Dyed natural blond hair lite ash brown; turned out bluish grey. Can I dye back to blond w/o damage/orangeness?

Question

I dyed my naturally light blonde hair a color called "light ash brown" 5 days ago. It turned out a blueish-grey color and looks horrible. I want to know if I can dye it blonde right away again, or if this will cause too much damage or an orange color, both of which I do not want. If I can't, what should I do to make it a nice brown color? And if I can return to blonde, can I go a really light bleach blonde or should I do a darker blonde?

Please help!

I'm supposed to look 20, not 40!

THANKS!!

Answer 1

Well you can get your natural color back but its going to take some work.
First of all it turned blueish gray because your hair grabbed the base color in the product you used. You probably did not leave it on long enough.
To get your hair back to its natural shade go to Sally Beauty Supply and choose a color that is closest to your natural with a NEUTRAL base. You are also going to need a product called Instant Whip and 40 volume developer.
Use 2 oz of color, 2 oz of developer and 1/2 oz of Instant Whip. Apply the mixture to your hair and wait 40 minutes. Your natural color will be back.
Wait 1 week and yes you can highlight. Just make sure you invest in a good conditioner. All this coloring can dry out your hair.

Answer 2

Bummer. You'll have to go to a professional in order to guarantee that you won't go "orange". Because you will. Why did you go darker anyhow. You can buy wigs, really nice ones too, at a costume and display store (Yellow Pages) and pay only $20-$35 for cool looking ones. Buy going darker you have messed up the chemical makeup of your hair. You need to go to a professional, should have just bought a wig, because it is going to cost you close to $100 to fix the damage you did. Having them do it you are guaranteed it will turn out ok! Don't do anything more yourself...you'll be even more sorry than you are now! but, yeah, bummer girlfriend! I'm blonde myself and have seen soooo many people try to do their own hair repair and turned out they needed a professional after all! Bummer

Answer 3

Did you buy your dye from a salon type place or just the store.
If you got it from the salon type place and didn't buy developer to go with it, that would be why your hair did this.
I would say just go to your local store and buy a hairdye called Feria in a brown color you like. They turn out great and shimmery/shiney.
You will be sorry trying to bleach your hair back, you can't just dye it back blonde, you will have to bleach it and it can and will ruin your hair if you don't know what your doing.

Answer 4

you need to balance the "ash" out with some red. Get a brown color like you're wanting with a reddish hue to it. The red with balance out the green of the ash. Something that has an R after the number. A stylist would be the best bet.

Answer 5

You have to use a filler to go from bleached hair to brown. By filler I just mean use like a dark blonde on it first because bleached hair has no pigment left it is going to pick up the base color in the dye you use.

Answer 6

There is an awesome website called' Behind the Chair.com just enter in the information requested as if you were a cosmetology student and you'll be on your way to corrected hair. Good luck!

Answer 7

Why is everyone with blond, why cannot you just have jet black hair with some blonde or blonde curly hair with some jet black hair. Right now you don't have to choose.

Answer 8

I have brown curly hair and I have Blonde highlights. Possibly you should try lighter blonde, that might look better than brown, dark brown just looks kind of trashy.

Answer 9

id say go darker blonde, but i dont like blondes. try a red!

Answer 10

Ok