QuoteReplyTopic: FROM RED TO LIGHT BROWN--POSSIBLE??????? Posted: March 12 2001 at 9:21am
My daughter has been dying her hair red for several months. She has decided to go back to her natural light brown color. In order to save her hair which is damaged from all the coloring (she had very blond highlights prior to the red), her stylist tried dying it brown and then putting just a few blond highlights in it. The red seems to be coming back through though. Any advise on how to get it back to normal without killing her hair completely? The stylist is trying hard to keep from stripping it but is afraid he will have to. We are going this afternoon to try something else. Any advise would be appreciated. BTW, her hair is pretty fine in texture.
"It is better to look marvelous than to feel marvelous" Billy Crystal
demodoll
Members Profile
Send Private Message
Find Members Posts
Add to Buddy List
Member
Joined: December 19 2000
Status: Offline
Points: 922
Now we are in worse shape. The stylist highlighted heavily then put a dark toner over it to try and kill the red. It is now just kind of plain dark hair and my daughter is devestated. Should we just try stripping and dying whatever color she wants? I think she is leaning toward blond. I am just not sure her hair can stand that. It is pretty split at the bottom. Please, any advise?
"It is better to look marvelous than to feel marvelous" Billy Crystal
Is the color she has now really that bad or it just a plain mousy brown? The color will probably fade in a few months, and she can do warm olive oil treatments that will help fade the color and condition her hair. If it isn`t that bad maybe she can just get some blonde highlites put in so she doesn`t have to damage all her hair more. Is her hair long? If she choses to strip all the color out it might be a good idea to get a shoulder length or slightly below shoulder cut because you said her hair is already in bad condition with alot of split ends. If she cuts it to shoulder length the color probably will grow out within 6-12 months. I went through alot of coloring a few years ago,from wanting to be a very light blonde, then back to my natural light brown color, then going to red, then brown again. Eventually my hair started to break off in bunches and I had to get it cut pretty short.
Margaret
Members Profile
Send Private Message
Find Members Posts
Add to Buddy List
Newbie
Joined: December 14 2002
Status: Offline
Points: 5
I had colored red hair that I wanted to return to brown. The best way I found was to color it with one of the semi-permanent colors, such as Natural Instincts. Use light ash brown. Ash tones are green, which is the color opposite of red, and cancels it out. It took a while to get rid of the red completely--it kept coming back as the light ash brown faded, but eventually the red disappeared and my hair actually started to become to ashy (for me) and I had to switch to a golden brown. Your daughter`s dark tone will lighten as she washes it. If she`s desperate she can shampoo with Prell, but she needs to condition it well. Realistically, you will just not get rid of red in one or two color treatments, but over time it will go away. If she uses Natural Instincts, she`ll have to experiment a bit with the timing. And she may find that her hair is so porous that she needs to use a lighter ash tone. But this will be a great deal gentler to her hair than more permanent color, or using a color remover, which will just turn her hair orange. Then as the color fades, you get that orange showing through so she won`t really have accomplished anything. Good luck! I hope after her hair grows out, she`ll just settle for some nice highlights! They`re SO much better than all-over permanent color!
There`s a solution to this problem. Find a stylist that uses Schwarzkopf color and have them use Modulat (it`s a color remover), this will remove all of the artificial color in her hair, leaving a clean "canvas" to apply the desired color to. It is extremely gentle and will not damage her hair further.
Thanks to everybody. David, I wish I could come to your salon. It sounds wonderful as does the town, but unfortunately we live in rural north Georgia and will soon be moving to south Florida. No one has ever heard of Schwarzkopf color up here. We ended up just doing la few highlights over the two processes that were done before. She loves it although I think her hair looks fried. The mix of blond, red, and brown is rather pretty and looks edgy and stylish so I guess for now the crisis is past. The next step will be what to do when THIS particular mess starts to grow.
"It is better to look marvelous than to feel marvelous" Billy Crystal
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot create polls in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum
Topic Options
Post Options
Thanks(0)
