I want to know when it will be safest to do it again, and soonest! Also, some input on what color I should try to get back to my color. I hate the color I have now, but it's better than the orange.
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Waiting won't really help. Your hair doesn't actually repair itself. Is your hair damaged? If so, maybe you should just wait for the current colour to fade. Reds do tend to fade quickly. Using Liquid Tide (without bleach) or Dawn can help to speed up the process. I've also heard that applying warm olive oil to your hair, wrapping it in a warm, damp towel or plastic bag and letting it sit for a while can help to fade the colour faster.
If you absolutely can't wait for the colour to fade, can you afford to go to a salon that specializes in color correction? I think this would be safer than trying to fix it at home.
If you're feeling brave, an at-home option is to use ColorFix to remove the permanent colour. If you don't live near a Sally's, you can order it on-line from a number of different beauty supply sites. Follow the directions on the box carefully. Your hair will end up an unpleasant shade of orange after you use ColorFix (this is normal). You can then bleach it to gold or yellow to even out the tone. (I've found that the bleach in L'Oreal Creme Lights is very gentle -- it's designed for previously colour-treated hair.) If you don't have access to anything but drugstore products, you can then tone with Natural Instincts 06 Linen. This should give you a medium, warm to neutral blonde.
If you choose to try to fix this at home, make sure you do test strands before every step to ensure that you don't end up with a bigger disaster. It's time consuming, but it's worth the extra effort.
P.S.Did you use bleach on your hair or a hi-lift product? If you were bleaching, it was perfectly normal for your hair to end up bright orange. During bleaching, your hair lightens through a number of stages -- orange being one of them. If you had left it on longer, it would have gone to gold, then yellow, then pale yellow. You should always do a test strand first to see how long it will take you to get your desired level. It then needs to be toned (with a toner like Borne Blonde or a semi-permanent colour like Natural Instincts or ColorSpa).
If you were using a hi-lift product, your hair probably turned orange because the more levels you're trying to lighten, the more underlying warm pigment is exposed. That's why most hi-lift products aren't recommended for use on hair that is darker than very light brown.
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Waiting won't really help. Your hair doesn't actually repair itself. Is your hair damaged? If so, maybe you should just wait for the current colour to fade. Reds do tend to fade quickly. Using Liquid Tide (without bleach) or Dawn can help to speed up the process. I've also heard that applying warm olive oil to your hair, wrapping it in a warm, damp towel or plastic bag and letting it sit for a while can help to fade the colour faster.
If you absolutely can't wait for the colour to fade, can you afford to go to a salon that specializes in color correction? I think this would be safer than trying to fix it at home.
If you're feeling brave, an at-home option is to use ColorFix to remove the permanent colour. If you don't live near a Sally's, you can order it on-line from a number of different beauty supply sites. Follow the directions on the box carefully. Your hair will end up an unpleasant shade of orange after you use ColorFix (this is normal). You can then bleach it to gold or yellow to even out the tone. (I've found that the bleach in L'Oreal Creme Lights is very gentle -- it's designed for previously colour-treated hair.) If you don't have access to anything but drugstore products, you can then tone with Natural Instincts 06 Linen. This should give you a medium, warm to neutral blonde.
If you choose to try to fix this at home, make sure you do test strands before every step to ensure that you don't end up with a bigger disaster. It's time consuming, but it's worth the extra effort.
P.S.Did you use bleach on your hair or a hi-lift product? If you were bleaching, it was perfectly normal for your hair to end up bright orange. During bleaching, your hair lightens through a number of stages -- orange being one of them. If you had left it on longer, it would have gone to gold, then yellow, then pale yellow. You should always do a test strand first to see how long it will take you to get your desired level. It then needs to be toned (with a toner like Borne Blonde or a semi-permanent colour like Natural Instincts or ColorSpa).
If you were using a hi-lift product, your hair probably turned orange because the more levels you're trying to lighten, the more underlying warm pigment is exposed. That's why most hi-lift products aren't recommended for use on hair that is darker than very light brown.
Thank you for your reply. I don't think I want to do blonde right now, actually. I made a mistake in judgement. In order to go darker, would I still need to strip the permanent color? Or would it be okay to just apply another dark color on top of the red?
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No, you don't need to remove the dye before going darker. When choosing a darker shade, look for an ash tone -- it should neutralize the red (I assume that's what you want to do). Make sure you do a test strand first, though. Good luck.
P.S. Try a test strand with a medium ash brown first. Once you get into dark brown shades, the colour often looks black rather than brown.
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Newbie to the board here. I had originally planned to go dark (natural) for the winter.
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