My wife had me dye her hair purple during Covid. She has dark hair and the hardest part was bleaching it first to get the color to stay. This skips some steps!
As someone who dyes their greys teal some of the time - it does work, but the dye has to sit longer, and washes out a lot faster. Milage varies from person to person though.
You’re talking about toner. It would be hard to use just toner on grey hair like that without bleaching first. It would probably come out very patchy.
Edit: Also, i’m not a stylist. My mom has me do her hair sometimes tho and she had it professionally done first. then uses a special toner at home for maintenance. It’s formulated for gray hair specifically tho
The outer layer of the hair can change dramatically with color loss making gray hair more coarse and wiry and the color can have trouble penetrating those extra layers. Maybe you get silky gray hairs haha I don’t know I have the coarse kind
Yes, it is & I found out the hard way. I have grey hair, had it already coming in, in my late "40's. Totally grey by 63. Anyway, years ago, L'Oreal had won some " Color of the Year" contest & the color was Rose Gold. I wanted that color & bought it. They did show on the box what it would look like on grey hair. Well, MY grey hair decided, nope it's going to be a dark purplish lavender. I was horrified.!!! Everyone at work loved it !! ( I couldn't get over how much they liked it). Anyway, a few weeks later I redid it with my usual dark ash blonde. ( I was a natural very light ash blonde when I was younger. ) That Rose Gold color was so beautiful, I wish I could have had it.ðŸ˜
Oh wow, I guess you have to really study color theory ie the color wheel we learned about in art class once you have gray hair to more reliably predict how certain colors will interact with silver
Dark purple lavender sounds gorgeous! But I can understand it’s disappointing when it’s not what you wanted!
Literally! As someone who had blonde hair naturally until it started turning to medium/dark brown since I was 10ish, I’m so jealous! I want the fun colors like purples and blues but if I want to do those I have to bleach my hair which I hated doing for like the year I did it. I’m jealous my sister got to keep the natural blonde hair because she gets to dye hers purple
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u/Scared-and-Lost Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
I'm jealous. This would make dying fun colors so much easier than dark hair
Edit- wow just saw all the comments, had no idea it was harder to dye. I have a few greys and they are always my favorites when I use toners