blonde to brown disaster update PICS!
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Printed Date: October 05 2025 at 7:48pm
Topic: blonde to brown disaster update PICS!
Posted By: ammonia
Subject: blonde to brown disaster update PICS!
Date Posted: February 12 2006 at 8:36pm
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so i had lighte blonde hair and dyed it bright red, it washed out pink and it was ugly. to cover it up i dyed it med brown which i thought had worked until i actually seen it looked almost black! i looked goth and i hated it. i called a couple salons and they refused to see me because my hair was supposebly not safe to be lightened again, others wanted to charge me a whole lot. i went out and bought manic panic bleach 30 vol. did a strand test and loved it. it lightened my hair in less then 10 minutes! no joke! to protect myself for doing my whole head, i added a little shampoo and conditioner to the bleach.. not only did it save me from not having enough bleach to cover my whole head, but it also made it alot easier to cover my entire hair evenly as it made itself fomey. here is the before and after pics! hope it helps other people in caos. one thing i must say is that the brown color i had added was an ASH brown so thats why it didnt turn so red maybe.
by the way... i only had the bleach on my entire head for less then 10 minutes as well as the strand test. |
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Posted By: ammonia
Date Posted: February 12 2006 at 8:50pm
u can also see my little timeline signature.  ------------- |
Posted By: suki
Date Posted: February 12 2006 at 9:36pm
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is blonde ur original hair color? |
Posted By: ammonia
Date Posted: February 12 2006 at 9:52pm
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no, my natural hair color is dark brown. ------------- |
Posted By: hrc59blonde
Date Posted: February 15 2006 at 9:30am
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So, you had natural brown hair, then it was bleached blonde, then you put red in it and didn't like it, then you colored it brown and it grabbed too dark. Then, you used the manic panic 30 vol bleach mixed with shampoo and conditioner and it lifted all of the dark out of your hair? Did you have to recolor your blonde after this or use a toner? How long did you leave this bleach/shampoo/conditioner mixture all over your hair? Did it damage your hair badly? I'm looking for the least damaging way to lift out lowlights out of my bleached out blonde hair.
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Posted By: ammonia
Date Posted: February 15 2006 at 4:05pm
yes.. my original color is dark brown, then bleached blonde, then red, then the dark brown which looked black. i used manic panic 30vol. mixed with shampoo and conditioner.. left it on for no longer then 10 minutes (counting the time it took me to put it on) and then quickly washed it off. it did no damage or at least i dont see any. i didnt add anything after.. no toner no dye no nothing. i think this will be the way i bleach my hair from now on if i ever do it again. good luck and keep us updated.  ------------- |
Posted By: Blondie1972
Date Posted: February 16 2006 at 2:34am
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Ammonia~ Great job! I think it looks terrific! I really like the final colour! How does it look when you have it dried and styled? BTW~ How did your hair do after the prcoessing? (I only ask because you said that the salons were saying it shouldn't be touched). Is it still feeling like its in pretty good shape? Again~ I think it looks terrific~
Taunya |
Posted By: ammonia
Date Posted: February 16 2006 at 1:34pm
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thank you. to me my hair looks the same, i didnt break off or anything. if anything, it looks alot better. im a person who likes to do alot with my hair and so far it has stuck with me. here is a picture i took today. all of this was done at home by my mom and i.
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Posted By: KellyH
Date Posted: February 16 2006 at 2:44pm
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That's a beautiful color! Congrats on the success! ------------- 
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Posted By: Want2b6n
Date Posted: February 16 2006 at 3:31pm
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Wow, your hair looks great... beautiful hair... Good job... I think I'll try that next time... braelyn |
Posted By: Samantha~Jane
Date Posted: March 06 2006 at 1:25pm
| Hey ammonia, your hair looks great! Where did you get this manic panic bleach? |
Posted By: Sakeenah
Date Posted: March 07 2006 at 2:48am
| omg it looks amazing, iv got the same prob so looks like i gotta go get some manic bleach |
Posted By: HairStyleDiva
Date Posted: March 07 2006 at 2:05pm
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color looks very pretty
------------- Go for it change is good, Hair grows back. |
Posted By: cinderella
Date Posted: March 07 2006 at 9:46pm
| Wow, what a result, you are very lucky, however a word of warning, I had medium brown hair and coloured it dark ash blonde permanent, I did this treatment every 6 weeks, after the 3rd time I noticed the breaking and drying effect, my hair is in bad condition now. My curls are limp, my hair is quite frizzy and hardly has any shine. |
Posted By: Jammar190
Date Posted: March 19 2006 at 7:53pm
| Hey, what was the Shampoo and Conditioner brand you used during the bleaching? |
Posted By: ammonia
Date Posted: March 25 2006 at 12:13am
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at sallys for about $6. |
Samantha~Jane wrote:Posted By: ammonia
Date Posted: March 25 2006 at 12:16am
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the shampoo and conditioner of this same one.. IN COLOR: PLATINUM TO CHAMPANG.. because they also have for honey blonde (the right one) i used the one on the left. (shampoo & condition of it). |
Posted By: hrc59blonde
Date Posted: March 30 2006 at 1:29pm
| ok, I have let my hair rest for a couple of weeks, the lowlights have faded but still not enough. I bought manic panic 30 vol bleaching kit, just one question, what was the ratio of shampoo and conditioner to the bleach? Basically, did you measure how much you used of everything? |
Posted By: ammonia
Date Posted: March 30 2006 at 9:37pm
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i didnt measure it with anything but what i normally use to take a shower with.. ummm i would say like a table spoon of shampoo and one of condition. |
Posted By: Sandy2986
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 1:51am
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ammonia i read another post that u wrote saying you used manic panic bleach...but u had a whole diff story of why u used it,and u said u left it on for like 40 mins... ------------- 
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Posted By: ammonia
Date Posted: April 24 2006 at 11:33pm
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when i used it for 40 minutes, my hair wasnt as light as it was when i used it for 10. i think it took alot less this last time because my hair was really really white blonde already.. so when i added the dark brown.. it did not hold on to the color at all (you know what they said.. that when you have your hair bleached.. the color you used after fades away quick because it doesnt hold it so well.).. at least thats what i think happened. |
Posted By: Sandy2986
Date Posted: April 26 2006 at 1:32pm
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did you add red to your hair? -------------
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