Going back to "normal" hair

if, like me, you've had times where you need to go back to a "normal" hair colour or just want a change of style and need to dye darker over bleached hair heres a few tips to stop it going green.

My first experience of trying to go back to brown after having blue hair was an unmitigated disaster and resulted in me wearing a hat to a party where I'd had my eye on a very cute man!*
The problem I encounted was trying to put brown straight onto bleached hair and coming up with a horrible washed out snot colour. The brown has cold tones in it and the bleach had striped any warm tones in my hair out (I was blue so had to go almost white to achieve the colour I wanted). The following day, I went to the supermarket and bought a wash in wash out red toner. They are about a pound but to the ever dying girl they are worth their weight in Wine!.

I ran it through my hair, as the hair is already bleached it absorbed much more than none treated hair, i conditioned the hell out of it for a few hours to give it a bit of strength back and then applied a warm toned brown. This meant the cold tones in the brown had something to counteract them and brown was achieved.

this was the result.


So in conclusion, always put a warm tone underneath, it doesn't need to be a permanent dye as this can add extra damage to already bleached hair.

*I did manage to bag him btw, the hat was very cute ;)


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