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!

Same happened to me 1st time, just double the waiting time next time that's what I did :) dyn again works to, don't know the time on the re-dye but don't leave it in for to long as it can go white :O

Hey

I've been trying to go bleach blonde for awhile!
I suggest going to a hair salon and see what they think.
Bleaching your hair too many times will make your hair very very damaged!
As my hair is. It breaks off.
You'll probably have to do it professionally. And take steps. As each time your hair will get lighter.
Most people I know who have gone blonde have gone a bit yellow/orange the first time. But left it for a few weeks then did it again and their hair was beauuutiful (:
Try this! But...
Go to a hair salon :)

It's probably orange towards the roots because the hair wasn't as saturated there. Go get some deep conditioning done, wait at least three weeks and bleach again.

Going to a salon would be best, but they might refuse because of the damage. 95 minutes of bleach is a long long time.

Lmao bleaching your hair is a hard thing you must not leave it in for 95 minutes you should have left it in for like a half and hour not even lesser maybe

I dyed my hair from brown to bleach and it turned out orange so I just dyed it again and it turned perfect

Basically, it hasn't been bleached enough. You need to bleach it to the pale yellow stage. Usually the strand test (congratulations for doing that) is a good predictor, but sometimes it doesn't work out.

Reapply bleach to the hair that's not at the pale yellow stage and let it process until your hair reaches the pale yellow stage. (It's a whole lot easier -- and actually less damaging -- to fix this by bleaching some more than trying to dye it dark and then trying to fix it later). Once you get there, you can shampoo out the bleach and proceed to tone.

The best sites that I've found for bleaching hair at home are:

Bottle Blondes Board (http://www.network54.com/Forum/503669/)

And

The Going Blonde Message Board (http://www.network54.com/Forum/127834/)

Im probley the most ridiculous example of this.

I had my hair professionally dyed from black to dark blonde and on my second session from dark blonde to blonde. Those 2 treatments cost me $700. I didn't want to spend anymore money so I bleached my whole head, the ends went orange the roots went white and around 30-40% of my hair has broken off (thankfully I have massively thick hair).

I've double bleached all the orange bits and they have come down. I then applied light ash blonde to half of my head... ahhhh its definitely not light ash blonde! But its not orange!

So at the momment as we speak I'm bringing down the remainder of my hair and then I'm going to put the light ash blonde in that also, if all fails and it turns out bad at least its light enough for me to go to the hair dressers and get a decent blonde.

For anyone that's thinking of going black to blonde... think hard... its been expensive and caused me massive anxiety, at this point I wouldn't say its been worth it.

This has been a nearly 3 weeks process for me and my hair has been bleached at least once a week, I've spent $250 on shampoos and treatments and $700 on saloon services and $120 on bleach and toner.

I did the same thing and I used a really crapy hair dye the first time and it came out that I just had my roots light then I left it for like 3 months and then I used 100 percent colour with a bleaching component in it and I first dyed the darker ends and then did the whole hair the second time and then the third I bleach the ends again it took only two boxes and I did it all in one night now you would think my hair would be completely dead from that but it is surprisingly really soft I left the conditioner in extra long. So now I have light but still a little orange at the tips I plan on bleaching it again in two weeks and hopefully I will get the blond I want and if its still a orangy I will try to do the ash blond to cut it down. But bleaching it three times in a row seemed to get it to look OK but I would suggest to use 100 percent colour it the best brand I have found and every time I have used it I have been happy with the results. Hope that helps

The bleach you used was not mixed w a strong enough developer to lift the color out of the midshaft and ends of your hair! That's why you got the orange! Your new growth was virgin hair so it turned out blonde for you!as there was no color on it2lift out! As far as a toner goes that would be great however your hair must be lifted to at least a level 8 or higher and then be toned in order to achieve a blonde result! If toned when it was darker than an 8 it will cancel out the orange but not give you a blonde result! Not to be mean but if you aren't a color specialist its best to go see one! Hair color is very complicated if your not educated! And you could really damage your hair!

I made my hair an orangey red.. it was terrible.. don't ask me how. Anyway.. if you go to a salon ask them if they have a green (opposite of red) matte they can put on it to take the orange undertone out.
That will probably make the blonde fade a lot faster but... hey. Its not orange.

I bleached my hair now its white and ornage help what can I do

I don't know what to do either!
Okay I'm like a dirty blonde originally.
But years ago I dyed it like white blonde.
Kept it bleached for 2 years.
Then went dark dark brown,
Ive had it like this for almost a year now and want to go back blonde.
Tonight I tried dying it dark blonde and my hair didn't even lighten!
But my roots turned copper orange?
I don't want to put brown dye in my hair because I'm trying to go back blonde,
But I have no money at all for a salon. AT ALL. :[[
Please help me?
I miss my blonde hair and can only get store bought stuff. No sallys :[
And I have a meeting tomorrow afternoon!

Same with me, I'm not happy.
I NEED HEEEELP D:

Did you try to lift a tint? If so, I'd recommend a purple shampoo (leave it in as long as possible). If this doesn't lighten it enough, you may want to consider going to a salon and having them use the correct volume of developer and re-coloring it for u. blonde is a tricky color to achieve. Because re-bleaching will dry your hair out and you won't be able to fix it. Plus, the necessary amount of drugstore bleach likely will exceed the cost of the professional service. I charge $35 plus the cost of product. Go to sallys and buy a high lift ash blonde in the future, it will lift much more than bleach will. Also, the ash will counteract the red tones in black hair.

I agree with stylist101, home bleaching is never good [rearly] when you don't know what you are doing, first, you won't get black to blonde in one go and certainly not on black, dark brown, pre dyed hair, 2 , take it stage by stage when you are doing a home job, go a shade lighter from black , to dark brown , to med brown ,to light brown , dark blonde ect ect and try to make sure the colour you use like light brown has some ash in it, as this will kill or tone down the orangy tone that lightning can cause , but allways remember that if it has a ash tone in the colour it will go slightly darker then a colour,that has for instance a gold tone as a example medium dark ash brown , and medium gold brown will not turn out the same on the same head , the ash toned one will be slightly darker then the gold,hope this is not to hard to follow, so eather go to a good salon and get the job done quicker, or take your time and do it right , never bleach twice and never leave it on any more then what you are directed to do, allways read the instructions and allways do a strand test, to be safe that you don't have a reaction to the colour,

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,

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,

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,,

I had to bleach my hair 3 times before it came out a decent color.I used the toner silver lady by wella and it turned my really light parts silver!My hair is so damaged right now and I only used a 20 vol.
If you really want your hair a bleach blonde its going to take some time and a lot of money.

A few hours ago I used the same kit you did! Same results! The best thing to do is dye is Light Ash Blonde until its perfect!! Cheaper, Easier, Less aniexty!

I have dark brown hair and am in the process of going blonde. I tried doing this once before and did so in ONE step with two bottles of clairol born blonde maxi... alas I turned out with really brassy ORANGE hair!! So don't do THAT like I did! If you want a less expensive route and don't want to go to a salon do what I did: slowly lighten your hair a few shades by bottle dyeing. Every 2 to 3 weeks lighten your hair. When my hair became light enough, I went straight to my born blonde maxi again and it worked like charm. l'oreal also has a brass banisher for about 10 dollars. It's a color balancing glass treatment and it works in under 10 minutes!! Thought this method may take you a month or so to achieve your desired "blonde"ness, it is well worth the savings on your piggy bank!! Hope this helps you guys!!

I have had many shades of blonde both professional and done by myself. I have also gone from platnum to dark blonde.I have had both horrible and awesome results and I could have saved myself from many disasters if I had only had some patience and did a strand test.I won't tell you that you can't have great results at home as many of my bad colors were professionally done!

Omg... have had a disaster, like literally my hair is now orange at the roots and brown everywhere else... omg DO NOT USE JOHN FREIDA PRECISION FOAM - IT SUCKS!!!!!!!!

I just dyed my hair, with born blonde maxi, twice and the roots and 2 inches down are what I want , but the rest are orange. Should I dye it a third time :O omg they are such liars they said any hair, color, and one application. ;) OMG HELP

Haha I'm trying to bleach my black hair blonde to also did a strand test and I'm using volume 30 people have been telling me to not use volume 40 but what choice do I have just have to dye it again with a higher volume but if you have orange I herd that a really good way to cancel out the orange is to dye it purple or use a toner that's the oppisite color of your hair.

Hello, I'm also trying to bleach my black hair to a somewhat platnium blonde color. I also have orange in mine but I herd a really good way to get the orange pieces out of your hair is to just dye it with purple dye or use a toner because purple and toner cancel out the orange. Other than that if you want to dye it to a blonde you have to just take some time and keep bleaching it but wait a few weeks before bleahing again, I'm bleachin mine about 3-4 times so that it gets a little bit lighter but have to be really careful of damaged ends breaking off but if you have those you could just cut them off or buy a special product that repairs the damaged ends.

I just bleached my hair.. and it is a ridiculous BRIGHT orange... its gross... well what do I do here... I have an extra hair dye (blonde) Should I wait until tomorrow to color it and should I do it tonight?

I've been there... what I did was use the splat bleach from walmart, it turned orange lol, then I went to sallys beauty supply and asked what to do and she told me to buy a violet based platinum blonde color and mix it in a bowl with volumizer. And it turned a really nice blonde, since it was orange it didn't go to the color on the sample(which was a white color) it turned a nice ash blonde.

The reason why your hair came out orange is because the heat produced by your head wasn't enough. It reached your roots and made them blonde but the rest needed a little more heat. I suggest you just bleach again that should work but if you want to go for a toner try that, only that might take a few more steps to achieving the color you want. The best way to bleach hair at home is in sections using foil paper and a blow dryer. Also, once your hair is the color you want it to be you should buy some sun in (these are very cheap like $3, 4.) Spray and lighten around the face area framing the face, It'll help give you natural looking highlights so that your hair doesn't look so bleach blonde.

That's what happens when your going blonde from dark hair. Your roots will always go the right color or at least the lightest because that hairs fresh & never been processed. Whenever you bleach you need to do the ends first & the roots a little later to get the processing the same. Since it did turn orange, as I'm in the same state right now ha you will have to bleach it another time or 2 with the best bleach sallys tells you about & do a 20 VOLUME developer, 30 & definitely 40 will ruin your hair easily. Don't bleach more than once every 1 1/2 - 2 weeks & use a deep condition Every time. Don't use ash blonde once your at the orange stage it will turn green or gray, definitely not blonde, which will leave more bleachin to do :( so dye it wit bleach again & wait a week or 2 if its not what you want, when you bleach it put it up in a plastic hair cap to seal in heat that processes it better. Also, when mixing the bleach add enough developer to make it as creamy as hair dye not foamy like the packages advises, it needs to be creamy, & u always need to keep it nice & soaked if any part dries out you need to soak it wit more bleach, if it dries out its not working. NEVER Leave bleach in for more than an hour or until you get the color you want whichever comes first! At some point you will need a toner unless you get it really close to the blonde you want then buy the blonde dye wit the shade you want it. HOPE THIS HELPS, Im in the orange stage right now 1 or 2 more bleachings to go :)

My hair is originally black and I've bleached it and the result was good. Now I want to get back to black or at least dark brown but the result was awful.
Some of my hair is orange! Or let's say brass. Any help would be appreciated
Also, can I wash my hair with anything natural just to get raid of orange

Thanks

This happened to me yesterday so I am going to go out and buy another bleach blonde cause I looks horrid walking round with blonde roots and the rest of my hair being orange x

I suggest that if you really want to go blond after dying your hair color strip it the day before you intent to bleach it. Also if you have dyed your hair more then once(like I did) color strip it at least twice. Then bleach your hair the next day if it turns orange like mine did bleach it again and use heat on it the second time. Right after that use a conditioning toner(I suggest white out which is a bleach and toner duo) many say bleaching hair twice will kill it my hair is perfectly fine its still soft and it's a light blond now. And I had dyed my hair 3 types of black and once red this year so it was full of dye.

I dye my hair a lot, and when I say a lot I mean A lot. My hair naturally is white (I'm german-Itallian), but I've dyed it many many colors. I dye it black a lot and I'm currently going back blonde, not for the first time. Good you got to the orange stage, When I first bleached it I used 40 vol. developer, though I highly recommend 3o vol. just because my hairs use to abuse doesn't mean yours is. What I do to get it back white after it's orange is this.

1: deep Condition my hair : Leave in all night rinse in morning and one in the after noon rinse after 3 hours, to prepare my hair. I highly recommend Aussie 3 minute miracle.

2. I use quick blue bleach and 30.vol developer at this stage. The developer is soy4Aplex by Clairiol.
Quick white works well too, but if you want the best results get quick blue, it helps remove brassy tones. Always get soy developer, it's easier on your hair and works just as well.

When mixing the developer and bleach powder add some unred. Unred is a shampoo that removes and prevents brass colors. About 99 cents at sallys, and worth it.

3. Bleach it up and constantly check on your hair, don't lollygag.

4. When rinsing hair, and after bleaching make sure you use the right after care products, some I use are:
Blond Glam: Redken Aussie 3 min miracle, Coconut milk shampoo, Coconut milk conditioner, Aussie shapmoo, Tressemee shampoo and conditioner, Purple shampoos and conditioners /blue (remove brass), Hot oil treatments, unred, Love inspires art, excite body wash by axe, and ion leave in treatments.

Hope this helps.

P.s.: My toner when I use it I use White out

Just happened to me yesterday! Lol
Go buy an ASH BLONDE!

An hour and a half is 90 minutes so 95 minutes is not that far of a stretch

ANY ladies having this problem... do not fear! I did the same thing a few weeks ago and it was a simple fix :) I bleached my hair and it looked AWFUL... bright white roots with neon yellow/ orange length... have someone go buy you two boxes of Clairol nice and easy natural medium ash blonde #106- it came out BEAUTIFUL! Perfect medium beige blonde.. I can't express how relieved I was!
This is a for sure fix!

ANY ladies having this problem... do not fear! I did the same thing a few weeks ago and it was a simple fix :) I bleached my hair and it looked AWFUL... bright white roots with neon yellow/ orange length... have someone go buy you two boxes of Clairol nice and easy natural medium ash blonde #106- it came out BEAUTIFUL! Perfect medium beige blonde.. I can't express how relieved I was!
This is a for sure fix!

P.s... do NOT bleach again! it is not needed!