A couple of weeks ago, I got my hair dyed blue. It's starting to come out now, and I want to dye it back to my natural hair color - black - once it comes out a little bit more. I don't know if I should strip the blue from my hair first, or just dye it. We tried stripping the color when I had my hair pink and dyed it back, but the color-stripping stuff didn't do a whole lot, and my hair still dyed back fine. I'm not sure if it will work as well this time, though, since my hair was bleached before it was dyed blue - we didn't bleach it to put the pink in. Should I strip the color out, or would it be okay to just dye it black?
2007-01-27 17:03:04 · 10 answers · asked by Kit 1 in Beauty & Style ➔ Hair
Stripping is very harsh on your hair.
Try dyeing it ..you can always strip
it later when it is stronger. Black and
Blue should mesh okay....You probably
can't tell if it is a little streaky.
2007-01-27 17:16:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get some black semi-permanent dye such as Clairol's
non-peroxide temporary color (6-8 shampoos until it washes
out) and test it on a strip of the blue hair in the back. Follow
the instructions regarding timing...you might want to leave
it on a little longer than recommended. This way you can
preview the result without committing to anything. If this
works, you can continue re-applying every few weeks until
the grow-out of both the bleached hair and the blue.
2007-01-27 17:19:36 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to a salon. When you bleach your hair it lifts through different levels. From black it goes through brown, to red, to orange, to yellow, then to pale yellow. When going back to your natural color you need to put all of these colors back in to get a pretty end result. Your stylist will call this filling the hair. If you put true black on bleached hair the blue undertones will be most dominant and you will end up with that strange looking blue/black hair that you see on little old ladies with bad color jobs.
I am a hairstylist/colorist, btw.
2007-01-27 19:09:22 · answer #3 · answered by me 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What are you doing, trying for every color in the Crayola Deluxe box? With that many chemicals, you're going to be lucky if you have much hair worth having, if any at all, in a few years.
Try shaving your head. That's kind of sexy.
2007-01-27 17:09:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go ahead and dye it black, because the dye should be dark enough to cover the blue completely.
2007-01-27 17:07:57 · answer #5 · answered by mj_indigo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jeez, you might wanna take it easy on your hair, it doesn't need all of that dye. I'd recommend dying it back to your natural hair color and keep it at that for a while.
2007-01-27 17:06:12 · answer #6 · answered by Greg S 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
DO NOT USE BLEACH. PLEASE. YOU WILL RUIN YOUR HAIR.
DO THIS: GET CLAIROL NATURAL INSTINCTS. GET A LIGHT BROWN COLOUR-NEUTRAL ONLY
THIS IS LIKE A FILLER- TO BE ABLE TO USE THE PERMANENT ON TOP.
THEN THE NEXT DAY, PUT IN YOUR PERMANENT COLOUR. USING CLAIROL LIMAGE OR ANY OTHER TYPE OF PERMANENT HAIR COLOUR. MAYBE YOU CAN USE A DARK BROWN - BLACK WOULD BE TOO HARSH.BUT IT'S UP TO YOU AT THIS POINT WHICH COLOUR TO USE.
2007-01-27 17:19:38 · answer #7 · answered by sweettttttss 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Use Manic Panic
2007-01-27 17:10:26 · answer #8 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
strip the color out first.
2007-01-27 17:09:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
you could just dye it black... its not gonna matter.
2007-01-27 18:18:21 · answer #10 · answered by blah blah 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋