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how to warm up dark ash blonde?

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Topic: how to warm up dark ash blonde?
Posted By: stormee
Subject: how to warm up dark ash blonde?
Date Posted: April 07 2006 at 11:54pm
I have dyed dark ash blonde hair. I would like to warm it up without using bleach or color stripper. I am willing to go a shade darker if needed. Would a light golden brown dye help? Any other suggestions besides bleaching/color stripping?


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Posted By: Miffny
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 12:46am
Any semi with beige or gold should do the trick -I would suggest beige as it is softer & has slight red undertones.

Light Golden Brown should be ok but are you talking permanent dye or semi?, ash is dicey it can go a nasty khaki green if the right amounts of red/beige are not used.

Good Luck>


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Posted By: stormee
Date Posted: April 08 2006 at 10:10pm
I am not sure if I should use permanent or semi, either is ok at this point. I will try a dark beige blonde with a strand test first.

Posted By: Miffny
Date Posted: April 09 2006 at 1:46am
Great always go with a semi & a strand test is so valuable it can make ior break your new colour.

I am blonde too blonde atm & I did a test strand of a light beige(obviously too much red in it) -thank goodness I did turned orange so that saved me heartache, that's why I always advice a test strand.

Let us know how it turns out & good luck.


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Posted By: stormee
Date Posted: April 12 2006 at 8:33pm
I used a demi permanent. I picked dark golden blonde. I am dark ash blonde. It made my hair medium brown. The directions say it lasts 4-6 weeks but since my hair is dyed previously, and it went a darker color, could this be permanent?

Posted By: Miffny
Date Posted: April 12 2006 at 11:32pm
Demi's are so close to permanents.

Usually the colour lasts between 12 and 24 washes and enriches or darkens the hair, softens grey, but will not lighten. Containing low levels of peroxide it takes longer to wash out than a semi-permanent colour because the hair's cuticle layer is penetrated.

I have used a demi & had to have it foiled out, you can always use a clarifier shampoo to help fade it.


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Posted By: stormee
Date Posted: April 13 2006 at 12:11am
I have to learn everything the hard way I guess. After I calmed down and thought about it, when I used  a semipermanent to go from medium brown to black, it wouldn't come out. One year later and it had not faded at all. So I knew that the demi would never come out either. I really didn't want brown hair, so I took a chance and bleached tonight. I bleached it to a straw with a slight tint of strawberry. Then I used a neutral lightest level blonde toner over it. Then I used the same same demi shade. It was a level 7 golden blonde on the 2-10 color scale, Only instead of the 15-20 minutes recommended on the directions, I left it on 10 minutes on the middle and ends and five minutes on the scalp. I have only seen it wet, I towel dried real good and I'm sleeping with a deep conditioner in all night. I hope it looks good dry too. If not, I guess I'll have to figure something else out.

Posted By: Miffny
Date Posted: April 14 2006 at 12:17am
Lots of rich moisture treatments plus a good protein treatment as in Redkens CAT followed by Rescue Force for a few weeks & your hair should get a lot stronger, use hot towels to help open the cuticle so some colour can escape-any little bit helps.

The demi's today as nearly equal to a permanent in my opinon.

Good Luck.


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Posted By: stormee
Date Posted: April 14 2006 at 12:46am

I don't think golden blonde is the right color for me either. I am so confused at this point. I am hopeful, because when I shampood,I saw some of the color come out so hopefully this pattern will continue. If I stay within the same color level, will the new dye take. For example, now I'm a level 6 dark golden blonde, if I put in a level 6 dark neutral blonde, will the new dye cover the old dye? Or do I need to go darker. I was ash blonde, now golden blonde, I guess neutral blonde is the last thing to try. I've been doing stand tests before hand, and the color looks great but when I do my whole head it doesn't seem to go with the rest of me.

Posted By: Miffny
Date Posted: April 14 2006 at 12:59am
Let it go for a few days it's so hard with hair I was near platinum but up keep was killing my hair as well as hairdressers! I took Claude's advice & filled with gold beige blonde-I cannot fight the gold in my hair.

If you cannot stand gold use a clarifier shampoo wrap in a hot towel & repeating the hot towel for 15 minutes you really should see colour in the shampoo when you lather it up after all the heat the cuticle has to let some colour out & it's a damp towel heat not drying -also protein treatments are known to pull a bit of colour out.

Dye on dye goes darker :( if anything I would just grab if you have it in the US Decore Blonde Toner in a blue bottle it's the stongest no mix toner , one of my favourites.Leaev it 30 minutes on damp freshly shampooed & rinsed hair.


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