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sweet0n3 · May 3, 2009, 07:09 AM

Hello! I Love your honesty and knowledge of the hair world! :D
Ok.. this is what I did to my hair. I started with blue black hair color. I stripped my hair twice using 20Vol peroxide. My regrowth turned yellow blond but the processed hair turned lioness orange/gold :eek: I then Bleached the orangey sections with ultra blue bleach and 20vol peroxide rendering a light orange color prob level 5. After several deep conditionings I then dyed my hair lighest red blond using 20 vol. It turned out

like this.
I am pretty happy with the turn out since this is my first experience with a stripping agent. So here's what I am thinking... Id like to remove some of the orange highlights and add a softer touch, I have a corp mtg next week and although I LOVE bright and fun, they love boring and corp.. hehehehe
Any advice?

Perito · May 3, 2009, 09:29 AM

Ok.. this is what I did to my hair. I started with blue black hair color. I stripped my hair twice using 20Vol peroxide. My regrowth turned yellow blond but the processed hair turned lioness orange/gold

I then Bleached the orangey sections with ultra blue bleach and 20vol peroxide rendering a light orange color prob level 5. After several deep conditionings I then dyed my hair lighest red blond using 20 vol. It turned out like this.

I am pretty happy with the turn out since this is my first experience with a stripping agent. So here's what I am thinking. I'd like to remove some of the orange highlights and add a softer touch, I have a corp mtg. next week and although I LOVE bright and fun, they love boring and corp.

I posted your picture since it didn't come out above:

RED Photo Gallery - Photo 7 of 10 by &hearts;Amy&hearts; - MySpace Photos

After all that, your hair will be in only fair condition. You should keep conditioning it, but be very careful about future efforts. You don't want it to break off. Hair doesn't "get better" and heal.

The stripper you used is apparently a bleach-based stripper (since you used it with peroxide) which is much harder on the hair than you want or need. Use a sulfur-based color remover next time (ColorFix, Color Zap, Color Oops, Color Charm Color Corrector, or Igora Phantom) to get the color out. If you want to remove some of the orange, do that.

sweet0n3 · May 3, 2009, 01:32 PM

Thanks for posting my pic... :)
If I don't want to strip it again is their any alternative?

Perito · May 3, 2009, 02:37 PM

Not really.