QuoteReplyTopic: I can't get rid of my red!! Posted: January 29 2005 at 8:54pm
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My hair was originally a light brown with blonde (foiled highlights –very few and about 6 months old). My hair has natural gold to reddish highlights
I dyed my hair with L’Oreal Couleur experte- Vanilla Icing dark ash blonde. The overall hair color came out a medium to light brown and looked nice. I then added the highlights to the top- and the whole top came out a dark orange color with hints of brown.
I tried to fix this with another color from L’Oreal Preference Dark Blonde #7 supposed to be a “tasteful Chestnut Blonde” I figured my hair would come out like the original base color from box #1 (above). But now my hair is all over Dark orangey brown.
Finally, I did a color strand test with a color remover and the color did not change at all. Lastly I tried a color strand test with Clairol 32D Moon Haze Dark Ash Brown Level 6 (2oz) Base green and a level 40 developer (4oz). I left this on a strand for 45 min. again no change.
I made this same mistake about 5 years ago (you would think I would learn!) and lived with the color for about 4 months then purchased a box of some Ash color at the drug store and it changed my color back to light brownish and totally got rid of the orange for good.
Any idea of what it might have been or how to get rid of this??
You do need an ash color to get rid of the orange. Don't use that 40 volume developer with a darker dye because it's bleaching your hair and damaging it too much. 40 volume is good for if you want to go a lot lighter with high lift blondes. You also used twice as much developer as dye...usually they say mix it equally unless you're going a lot lighter...did the dye say to use that much developer? Either way, you need a dye with a GREEN base now, and mix it however the directions on the dye bottle say to. If you want to be darker (medium to darker brown), use a 10 or 20 volume developer with the green based dye of your choice. If you want to be dark blonde, a 30 volume developer would do (with the dark blonde/green based dye of your choice).
If it doesn't reduce the orange enough in one shot, you may have to dye it twice. Please always do a test strand.
In the future, you will always need an ash/ green based color to go lighter or you will get orange. The chestnut blond likely didn't have the green base you needed to counter the orange that comes out.
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When I mixed to 40 with the green-based color (see above) and did the strand test nothing happened. Is this b/c I used too much vs. the dye or b/c it was the wrong type (40 vs. 20 or 30)?
Well, I'm not a professional so I'm just guessing here, (my dye experience comes from a couple of cosmetologist friends I had and my own dye jobs on my own head). Either doubling the peroxide or using a 40 volume when you should use 20 or less is probably going to be too much to go darker (your hair was already lightened past the level of the dye you were trying to add), so doing both together may have been what did it. Or since this may have been twice the amount of developer you were supposed to use, you may have diluted the green base in the dye too much for it to show up. I couldn't say. I definitely wouldn't use 40 volume going darker in any case though, it causes way more damage to your hair than is necessary.
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