Blonde to Brunette
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Category: Hair Talk
Forum Name: Hair Color
Forum Description: The tricks and tribulations of changing your hair color
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Printed Date: July 29 2025 at 1:42pm
Topic: Blonde to Brunette
Posted By: cougar66
Subject: Blonde to Brunette
Date Posted: September 23 2008 at 4:55pm
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Hi all, I've been bleaching (not dying - I know, I know.....) my hair for a few years now. It's pretty close to platinum. I was looking for a change about a year ago and tried dying it to a dark blonde/ light brown color. Either the color wouldn't stick or I was left with a greyish-purple tinge in my hair.... I gave up for awhile, but now I'm itching for a change again. Again, I tried dying it to a lighter brown color, this time using a protein fill first - I tried it twice, both a brown and a red filler. (These were just test runs on sniped hair) With the brown filler, it came out nice, but still has a purple tinge in the sun light. The red filler made it quite a bit more red than I ever wanted (on a side note, a neutral filler did nothing). Any suggestions on what I could do to get the purple out? I'm not dying my hair red first than brown on top of that, as other people/sites have suggested, since the red filler was just awful  ... Will anything help?!Thanks! |
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Posted By: karen s
Date Posted: September 24 2008 at 9:34am
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You need a colour with gold tones to cancel out the purple tinge. The more you colour your hair the more the colour will grab. Years of bleaching has truly damaged your hair, that is why the colour is just washing back out.
If your hair is still a dark blonde or light brown, and your happy with the depth, go for those same colours again, but just one that has golden tones.
Karen  ------------- karen sanderson |
Posted By: tint08
Date Posted: September 26 2008 at 8:16pm
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I think if you want a brown shade to stick on heavily bleached hair, you pretty much have to do some pre-pigmenting; otherwise, you'll get odd results from the get-go and/or it'll fade to awful shades.
You don't have to dye it red. Think of it this way: all you have to is add enough "contributing pigment" to support the brown you want. For lighter browns, you can fill it to an orangey color and you should be good to go.
Do you have a sally's near you? When I went back to brown from Andy Warhol white, I filled with a mixture of dark golden blonde w/ strawberry blonde. I mixed the full bottle of dark golden blonde w/ an equal amount of 10vol developer and then added in a good bit of strawberry blonde (w/o adding any extra developer). I used a neutral protein filler on my hair before coloring and colored it until it was orangey/reddish in color. Then I put a couple different browns over that (I used second nature for that part, too). I topped it off with a color gloss. It actually looked good; the color gloss in particular helped camoflauge all the damage I'd done to my hair.
If a neutral protein filler alone isn't enough to get your hair ready for coloring, you might want to buy yourself a bottle of Clairol's Metalex. This is an old school product that's been around since the 60s or so; its oily, gooey, and smells bad, but it makes your hair stronger and healthier (temporarily) and gets it ready for chemical processing. You can do a series of Metalex treatments until your hair is healthy enough to take color. A bottle costs like $16 but should last for several treatments.
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