Color after bleaching

You will probably have to dye it more than once. Depending on how blonde your hair is...is it yellow, or white?

If it's white you will have some difficulty...you may have to choose a brown with an orange base and a brown with a green base and be prepared to use one, then the other once your hair is dry to get an overall brown, and you may have to re-do it every couple of months when your hair fades. (I did that on my white hair, it will fade pretty quick and may start to look orange, peach, pink, green, so you will probably have to re-do it every couple of months until it's all grown out and cut off....it's more risky to try to go dark on white hair).

If all of your hair is yellow, choose a brown with a violet shade and you should be okay on the first try. You may still have to re-do in 4 or months, but that's not so bad. Your re-do rate won't be very high if your hair is still yellow.

I agree with you about doing your roots blonde first so all of your hair is the same starting color.

Do NOT use henna, that would be an unfixable green.

Please tell me how you were able to bleach your hair with out damaging it, I'm desperate.

Thanks

thesleepylady wrote: Hi! I have been bleaching my medium-to-dark brown hair for over a year now, and I'm ready to get rid of the blonde! Never had a problem bleaching at home, and my hair doesn't seem to be overly damaged. I do need to bleach the roots again to have a head of hair that is all the same color. I want to go back to a shade that is close to normal for me, but don't know how to do it(someone I know tried to go from blonde to mahogany and ended up with purple hair...). Any tips?

Hi can you tell me how you bleached your hair the root area as I have dark brown hair and need to retouch the roots to save going to the hairdressers.
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For starters...I used to use Garnier Nutrisse Lightener, but they don''t make it anymore(this time I used Clairol Born Blonde, which is scary cuz it''s BLUE...but it left my hair very dry and strawlike, even with heavy conditioning after. But it did lighten like it was supposed to!). Then, I apply LOTS of conditioner afterwards and leave it on for at least half an hour. Just did my roots, and now that I am all one color, I need to know if I should use a semi-permanent or permanent color to re-brown. The Loreal experts recommended a combination of permanent colors...but I''m scared to death to use it! On the other hand, I''m worried about a semipermanent color fading into weirdness. Also, I can''t wait the recommended 14 days after bleaching to color because my hair grows too fast...how soon is safe to color?