I decided to take my dyed black hair back down to blonde.  Wow.  I had no idea it would be like this.  I have bleached my hair three, count em, three times...& it still has those icky orange ends.  My roots are an absolutely perfect platinum, but it just keeps getting darker & darker as the length goes on.

 

 

First two times it was bleached, was done by my stylist.  But, I am in a money crunch & can't afford to go back to her.  The last time I bleached, I did it myself & added a toner (which took out some of the orange).  But now...I have no idea what to do.  My hair has stayed pretty darn healthy through this process.  Some breakage the first two times, but now it looks & feels much better.  I just don't know where to go from here!

 

 

Please help?  Suggestions, advice...anything.

 

 

Thank you so much in advance! 

 

Anyway, your roots are blonde because they're natural hair. Your ends are orange because they have black ends. I have no idea what to suggest, if you want to go blonde. But I am having the whole color an ash brown then adding ash hilites (same as pic in my thread). Of course, it wnt be the way I wanty it, because I have lots of orange, like you.  The darker you go, the less orange. So, after my hair became orange, I trried to make it a medium ash brown. It's not really ash, but pretty good considering.  I'm waiting for the hilites. I will not make them very light either, that wont work well. Áfter I bleach them, I'll add an medium extra ash blondeso that it will break the orange tint. Then I'll add a toner. That;s my plan. Hope it works.Good luck and sorry I wasnt much help.

 

 

 

 

So, suicides_eve...after reading your experience with Color Zap, would you suggest I try it?  As I said in my initial post, if I could just get the red/orange out of the ends...it would be perfect.