need advice badly
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Printed Date: August 03 2025 at 10:25pm
Topic: need advice badly
Posted By: Unregistered Guest
Subject: need advice badly
Date Posted: March 10 2005 at 7:39am
My natural colour is mouse blond aided by a few highlights. Last week I wanted to try brunette and after the first application ended up fairly red head, well copper to be exact. I went back again for a darker colour, preferably more of a chocolate colour and I am now a dark auburn (still with reds) but much darker.
I am guessing my hair has red undertones, is there any way of getting rid of those and getting a nice medium chocolate brown with a gold hue as opposed to a red or orange one? Am I better with a bottle from the store as opposed to paying 100 each time? please help!
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Posted By: Unregistered Guest
Date Posted: March 10 2005 at 7:51am
one more thing, I was told that putting ash in my hair would make it go green, but I dont know if thats because of my natural colour (blond) or some rumour that people start up for fun.
I didnt think that blond to medium golden brown would be that hard.... please make the red go away!!!!
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Posted By: leia1979
Date Posted: March 10 2005 at 12:16pm
You had this done in a salon and it kept coming out too red? You should've said right away that it wasn't the color you wanted. It sounds to me like they're using a dye with way too much red in it. Blonde hair does not naturally have red in it...it's too light. It can have light orange and yellow, but not red. Generally when going from blonde to a dark shade, you add red so it doesn't come out green or gray, but that doesn't necessarily mean it should come out auburn.
I think you should call up whomever dyed your hair and tell him or her that you are unhappy with the color and would like an ash toner put over it. This would generally mean applying an ash brown semi-permanent over your current color to neutralize the red tones. I would say try to negotiate with the salon before trying it at home, but next time, let them know right away if you don't like it. Don't let them keep siphoning money out of you.
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Posted By: eatgreenjello
Date Posted: March 10 2005 at 2:14pm
I agree with the previous poster, you need to add a semi-permanent brown color over the red highlights. You can do this yourself! Don't pay them any more money. Also, why don't you wait one week to see if the red highlights tone down before you dye again.
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**Hair type: 2a, which is wavy and fine.
**Color: Naturally dark brown, currently dyed reddish brown.
**Length: below shoulder length
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