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Hair Advice Dark-Light

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  • 17-04-2019 10:37pm
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    Prominent_Dawg
    Registered Users Posts: 986 ✭✭✭


    Looking for hair advice, on the best way of lightening dark hair, I've been to the hairdressers and it's been a complete fail, on my first visit I was given the option of highlights or balayage, balayage was recommended for my hair so I went with that, however on the day of my appointment I overheard one of the hairdressers saying it's going to turn out orange, which was not what I was after! I was then advised on getting colour corrector so the hairdresser went ahead and cut out some of my hair to test.. I wasn't happy with the place I went to, so I never went back to see how it turned out, as they just didn't seem confident in what they were doing! Any advice on how to go about it would be appreciated!


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    GingerLily
    Registered Users Posts: 4,767 ✭✭✭GingerLily


    Your probably best to go to a salon that specialises in colour, or go to a good salon and get a colour specialist, they will know what to do and how to get you there, but it's likely going to take more than one visit.

    Bleached hair does go orange, and then they will use toner to correct


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    SusieBlue
    Registered Users Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭SusieBlue


    As someone who has gone from a deep chestnut brown to a platinum blonde in 9 months, what you need here is time.

    Yes, you probably could get your hair quite light in one sitting. But it will have orange undertones, be brassy, and it will seriously, seriously compromise the condition of your hair.

    I started getting highlights last July. Every 10-12 weeks I'd get a full head, then a t-bar, then a half head, then a full head again, and so on, so as not to overload the hair.
    Toners are your friend, make sure you get one applied each time too. I also got olaplex and did loads of masks in between appointments.

    I can honestly say I didn't have any brassiness, my hair is still in excellent condition, and I can say hand on heart I really liked my hair at each stage of the process.
    It went from a dark brown, to a dark brown with highlights, then a sandy brown, then a champagne dark blonde, to a golden blonde, to a creamy platinum colour, which it is now and has been since January.

    The gradual build up of the blonde ensured that I got the creamy, vanilla cool tones I wanted and not the orange, warm, uneven ones you get from doing too much too fast.

    I get extensions and went from getting the 3rd darkest brown/black colour on the market to now getting the lightest blonde shade you can buy, so its been a total transformation.

    I would say that by Christmas the majority of the work was done, it was very blonde by then so it only took 5 months for the full effect.

    Its an expensive process but if you want this to turn out well, you need to invest time and money. Otherwise it'll turn out crap and you'll end up going back dark in a few weeks again!


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    MinnieMinx
    Registered Users Posts: 232 ✭✭MinnieMinx


    Prominent_Dawg wrote: »
    ... I was then advised on getting colour corrector so the hairdresser went ahead and cut out some of my hair to test.. I wasn't happy with the place I went to, so I never went back to see how it turned out, as they just didn't seem confident in what they were doing!

    Presumably the dark hair is actually coloured (box dye?) and that would need removing first. That’s why it’s called a colour correction. They were doing a strand test to see how well the bleach lifted. Or they may have used a colour reducer to see how saturated the colour is. If you’ve repeatedly coloured your hair, it will take much longer to lighten than someone with natural dark brown hair.

    A good salon will always require a skin test before bleaching or colouring as you could be allergic to the colour (even if it’s just used to tone afterwards).

    If they use a colour reducer to remove the old colour, it will cost more and take a longer appointment initially but you can go from dark to light in a day without damage as colour reducers don’t contain bleach. Not many ordinary salons offer this service. It certainly shouldn’t take months to get to a pale blonde.


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    MinnieMinx
    Registered Users Posts: 232 ✭✭MinnieMinx


    SusieBlue wrote: »
    As someone who has gone from a deep chestnut brown to a platinum blonde in 9 months, what you need here is time.
    Yes, you probably could get your hair quite light in one sitting. But it will have orange undertones, be brassy, and it will seriously, seriously compromise the condition of your hair.

    Orange undertones is totally normal and simply means that the hair has lifted to a level 6 or 7. When you bleach hair, you are taking out the coloured melanin pigments (red/orange/yellow) and you’re left with the raw exposed colour underneath. That’s why you always need to tone it afterwards.

    If you leave it to lighten further to an 8 or 9 you will expose a yellow undertone.
    Using the correct lightening products with the right level of developer means that you can lift the hair very light in one sitting without causing excess damage. In fact, lightening the same sections repeatedly will actually cause more damage.


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