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Correcting Brassy Color
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If you've lightened your hair only a couple of shades (or not at all) with a permanent color, try a blue-toned shampoo, which is formulated especially for this problem, or have your colorist apply a blue or violet toner to counteract the redness.
For a more serious case, you can use a gentle, ashy semipermanent in a similar shade to tone it down. To prevent this from happening in the future, choose an ashy shade, use a mild shampoo and limit your hair's exposure to the sun.
If you've lightened significantly, it's possible that the bleach wasn't left on long enough -- some hair, particularly if it's naturally very dark, can be rather resistant to bleaching. Your best bet is to have a good colorist fix this problem for you. (Note: Never apply permanent color to bleached hair on your own.)
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by Sindi from Nova Scotia, Canada on June 17, 2010
If your hair has gone an orangy yellowy color you need to leave your color on a little longer and you probably needed two boxes of color, it takes more to strip a darker hair to a lighter color. or your hairdresser can do it by using a toner on your hair, it happened to me, Start with a light shade at first then move up to a lighter shade each month you dye it.
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by Zouzoou from maryland on June 15, 2010
i lightened my hair yesterday using a color Box, Revlon 71 that is golden blond. my hair color is dark brown with some natural red in it , this is my first time dying my hair. my attention was to lighten my hair so i can later use highlight. the problem that it turned kind of golden orange color , if any body read this , can you please suggest something , should i use john Freida purple or blue base to fade the orange color , or should i dye my hair with an ash blond box again, i need to fix my hair in three days because i am traveling and i dont want to meet my husband family with orange hair. please help
thank you
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by jeanne elkins from Moulton, Alabama on June 1, 2010
I had blonde highlites and put on 104/medium golden blonde to tone it down. Now it is red. I want a natural blonde look. What color do I need and how soon can I color again?
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by April from London on March 31, 2010
Im naturally blonde, but a few months ago i decided to dye my hair bright red! now im boerd with it and desperatly want my hair blonde again Will a salon be able to help me go back to blonde? or will i have to go darker to cover the red?
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by grace from England on March 24, 2010
I died my hair a fair while ago, and it ended up extremely brassy. Yet when I tried using a dark ash blonde to get the redness gone, it's gotten WORSE! Please advise me!
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by KELLY from HOUSTON TX on February 12, 2010
OK I DID THIS LADY HIGHLIGHTS AND THE COLOR CAME LIKE ORANGE DARK COLOR I REALLY NEED YOUR HELP WHAT SHOULD I DO TO FIX THIS PROBLEM I WANT TO GET RID OF THIS ORANGE COLOR I WANT LIKE A BLOND COLOR PLEASE ANSWER ASAP THANK YOU
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by sandra from aurora ill on January 23, 2010
ok so i bleached my hair so know is yellow and alittle orange shoud i keep bleaching it till is all yellow and then i can do the toner?or can i put the tone already i want my hair blonde what shoud i do?
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by Cathy Nichols from Harrisburg on September 20, 2009
I used color blue on my hair and it turned bright strawberry red. I want it to be blonde what do I do?
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by Rhonda from McMinnville, TN on September 9, 2009
I am thinking about going gray. I have a reddish-dark brown color on my hair. Is there an easy way to do this without going through the yuchy growing out stage?
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by amy from al on May 31, 2009
just got my base color and lighter highlights for the summer but for some reason this time it looks brassey and neon to me what could I put on it to take the gold neon out and get the cool lite color I want?
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by elisha from portsmouth, england on April 23, 2009
Hi i had dark hair and lightened it by highlighting it lots.The ends have taken and are blonde but the roots wont seem to lift..is there anthing thing that will lift the roots so im able to go blonde all over?
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by shan from brasseyville on March 17, 2009
can i make a glamore bath with bleach, shampoo, developer, and water to bring hair up out of a brassey state if hair is up for it.
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by Kelsey Rist from kelowna, bc on March 13, 2009
for vicki...hey i am a stylist and i really enjoy blondes, i also use redken, but if i were your stylist i would use a lightner/bleach and a 40 vol developer, then tone it with the redken shades eq 9t...maybe you could suggest this if you are close with your stylist. redken has a titanium line in the shades eq which are excellent for toning brassy blondes! goodluck!
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by Vicki from Georgia on February 6, 2009
For several years now whenever I get my medium brown hair colored (mostly to cover grays) it turns an orangish color after a few weeks. My roots are brown, but the rest is orange. My stylist uses Redken coloring and I use Redken shampoo/conditioner. She doesn't seem to know how to fix it and it keeps happening. I hate my hair color and am tired of spending the money. This is not the first stylist I've been to. I am 48,in menopause, does that matter and what can I do to correct this?
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by jody from sydney / Australia on November 9, 2008
I used a blonding creme on the re growth and now it's gone bright yellow and orange I have long hair and the ends are cool blonde shade can you suggest something until I can get to the salon?
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by kerri from home on July 2, 2008
can someone help me I was getting pale blonde highlites on my naturally dark brown roots until the colorist talked me into lightening my base which now came up a brassy yellow color i love my highlites but not the color on my roots what should i do to get rid of this
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by J on April 3, 2008
yvonne if you're looking to go blonde get a bleaching kit, you can get them at shopper drug mart. its called loreal paris perfect blondmissa. you just bleach your hair then you find a dye with the tone you want, so you can go to any shade of blonde or go to a light brown
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by hoda from norway on March 31, 2008
I've colored my hair several times,but I never get the color I want. it's either too dark or too light and it's always red light color at the scall(top of my head).and I can't seem to correct it.please help me.
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by cynthia Duke from palmdale california on March 8, 2008
i have gray hair and used the color 14karat gold semi permanent by clariol and my hair is brassy yellow what other semi will cover but still not be so dark
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by yvonne from butler,pa 16001 on March 5, 2008
used uncolor then put a blue base on to get blonde but turned orange now i want to go light brown what do i use?
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