Going back to natural blonde nightmare!?

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I have been dying my hair for 11 years darker and redder. My natural color is a neutral toned level 6-7. My regrowth is about 2 inches and I am sick of dying it all the time. (I had to dye my blonde roots brown, then dye my whole head red to get the color even.)
So this is what happened: I went to Sally's and bought Colorfix to try to remove as much dye as possible (and ended up using it twice), wella t18, and the girl there told me my roots matched a level 5-6n and to use 20 vol developer for the toner and permanent dye. I bought 6a since I knew it would be brassy.
I applied all products to my ends and left the regrowth alone since that's the color I'm going for. The Colorfix left it orange &a lighter brassy color the 2nd time. It was less brassy after t18 plus 20 vol. Still brassy though. Then after all that the 6a turned my hair back to where it started. Wayyy too dark! I am so mad! I washed my hair 5-6 times and used all of our Vitamin C tabs to try and get it out to no avail. It lifted maybe to where it was before toner.
My husband went to buy an 8a color and another lady said the 1st lady was wrong and I need a 30 vol. uggghhhh.
What should I do? I'm out of money pretty much now.
Could I use the 8a with 30 vol (and apply to roots for the last 5 mins) and pray for an even, non-brassy shade of blonde? Help please!

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[+3] - ehBeth - 09/18/2014Don't even try to do 30 vol on your own. Go to the salon, get a good haircut that gets as close to the regrowth as possible. I've been going from a deep auburn back to my once natural dark...

@missriss91,

The cheapest solution (and I know you don't want to hear this, but I'll type it anyway) is to cut off what you can and let the remainder grow out. This will also give your hair a break. You've been using a ton of product on it and that's often damaging.

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@missriss91,

Don't even try to do 30 vol on your own.

Go to the salon, get a good haircut that gets as close to the regrowth as possible.

I've been going from a deep auburn back to my once natural dark blonde - with the plan to have my hair grey with brightly coloured hilites. It's been an eight month process so far - having my hair professionally coloured every 5 - 6 weeks - having it go slightly lighter and less red each time. In effect, they are dyeing it to match the faded ends each time. I also have had close to a foot of hair cut off so far this year.

You could have gone with the low/slow approach but by getting in there yourself you've pretty much set yourself up with a serious haircut being the only option that will end up with hair worth saving.

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missriss, I started a thread here a while ago re my adventure with growing my hair out from the dark red I'd been coloring it for years.

Here's the link...

http://able2know.org/topic/223805-1

Go ahead and read through it. While there's some joking on that thread, it does explain what I ended up doing.

The bottom line is I had my hair cut short, my hairdresser bleached it out (luckily my hair wasn't damaged) and colored it the lighted ash blonde she could. We went for the light ash blonde because I was letting it grow out gray. As it grew out, the ash blonde mixed in a really cool way with my natural hair color.

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@chai2,

Interesting read in the thread you linked. I hadn't seen that before. I'm partway through a gradual red to blonde to grey hair colour adventure right now.

I can't go for the short cut because we're getting good dance gigs lately and I need enough hair to put extensions into, or to attach fake braids to. I did have about a foot of hair cut off, which removed a lot of hair with heavy colour deposits. Each time we colour, it's a little better. A bit too natural looking for me at this stage, but that'll get sorted once my hair is more grey and I can add the pink and apricot bits I want.

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@missriss91,

Take a deep breath and just read. Stop with all the color madness. Yes, it can be achieved; however, you’re not privy to knowledge let alone you think that the folks at Sally’s are. Here is advice from a hairdresser. Get yourself several and I mean several packets of color remover. Color remover is not bleach. Give a treatment according to manufacturer instruction. Wait 24 hours before proceeding. After 24 hours, look at the color of your hair. Probably will not be pretty. You need to use a color base of the same level opposite what you see in the mirror. So, if your hair is a shade of orange you’ll need a blue green. Mix only a minor amount and apply to a small section where you can see. Allow to process. If it turns back dark, rinse section off and apply another head of color remover. Repeat this process until the test section does not turn except the color desired. Color remover treatments do not change natural hair color, so if your new color is you it will remain you. It really is that simple. Lastly, go sit with a well rounded hair colorist.

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@ehBeth,

chopped off another 8 inches - I have short hair now

less red than a few months ago

a few more rounds of home colour and it will be time for E to finish the colour correction to grey

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