Best way to cover warmth and yellow?
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Printed Date: October 04 2025 at 2:41am
Topic: Best way to cover warmth and yellow?
Posted By: allyssa
Subject: Best way to cover warmth and yellow?
Date Posted: April 07 2007 at 8:38pm
| I just had my hair done and I hate it. I had my hair naturally 7n hair dyed darker to a warm chocolate brown (probably a level 6) two weeks ago. It was one color and I felt like I was wearing a wig so I wanted it lighter. I had it lightned with the Goldwell hair color remover and it brought it up a level but even though my stylist tried toning it, it still looks warm and orange. She gave me a couple of highlights and they look yellow. I am planning on going somewhere else and going blonde but until then I want to cover this up so I can live with it until my hair groes out a bit so I can see my natural hair color. The past few weeks have been total hell, from having a bothched hair cut to now having aweful hair color! What should I do? If anyone knows of a half way decent hairstylist near Syracuse NY, please let me know (I am willing to travel)! Thanks again for any advice!! |
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Posted By: julesyjul88
Date Posted: April 12 2007 at 12:51am
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If you're going blonde I wouldnt mess with the color anymore until then. Going blonde can be somewhat damaging,and you dont want to pile on more color to have to be lightened. Cant you just have it dyed blond sooner? |
Posted By: Alayney
Date Posted: April 13 2007 at 3:19am
| You don't have to wait -- you can have it fixed immediately. I had a horrible trio of VERY DARK colors put into my hair one time -- I looked rocker Goth, which is not what I was going for AT ALL. I went back and my colorist took me RIGHT BACK to very light blonde with no problem whatsoever. |
Posted By: julesyjul88
Date Posted: April 13 2007 at 11:31pm
| Alayney is right your stylist should just take you to blonde. It is fairly easy to do these days,depending on how dark the hair is to get it blonde in one step. |
Posted By: _swede
Date Posted: April 15 2007 at 10:31am
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yeah, leave your hair alone.
Blonding is very damaging, so do not try to do more harm to your hair now. Wear a hat or wig or something :P
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Posted By: Alayney
Date Posted: April 17 2007 at 1:31am
I do disagree with you ^^. It IS very damaging but if it's done properly and the person takes care of their hair it can look great. I've been doing it for a long long time now and my hair looks healthy -- no breakage, just smooth, shiny hair. 
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Posted By: julesyjul88
Date Posted: April 18 2007 at 6:14am
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Alayney,she was talking about trying to cover up the color BEFORE going blonde though. My point is that adding anymore color will make it that much harder to go lighter,thus causing more damage. If her color looks orangey,as she said in her post,then it seems to me the problem is the stylist didnt take her light enough to get to a blonde color. She simply needs to have it relightened.Then if it is still orangey,a possible ash color toner may help. |
Posted By: allyssa
Date Posted: April 19 2007 at 4:33pm
| Thanks for all of the advice! I decided to go blonde and I had my hair bleached. I made a HUGE mistake! The stylists where I live cannot do color!!!!I did my research and went to stylists who were "experts". I paid over $400 in the past few weeks and I am still unhappy. My hair was bleached, then toned, then lowlighted. My scalp was burned from the bleach, my hair is still too yellow, and my lowlights are brassy in spots and there are a few places where the color didn't deposit as well as places where the color wasn't placed close to the root and it looks horrible. I am staying away from chemicals for a while and then I am not sure if I want to deposit color on my hair myself or have yet another stylist give me lowlights. My overall goal right now is to grow out my natural haircolor (7N) and just have a few highlights. I have no idea what to do. I am so angry that there are so many so called professional stylist that have been doing hair and still have no clue! I wish there were higher standards and qualifying tests for hair stylist since it is a very difficult science (chemistry). For now I just give up! I should have just gone to NYC in the first place. Thanks for listening, I just needed to vent!!!!!!Allyssa |
Posted By: Dawning
Date Posted: April 24 2007 at 11:58am
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Alyssa, I'm SO SO sorry!!! I wish too that people doing color were held to higher standards.
Let me know how things turn out for you.
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