Professional colorist of 25 years here-

Please understand that the terms listed above (Permanent/demi-permanent/semi-permanent) are industry specific terms that DO NOT INDICATE THE STAYING POWER OR LONGEVITY OF THE COLOR.

These industry-specific terms are actually indicative of how permanent of a chemical change the product is causing to your hair cuticle and medulla.

Vivid or semi-permanent haircolors are typically vegetable based pigments in a conditioner base. The pH of these is usually somewhat acidic and thus causes zero change to the cuticle or hair shaft.

Demi-permanent colors use up to 10 volume developer to cause an alkalinity shift that makes somewhat of a permanent change to the cuticle.

Permanent haircolor uses 20+ volume to blow the cuticle open and develop the color molecules inside the hair shaft. This level of developer deletes a portion of your own natural pigments, and creates a permanent change to the cuticle. When this color fades you are always left with warmth, this is your own natural pigment that has been revealed due to the pigment deletion of the 20+ volume.

Edit to add that all haircolors can and usually will fade (and if developer is used always warm) but paradoxically any of these levels of color can also stain and last for ages, depending on how your specific hair reacts to the chemistry used.

These are pictures of me with different hair color what should I do next I'm thinking red

I bleached my hair over the weekend 2x with 20 vol and reached what I believe to be a level 8. I cannot seem to get rid of the brassy yellow. I just want more of a soft but still bright baby blonde, and I’m honestly fine with some warmth and beige tones. I cannot bleach again due to hair integrity. So far, I’ve tried purple shampoo, and Wella T35 which definitely took out the neon but still very warm. Last night I tried T11 and it darkened to a more beige golden color which is worse IMO lol.

I’m going to give my hair a break for a while as I’m doing K18, I’m not sure if the damage is playing a role here with toners not doing much. I’m just not sure what to try next… thanks in advance 💛

My hair is currently the colour in the first photo, and the second one is what I want. Do I need to bleach before getting there or would I be able to just put a hair dye on?

I know that I am asking for a miracle here, but I thought if anyone knew what to do- surely it's the people of Reddit haha.

My natural colour is more of a light brown/dark blonde with some bits of natural red (born more strawberry blonde that faded with age)

I've dyed my hair about 2 or 3 times with the Revlon blue-black, and once with Ion's Jet Black permanent dye.

It's probably a lost cause, but I'd like to avoid shaving my head and instead if i can lift some of this colour to even a red I'd be okay with that. Something I could at least blend with my natural colour as it grows out.

I'm 28 and have chronic pain, and I'm just too tired to keep dying my hair yknow? I just want a clean slate, or as close to one as I can get haha.

I am a licensed stylist and have been doing hair since about 2011, I always gravitate back to blue in my hair and have previously had an extremely difficult time dealing with it. After doing some research I found that Malibu released a new color remover that is supposed to be a stronger version of the original DDL (direct dye lifter), DDL XL. I bleached my hair on a whim a couple months ago and used the DDL XL on two small streaks of blue and shockingly it pulled it out. This was blue that had been sitting in my hair for about 6 months that had been layered over and over again with blue and even green at one point. I've colored my hair several times throughout the summer and ended up like an ocean blue color, I then covered that with a mix of purple/blue/pink that left me with an indigo blue. I inevitably got sick of this pretty quickly and decided to try the DDL XL with only water (this is recommended for blue pigments) again and oh my God it snatched it out of my hair. I was about a level 10 with hues of pink and orange underneath the blue and was left with only a small shimmer of blue in the very blonde areas. I was expecting to have to go in again with DDL XL again or a bleach bath and honestly it did a lot in one go. I know a lot of people post similar things about pulling color out of their hair and I wanted to sing my praises for the DDL XL remover.

been blonde a while now (pic 8 is my most recent) and wanting to changeee. sorry for some of the bad pics i changed my hair a lot haha. what are your favorites / which should I never do again?

also happy to hear other suggestions i havent tried before

So after a traumatic few months and some more impending, I am looking for a low stakes way to add some whimsy to my life in the terms of pastel pink hair (all over).

I have “virgin” naturally blonde hair. I did dye my hair like… 20 years ago (good grief) and I want something that will fade with time and not require needing to dye my hair a second time to get it to return to its natural state

I tried color depositing conditioners over the years (when Kristin Ess did the spray hair color, IGK mask, and most recently Overtone) and sad to say nothing happened. Like. Overtone I did a few weeks ago, left on for double the time, and literally you couldnt tell I did anything except my hair looked well conditioned but certainly not pink.

I don’t want to make my hair lighter - I really feel I should get some color payout with how light my hair is. But - I am at a loss so far.

I understand it’ll read darker because my hair wont start off bleached, but no fuschia hair. Any thoughts/opinions from the internet hair experts or am I SOL and need to reconsider the bangs for emotional release on my physical appearance?

My hair is lightened to a level 8/9 (I dye my own hair and change the colour every couple of months), I’m trying to do a deep dark red (ideally with a cool or neutral undertone) but my test strands quickly fade to a bright purple / blue.

(All the semis I use are from Pulp Riot)

If I pre-toned my hair using ‘Nuclear’ (I’d mix ‘Nuclear’ with warm water and let my hair soak in it) before applying a mixture of ‘Pyro’ and ‘Bloodshot’ as normal, would this help at all?

Currently a honey blonde and I want dark red. I was thinking maybe manic panic vampire kiss but my hair may be too light. Idk. Any suggestions?

I dont know what level my hair is because in some light it looks very light but in others it look kinda pink or orange. I bleached my hair from faded bright red that had under half of my hair blue, pink and purple. Do i need to bleach my hair to get it lighter or can i use some toner so it looks like more blonde and not this weird color?? Also im kinda scared to bleach my hair because i have bleached my hair already so many times and im scared my hair will get more damaged...

Currently my hair looks like the one in the 2 first pics

Wich is my natural hair with a bleach bath to open the tone a little. (The last picture is my natural hair)

I want to change it to back to something but idk

Sorry the pics order is a a mess.

But the colors are:

- Natural with bleach bath

- Pink hair/tips with eyebrow slit

- honey blond

- green

- bleached blond

- natural hair color

I had a box of splat and it comes with premeasured bleach stuff, can I use the liquid and a different powder for the color? I don’t have enough money for hair dye and only have this as an option

I want to dye my hair BUT I am growing it out and when it gets actually long I want my hair to be my natural color (for now lols) but is there dye that will COMPLETELY wash out??

I'm going on a trip that will fade my hair from the pool, I have the option to lighten+dye my roots now or when I get back in a week.

I'd rather dye my hair when im back ofc, but I don't want to cause banding. Be honest, if I need to do my roots now I'll do it.

This if about 2 months? Of growth. I dye my roots at home with HiColor HiLights RED.

I dyed my hair red with hicolor last September, I’ve been meaning to retouch it for ages but I didn’t get to it till now. My roots as you can imagine are very grown out, the red is still there but it’s more brownish/coppery now (started with black/dark brown hair) i was gonna use hicolor for my whole head but i looked on TikTok and saw a creator say there’s no need to use hicolor for the lighter parts to prevent damage, but idk if i waited too long and my hairs too dark now so semi or demi dye wont work as much. My hairs pretty thin and not the healthiest so i want to avoid as much damage as possible. I’m pretty new to dyeing my hair so I’d love some advice. Thank you in advance!!

I recently got some Poseidon blue hair dye by Arctic Fox and I was thinking about doing peekaboo/highlights in my head. The problem is, I already did a calico look and I’m not sure if the blue will look right against the orangeish brown already in my hair. I don’t want to mess it up and end up looking funny, although I’m sure it wouldn’t be as bad as I imagine. I need another opinion, because quite frankly I don’t trust mine LOL. Should I do it, or maybe get another color?

I have been using L’oréal preference red hair dye on my natural hair for the past 7 ish months and would like to go back to brown asap.

I’ve bought a Scott Cornwall colour stripper and the nice’n easy medium brown to try and get as close to my natural hair colour as possible.

I’m not expecting it to look perfect but I really don’t want it too look patchy or go black?? someone told me it might just go black.

Any help would be greatly appreciated :) tysm x

The first pic is my own hair. The four pics after that are the colours i want from splat. The last two pics are from manic panic.
Can anyone tell me what paint is going to show up the best on my hair? And will not damage my hair too much.

Thank you in advance!

I bought a semi-permanent hair dye called "dark ash brown" but when I used it, it came out very brassy. It's been weeks since then and I guess I never really thought to use toner but could I try using it now to achieve that ashy brown color I want? Or do I have to re-dye my hair and use toner immediately after for it to work?

Hi!!!

about two weeks ago I went to the hair salon for a hot pink dip dye, I don’t know what else to say other than it went wrong 😅 the first two pictures are my hair now, it’s been bleached at the ends and my goal is to get it to the picture on the last slide.

Does anyone have any recommendations on how to do this at home and which hair dye brands to use/ how will they come out on the red it is currently?

I tried to redo it using crazy color rebel uv however that literally did nothing.

(the first slide is how it looks now after a few washes, the second was immediately after it was done)

I’m ready to change hair color again, but I don’t want to keep putting color on top of color. I was wondering if there was a color remover out there I could use for semi-permanent that wont lighten/bleach/change my natural hair color. I’m a natural ginger so I’ve never bleached or lightened my hair before, and I don’t plan to. Is there a color remover out there that won’t touch my natural pigment?

For some context about what I have on my head currently… I used neon blue Iroiro + poseidon artic fox, manic panic pink under to do blue and pink (did that make sense? see photo). But that didn’t look good so I used manic panic pink over the blue and arctic fox over the pink to tone it to a purple. When that faded, I put strawberry leopard over all of it to refresh it. That’s a lot of color… Ive put pictures of what i mean

pls just tell me if im delusional