I am naturally dark brown, and have had my hair highlighted a few times.  I have now decided that I don't want the highlights anymore and want to go back to old colour (dark brown all over).

 

Apart from going back to the hairdressers, is there any products I can buy.

 

For example, I have seen the Just For Men range.. Even though it says on the box only for Grey hair, will this work on highlighted blonde?

 

Any advice please?

 

Thanks!

 

Mark.

You could try a temporary or semi-temporary color. I would go one or two shades lighter than what you want.  If you go with permanent, you, also, have decide what kind of tone you want....I think neutal or natural is a safe tone.

I wanted to be reddish-coppery brown, so I choose that tone. Most the time I play around with the naturals bc I get scared of ashy or too orangey tones.

I started the conditioner, developer, color thing along time ago.

Years ago, I was hightlighting my boyfriends hair and made him tooooo blonde....too heavily blonde that is bc his hair was very thin....I had pulled too much through....so I called a gf that is a hairdresser...been one for the last 30 years and does many colors and corrections....she said for me to pull through again ever so lightly and then mix some color with a cap full of developer and a good scoop of cholestral and apply until it darken to the shade I wanted. I have not had any problems with doing this through a cap until I did this recent all over color and it grabbed my ends big time and this is darker than I have ever applied.....I was feeling bold!! lol. But all is fine now.....til I get restless again.....lol..

 

Thanks for the replies.  After emailing a few people regarding the Just For Men range, it was recommended not to use it because it may make my hair go black or green!

 

I have decided to go to the hairdressers, I just want to ask: Do they use a 'Lowlight' bleach to reverse the process to get back to my starting colour.

 

Thanks again,

 

Mark.

From my readings here, it is explained, in order, to go brown with bleached hair, one has to add a filler, a filler coats the hair so that the desired color will have something to grab onto and hold on to....first red will need to be applied because you need this shade of pigment so that the brown will not be muddy, but be brown....I guess brown on blonde turns muddy whereas brown on red is more of a rich color.

My question is to anyone reading this is.....okay you add the red filler to the hair and you let it process ...you don't add the brown right on top of this filler correct? Don't you rinse this out, dry the hair and then apply the brown....right?  The filler and the actual color job are two different processes....not a one process with 2 steps to it? You know what I am asking right? Okay, time for a snack ....lol..my brain is straining....thanks...

 

I am back to my old colour now and its a perfect match - Even where all of the highlights where is amazingly exactly the same colour as the rest of my hair!!

 

I went to Boots and bought Garnier 100% Permanent Hair Dye in Brown for a few pound!

 

Mark :)