From blonde to light brown with caramel higlights..how??please help.?

Question

The last time I did my hair, about a month ago, I bleached it and then coloured it in a light ash blonde. Now it is a dirty blonde, but a little orange on top... I want to colour it in a light brown and add light caramell highlights, and I want to do it myself, so don't tell me to see a proffesional.
How should I do that?What products should I use? Would it work since my hair has been bleached before, but recoloured after?

Thank you:)

The shades I'm looking for is kind off like Fergie's in black eyed peas....

Answer 1

It sounds as if you're wanting your hair to be what we call a caramelized blonde. Although it's best to see a professional, if you're going to go through with a home treatment you'll want to do the best you can do. When you buy hair color, have you noticed the little numbers beside the color name? For example, Black may be 1N. You'll want to purchase a hair color with a V somewhere in the number. This is because the violet in the hair color will remove the brassy orange and yellow from your color. Now do this. Pretend that you're going to make a diamond on the top of your head. One point goes to the center of your forehead, the second and third points go 1 1/2 inches above your ears, the fourth point goes at the top of your head. Put that hair in a ponytail while you color the rest of your hair light brown. Follow the coloring directions on the box. While that is processing, paint the diamond part of your hair with the caramel hair color. You can either cover this with foil strips or you can apply a bag around it. Either way you don't want it to touch the hair you're intending to color a light brown. Leave both colors on your hair as directed on the box, rinse, and dry. Watch for breakage also. One thing that a lot of people aren't aware of is store bought shampoos and conditioners contain mostly a detergeant formula. You can actually remove stains from clothing with it--hence the reason you should never wash your hair with something so abrasive. When I was in cosmetology school, a former chemist who works for Redken presently came to my school and told us the answer regarding the issue you have. Your best bet is to purchase a thick shampoo, such as Tigi BedHead Moisture Maniac, as well as the conditioner. To help with a dry scalp, mix a headache powder, like Standback or BC, in with the shampoo. Be sure to emulsify the shampoo in your fingers, working it into the scalp only. Then take the rest of the hair and transfer the suds from your scalp, to the rest of the hair. Rinse, shampoo again. When applying conditioner, work it in from the ends, to the root--the opposite as you would do with a shampoo. Leave on for 3-5 minutes, and rinse with cold water. Using cooler to cold water helps seal the cuticle of the hair giving it a nice shiny gloss. There's no need to avoid blow drying, as others have proclaimed. Just purchase a cold setting hair dryer--a lot of hair dryers now have the setting come standard, along with the warm and hot settings. Again, to seal the cuticle of the hair, keep the nozzle of the dryer pointed downwards and not right on the hair shaft. One thing I've seen people do that makes me cringe a bit is whenever a person towel dries their hair, they frisk it instead of blotting it dry. Hair condition goes beyond shampoo and conditioner--it also depends on how you treat your hair. Simple things really can make a difference.

Answer 2

Light Caramel Blonde

Answer 3

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From blonde to light brown with caramel higlights..how??please help.?
The last time I did my hair, about a month ago, I bleached it and then coloured it in a light ash blonde. Now it is a dirty blonde, but a little orange on top... I want to colour it in a light brown and add light caramell highlights, and I want to do it myself, so don't tell me to see a...

Answer 4

There are a range of products for this, and going to a darker colour from blonde - bleached or otherwise - usually work out pretty well. (I speak as someone who often gets comments like 'what colour are you going this month?')

Unfortunately, the colours don't always come out exactly how they look on the box (they're usually close). I'm not sure what country you're in and what products you've got, but I find Garnier colours are pretty predictable (they start out quite dark, so choose a shade lighter than you want).

I've used Garnier Multilights for my hilights (the instructions are all there in the box). Then there's stuff like Loreal Colour Experte, which has the base colour and the highlighting kit in the same box. Might be a bit cheaper that way - haven't tried those ones, so I can't predict the results for you. Might recommend sticking with Garnier. Good luck.

Answer 5

Well, if you want to do it yourself, hope for you that your hair ain't to long, longer it gets, harder it gets.

1- it's good to own a highlighting brush, you can get those at your drugstore, there very inexpensive, now separate your hair into 4 equal section. always start at the bottom, use the brush to do your hairline with precision.

2- once you got all you hair covered, comb through with a very wide tooth comb, just to make sure it well covered and evenly.

3- rinse, blow dry completely, hair should always be dyed on dry hair unless the product ask otherwise.

4-if you don't own professional equipment, then just cut strips of aluminum foil paper the length of your hair. In the amount of highlight you need, better do a few extra, you don't wanna try cutting while your hair is half processing.

5- use hair dye made for highlights, its a lot thinker, now use the comb I mentioned earlier it should have a pointy ish end, use it to devide your hair. Fold the end of the foil paper 1/4 inch, it will make the end you apply close to you scalp stronger.

6- this part is easer if you have a friend to help. apply hair dye underneath the strand of hair then press on the piece of foil paper. apply on top of the hair, make sure your hair is well covered on BOTH SIDE....easier said then done. then fold your foil paper back up as close to your scalp as possible to protect the rest of your hair from the dye.

when doing highlights, start down and make your way up, also try to avoid the hair near your hair line, it help cover if you make mistakes and it look better when your roots will be showing.

Well good luck,
:-)

Answer 6

You'll need to do the light brown, then section off the pieces for the caramel color.

Answer 7

if you have blonde hair it will naturally get bleached by the particular sun in the summer. There had been this guy in my class who had golden blonde hair that had been a medium brown near the bottom part. When he came back to college after summer vacation, it was practically platinum blonde!

Answer 8

Jet black hair. I have really dark brown hair and I consider dark hair looks better. I avoid really like blonde hair.