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Hair dying tips??
10 years ago
I've been dying my hair for waaayy too long (since middle school! but it was just two little streaks in the front hah)
I've gone thru a lot of different colours, usually staying with blonde which ends up working since my hairs a light coloured brown.
However the last few years I've made it go grayish white, though it can end up looking near platinum blonde some days!
I only do the top half of my head, leaving the underhalf to be my natural brown and because of the contrast it looks darker and ends up fading really nicely to give it more complexity
NOW THOUGH I used some box colour (I have been using wella to dye my hair) because I know it fades to a gorgeous tint of blonde as it fades from way-to-pinkish-red to a warm blonde
It's faded now into that lovely colour however the bulk of where my hair was gray is REALLY dull grayish pinkyish coloured, obviously this is because it's been stripped of all colour and has been almost white.
Where I used the dye on more blondeish or natural hair ended up a really nice warm colour and I'd like to try and get it on the grayer parts of my hair?
But it really seems to not want to take any colour, it just wants to de-saturate the living heck outta it
Any suggestions to try and make it match?
I've gone thru a lot of different colours, usually staying with blonde which ends up working since my hairs a light coloured brown.
However the last few years I've made it go grayish white, though it can end up looking near platinum blonde some days!
I only do the top half of my head, leaving the underhalf to be my natural brown and because of the contrast it looks darker and ends up fading really nicely to give it more complexity
NOW THOUGH I used some box colour (I have been using wella to dye my hair) because I know it fades to a gorgeous tint of blonde as it fades from way-to-pinkish-red to a warm blonde
It's faded now into that lovely colour however the bulk of where my hair was gray is REALLY dull grayish pinkyish coloured, obviously this is because it's been stripped of all colour and has been almost white.
Where I used the dye on more blondeish or natural hair ended up a really nice warm colour and I'd like to try and get it on the grayer parts of my hair?
But it really seems to not want to take any colour, it just wants to de-saturate the living heck outta it
Any suggestions to try and make it match?
did you try giving it a second go and leaving it on significantly longer?
Are you applying dye to dry or wet hair? (I find dry applications take better. Or at least barely damp)
Do you apply heat (blow dry or seated dryer) when it's on? Or at the very least let it sit with a foil cap?
I thought while dying it that because it was white it was going to take the colour SUPER FAST-- I placed it on all the places that were yellow or my roots and left the white till the second half of the process--however i was wrong lmao, so after letting it do its thing and washing it out, i dryed my hair and gave it another go on the white, and .. it didnt change
my hairs damaged as is so i try to leave it on only as long as it needs to be (my god after dying it this last time it was so.. bad..so bad...)
I also cover my hair in a plastic cap while dying and blow dry the top! but yeah it didnt end up working out for me, its because the warmth is from the bleach but with nothing left to bleach you just get the awkward red parts of the dye without any of the blonde! so i wonder how.. to get the blonde.. BACK, maybe just adding.. a nicely toned yellow dye??
- don't dye freshly washed hair (not sure how real this one is, some dye says to use on clean hair but I've heard from word of mouth that unwashed hair takes it better, I usually dye the day after washing my hair)
- leave dye in a bit longer than it says
- put a plastic cap or bag over your hair (to keep it warm and make the dye set better)
- rinse it out in the coldest water you can stand
Ive had my hair blue and pink before and having it go white/gray it was a long process of all of those steps (ive been only washing my hair with cold water to try and keep the colour in as long as possible too)
unwashed hair doesnt take it better but it rather PROTECTS you better, the oils keep it from burning your scalp badly and protects the hair from being too crisped up too fast, they also say you can 'prime' your hair by using coconut oil before dying but i havent tried that out
im thinking of using wella since what im going for is natural and they got the BEST natural tones, but im wondering how to... get it to be blonde without having the base for it, usually when you bleach it, it goes naturally to that blonde base you can then tone-- but without that base.. i dont know how to make it any kind of natural blonde (obv with it white its SUPER DUPER easy to go blue or pink but i cant with my job rn lmao)
i have no yellow left, no brassiness left in the white, its.. totally stripped aha devoid of colour
while this is GREAT for dying it funky colours i cant get it to be.. natural, because its been stripped of its.. natural hue altogether, so i want to.. ADD that natural colour back to something stripped, tho obviously not goin for that nasty brassy blonde you get when you fresh bleach, me bleaching that area of my hair again would just cause it to go whiter and breakage would be terrible
my hairs not too blonde, its too silver
i've been using purple toning shampoo when I had my hair gray and it works great! but i have no blonde left lmao thats the issue
Is your hair long or short? Because you could end up having to get a haircut if that bit of hair is too dead to take any more colour