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Tue 7 Jul, 2015 11:59 am
Hiya, I'm really hoping someone can help shed some light on this as there's really not a lot of information around online about it.
I have naturally mid/dark brown hair which is bleached white and is currently a light pink. It's in pretty good condition for what it is. I want to get it dyed back to my natural colour for a family holiday but just wanted to get a better understanding of the effects of this.
Would someone be able to explain the process to me and how it's going to fade? No colours seem to stick around for long on my bleached hair but I am aware they're vegetable dyes (I think!) Would I be able to fade the dark brown dye enough to start dying pastels again?
Thank you!!! Xx
@Didarina,
You need to do a filler color b4 target base color for the color to be balanced and not dull/muddy looking which will happen if you were to just put target base color on it.The bleached/stripped hair is missing all its red/blue and most of its yellow pigments, the primary colors that comprise all colors. These need to be replaced b4 going natural darker. Mostly gold and red is needed with the blue balanced in the target color. You need to dye it about an 8Gc/8 gold copper.....make sure gold is b4 copper on the box not copper gold because the order of the shade means the stronger the pigment is in the formulation and we want more gold with a little copper.After mixing let stand 7mins b4 applying to bypass the unneeded lifting stage, get it on quickly and work it through all the hair time 20mins shampoo out completely dry hair and apply target color I'm guessing a lv5-6N/Na(natural/natural ash) Fading back to prior color will need bleach which will strip out the color quickly because it was b4 so the hair will drop it quickly.
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