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Help needed changing my colour

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Topic: Help needed changing my colour

Posted By: sandie82blue
Subject: Help needed changing my colour
Date Posted: April 16 2011 at 3:19am

My natural hair colour is dark brown (3) I want to be a medium/dark mahogany red. I tried 2 different home dyes ( a 5.6 and 6.45) and they didn't turn out how I wanted, still too dark. Only thing is I did one colour this:

http://www.superdrug.com/permanent-colour/nice-n-easy-colour-blend-foam-dark-red-brown-4rb/invt/231855/&bklist - http://www.superdrug.com/permanent-colour/nice-n-easy-colour-blend-foam-dark-red-brown-4rb/invt/231855/&bklist =

didn't like how it came out, not light enough, so went and bought another dye, not realising re-dyeing in a lighter colour wouldn't work and of course it turned it even darker

but my roots have lightened to red (not the sort of red I want though) and the rest of my hair is still dark brown. So my question is do I use a prelightner and re dye in one of these:

http://www.superdrug.com/permanent-colour/loreal-excellence-creme-mahogany-brown-55/invt/930628/&bklist - http://www.superdrug.com/permanent-colour/loreal-excellence-creme-mahogany-brown-55/invt/930628/&bklist =

or natural dark burgundy 113a : http://www.clairol.co.uk/niceneasy/shade-chart/ - http://www.clairol.co.uk/niceneasy/shade-chart/

or do I need to use a colour remover then pre lightner and re dye?

Will one lot of pre lightner do enough? or will I have to pre lighten twice? how long do you have to leave in between pre lightening and re dyeing? I think my hair is in pretty good condition, medium thickness, shoulder length.

I'm in the UK so only have one colour remover product available to me, which according to reviews is time consuming and hit and miss result. As for pre lightners I have 2 available at a much cheaper price than the colour remover.

Any advice?

Thanks.

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Posted By: elumencolor
Date Posted: April 16 2011 at 5:25am

Posted By: elumencolor
Date Posted: April 16 2011 at 5:31am

since you don't have dyed you hair black, just bleaching it can probably work.

Do you have any beauty supply stores where you live? Dyes in a box don't work that well.

To achieve the color you want you need to lighten the hair again, apply the bleach to the midlenghts and ends first and then the roots. Process untill the hair turns orange or light orange (do not wash it out before it's light enough, most bleaches are active 45-60 minutes) do a strand test

Then you can go ahead and tone, but after doing a double process you should leave the hair alone for some time, do lots of conditioning and deep conditioning (with products made for colored hair)