They promised they could get it pink, but I would need loads of Olaplex to help with the bleach damage and prevent breakage.įirst attempt was peachy, in their in-house brand of dye. Getting professionally bleached…finally!īut that wasn’t enough for me, so I found the only salon willing to push my hair to its limit: Live True London. Developer is what allows the hair to absorb the color, and. For the least damage to the hair, use 10 volume developer. In this case, a red-based warm toner would be the best bet. Buy the appropriate toner and developer and apply the mixture to your hair as you would normal boxed dye. This will get rid of the leftover blue that is bothering you. If you decide to use this method, make sure you get the high-lift blonde dye. When that grew out, I had a fresh new cut, and I was really enjoying having my old hair quality back - it felt soft and healthy. Toning involves cancelling out any unwanted tones in the hair. It is also a method that won’t completely remove blue hair dye, but it is an effective way of getting rid of leftover dye and subtle blue tones. The bleach coupled with heat styling was also really starting to break my hair, and it was then when I decided that I did actually miss the healthy hair I used to have. So with a heavy heart, I dyed my pink hair back to black. Some would say why do that when I’ve gone through all that effort to get it pink? I’m just like that, I get bored with my hair really quickly. There’s nothing glamorous about split hair growing out naturally. Eventually, I got tired of bleaching my roots. A blue shampoo toner is recommended for anyone that fits into one of the following. It can also help protect against any naturally arising orange or reddish hues that can start to appear when hair is lightened by the sun. I was able maintain the shade by using pink shampoo and conditioner every week. Blue shampoo is used to help neutralize the brassy tones that can arise in brown hair that is lightened by hair colorant. I obviously kept this look for a while because it was what I wanted all along. Even though it was not one solid colour, it turned out just the right tones of blue and teal that blended together perfectly.
This time I knew exactly which areas to rebleach and how to even it out to get a solid colour all around. I was excited that my hair had lifted to anything other than black, so I was desperate to try again.
I used loads of cruelty free conditioner from Boots since then to keep it healthy. I waited 8 weeks to bleach my hair again, to give it the proper time to recover from the first bleach. I don’t know what the salons were on about. I was still super impressed with the bits that came out the right colour, because it meant that with an at-home bleach kit I was able to lift my natural pigment.
This is because immediately after bleaching it at home, I tied my hair up in a bun (I had super long hair) and it created the uneven stripes. It came out streaky, uneven because the bleach was uneven. As you can see, my first attempt went very wrong. I thought I’d do half blue, half black, because it would be easier to tone in with the colours in my wardrobe.