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how do i lighten it up? help, please!!

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Topic: how do i lighten it up? help, please!!
Posted By: georgiapeach298
Subject: how do i lighten it up? help, please!!
Date Posted: March 24 2006 at 10:40pm
I dyed my hair a couple days ago from a slightly fake blondish color to what turned out to be very ash brown (rather dark). I bought a light brown dye thinking it would only take my hair to about my natural color but it ended up being a lot darker and a lot ash-ier than i expected.  (the blonde before had a lot of red in it so i wanted to get an ash color to get rid of it for the most part) 

so now my question... i've read posts on here about dying to get lighter and i get the hint it's not exactly a good idea. how do i get it to lighten up...i hope there are alternatives to going to a salon and/or getting it bleached...i was hoping to go by sally beauty supply tomorrow morning for new supplies.

thanks!


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Posted By: Claude
Date Posted: March 24 2006 at 11:21pm

OK stop with the haircolor. Once you put an artificial haircolor onto virgin hair it now has an artificial pigment in the cortex of the hair strand. You CANNOT put a lighter color onto that previously colored hair as it will not lighten. Haircoloring doesn't lighten artificial pigment and never, never ever put color over color because it will not lighten in fact it will only get darker.

Once you color your hair the only way to lighten previously colored hair is bleach. I wouldn't recommend doing it yourself since bleach is not an exact science and it lifts in stages. Goto a salon and have your color fixed to a satisfactory result that you can live with and then deep condition and use a moisturizing shampoo on your chemically treated hair to maintain and restore moisture into the hair strands that the chemical processes and bleaching as it will have stressed out your hair.

Any chemical service you do on your hair only puts more stress on the hair so leave it to a professional if you don't know what you are doing. Bleaching your hair is not something I'd recommend you do yourself because if you mess up your could melt or break off at or near the scalp and your hair will be damaged.

Hope that helps to answer your questions

G'luck


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