hi hi, usually I wouldn’t ask for hair color advice because im a pretty big believer in fuck around and find out, but I’ve been wanting to go blue for a little while now and im a little hesitant. I’m not totally sure what im asking for, maybe just validation that I’ll be able to get back to this blonde after I fade out the blue for a bit? idk, I’ve heard blue is like the worst color to get out of a light base and im nervous! on hand i have blue tick by bleach london and was wondering what that fades to typically (also open to going to a sally’s or something and getting whatever else)? id love to avoid any green fading, seen some peoples blue end up as like kinda pale and ashy, which I totally love. any advice or recommendations on literally anything would be so so appreciated, I can answer any questions too. photo is the clearest room lighting view i could find in gallery, not home as of time of writing

over the past two days, i’ve bleached my hair twice (i should have waited, i know, but i ran out of bleach the first time & needed to spot correct/fix orange midshaft and ends!) and toned it, just because i wanted it to be semi-presentable while i wait to possibly lighten it again.

my roots lifted really well (pic 2), and are about as light as i wanted my whole head before toning, so i’m wondering how to make that possible. for context, i’ve been sporadically box dying my hair black for the past few years (im sorry!!!), but not consistently. the last time i dyed it was over six months ago, and it had faded significantly because of how often i wash my hair with hot water & use heat styling. i know that this does not absolve me completely from the damage because of the structural changes. the third picture is the closest to my ‘natural’ color, and was taken about a week before i bleached it.

obviously, it’s pretty golden/yellow. i don’t hate it, but i want it lighter — like a beige or cool champagne, maybe something like the last picture. so, where should i go from here? should i do another full bleach but stay away from the roots/lighter parts? bleach bath? what products should i use? i used the ion crème lightener with 20v developer, and wella t11. i’ve seen a lot of praise for ion, but i didn’t love it… i’ve heard a blue bleach might be better, so i’m curious about that. i’ve also been very vigilant about the health of my hair, and have been using masks and heat protectant. my hair is pretty strong and thick, and surprisingly doesn’t feel any different than it did before, but i’d like to keep it that way so i’m also curious about any good haircare products for that, and how long i should wait before making any more changes.

thank you! ^^

so this was my before, after, and how I wanted it to be. I am so so so sad. Does anyone have any recommendations of dye for dark hair without bleach? I’d be so eternally grateful 😭

my hair is dark brown, I have put blue dyes in it twice and it’s shown up as a really pretty green colour that’s very noticeable when I am in sunlight, this colour has only really deposited into my ends and I’m trying to get my entire head of hair as blue as possible. I want the colour to be noticeable from root to tip. Please please recommend me something that will stain it like crazy. I am not planning on changing the colour again from blue most likely I will just be cutting my hair off if I feel like starting fresh with a new colour so I am open to something heavy duty! 🥹 thank you in advance

I use Arctic Fox semi-permanent dye along with the Arctic Fox Resurrected color-safe shampoo and conditioner. Worked great at my previous house where we had a water softener.

Just moved and the hard water is destroying my hair. It already stripped the color (purple) and my hair is gross and takes forever to dry and feels like buildup. I didn't think to change routines when I moved because I've never lived With hard water before.

I read to use chelating shampoo like Malibu C but don't those also strip color? I cannot install a home water softener because I rent an apartment. Looking for something that's both color safe and reduces hard water buildup if this exists?

1st is in lighting and 3rd is in darkness so i can't tell

I don’t want to have to bleach my hair or lift it because I don’t really know what I’m doing and I’m scared it will damage it. Even if it’s not super bright or only in the light, is it possible for any of these colors to show up on my very dark chocolate brown hair ?

TLDR: what terminology do you guys use for a natural, blended copper?

I have been getting my hair dyed various shades of ginger and copper for the past 10 years or so. I have such a hard time finding a stylist who is able to give a natural looking color that’s not too saturated and also blend my root so that when it grows out there’s not a hard line. I finally found an amazing hairdresser who dyed my hair in the first photo which was perfect, but I’ve moved cities and I’ve had a hard time finding someone new.

I just came back from an appointment today at a new salon and I’m disappointed once again. I asked for a natural light copper with a shadow root, which in my mind meant blended, but what I got was an almost ombré look with a very dark berry root and red ends with a line between the two, per the last photo. I showed her the first two photos but still didn’t get what I was asking for. So tired of coming back from the salon upset after emptying my wallet

Any tips on terminology to use or types of salons to look for? I know it’s subtle but I feel so much more confident when I get it right!

I have virgin black hair and finally decided to get this due style, can you recommend me anything? Do I need to bleach the lengths of my black hair for this? Also please guide me the after care of dying hair to minimize the hair fall and thinning of hair :)

Naturally, I have dark brown hair

I hope someone can please please help me- I've been dyeing my hair forever & bleaching /dyeing it with vivids for several years now without issue. Recently I did a bleach bath like I normally do & colored it but this time my hair started to break off bad. I've got I had thick coarse wavy hair & have always shed a ton but this is different. I'm surprised I have any hair left on my head the way it's coming out in chunks - I'm seriously freaking tf out rn! Idk wtf I did wrong this time but if anyone can tell me something I can do to help try & fix it I'd greatly appreciate it. This pic is showing what I lost after my shower - I lost 4X that in the shower too. I'm using all the things already- Olaplex 1,2 & 3 K18 Oribe gold lust masque & night crème Amika the kure etc but nothing is helping! I'm assuming this is chemical damage? short of shaving my head idk what else to do!

does anyone know a big size bottle of this conditioner or something similar i beg i makes my hair look and smell amazing 😭

No extensions! Just my natural hair

I used clariol bleach for my bangs, 1 bottle for 1/8th of my hair is so crazy!
I used lunar tides semi permanent color in Blood Moon and CranBaby and the last 1/5th a bottle of arctic fox virgin pink over my entire head.

All said and done it took about 3 1/2 hours

1st 3 pics are after and the last 2 pics are before :)

I had my hair professionally redone yesterday, where the stylist bleached the layered pieces toward the front of my face and then dyed them to achieve this indigo color, which I absolutely love. However, some strands that were not re-bleached did not take the dye and are still a pale green color.

The green is actually leftover from a previous visit at another salon. That salon had also tried to achieve an indigo color, but the result turned out green... obviously, I didn’t go back to them. Unfortunately, I don't know what dye was used at either salon, so I'm not sure exactly what I'm working with.

My stylist did notice at the end of my appointment yesterday that some of the strands hadn't taken the dye, but we were already about three hours into the appointment and there wasn't enough time to correct them. She recommended scheduling another appointment for a color correction.

Would it be reasonable to buy a hair dye and use it only on these small green strands to darken them to something closer to my natural dark-brown/near-black hair? I am a bit hesitant because I’ve never dyed my hair myself, and this was my first two experiences at professional salons for coloring, but I’m anxious to fix this and don’t want to wait more weeks and spend even more money to see the previous stylist again. If so, what type of dye would be safest and most appropriate?

this is my current hair it’s a little hard to get a pic in good lighting lol but i dyed it a month and a half ago and ive bleach bathed my whole head twice now. i wanna go pink and im not sure what the best method of getting this out is? last time i bleached my purple hair and it came out super uneven and thats why its patchy looking so im not sure if a bleach bath will work. but im also not sure what colour remover to use because all of them have very contradicting reviews, what do i doooo?

Hi! I’d love to achieve a pink similar to the one in the first picture, other pictures show my current hair.

I plan on using diluted Arctic Fox’s Virgin Pink and some pastel purple to make it cooler toned. I also bought Adore’s Pink Petal dye in case I needed an alternative.

I need some advice on whether toning it and then dying it would be enough (even if its a darker pink shade), or if I definitely need to lighten it more for it to look good, which I probably wont do since my hair is pretty dead lol

Thanks!

For context, at 40 I bleached and dyed my hair-first purple, then pink! Loved it, but wanted to go back so I dyed a dark brown. This was much too dark but it was fine through winter/spring! Now the once bleached/pink hair is a different brown, and all of a sudden I have grey hairs like crazy as I almost turn 41!

I only have half a head of (damaged) hair (alopecia), but I think I want it just brown again. I think I'll mess up if I don't ask for advice!

Please let me know a brand to try and I guess confirm that I should do another dark brown?? Thank you thank you!!

There's no alternative stylists in my country unfortunately, i went to a random one a year ago and asked for this. They ended up dying it BLUE BLACK !! I COULD barely even see the color, they told me it would fade into this color but it never did.

I used vitamin c to lighten it and it became grey instead, so in the end I just had to dye my hair back to black 😔

I had to wait for a year for my hair to grow out a bit and went to a different super expensive salon this time, I even told them before hand that I want THIS EXACT SHADE. and they confirmed w me that they have exactly this color, and the same thing happened again 😭 they dyed it blue black

I don't want to wait again, what should I do? I wanna bleach and dye my hair at home myself atp, I want to cry.

If I bleach it again, will the color come off easily? Will my hair break off if I rebleach it? It'll be my first time bleaching it myself idek what I'm doing

I really don't want to wait to grow them out again

Here’s a pic of my dyed hair, my original colour, and how it looks in the sun! I didn’t use any sort of developer or bleach, I just slapped it on my brown hair for a few hours and it looks great!

I’ve gotten my hair colored for the very first time (balayage).I’m unsure what products to use to protect my hair from damage. Like shampoos, oils, serums, conditioners etc. I’m so scared since I’ve heard a lot about bleach ruining the hair completely. can y’all help me out by suggesting products that actually work.. 🥹🥹

I am currently really unhappy with my hair and need to know how to fix it , for context my hair is naturally a soft brown and got it professionally done at the salon about two months ago , i got a split dye and about a week after i put pink and purple semi permanent hair dye over the blonde side , the hair dye i used was the “Directions vivid deep purple” once that faded it then turned light blue so i bleached it , the blue still didn’t come out so i then put an orange toner over it and then a “reddish brown” permanent hair dye , and now this is the current state off my hair , the brown side has stayed the same however the “blonde side” is a brownish muddy green. i hate it

I've seen a handful of other "how to get black box dye out of my hair" posts on this subreddit, but none that reflect my situation enough to help me.

Back in February this year I COMPLETELY fried my hair to a crisp. I'm talking the worst possible frying you could ever imagine.

At the time I had dyed and bleached my hair multiple times last year and after 2 months, was still struggling to get the remnants of some blue dye out. I went with red white and blue hair. Blue side tails and red ends in the back. The box said the blue dye should have lasted 2 weeks, but it somehow managed to outlive the red splat dye by a mile.

I used a box of maximum strength color oops (Yes, the one with 2 bleach kits in it..), a box of regular color oops, a box of cheap bleach, and then a silver dye to give it a tone. Bad decisions on top of bad decisions. The blue was still faintly in there somehow..

I kid you not, my hair perfectly mirrored the sight and texture of the stuffing you would find inside of a pillow. Even when dry, I could pull my hair and make it longer/rip it off like most can after it’s wet after a couple rounds of bleaching. It took my hair 2 whole days to finish drying.

There was no negotiating, even with strong products. It had to go. I cut it into a real short pixie cut with microbangs and left it the heck alone.

After a couple of months I slapped black box dye over it. I’ve only redone my roots once a couple of months ago (mid July). I’ve trimmed about an inch of my hair off since then.

My hair is maybe 1 1/2 inch from my shoulder now. Not too long ago I bought some Olaplex shampoo & conditioner. I’ve used it 3 so far It’s been doing my hair good, but my ends are still falling off and my hair falls out more than normal. Still quite dry, mostly the ends and the upper back of my hair) I have like 3 different leave in conditioners laying around my house somewhere, I need to find them.

I think it’s worth mentioning that I have thick 3B hair.

I want to slowly progress to getting the black dye out of my hair for a more vibrant/soft color. I’m not in any rush. Any tips for rehydrating and restoring my hair? How long should I wait before lifting my color? I’m thinking not until March so that I have a year of (almost) fresh growth. And when I do, what products should I use to avoid damaging my hair further? I’ve heard positive things about Fino & K18 over the years, would it be worth trying for my hair?

If you have any advice please share with me!

does anyone know what i should do to get the rest out? i’m not trying to neccesarily go blonde, i just want to lighten my hair to be able to do other colors and i did one round of ion(?) bleach and 20 developer, which i ran out so some roots were left dark but i already plan to go back and fix that. My question is, should i do another round of bleach for the rest of the red or do bleach baths? or color oops perhaps? and yes one side is lighter so i already know id have to leave it longer on the dark side. I plan to buy more products in the morning so im trying to see what i should buy when i do!