QuoteReplyTopic: Hoping To Go Back To Natural Color Posted: August 22 2005 at 4:56pm
Hi, I'm seeking advice on how to go back to my natural color (a light ash blonde) from platinum. My entire head was dyed in December, and I now have about 3 inches of darker roots coming in. I called one salon that estimated my shoulder length hair could be "color corrected" for $95.00! I do believe you can get superior results from a salon over a box color, but I've never paid so much money and am considering an at-home job at this point. Does anyone recommend this, advise against it or know of any other options? Perhaps I should continue pricing other salons! Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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If you choose to do a DIY treatment, invest in a protein filler. Bleached
hair is sooooo porous (I'm assuming your hair is bleached if it's platinum)
that it will soak up all the color and do it unevenly too. So use a protein
filler before coloring and it will fill the pores. ALSO with hair this light,
get a shade two shades lighter than what you want or else you will end up
with a beautiful espresso, but probably not what you're going for...
Or you can just pay the bucks for a salon treatment, but my philosophy is
as long as you're careful and well-educated before hand, there's nothing
they can do at a salon that you can't do just as well.
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Whether its bleached or not, if its white you may have a problem
coloring it in that the base of the dye usually shows up. Say you
choose a dye with a violet base, you may get gray or purplish
hair. If you choose one with an orange base, it may come out too
orange, likewise with any color. To fix this problem when I went
from white to darker, I dyed it twice and used opposing bases (one
brown with orange base, one brown with green base) to give me a nice
brown...came out a reddish brown, but that was better than greeny
brown). Since you only want to go light ash blonde, I'd suggest getting
a dark blonde with a gold base and a violet based blonde so your yellow
and violet cancel each other. If you want to be more ash, use the
violet based one last.
Let me tell you though, I'm not a pro and I never tried it with gold
and violet. In theory it should work, but I only used red and
green to go brown on my own self. Since it IS kind of
complicated, a salon might be easier. I have also not tried
protein filler, so I don't know if that would fix the base problem. I
know it helps fill the porous hair, and is what you should use in that
respect at helping your dye come out better, but I suspect it wouldn't
fix the base problem since your hair is still white and has no pigment
left to counter the base color in the dye (so your hair can easily come
out the base color instead of the color its supposed to).
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Using Filler does truly help. I did it last week. I went from Platinum to Very Light Ash. I didn't want to try to darken it too much all at once. In a few more weeks, I'm going to try a tad darker (using filler again). I hope to use this process every four weeks until I get to more of a Medium/Dark Ash Blonde, which is my natural color.
MY plan is to get to my natural color and stay there only using semi's and demi's to jazz it up from time to time.
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