My hairdresser gave me blond highlights using bleach, but my hair is too blonde now. She pulled my hair through a cap, applied the bleach, and put me under the dryer to set it. My entire head is bright, almost white blond now... not the effect I wanted. My hair is naturally mousy brown and I was wondering if it was possible to dye my hair brown over top of the bleach blonde. I have a bridal shower this Sunday and would like to have my hair fixed by then. What is the best way to go about fixing my hair... making it brown again?

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My hairdresser gave me blond highlights using bleach, but my hair is too blonde now. She pulled my hair through a cap, applied the bleach, and put me under the dryer to set it. My entire head is bright, almost white blond now... not the effect I wanted. My hair is naturally mousy brown and I was wondering if it was possible to dye my hair brown over top of the bleach blonde. I have a bridal shower this Sunday and would like to have my hair fixed by then. What is the best way to go about fixing my hair... making it brown again?

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Yes, you can dye it brown again. There are several problems that you will encounter. First of all, since the hair has been bleached, if you simply throw a brown dye on it, it will turn green. That's because the natural red pigment that the formulators expected would be in the hair, has already been bleached out. Therefore, you need to add that back in. If you get too much red in it, your hair will be red. If you get too little red, it will be greenish.

The second problem is that bleached hair is porous. It will absorb more color than you anticipate. Typically, you must select a color two shades lighter than you want your hair to be or it will turn nearly black.

The third problem is that even though you get a reasonable color to start with, you will have problems with fading. This is, again, caused by the porosity of the hair.

The second and third problems can be attacked by using a demi-permanent haircoloring like L'Oreal Castings, Clairol Natural Instincts, Shades EQ. These products have larger molecules and normally it's a long-lasting temporary haircoloring. However, because of the porous hair, the dye does get in but it has a hard time coming out. Therefore, it becomes more permanent than permanent. It's not 100%, but it might help.

A professional who specializes in corrective color can make this a lot simpler. You'll still have the fading problem. That won't change, but at least you won't turn red or green.

The last thing you could do, if you don't like the problems of doing a tintback, is to wait for it to fade. It will fade. It will absorb material from the air and become more drag. Also, you'll get used to the blonde.

Hai,
Yeah I have the same problem, I've just had it bleached and didn't like it.
If you just put brown dye in, it will most probably turn green, or a bluey colour.

So I looked up on the internet & it said that the red pigments have come out when you stripped the hair, so its time to put them back in. ( The red pigments are what make brown )

So what I did, is got a dark red hair dye, and dyed my hair that colour.
Left it for a bit to settle in, and then I put a dark brown in.
But my hair is a really dark red, and a bit of brown
Not what I wanted, but then tomorrow, I'm going to get a "ash brown" that's used to get rid of red tones.
So hopefully this works :)