For years I have dyed my hair black and I'm just sick of it now. So yesterday I woke up and bleached the whole thing and put an ash brown on it. Sallys said that would work. It looked terrible. I had to be embarrassed and leave the house and go to a real hair store with blotchy orange hair. The man there picked me out a few things that he said would help. I did a color corrector on my hair. It took all the bleach and orange out of it. Then he said to do a toner. After the toner it looked pretty good. All of the orange was out and it was a pretty blonde and light brown. When I was at the store the guy picked me out the lightest brown. Any lighter it would have been dark blonde. My hair was exactly how I wanted it, black out. And starting from a blank canvas. When I put the Light brown hair dye in my hair turned pitched black. I don't understand. It was nowhere near black. Basically I have a burned scalp and my wasted money and time just to come back to pitch black hair. Does anybody know why it turned pitch black when it was the lightest brown you could buy? All I wanted was light brown hair :((. Now if I do anything else to it will get damaged. It was such a waste.
I never mess with store bought colors. Best to leave to the professionals. Getting my haired colored professionally is the great I allow myself. So worth it. Hope you can get it to a color you are happy with.
Ahh, learning experience! When changing from darker to lighter always spend the big bucks and have a salon do it!
Your last color treatment left your hair black because they come out much darker on bleached hair...any that I have ever used have a warning about this on the package.
Let your scalp heal for a few weeks and if you still want it done save up the $$ and get it done professionally. You will probably need a cut too, if it was my hair after 4 color treatments on top of each other it would look like straw...
Sorry about the bad hair day...good luck!
When you bleached your hair it opened your cuticles a lot wider, so when you put the new color on it absorbed more color then someone who doesn't bleach their hair. Making your hair darker.
Your best bet is to wait a few weeks, some of that color may fade away and leave you closer to how you wanted it to begin with. But if not...
Do not attempt to bleach it again on your own, if it really is not livable at that point, go to a salon.
Okay, honey? It's time to go to a salon. They'll get all of the old stuff out... and I mean all of it. They'll give you treatments to help repair the hair, and they'll help you with a style to get the damage out. It'll be a short cut, but they can make it look wonderful. Please... don't worry. Don't put ANY MORE chemicals on your head yourself.
If you put anything else on your head regarding color or removing color then you risk some serious burns on your scalp and you also risk your actual hair melting into sludge. I'm not exaggerating. You need to give your scalp some time to heal. You've damaged the skin and hair follicles, so you need to let the natural oils do their job. It might help if you have some olive oil... it can be soothing for your scalp. Put a shower cap over olive-oiled hair and scalp for a while. Then try to ignore it.
NEVER go from black to anything lighter on your own. Also you need to deep condition a lot. It is really difficult to do it instantly. It needs to be done gradually and ALWAYS by a pro. Listening to the workers at the store? What qualifies them to offer advice? what training do they have? If they had actual training in this process they would be in a salon and not sally's. Also they have no clue what your hair history is so they can't properly advise you anyway. http://www.maskcara.com/maskcara/2013/02/19/a-blonding-ex...
It would have been best to go to a salon to have a professional lift your color that many levels. Then, from there you could have maintained the light brown color.
Go for a consult w/ a licensed hairdresser/colorist to see how long should wait before adding more chemicals to your hair.
Your best best is a professional. I never ever play with my color.. I leave it to the pro.
Yes it is more expensive but your hair is worth it. It is SO hard to overcome damaged hair.
Best wishes to you...
That light brown should have been a Semi-Permanent color, and done with a quick application, like 4-8 minutes then rinse. If the hair is too porous (from bleaching and chemicals) it will grab the color fast and continue to get darker and darker eventually black, and this can happen very quickly, within minutes. So if you left it on 20 minutes, then yup, it will be black. Actually, the toner you used after you used the color corrector should have been light brown with a blue base, and it would have been Ok at that point. I wouldn't recommend trying to lift the color again yourself, I would go to a professional (after your scalp has healed), someone who specializes in corrective color, and an FYI, it won't be cheap-
Signed; Ex Hairdresser-
Good Luck :)
I could get a job at Sally's and have absolutely no knowledge of hair color products. That's the way it is with any business, we all start somewhere.
When I started working in the store I didn't know the difference between a ballet leo and a gymnastic leo. Now I know that a ballet leo is muted shades, boring is a good description, while a gymnastics leo is bright, shiny, colorful, etc....so it takes time to learn about all the products in a business like Sally's.
Most of what he said to do was right. They just didn't know you needed to wait a while to do that last color. I wouldn't have know either. I just usually do a lighter shade and it turns out. I haven't ever tried to go from black to a lighter color though. Sorry your head got burned. That must be painful.
I've done this, about 22 years ago. It was horrible. I wore my hair short and wore lots of hats for a while and conditioned it for a few weeks before going to a salon and having a pro fix it. (I think I ended up doing a dark brown closer to my real color.)
Give your hair a break, wear it up and covered as much as you can.
Later, when I chose to color my hair, I used a black of a brand that washed out over time, so the roots were less noticeable when they grew in. And then, the grow-out wasn't so obvious. I don't color it any more-- it's been a long time!
Two words - Professional colorist. Please get one.
Dawn
Use a clarifying shampoo on it and it should fade. Make sure you condition well.
Unfortunately making a big change like that it might be better to pay the money and go to a regular salon where the people there know exactly what to do. Yep you'll be spending more money, but you will be alot happier I think.
