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    Posted: March 06 2009 at 11:52pm
yeah, it's friday night and i'm staying in. if you saw my hair right now you'd understand

i'm trying to bleach my hair to blonde after dyeing with henna/indigo for a year, which made my hair a beautiful jet black. if you've heard that indigo is almost impossible to get out, you've heard right. i've done two bleaching sessions, the 1st with a 20 vol developer and wella bleach, the 2nd with 40 vol developer and blue (? can't remember what it's called) bleach. the most recently dyed hair (about 2 inches) lifted to a beautiful medium shade of blue and the color of the remaining hair has hardly budged from black and it's all looking a little fried, but not too bad. so, i'm ready break out the big guns! any advice for me? this may be impossible but i'm willing anything to get back to my natural shade of blonde. all suggestions are appreciated. thanks.
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Its is extremely difficult to get your hair  a bright blonde from black. It is so hard to lift past the red/orange stage. The only way is colour removers and or bleaching. Its the damage this can cause your hair.
You could try a good colour remover, I have heard lots of good things about color oops. Hoping someone else on HB can give you their experiences with colour oops, as I have not used this one. However you will probs have to apply colour removers a few times.
Also with using henna, and as henna contains metallic salts there is another product you may need to use, I cant remember its name, but it removes any metals from your hair ( I hope someone can tell you the name, sorry)
 
I hope this helps a little.
 
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does anyone have any advice on how to tone the blue to brown?
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Metalex <--------- 
Try remover
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Hi Borne,
 
Knew you would know the name, lol, Metalex, well done hunnieThumbs%20Up
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thanks ladies. i'll look into it.
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