Blonde – Brunette – Blonde?

i finished going blonde a couple of weeks ago after being brown for 2 years. i know hair colouring very well, and either way you go you will damage your hair. i use bleach with 30vol peroxide roughly 3 times to lift the brown to a canary yellow blonde. through the higher bleached hair i put through and 11.1 ash blonde which counteracts the yellow and takes it to a lovely blonde. i also use schwaskoff colour gloss in iceflower, which is a very strong colour/toner, to lift it to the platinum blonde/purpleish-grey colour i wanted. make sure you use treatments for your hair which contain keratin, but dont use too often as it will damage your hair even more. hope this helped 🙂

Hi there tailabuttercup, sounds like you know your stuff, but I still have to say “Wow” that would have to seriously traumatise your hair, lol Four or was that five? rounds of hard core lightening in a short space of time is probably more than my hair could ever handle. I wouldn’t suggest this much lightening in the one hit to anyone with fine or brittle tresses, as I have no doubt that if tried this myself I would wind up with clumps of hair literally breaking off in my hands, EEK!! However, some people do have much thicker, stronger hair, which is heaps more resilient and would probably tolerate all that stress better, but even so, it wouldn’t be ideal to drastically change your colour again for some time, until you are sure your hair has been restored to a decent health. That is something that will only happen with complete TLC and quality hair care treatments, as well as regular trims.
I love my Redken Extreme Anti Snap, which has worked wonders on my hair, when it was in its worst condition (very dry frizzy lengths that were fragile and prone to split ends and some minor breakage) all caused from 15+ years of regular hair dyeing, and not enough TLC. After a good chop to remove some of the damaged lengths, the Anti Snap, along with a few other nurturing, and gentle hair care products, that I’ve used regularly for the past couple of years, has helped me to achieve healthier, stronger hair that is probably in the best condition it has ever been, despite the fact that I still frequently colour my hair, just needed a bit of awareness and lots of devotion 🙂

Cholesterol Cream – is the recommended hair conditioner to use to repair your hair and All Soft for Blondes by Redken. You will be living with these products for the next 10 months so make a shopping list! 🙂 xx Best of luck.

i finished going blonde a couple of weeks ago after being brown for 2 years. i know hair colouring very well, and either way you go you will damage your hair. i use bleach with 30vol peroxide roughly 3 times to lift the brown to a canary yellow blonde. through the higher bleached hair i put through and 11.1 ash blonde which counteracts the yellow and takes it to a lovely blonde. i also use schwaskoff colour gloss in iceflower, which is a very strong colour/toner, to lift it to the platinum blonde/purpleish-grey colour i wanted. make sure you use treatments for your hair which contain keratin, but dont use too often as it will damage your hair even more. hope this helped 🙂

Thanks heaps! 🙂

I agree with some of the other ladies on here…go to a hairdresser. At least you know you’re in safe hands and you can sit back and (try to) relax during the treatment 🙂 xox

go to a hairdresser!

Nah definitely no bleach or peroxide in colour remover. At least not the MYHD one or the Crema Reverse ones, both of which I have used
But agree with everything else. Except for if its very dark hair.Which it is. That browny orange stage will last a long time. Your hair will be damaged no matter what you do & if you have lightened it previously will already have little cuticle layer left & therefore will need to be veryyy careful lightening it.

I vote going to hairdresser & getting full head of foils 😛

Ok, so I have done this heaps – if your hair is brittle to start with your hair will be quite dry when you bleach it. A colour remover IS bleach or has at least some bleach part to it. Your hair won’t go green that is when you bleach it and then go dark over the top without putting the red pigment back in. The two things that can go wrong are
1. you end up with yellow hair (a toner will help this)
2. your hair is very very damaged in the process (this normally only happens if you use way too much bleach and don’t care for your hair afterwards)
Keep a very close eye on the bleaching process as it strips pigment out of the hair so the colour will change from brown to orange to yellow to white. You need to wash the bleach out in between the yellow and white stage!!!
GOOD LUCK

I’m not sure. It’s citric acid & other things. Ive used it twice myself & my hair felt fine. Even if you used colour remover then lightened it with a bleach you would have a better result instead of lightening straight from the dark

Gosh! It’s obviously as hard as I thought!!!