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Am I able to go blonde now

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Topic: Am I able to go blonde now
Posted By: SDOW
Subject: Am I able to go blonde now
Date Posted: May 01 2007 at 11:20am

Ok can anyone help, Im currently brown and honey blonde,

 I had dyed black hair a year ago and had 3 pre lightening bleach sessions with a 3-4 month break inbetween coloring, my 3rd coloring she left the bleach on too long and made my hair like chewing gum and straw like, But this was back in august last year and I havent had any dye in my hair apart from 2-3 month ago when I went to have my T section done which was just my regrowth at the top also I've had alot of the damnged hair cut out and had alot of treatments to repair any left over damaged.

 

It feels back to normal now, but my roots are grown long underneath where shes not done the root, and the top of my hair the roots are showing again.

 

So basicly Im wondering if its ok to buy a box dye and do it at home myself and try a blonde, My natural color is darkest blonde according to my hairdresser, but to me it looks brown. Would I be safe to do this?


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Posted By: Claude
Date Posted: May 02 2007 at 8:35am
Originally posted by SDOW SDOW wrote:

Ok can anyone help, Im currently brown and honey blonde,

 I had dyed black hair a year ago and had 3 pre lightening bleach sessions with a 3-4 month break inbetween coloring, my 3rd coloring she left the bleach on too long and made my hair like chewing gum and straw like, But this was back in august last year and I havent had any dye in my hair apart from 2-3 month ago when I went to have my T section done which was just my regrowth at the top also I've had alot of the damnged hair cut out and had alot of treatments to repair any left over damaged.

 

It feels back to normal now, but my roots are grown long underneath where shes not done the root, and the top of my hair the roots are showing again.

 

So basicly Im wondering if its ok to buy a box dye and do it at home myself and try a blonde, My natural color is darkest blonde according to my hairdresser, but to me it looks brown. Would I be safe to do this?



NO!!! You have previously tinted hair and regrowth that is virgin hair. These can both be lightened but the previously colored hair will not lighten with haircolor. It can only be lightened via bleaching. The virgin regrowth can be lightened with artificial haircoloring but the previously colored hair will NOT lighten.

Goto a salon and leave it to professional or goto a beauty school if you can't afford it. Two different formulas need to be done to the hair to make the regrowth match the tinted hair. It's a complex process and not something I'd recommend you do yourself unless you are prepared mentally for the worse then you could just be costing yourself more money as you would be looking at corrective color work to fix it and that typically starts at $150 and goes up from there.


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