everytime i dye my hair i get red hair it doesnt matter what color i dye it it still turns red what am i doing

Question

im trying to stay brown. my natual hair is brown, but when i try to dye it brown or blonde it goes red .

Answer 1

I have experience with this.

All hair is red pigment, however, blonds have the least red pigments and raven the most.

Person with hair of blonds or brunettes, and slightly to heavily ruddy complexion have red dominant in the natural hair color range.

Now, a mild chemistry lesson.

Permanent hair colors, levels 2,3,4 utilize hydrogen peroxide to activate the color, regardless of lightening or darkening end result, known a single process hair color procedure, commonly produce "brassiness".

Hydrogen peroxide permanently "opens" the hair follicle outer cuticle, allowing the color molecules to be deposited inside the hair.

Simultaneously, the peroxide is "oxidizing" or bleaching (lightening) the follicle, in a single process while placing manufactured color molecules into the follicle.

The follicle can never be closed, only a bit, by rinsing in cold water. It can be "sealed" with product, however, this is not a good use of time and finances.

After you color you hair with a semi-permanent or permanent retail sourced product, and see red, the natural color pigment is partially oxidized out, and the bleached brassy follicle is now you base.

Your have created a base color that is brassy or red.

The eye, under different lighting, sees the hair color, registering the "lightened" base (brassy) hair color of the follicle; the manufactured color molecule failed to be deposited into the follicle!

Unfortunately, as you and I have experienced, the retail sourced color products molecule have or will "slip" out of the follicle from a retail sourced product, and will continue to do so.

Peroxide will lighten dark hair through dark red, red, light red, orange, blond orange, titian gold, gold, lemon, light lemon until the original, natural color molecule is oxidized out of the follicle, progressing towards platinum.

Now, do you understand that you have experienced "color slippage"?

Newly colored hair must be rinsed in cold water, for ten minutes, the water best being "soft" or free of minerals and lime.
If your region has "hard" (heavy minerals) you will constantly battle the common problem "Color Slippage".

Retail sourced color is mixed in vats; the "heaviest" mix at the bottom of the vat (high quality) reserved for top branded product for high end salons, the middle as product for mid ranged salons, and the top for the low end of the market, $6.00- $15.00 commercial/retail sales; although this is the most profitable as the market is mass sales.

A great deal of your mystery is water type, natural color pigment, complexion, hair condition and an inappropriate product for your hair.

You are a Bentley, and need to serve champagne to your hair. Up until this moment, you thought you were a Chevrolet and have been serving beer to your hair.

The old champagne versus beer budget trap.

Know thyself.

Oh, you say. So my colorant is the least expensive, least reliable product, as my manufacturer sold me a product for home use.

Well, it is a price point.

The color industry is constantly seeking new ways and methods to please it's customers.

You have several options.

The good news is that with the arrival of fall, you can elect ginger to red to outright auburn colors and be the first to preview the new look. You will then study the color selections for the upcoming winter season.

The first, successfully mass produced colorant was sold slyly as "Does She or Doesn't She". Sex sells. This brilliant line caused the market to boom, generating enormous profit, and causing the end user (us) to be free of social restriction and repression. A color client, home user or salon user was no longer a "shady woman",


The person responsible for the ad stated:

"Once you have the her (color customer), you have her forever"

Use a professional colorist and explain the situation. The colorist will design and plan "slippage" around water conditions, your career, and fashion sense, giving you a range of options.

A self created color option possibility is to use a no peroxide wash out in 6-12 shampoos color product, which will wash (or slip) out.

Another option is to select a darker color, level 3 o 4 permanent, in ASH tones. Ash tones (green) will counteract the red tendency that maybe natural in your hair, and the definite red tones that have resulted from the hydrogen peroxide oxidizing of the now brassy follicle. Green plus red = brown.

Some persons have experienced 100% desired success, as I have with a Japanese product that is sold under the name "Bigen". Bigen only features chestnut to black, the color never slips out, the color shines, the product is easy to use, and it only grows out, it never slips out.

For lightening, I would go to a professional colorist.

If you enjoy coloring your hair yourself, select products that deposit color with little peroxide if you stay in the brown range, again, tow the line with the ash shades only if you dislike red or brassy tones.

Cold water rinse only!

Ash shades are indicated as A, red as R, Gold as G and neutral as N. Some manufacturers use different designations, but you have the intelligence to research and select your own color.

So many persons resolve to use the best products ony sold in beauty supply stores where there are trained cosmetologist who will be more than glad to help you.

All is well.
manekineo

Answer 2

Dyed Hair Brown Turned Red

Answer 3

I'm assuming you're dying out of a box...
if so then it's because box hair dyes tend to reach in and grab your hair's natural highlight colors. Yours, being red. I dyed my hair a golden brown and it turned out with alot more red in it even though the box clearly had no red in it. My natural highlights/undertone is red...so it brought that out.
I don't know what other tips to give you about avoiding red because I don't know what color you're trying to dye it!
Whatever you do, just always go for the golden tones and hope for the best!
Hope that helped!
-Lola & Giselle

Answer 4

your hair goes red because you are trying to lighten it. when ever you lighten hair it goes through stages. since your hair is dark brown, it goes through a red stage then an orange stage then a gold stage and so on. the hair color you are using probably isn't strong enough to lift enough pigment out of your hair to get past the red or orange phase. plus if you are choosing a golden brown color, the gold in the color is only going to combine with the orange and red tones in the hair and make the color warmer. a professional would be able to analyze your current color and help you achieve the color you want. they have the ability to mix color at different strengths to get enough lift to get to the goal color while choosing tones that will neutralize any unwanted red tones.

Answer 5

i had this problem but my hair kept turning orange. i just had to stop dyeing it because eventually it started falling out. it took about a year and a half. if you get bored w/ your hair try colored extentions. human hair always look best and you should never use glue it does more damage. go to a professional

Answer 6

what color is your natural hair first of all. Home hair coloring kits are made to either enhance your natural color or go 2 shades either way. If you are trying to make a drastic change, go have it done professionally. If you insist on doing it yourself, email me with specifics so I can see what you are doing.

Answer 7

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