Dying dark brown hair to blonde

[mandababeeex3]

my hair has been so many colors and ive done all i could to get it to one normal color and now i want to go blonde right now my hair is dark brown and light brown but i want it blonde if i go to a salon and have them do foils should it go to blonde? please help

[Louise-Kate]

Hi all! I was just fumbling about on the net looking for advice on dyeing my hair and I found this forum so hopefully someone can give me some advice! I have dyed my hair so many colours and for the last few months have had it black. The roots have grown through and they are a mid- brown. I really want my hair as light as I can possibly get it but am worried that going from black to blonde will break my hair or it'll just go orange! Any advice?? Thanks.

[needsomehelp]

Had black hair .. used to be brown naturally but dyed it so many times it built up to darker than black. got fed up so stuck a highlighter on that promised to lift all colour from hair..... it worked to a degree from neutralia and left my hair a strawberry blonde and in better condition than ever before... can recommend it .. give it a go but dont expect nordic blonde you wont get it first time lol

can you please tell me the name of this product and where to get it from, i had really nice blonde hair and dyed it dark brown/mahoggany and hate it...help!

[Guest]

Hair originally golden blonde, darkened to brown as I got older.

I bleached the whole lot with blue powder bleach and 20% hydrogen peroxide, starting at the underneath hair at the back.
Result: Lighter brownish.

Conditioned like mad, especially with warm olive oil and mayo and egg yolks. (Can find recipies _.)

A week later I bleached it all out again. Started with back hair underneath again, then did the roots, then after half an hour did the rest. Left it on about an hour.
Result: Okay but bit too much gold. I must have a lot of red\gold\yellow in my hair.

This is where the hair-dressers will have a fit. I kept up with the deep conditioning as well as using a conditioner on the ends 3 times a day. I let my hair dry in the sun. AND I went to the beach and put sea water on my hair. I didn't soak it; just a splash here and there. The idea of this was to make my hair look more natural which, with the drying in the sun too, it did.

Dilemma comes about now. I don't like this lemony-yellow colour I have and I don't know whether to bleach it again or to add a toner this time. By toner, I mean a permanent or semi-perm colour.

Any ideas, gf's?

I wish I could get hold of some Magic Silver White but it seems to have been discontinued here.

I have just bleached my hair from a mix of medium copper brown and copper blonde (with natural dark brown regrowth) to a golden blonde which reacts really well with toner.

I used MyHDHair colour stripper on the coloured parts, which stripped the colour out really well. Bad thing is it stinks like rotten eggs. Use in well ventilated area.

Then I used 30vol bleach as a pre-lightener (Hairhouse Warehouse - aus store advised to use this). I kept it on for between 5-10 minutes and it was this colour.

During the stripping, I put a deep conditioner on and left on for 10 minutes. After the processes, I deep conditioned again, and have been constantly using leave in conditioners.

For the toner, id suggest Decore toner. It says just that. It comes in a bottle and it says u can either use it alone (for up to 20 minutes) or use with shampoo. After the bleaching, I used it in my hair for around 15 minutes. The tint in it is NOT strong enough to leave your hair purple, so dont even worry about it. It does work well though.

I have also been using shampoo and conditioner which has a toner incorporated in it.

Hope this helps.

[kitkat8364]

well.....They can dye whatever color you want over it.But stripping it is very harsh on your hair.

[Guest]

ive got dark brown hair, it is all natural,
what would be the best way to go about getting it blonde?
Im a teenager, and i have to pay for my hair dying myself,
so dont so go to a salon,
like store bought dye?
brand? how many times i should use it?
a good conditioner or shampoo to use during/after dying my hair?

[Najaa08]

I have naturally dark brown hair and have used rinses and dyes going burgundy to light brown and now its pretty dark brownish with reddish tones.. but i want to dye it a golden color how do i go about this?

[rosenangel]

yes my name is Tara Rosenburgh.my hair and eye's are dark brown and I would like to know what I would look like with golden blonde hair with my dark brown eye's.and plus I am also native american on my dad's side my brother say's I won't look that good but I would really like to see what I would look like with golden blonde hair.well hope to hear from you soon from Tara Rosenburgh

[Xrobynlvsadamx]

i have before bleached my naturally black hair to blonde at first the colour turn yellow and usually take two apllications of bleach spaced out between a week though NOT at once or your hair will fall out. if you get a yellowey colour use a shaders colour from superdrug in ash blonde to tone it. however im now training to be a hairdresser, and if you have naturally dark hair i recommend to go to a hairdressers for a more effective and less damaging way of dyeing your hair. often they will suggest chunky highlights as this stop your roots showing as quickly as if you dye your full head you also achieve a better colour staight away from the hairdressers. ][/i]

[Guest]

Hair originally golden blonde, darkened to brown as I got older.

I bleached the whole lot with blue powder bleach and 20% hydrogen peroxide, starting at the underneath hair at the back.
Result: Lighter brownish.

Conditioned like mad, especially with warm olive oil and mayo and egg yolks. (Can find recipies _.)

A week later I bleached it all out again. Started with back hair underneath again, then did the roots, then after half an hour did the rest. Left it on about an hour.
Result: Okay but bit too much gold. I must have a lot of red\gold\yellow in my hair.

This is where the hair-dressers will have a fit. I kept up with the deep conditioning as well as using a conditioner on the ends 3 times a day. I let my hair dry in the sun. AND I went to the beach and put sea water on my hair. I didn't soak it; just a splash here and there. The idea of this was to make my hair look more natural which, with the drying in the sun too, it did.

Dilemma comes about now. I don't like this lemony-yellow colour I have and I don't know whether to bleach it again or to add a toner this time. By toner, I mean a permanent or semi-perm colour.

Any ideas, gf's?

I wish I could get hold of some Magic Silver White but it seems to have been discontinued here.

I have just bleached my hair from a mix of medium copper brown and copper blonde (with natural dark brown regrowth) to a golden blonde which reacts really well with toner.

I used MyHDHair colour stripper on the coloured parts, which stripped the colour out really well. Bad thing is it stinks like rotten eggs. Use in well ventilated area.

Then I used 30vol bleach as a pre-lightener (Hairhouse Warehouse - aus store advised to use this). I kept it on for between 5-10 minutes and it was this colour.

During the stripping, I put a deep conditioner on and left on for 10 minutes. After the processes, I deep conditioned again, and have been constantly using leave in conditioners.

For the toner, id suggest Decore toner. It says just that. It comes in a bottle and it says u can either use it alone (for up to 20 minutes) or use with shampoo. After the bleaching, I used it in my hair for around 15 minutes. The tint in it is NOT strong enough to leave your hair purple, so dont even worry about it. It does work well though.

I have also been using shampoo and conditioner which has a toner incorporated in it.

Hope this helps.

PLEASE DO NOT BLEACH IT AGAIN IT WILL DROP OUT!!!!!!as a hairdresser i would say, You have bleached your hair alot and i wouldnt advise putting any permanant or semi -permanant colour on it. the reason it went light brown first was you didnt use the correct volume of peroxide you should have used 30 or 40 vol. i would recomend going to superdrugs and putting an ash blonde toner on it for around 20 mins or less if you notice the colour changing. your hair is heavily processd at the moment and i would recommend i deep nurishing conditioner treatment theres a range called UNA which you will find _ also a range called MASTEY or a LOreal product would be the best, leave it on wrapped up in a warm towel aproximatly 20 mins before rinseing well .As the current condiontion of your hair stands i would tone it first before goin to the hairdressers as many i know wouldnt touch it espescially home bleached and wait for your roots to come through once you have a good inch of roots go to the hairdressers have a good chop off your ends and gets it done profesionally, this isnt nesscessarly as expensive as you may think. hope it all goes well

[wooop!]

Heyy!
The Best Thing You Could Do, Is Take Stand Test!! This Means . . . Cut A Piece Of Your Hair, At The back! . . . Put Some Colour On It And See How It Is! If It Nt The Colour You Want Test It again With Another Colour! But . . . If The Hair Feels Damaged! I Wouldnt Dye It!

If You Want To Change The Colour . . Maybe Dye Light brown and Thn Maybe Couple Months Later Dye It Dark Blonde!

hOpe That Helps!

xxx

[hannnnaa]

i only just bleached my hair blonde a couple of days ago! and its come out beautifully!
My hair has been black, dark brown, red, and a medium brown, so even if you have dyed your hair a lot before, it still works!!

my hair was a medium brown (but some strands were a very dark brown), i was going to have it bleached at a hairdressers, but they didn't want to do it cos my hair was quite dry and dark, and they were going to charge me like £85! So i just decided to do it myself.
i bought the Jerome Russell - B Blonde permanent highlightening kit (from boots) , for medium to dark brown hair, which is 40 Vol ( i know, veryy bad for your hair!) and it was only like £3.50. so i just put that all on, making sure i did the roots last as they take less time to develop, and i left it on for the maximum time. washed it off, and it was a pale yellow, but there were a few strands that come out ginger, which was what i was expecting. Then i used the Jerome Russel toner for Bubbly champagne blonde, which is a purple based toner which is what you want, left that on for maximum time, and my hair was a lovely blonde!!
however, i could still see a few ginger bits on the ends of some of my hair, so the next day i got another pack of 30 vol, used that on my hair, and used toner again, and my hair is now the perfect blonde that i wanted!! and it all cost me under £15 !

surprisenly, my hair isn't damaged at all! it looked a bit frayed at the ends when i first bleached it, but after conditioning it, my hair was just back at its normal state. i am really pleased with it! my friends have even asked me to do theirs for them cos they like mine so much!

So, if you have brown hair, it is possible to go blonde all on your own without having to fork out 100quid at the hairdressers!!

hope this has helped, and good luck!

[Travs_Grl08]

I am a natural blonde but a messed up hair dye resulted in dying it all brown.I want my blonde back asap what should i do?With dark hair everyone thinks i am my husbands sister, and that is not ok with me.Any advice?

[mjj]

I colored my own hair for 20 years. Generally a reddish brown. Every once in a while I'd take it more brown, or red, or do some highlights with a red color or a lighter brown for dimension. My hair looked great, I eat ok, and use good products.

Now I just got tired. So last year I told my hair dresser I like her to color my hair, bring it up a level or two. My hairdresser had done my daughters color and it was very nice so I felt comfortable. My hair came out cherry black. I went home and washed it with dish detergent and baking soda (learned that from another hair dresser), and used volumizing shampoos for a two weeks. (Volumizing shampoos rough up the cuticle in your hair-they pull color from your hair). Then I used a medium ash blonde on it. So I got it back to a decent shade of brown with red tones.

I found a new hairdresser lol. So this year I asked her about going blonde. She said no I have too many red tones in my hair. She suggested a few highlights. they were ok, but turned brassy quick. Scratch that, onto a master colorist! I found a master colorist and had two sessions with her where she but a normal medium nuetral brown on my roots and an ash brown on the rest. Other than it costing a bloody fortune and the Aveda product seemed to fade fast, it helped tone me down. So now I've talked to a family member that is a master colorist. All she does is color, no cuts or perms, nothing but color. She told there was no way I could go to a light ash brown (what I want to do then and highlights for the natural sunstreaked look) and streak it. If that is true than how is 3/4 of Hollywood blonde???? My hair color is about the same as the actress Amanda Bynes, she has gone from a brunette with red tones to a sunstreaked blonde.

Banks head on wall.

[guest tom]

mjj, there is hope!

I have naturally practically black brown hair and recently decided to go white. Over the past year, my hair was dyed black, then red, then brown. So it had seen a few boxes of schwartzkopf! I knew this was going to be impossible to remove myself and go white so I went to a salon in London's Covent Garden called Hair by Fairy. They are a no fuss salon who specialise in loads of alternative colours and styles, which proved to be a good thing as they weren't scared!

You might have to wait about 3 months until your hair is not freshly dyes, but once you have, get the ends cut off and ask for the strongest bleach they will let you have! Then just get a toner to get you to the colout you want.

I would advise lots of conditioning and buying your iwn toner to use inbetween salon sessions.

Good luck!