Dying dark brown hair to blonde

[PrincessNikki]

Hey! I have naturally red/brown hair, which I didn't touch until about a year ago. I decided I wanted blonde hair (luckily I had the money to fork out at the time!) and I went to Toni and Guy. The girl there was pretty worried about bleaching my hair because of its natual colour but she highlighted it and it came out lovely. I continued to go there and get more highlights and I ended up just blonde. (yay)
I have really really really thick straight hair. It's taken quite a bashing actually and never looked unhealthy. I got bored of blonde and went a pretty cool red colour from a box and then have gone to a dark brown from a box. But I've decided I love the blonde best so I'm going to DIY it
coz I'm saving up for a new house.
I've been to sallys who have told me what to get and I'll be picking it up in a couple days. Luckilly my b/f is totally clued up with dying hair coz his has been every colour under the sun so he can do it. We are grabbing some stuff to strip the colour out, a massive bottle of PH balancing conditioner, a toner and blonde box dye. I don't care if it goes awfully I'll go to a proffessional if I have to but I've sen so many forums about this and nobody has any idea, so I'm going to see if it works and if so I will be reporting back with the results!
I'm pretty sure it just depends really what your hair is like, like I said my hair is really thick and has taken 3 box dyes in 1 day before and had no issue so I know I can risk messing with it. But if people are really unsure then do go to a professional, they are really the only ones you can rely on, they did amazing jobs at toni and guy when I first went blonde, it may have cost a bit but it was worth it.
Wish me luck guys lol, I shall be back with the results
Nikki xx

[jek]

right well i have dyed my hair a darkish redy brown but want to go a kind of dirty blonde, i was thinking of having blonde highlights done and then adding on to that after as i dont want it one tone hair or bright blonde, OR ORANGEEE!!!!!!!!

do you think this would work or not?
or is there anything better i can do?
thanks

[guestgbfgbsgbns]

hello, well basically i have darkish redybrown hair but i would like to go a dirty blonde colour, i dont actually want it all blonde i want it two tone with light brown.

i was wondering if i have blonde highlights first then a few months later done the high lights again to build it up more would that be better for my hair?

and WLL IT GO ORANGE?
xx

[apryl]

well... i am a natural dark blonde colour ..and i used to get streaks lightened into it ... then i went all crazy and died it white blonde but my roots started coming thru so i died it brown but it went ginger ..ewww) i then dyed it DARK brown n it wnet ok but i am now bored of it n i would like to get my blonde hair back how can i strip he colours out of my hair ..?

[Guest]

i used to have brown hair and i bleached it blonde but it turned out very orange, so a week later i tryed to dye it with normal hair dye to see if i could get my hair blonde instead of orange but now its yellow! does anyone know how to get actual blonde hair instead of yellow and orange???
thank-you

One word; TONER!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lovelylillawa]

Hi, ive got naturally mid-brown hair, but have died it a darker brown. I would love to go blonde...but what kind of colour would suit me?? i have pale skin and blue eyes??

also, what is the best way to do this, gradually, or straight 2 blonde? x

[tasha44]

the best stuff to highlight or anything on darker hair is by smart beauty , they do a 'cool blonde' highlihgting kit, its amazing , it goes blonde and not orange !!! you can google the, for the website which sells it _.

[Guest]

Okay SERIOUSLY!
If you want to dye you hair from dark to light, go to a professional hairdresser. DO NOT use the do it yourself stuff! It's a complete nightmare if it goes wrong and cost a LOT of money to fix!
Also, if you're worried about going ginger, your hair goes ginger if you haircolour has red in it. I don't mean red dye either. If your hair has natural red in it (Which can actually be hard to tell if it has) your hair will go a gingery colour.
Also, you can get eyebrow tint, but get that done professionally, it can go very badly (my friends eyebrow hair fell out).
Best thing to do is get blonde put in gradually. My friend had blonde highlights put in, then had them done every month or so. You can do it more often but you have to look after your hair. Her hair gradually turned blonde. You have to be careful if doesn't go a bananary colour either.
Stripping your haircolour is really bad for your hair, and most hairdresser suppliers have STOPPED supplying it because of what of what it can do. You can get light haircolour stripper, but they can have next to no effect. Best thing is to bleach it professionally. They know what they're doing, so save up rather than ruin your hair! :]

[rhea]

i had really black hair and i wanted to have a change, so i had highlights put in every month then i put a bleach on, which made it go a gingery-blonde, then a month later i done it again and it came out very blonde but very dry, but that goes away after a few washes with loads of conditioner. then i put a blonde colour on it, and now its a white blonde and i love it

[Rainbow13BEEUBR]

Hi evry1

I've just read that in order to go back to blonde you are bet to pre-lighten your hair before bleaching?? I am reading this right?? I pre-lightened my red/brown dyed hair 2 wks ago and it did go to the bright orange stage. Should I have then bleached it aswell before putting on my dye??? If so can you recommend any brand of Pre-lightener or bleach?? (I'm in the UK) Sorry to sound so dumb but I'm stuck at this dark brown shade now and am desperate to get back to my old self with ash blonde hair

Thanks

[Guest]

Well I've just had the biggest hair dilemma ever.
I'll start from the beginning

im 16 and have been dying my hair for urmm 4/5 years now. I started just with blonde highlights in my mid brown natural hair. i built the highlights up until i had basically blonde hair, then i dyed it dark brown myself, and then carried on doing that for half a year.
then I went back to the hairdressers last year and started having highlights again, which again built up and up, this is when I dyed my hair white blonde myself using Scwartkopt platinum white. which worked really well! I did that myself for another 5/6 months, and then last october, I dyed it dark brown, which went black and patchy. I've let that grow out for a couple of months now, but just yesterday I really had the urge to be blonde, so stupidly I brought 3 boxes of the plat white, and okay, my lighter roots from the back went white, the rest of my hair went a reddy/orange.
Again horrified, my boyfriends friend whos a hairdresser gave me some peroxide, and I put that on straight afterwards. It did turn it a more orangey colour, but now my mums flipped, and no hairdresser will touch my hair.
It did start to fall out a bit, but I really cant go on with this orange in my hair for much longer. I do think if i do it once more it would lift, but will it really damage all my hair???

x

[Guest]

I KNOW it's possible to dye dark hair to blonde. My hair is naturally dark brown. Last time I bleached it and it was dry and scratchy, but only for a couple of days. Now my hair is dark brown again (I dyed it back) and I want to dye it blonde again, but I think I'll wait a couple of months, just to be safe. Anyway, this time should I dye it to red first, then wait a couple of weeks and lighten the red?

Dude do not dye it red first, thats the worst thing to do, (as im sat here with pink hair) haha, ive dyed my hair to blonde lots of time from brown, its easy enough, you just have to realise its not going to be perfect straight away, try using a pre lightner first as it can lighten your hair up to 6 shades. then buy a dye. getting it from red to blonde is my toughest battle so far lol.

[ka0kitty]

soooo I tried dying my hair blonde from dark brown and i took it out now it's an orangish color. The thing is--- the place where my hair goes into my scalp is dark brown!! So it looks like I have a bunch of black dots on my head. What should I do?

[radical noise]

ok well i have a similar problem. i have naturally dark blonde hair but it is now black. i want to dye it bright pink! obviously i will have to pre-lighten. ive got a suspician it wil turn a ginger-ish colour but will this be ok for putting pink over it? also, im considering dye stripping but i have no idea what it is? can anyone tell me? thanks

dont strip your hair!! thats the worst thign u could do!! bleach the parts or all of ur hair where u want it to be pink....it will turn out orange! BUT...then use manic panic (hot hot pink....it looks red in the container) and put it on ur hair. its all natural and it lasts a long time!! good luck...pink hair = rad <33 emz

okay so i have naturally dark blond hair and i dyed my hair black and than bleached the S*** out of it and it was like orangey blondish and i dyed pink all over it and it wasnt an even colouring of pink it was blotchy all over so i said screw that and just dyed it back brown but i want to dye my hair to my natural colour , its tough.

[radical noise]

ok well i have a similar problem. i have naturally dark blonde hair but it is now black. i want to dye it bright pink! obviously i will have to pre-lighten. ive got a suspician it wil turn a ginger-ish colour but will this be ok for putting pink over it? also, im considering dye stripping but i have no idea what it is? can anyone tell me? thanks

dont strip your hair!! thats the worst thign u could do!! bleach the parts or all of ur hair where u want it to be pink....it will turn out orange! BUT...then use manic panic (hot hot pink....it looks red in the container) and put it on ur hair. its all natural and it lasts a long time!! good luck...pink hair = rad <33 emz

also manic panic doesnt last long thats what i have in my hair right now on my bangs and underneath i have to touch it up every 2 weeks.