Bleached black hair blonde--now orange--now what?
Hello all,
I just used Clairol's Born Blonde Maxi lightener. I DID do a strand test and after the maximum time (I went 95 mins), my hair is blonde from the roots to about 3 inches down, and the rest is orange (looks like an orangatangue's fur! )
I've searched some sites and see some conflicting advice. Some say to bleach a second time, others suggest going right to a toner (in my case an ash blonde) to rid the orange-ness. Has this happened to anyone else? If so, what did you do for a happy ending?
Thanks so much in advance!
Comment on Floridagirrl11's post
Putting a dark colour on top of bleached blonde is the worst thing to do as it soaks up the colour strongly and it is impossible to remove without, 1, ruining your hiar badly, 2 ,it will allways go orangy red, the darker you dyed it the stronger the red will emerge from lightning it, so all you can do is eather get a good cut , and forget about blonde for a while get blonde slower , with hair on your head, as you sound as though you are in a rush , you will ruin it get yourself down to a salon, let them see your hair ,ask there advice, all free, get expert advice, before you do anything else , and if they are good anough , they could advise you what depth of colour which is , what shade of colour, to use ,and as it is as you say, very copper orange you will need to have some ash in the shade you use, they will advise you,, goood luck,
Comment on 28andrea28's post
What colour did you want to be, ash blonde ,gold blonde, there are so many shades, if it is to white at roots and orange on ends , and you want to be ash blonde , it the orange is more yellow and not a strong tone , bye yourself a ash colour moouse , in any chimest, wash your hair towel dry, apply it to your yellow orange ends comb it through, don't let it go on to the white hair, as it will make it too gray or white, and if you wanted gold blonde get a gold moouse and apply it to the white hair, golds kill ash tones and ash kills kills gold tone, but this is only good if the colour you need to kill is weak , and the moouse has no peroxide in it so don't try to use it as a colour, its used as a toner only or to put a hint of colour into hair, good luck,
Comment on ashleyrenne's post
SORRY , if you put GREEN onto orange and white hair, WHAT YOU GET IS A MESS, if you are a hairdresser, wronge info, greens blues etc etc are only to be added to colours to add or take away unwanted tones . Greens blues etc are to concentrated to be used full on , and never on 2 tone hair, ash or GREEN will, if not done without knowing what u are doing can turn if not supervised propely WHITE BLEACHED HAIR,INTO, BLACK,OR GRAY , the girl you advised has orange and white,,