I went in to get a blonde balayage on my brown hair to lighten it but I ended up with pretty much a completely blonde head. My roots are orange and now my hair isn’t even as blonde anymore it’s fading into yellow. I am using a purple shampoo and it’s not helping. I want to go somewhere to get it fixed but I’m not sure what to even ask for to get it fixed. I want to have my natural color back but I don’t just want to get a brown dye and have one bland color all over my head.

Help????

Throughout my life, I've always had some kind of crazy colored hair. Pink, purple, green, blues, bright reds. I've had many facial piercings and love love love dark makeup. Within the last 3 years, I've had to tone down on the qualities that define who I am as a person. I took out my piercings, toned down my make up, and my hair now is black. In my music scene, I need to show my sense of creativity. I need to rebuild myself as a person because I don't feel right anymore. When my roots start to come in under my black, I would normally just touch it up. But a few weeks ago, I found a violet black color and used that. The gleam of a very dark purple sparked a feeling which I knew all too well and have missed very much. Then, I realized, what am I doing?! I mean, I need to hold a career but I feel all wrong because I'm conforming to societies social acceptability’s!! I'd been in a weird mood ever since.

Then, 3 days ago, I coincidently came across a video of someone explaining that people dye their hair all different colors, but wear a wig at work to maintain a professional office environment. I'm very interested in this, however, I find myself contemplating and weighing out options. (I guess in a sense, I'd still be conforming, however, I know what would be under my wig. Muahahaaa).

So, the first thing that comes to mind is right now, my hair is dyed black. I know it'll take time and professional care to get it out, then inevitability bleaching and maintaining the colored dye regularly. The next thing is having to wake up at least 30-45 minutes earlier for work in order to put it on and whatnot. Also, if I want a good wig, I'll have to invest in quality, products, and time just to care for it.

My question is, does anyone do this? Do you find it to be as satisfying as it sounds? Do you have any advice and/or suggestions if I were to go down this path? Don't think it's a good idea? Why? I'd love to hear what you guys in the hair community have to say. I’ve never owned a wig in my life. That’s the part I’m mostly concerned about. Not too many people in my social circle understand the situation I’m in and how I’m feeling. I’m hoping someone out there can help lol

Thanks!!

Dyed hair Charcoal grey.

I had red ginger hair, I bleached it to a level 6 orange gold type color

Did a purple color wash that muted out that brassiness and a couple days later I dyed it blue then ash blue. Viola, Charcoal.

Except only on my roots and the ends of my hair that were bleached 6 months ago. So the part of my hair that's only been bleached once (except roots) just ended up....brown?

What's wrong?

The charcoal is dark enough that my hair doesn't look bad but I just don't understand why

A quick personal story that I like to share: I am quite a big fan of dying my hair on a regular basis. As I am a little advantageous I do order a lot from overseas to try out different kind of shades that I cannot get locally. A good friend was very serious about doing a prior allergy test because she heard a lot of horror stories. I can tell that I luckily listened to hear and followed her advise. Long story short, my skin reacted allergic to one of the ingredients of my newly bought hair dye - what a boomer, I was quite upset not using it, but relieved for my health.

Please do yourself a favor and do always a allergy test prior to stay save. From doing my research I can recommend the following post:
https://www.wundertips.com/beauty-fashion/hair-dye-allergy-test/

It is short, easy to understand with a video of how to do it.

All the best, Oh :-)

I have very curly (3C) very dark brown/brown black hair. I've tried having portions of my hair professionally bleached and colored to create dark purple highlights/ombre, but it doesn't work. I had one of the best color people in my city re-try 4x (three for free, because it was annoying him as much as it was me) without success. The first try, after he put in the toner, the color just looked black. The second, third and 4th were over more heavily bleached hair, the color was never vibrant, and it washed out entirely within a week. I ended up dying my bleached hair at home to its normalish color once every 2 ish weeks until it grew out enough to chop off all of the heavily abused ends.

Obviously, I have zero interest in bleaching my hair EVER again.

Lately, I've been seeing a lot of overtone ads. My sister had luck with it, sans bleach, but her hair is a medium brown. Multiple friends love it, but they all either have lighter hair than mine, or bleach their hair. I'd love to give it a try, since all I'm looking for is subtle, see it in the sun purple or rose gold curls mixed in with my almost black hair (the goal is to be able to enjoy fun colors, but also not have stuffy business dudes notice anything if it's pulled back in a bun at a meeting). I don't want to waste the money if I'm not going to see any change.

Have any of you used overtone on very dark brown hair? What were your results like?

I'm a hair stylist. I've managed to get myself to a healthy 10 pale yellow it's quite light I just need to know a good toning formula to go white honestly. I usually work with matrix but have cosmo and salon centric cards so I can really get to any brand.

I have used Clairol Perfect 10 dark auburn for years, but last month I was traveling and had my hair colored at an Ulta salon. The salon color is nice - a bit darker than the Clairol color - but now my gray roots are showing.

Can I put Perfect 10 over salon hair color? I'm thinking the developers are different, but I don't know if this is a concern.

Sorry if this question has been asked and answered, but I really need guidance. Is blending two hair colors difficult? Dark ash blonde is a tad too light for me (especially once it starts to fade), and light ash brown is a little too dark (especially when I first color it). I think a shade in between those two would be perfect, but I’m sort of afraid to try blending colors. Has anyone had a good or bad experience with this? Thanks for any advice you can give!