Hi all.This is my first post.

I wondered if anyone could help me? I have bleached blonde hair (bra strap length) and have grown the colour out to shoulder length.My natural colour is mousy.

Anyway i'd love to know if i could dye my hair a brown colour on top of the blonde.(It doesn't have to match my natural colour as i don't mind dyeing that too.) I'd like to do this at home,if anyone could recommend a brand? or advise me in anyway.

Also i'd like it to be semi-permenant incase i don't like it.I've tried wash in,wash out colours (brown) and it doesn't darken it enough at all.

I'd be so grateful for any kind of advice now,as i'm sick of going around looking like this!

Thankyou so much LostForever.

Can i ask if you know this from experience? Was your own hair bleached and then you put l'oreal on? Also with this dye,can you definatley bleach over it again if you wanted to in the future?

Thanks again.

Ok i'm confused now,so i shouldn't use it?

.....and also Longhairdreams-whats Sallys? as i'm in the UK.

Thanks again.

The feria that comes in a box is horrible to try to get out,plus its permanent.Which I remember you saying you wanted a semi-perm.Sally's is a beauty supply store here in the states that sells professional products.You can go darker quite easily.Just be careful as even a semi/demi permanent can hold like permanent.Plus it will be much harder to get back to platinum if you decide you dont like it.If you wanted to go back you would have to strip out the dye and then bleach and tone.It can be done.But I'm sure you aware it will be much harder on your hair to go back after going darker.Good luck in whatever you decide.

Thankyou so much Longhairdreams.

You've been very helpful.I'll have to decide now,weather i want to dye my natural colour light blonde again.Or put an all over brown.

Hmm decisions,decisions.......

Also i forgot to add,that because i want a semi-permenant doesn't that mean that it would wash out? and that i could dye it blonde again if i wanted too?

Thanks :)

dont use a semi permenant color, use a DEMI permenant color.  Basically buy a color from a beauty supply store and use a 10 volume devoliper.  It's deposit only, so it'll be less harsh for your hair (also better quality then the box colors at the store)

Also, how light is your bleached color, and how dark do you want to go?  If your going from very light to very dark you will have to build the color back up to keep it from getting a washed out grey look.

Now if your going from say this color

to THIS color

then you wouldnt want to color straight to that, especially because bleached hair is notorious for soaking up color unevenly.  You would want to first dye it something like this color

first.  When you remove color, you need to build it back up if you want to go darker again, or it'll turn out funny.  I cant tlel you how many times Ive heard "help, my hair is grey/green/purple" because they didnt build the color back up.

Thankyou Kalika.

That's helped alot.

You say that bleach is notorious for soaking up colour,well if so,how come the wash in and wash out dyes i've tried have not worked?

I looked up protein filler for hair in the UK under Google and nothing came up  neither did volume 10 developer,*sigh*

I know your all being so helpful,but i don't think they sell this stuff in the UK unfortunatley.

LoopyLou wrote: I looked up protein filler for hair in the UK under Google and nothing came up

Try Lock-In Blonde in your search. I got mine at Sally's, but you can purchase it online and have it shipped. I only went a few shades darker than the platinum I had, but it worked perfectly to add pigment into my hair before coloring. I had no green/grey at all in my ends. They matched the roots and crown area perfectly!

When you search....it will give a description of why/when/how to use it.