QuoteReplyTopic: Hair dilemma I don't know what to do. Posted: June 10 2009 at 10:44pm
I have been highlighting my naturally medium blonde hair (level 7 or 6) for years and I decided to have it all colored blonde at the salon and the roots turned to gold so I went back to my natural hair color cause I'm so sick of either the salon or myself messing it up and it gets really expensive but I don't really care for my new color it's just not me, I've been dying/bleaching/highlighting my hair since I was 13, thats 14 years so I'm just to use to the blonde so I want to go back to blonde but I don't know what to do. Should I strip the color out, bleach it then tone it or do you think that would be to damaging? Cause I don't want to have to cut it all off, I've been trying to let it grow long but I would love to have it all blonde. My roots are still a different color then the rest of my hair so I was also thinking of maybe dying all of it darker maybe a light brown then having it highlighted again but will the color take since I will be dying over blonde hair thats already been colored once? Thanks for listening.
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I really wouldn't suggest that you bleach your hair all over you will get damage from it and if your trying to grow your hair that really isn't an option.
Anyone with previously higlighter hair needs to be carefull when trying to go blonde all over as you hair is already processed when you use bleach all over it will overlap on the higlighted bits and you will get breakage.All over bleach really only work succesfully without damage on virgin hair or hair thats not previously been bleached and even then you have to be careful not to overlap when you do the roots.
Having said that if your wanting to take your base color lighter you need to use bleach at some point however I would do this in the form of a "Soap Cap" this is basically 1 part bleach powder, 1 part developer and 2 parts shampoo, so yes it's still bleach but in a diluted form and trust me it's a lot less damaging than using it straight.
What I would do before you do a soap cap is use a clarifying shampoo to remove some of the artificial pigment in your hair cause ideally you want to get it as light as you possibly can before you put any sort of bleach near it.
Lush makes these solid shampoo bars that really do strip color quite well, I used mine to fade a bright ruby red so that I could get a copper color put over the top, it worked so well that I didn't even need to have a soap cap applied, even my hairdresser was suprised.
I would probably do that for a couple a weeks washing every day and deep conditioning every other day with a moisturising treatment,
then if you still need to do a light soap cap.
After bleaching you should then use a protein conditioner to really strenghten your hair, don't use these to often cause they will make your hair brittle, the only time I use them is after bleaching and before I color as it makes pigment grab on more evenly.
So now that you've removed unwanted pigment it's time to choose your base color, I'm guessing from your post that you wanna go quite light and cool based, however I would say go for a medium blonde shade as a base put that on the midlenghts to ends first and the last 5 minutes of development time put the rest on the root as they always take the fastest and go the lightest.
Now you should have a pretty even base to work and put highlight on top of, if you can try and leave it a couple a weeks before you get higlight put in and keep deep conditioning to keep the health of your hair.
Another option, and this is the one I would go for even though it's gonna take longer to get to your desired shade is, dye you hair to a color that matches you natural shade, making sure you dye the midleanght to ends first and the root last to get an evn finish and them start getting highlight all over, basically your starting from scratch but it would be kinder to your hair and because your keeping your natural base you wont get that harsh regrowth line.
Just by having highlights done regularly you will eventually get an all over blonde result but with half as much damage.
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