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Forum Name: Hair Color
Forum Description: The tricks and tribulations of changing your hair color
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Printed Date: October 03 2025 at 6:42pm

Topic: need advice

Posted By: JasmineAlyssa
Subject: need advice
Date Posted: June 11 2007 at 3:39pm

I decided to try to get to my natural haircolor which is a med. brown with red tones. I bought a box of Feria in the shade called Brilliant Bordeaux. I loved how it looked on the box but it did not turn out at all like it was supposed to. It's now a fiery red with no brown. When the light hits it, it lets off a very unnatural red color. What can I do to tone down the red and get brown in it with some red tones?

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Posted By: BunnyWabbit
Date Posted: June 11 2007 at 3:43pm

wash with a clarifying shampoo (it will strip some of the red out very easily, but its drying, so condition afterwards) i'd also try using brunette emphazizing products, like John Frieda - it will help highlight the brown tones - or you can get a toner that will de-emphazize the red tones. You can go to Sallys to pick those up - they can also give you advice about what ones to use if the girls on here can't.

what color were you dying from? if you had a fairly light shade it would turn out more vivid than it shows on the box. Personally i don't use pre-boxed colors because the results are more unpredictable than if I choose the shades and level of developer I am using myself. just a tip for the future (its also cheaper in the long run;) )

Posted By: JasmineAlyssa
Date Posted: June 11 2007 at 3:49pm

The color I was dying from was more of a light brown with a little golden/red highlights. I was told by a friend to wash with dishsoap to strip some of the red then color over with a light-med ash brown. would this actually work?

Posted By: BunnyWabbit
Date Posted: June 11 2007 at 4:03pm

Yup, dish soap (something gentle like dawn) will help do the trick. Just make sure you condition afterwards. I'm doing the same type of thing myself - , I'd stop using color protecting products, let it fade a bit naturally, then do a demi/semi color over in a more netural brown shade to eliminate any more drastic red tones. I'd try to wait to do that though to avoid damage - even dying to a darker shade can cause damage because it is altering the hair cuticule, but it is far less damaging than going blonde.

Posted By: JasmineAlyssa
Date Posted: June 11 2007 at 4:07pm

I just thought I'd share a picture of my current red. It's not a bad shade, it just doesn't suit me and is not at all what I was going for. You can't tell so much how it looks when the light hits it. Hopefully I can get thi spicture on here with no problems.

Posted By: BunnyWabbit
Date Posted: June 11 2007 at 5:04pm

Its def. a pretty color but I can see how on the wrong person it wouldn't look right. I think using the dish soap/clarifying shampoo should lighten it pretty quick.

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