I dyed my blonde hair a golden dark blonde. Turned fairly red. Can I fix myself with a darker ash-based color?

Question

It's a brownish red and actually my ash-blonde roots look the red/orangest. I really don't have the money currently to pay a salon to fix it (this is why I dyed it myself in the first place). I was thinking of putting a darker ash-based color in with some of that UnRed stuff. Anybody who's well versed in hair dyeing know if this will work???

Answer 1

I've dyed my hair a lot over the years, lol. I've done that same thing before, I dyed my hair a dark golden brown, and it turned reddish. Ugh, so I went and bought dark ash brown, and dyed it with that, and it did the trick. So, I'm thinking it will work, because I was in that same situation once, well in your case it's blonde, in mine it was brown. Email me if it works out, and I hope it does. :)

Answer 2

Okay, you can definitely fix it by yourself, but there's a few rules: now that you have dyed it, you don't want to damage the hair even more- you want to get Revlon Colorsilk hair color, very cheap and ammonia-free so it's a dye that doesn't harm your hair as most other brands. Try to stay away from a color with 'ash' in the title, it will make the color more dull and most likely to fail. Try to stay away from semi-permanent colors as they will fade the fastest, then you are stuck back at square one! Usually if you are going lighter to darker, you want to get a color one lighter than the color you want as the hair will grab all the color it can get and might make it darker!!

Answer 3

Go to a beauty school to have them fix it. You don't want to take any chances because even if you use an ash-blond, it's dyeing over red not your original blond so you're not 100% sure what you're gonna get. A beauty school is a better alternative than an expensive salon and trying it yourself at home.

Answer 4

this will work. if your regrowth is lighter, apply it to that first, then go back and put it on the hairshaft and ends and process. you might want to go for a semi permanent, or something called a deposit-only color. the ash should cancel out the red

Answer 5

if you have a store called sally beauty supply around yo id say go there and ask them.. there pretty good with understanding what you want and can pick out all the stuff you need to buy to do it. pretty cheap too

Answer 6

i wouldnt