Can i bleach dyed black hair

Will following this article fix it m. So my hair haven't been bleached in over a year from time to time I rinse my hair different colors well my last color has happen to be black and now I'm trying to get rid of the black and dye back to blonde I washed it twice and my roots have turned a darkish green any helpful tips that are easy without having to add any bleach chemicals? Hi Problem I have really long roots because I was pregnant and growing out my hair with the intentions of going back to my natural colour afterwards.

Thanks in advance. Hey babe, thanks for sharing your knowledge with us : I have some questions and hopefully you can help me with them. I am planning to bleach 3 inches black roots. I am planning to add olaplaex into the mixture.

Also, directly after the 3 inches of black is one inch of ugly brassy color which was bleached before. Thank you! I need serious help!!!!! I have been dyeing my hair with a perminate Black hair for eight years!!! It has become a black box disaster!!!! A few salons have told me that i just need to let it grow. The reason. I see girls combing out my hair and its falling out everwhere and this was In september of last year i was attending a wedding and went to a salon for some light carmel high lights.

She didnt even ask me to pay!!!!! How can i get this black out without doing anymore damage?? Ive been using a demi since september and just this month started a semi.

Instructions please??? If possible. Any tips or ideas would be greatly appreciated thank you in advance!!!!! Told her to keep shampooing it but not lifted. What next it is just her roots. The main reason it remained orange in this situation is because the golden brown shade doesn't contain enough cool tone to counteract the warmth.

It's also possible that your hair is a little darker than a light brown, in which case shades at this level are going to have less of effect. It depends a lot on how much colour the dye remover was able to strip out.

Luckily, it's fairly easy to fix this though, as long as your hair is already even. If your hair is a patchy orange red colour with darker and lighter bits, this method will still work to tone it to a nicer natural result, but will do nothing for the unevenness because toning only corrects the colour, rather than the depth how dark the different sections are. To tone it, simply apply light ash brown and rinse when you're happy with the colour.

The ash shade adds cool tone to your hair to counteract the warmth and it will gradually shift from orange, to copper brown, to a warm brown, to neutral, and finally to a cool or ash brown result depending on how long the dye is left before rinsing and the amount of warmth that is present. On the off chance that the light ash doesn't fully neutralise the warmth to the point that you're happy with it even though it has reached full development time, this means that your hair is darker and will need a darker dye to tone it, in which case you can mix equal amounts of light ash brown and medium ash brown, or simply use medium ash brown to tone it instead, based on the initial effect seen.

When toning, the cool tone added to neutralise warmth will always add from half a level, to one full level of depth to your hair, meaning it becomes darker by the time it is fully corrected. The opposite effect is seen when lightening hair as the base tone is revealed. I used a box color that is med golden chestnut brown - my hair turned very very dark.

I used the same product color removal and my hair was orange I thought that was to be expected. I read that I could then color again. I used a light golden brown. My hair is I am using a violect corrector plus in my shampoo and a gloss just a leave-in after I condition. It is not helping. Any suggestions? This was days ago. I am thinking of bleaching it. But wanted to know as my roots are lighter do I leave them. With dyed dark brown or black hair, removal is never an overly quick process because it needs to be bleached several times before you will see any significant lightening.

In your situation, where you have been applying dark dye for 2 years, use of a dye remover likely wouldn't help in this regard due to the amount of dye present, leaving bleach as the only useful option. When bleaching the dark brown out, you can perform a full bleach process or use bleach bathing. The end result is the same, but a bleach bath is weaker and will need to be applied more times than a full bleach to achieve the same amount of lift.

It's generally less damaging to go with a weaker formulation and gradually strip it anyway, so even if you do go with the full bleach, this should be with no greater than 20 vol developer. Either product should only be applied once in a 1 - 2 week period to prevent excessive damage and allow the hair to rest, and a protein treatment can be used in-between bleaching to keep your hair stronger and healthier.

I have been dying my hair dark brown for two years. I'm read to go completely gray. What would be the fastest and least damaging way to do so? Hi I love your site. I 've been dyeing my hair for years by hairdressers. I couldn't afford anymore. My hair was dark blonde with lighter highlights virgin color is dark brown. A month ago I applied a box brown colour to my gray roots. It did not cover my roots and my lengths turn out some red. A week later I applied a box of "Clairol root touch up".

My hair went very dark in the roots and at the very front part of my hair but my ends are still light. Please, how could I fix this? All I want is a nice light natural brown. I don't want to damage my hair.

My hair is a below shoulder length. Do I have to remove dye? Do I have to do a bleach wash or just use a clarifying shampoo. Where in Toronto, Ontario I could buy these products. Please, advise what to buy, amounts and length of time to apply it. How long after I strip my hair I could tone it back? Another thing is my gray grows very quickly. What type of hair colour and hair treatments should I use to keep a healthy hair?

Hello after your advice. Been dying my hair black for a few years. Until about 8 months ago I decided I wanted to go Dark brown.

So I dyed my regrowth a dark brown and thought I'd grow the black out and keep redying the regrowth dark brown. But it is taking to long that way and need the black out asap and to get a natural dark brown all over.

I have a fair bit of regrowth at the moment which is a mousy light brown color and I'm thinking about removing all the dye with a color remover. Past few months I've been using head n shoulders to help strip some of the color which I've found has made the dark brown dye middle of the hair brassy and the black at the ends sort of fade in some parts but not much at all. Should I use a hair color remover on it all except the natural regrowth? Or is it safe on natural hair aswell.

And do I repeat this process if necessary? After the color is properly stripped is it ok to go straight over the hair with the dark brown hair color I want? Or do I need to tone it first? Also do I go with a dark ash brown to make it look more natural and cut out the possible brassiness from the color removal? Before I forget is it a good idea to use semi permanent hair color than permanent for less damage? Sorry for all the questions thank you for your help!!!!!!!!!

I have dyed black hair. So do I buy a light ash brown or should I go for a medium intense ash brown and mix that with a 10 volume developer? Thanks so much! My friend has been using box color for over a year and wants to go to a level 5 to start.

Dye remover is the best option, as long as the dye used was permanent. If you apply a product like Color Vanish, this will break the dye down so that it can be washed back out. As you just want to soften it and don't want to remove all of it, you can dilute it down with shampoo and apply to damp hair, then rinse after a few minutes and this will take care of the darkness. Otherwise, to remove as much of the dye as possible, apply the product by itself and leave up to 20 minutes before rinsing.

Another alternative to this is to apply a bleach wash and leave this for 5 - 10 minutes at most. This will soften the dark colour by lightening it. It's very gentle because the solution is mild and it's only in your hair for a short time, so even though it's bleach it won't cauise any noticeable damage.

You do need to be very even with the application to avoid patchiness though. Lastly, the most conservative method is to wash it with clarifying shampoo or anti-dandruff shampoo. Both of these kinds of shampoos fade out dye quickly because they're very strong cleansers and strip it out of your hair. It can take a few washes before you see the colour lightening enough though. Please help! Yes, shampoo and developer.

You need developer whenever you are using bleach as it won't function properly without it. As for the use of foils, you'd do so to either create highlights or isolate the product to certain sections of hair. You don't use foil for an all over application to all of your hair. I'd recommend not using heat at all, although it is an option with most brands of bleach powder. As long as the brand you're using allows it you can use heat if desired, but it will increase the reaction speed and isn't really of any benefit other than to decrease time.

Heat over a shorter time has the same effect as no heat over a longer time. It can be more damaging because the reaction is more intense and the lightening is occurring quicker. Mix approximately the same amount of clarifying shampoo as the amount of bleach powder being used.

Then add developer to that in the mixing ratio for the bleach powder you're using. This is generally powder to developer, but it can vary by brand. Ie, if you used 30 ml of bleach powder, you would mix this with 30 ml of clarifying shampoo and 60 ml of developer.

Don't worry too much if it's going to be too hard to get. Either way it's only a small amount of dye because of how light level 7 shades are Compared to brown or black shades they lift out quickly and easily.

Bleach will lift it out whether dye remover is used or not. Use a mild bleach bath or mild bleach for lightening the colour. Eg, for a bleach bath, use clarifying shampoo, bleach powder, and 20 vol developer applied to damp hair. With regular bleaching, apply bleach using 10 vol as the developer. Either method will probably only take 15 - 20 minutes to lift back to pale yellow for a pale result, but it could take a little more or a little less time.

Keep an eye on it because your hair is light and you don't need it to process too long. Following that, you will need to tone to finish the colour and get the shade you want. I won't give any further recommendation here as you've said you're confident with that part, but feel free to ask if you have any problems with it or with any other part of the process.

I wanted a little ash tone that's why I dyed again, but it just kept being washed out and turning into a somehow neutral to slightly warm 7. The problem with the color remover is that i don't really know which variety the stores I buy professional dye from have. Is the dye a permanent dye? If so, I'd recommend using hair dye remover. Good brands like Juuce Eliminate or Vanish Color Corrector will often remove the unwanted dye completely when it is a light colour like this; especially if it has only been applied once Not reapplied to the same hair.

This will also preserve your hair condition because it is non-damaging. You may need to tone your hair after using the dye remover though, as it can reveal warm tones underneath the dye like bleaching. However, dye remover will only work on permanent dye. It reverses the chemical process that makes these dyes permanent, but demi-permanent and semi-permanent dyes work in a slightly different way and don't use this same process.

In this case, bleach bath to remove the colour, as long as your hair is in good condition. A bleach bath is relatively mild and doesn't cause much damage, but it still should only be used cautiously if your hair is already damaged.

Following bleaching, you will need to tone to finish the colour. I had a lvl 10 ash dyed hair and wanted something natural but found it is my thing and I am a bit afraid of bleach even at 10 to remove the color. That's great. Keeping the hair healthy is the key to transitioning from black to blonde hair.

You may notice that those red tones persist well into a lighter blonde or even platinum shade, and this is from the black dye. Whilst natural hair is yellow at the light blonde level, and eventually lifts to pale yellow before being toned to platinum, your hair could continue to look a pale red instead and this doesn't necessarily mean it's not light enough.

You have to judge it more on actual 'lightness' than colour. If you do notice a lot of red remaining once it's at your desired level, adding a tiny amount of Igora Royal to your toner will really help If you use Igora Royal for the toning. Things are going pretty good.

I also noticed that adding Opalex to the bleach made the developing time longer.. I can say my hair feels very healthy but the process needs to be repeated to get to pale yellow.

I understand that Opalex also lowers the overall strength of the bleach developer.. I almost don't even need to reply to you after mommatek's very thorough comment to you. The product mommatek used is a dye remover, and this removes permanent dye by reversing the chemical process that actually makes it permanent.

This breaks it back down into small colourless molecules that can be shampooed out of your hair. This is why clarifiying shampoo is used as it is stronger and more likely to strip all the dye back out. Admittedly, I was pretty attached to my long hair.

If someone mentioned cutting it, I freaked out. But as I went through the process, I actually embraced change and ended up longing for it to be cut. The ends can get super-damaged and frizzy, so cutting them off actually feels really great. Plus, when you're hair's been bleached it can really cling on to any moisture for dear life. Seriously, it takes AGES to dry. After my first trim of about five inches , my blow-drying time was reduced from 30 minutes to I love me that extra time in bed in the morning.

My life before lightening consisted of washing my hair, letting it air dry and.. Occasionally I straightened it for special occasions, but really I was lazy. So, while at first the whole treatments and hair masks thing annoyed me, I learned to love it. Now, once a week on a Sunday, I make sure I dedicate time to really treat my tresses. I pop on a podcast and chill the f out - it's truly become a form of self-care for me.

It's pretty simple: it's important to manage your own expectations, because sometimes it's just not possible to take your hair as light as you might like. And that's OK - putting the condition of your hair first is super important. Not getting any lighter than this hasn't bothered me at all, though. All I wanted, really, was to not be stuck with black hair for the rest of my life.

Plus, every stage of the journey was fun - I really enjoyed being brown for the first time in 14 years, and I love the dark blonde I'm at now. Type keyword s to search. Today's Top Stories. Meghan and Harry look super loved up right now. This content is imported from Instagram. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.

View this post on Instagram. After bleach numero uno I kinda like it? Cosmopolitan UK. Hi, I have level two virgin hair and I want to bleach it so that I can dye it gray. I've bought 20 and 30 vol developer, schwarzkopf igora vario bleach, olaplex, the wella toner in t18 and ion toner in snow cap. I've done my research and know I'll need to bleach my hair more than once, but I was wondering if i should use 30 vol depeloper twice, 30 vol the first time and 20 vol the second time, or 20 vol developer three times?

What would cause the least amount of damage? Hi, I really need help, my step daughter wants to go lighter for going back to school next week, she's been dying her hair for about a year with black demi permanent box dye, I've used colour b4 twice and it went reddish brown but then a week later went back to black, I took her to hairdresser and she took a sample, she said it took 3 hours for the colour to lift to a dark orange, but she can't fit my step daughter in before school.

I've dyed my own hair and bleached it before so I want to give it a go, I bought Olaplex and Wella Blondor as well as a 30 and 20 developer, I was thinking of a bleach bath on her hair, will this give any lift to it? Would just like to get her to brown and lighten over time, at the minute she has about 3 inches of strawberry blonde her natural colour roots.

Can someone please advise the best method for her, bleach bath or straight up bleach and how to apply? In the last 6 weeks I have used Oops Color aremover and have bleached it 3 times, toned it with Wella T18 all while using Shimmer lights purple shampoo everytime I've shampooed.

I've used 30 volumn developer each time. I feel like I've tried everything, including soaking my hair in coconut oil before applying product to my hair. I mean it is getting lighter each time but I'm at my witts end with this. Should I try a 40 volumn developer on the tips and 20 on the roots? I mean other than the color you'd never know my hair has been bleached it's really healthy. What should I do next. I'd also like to add that I have been also doing hot oil treatments, dandruff shampoo and baking soda washes, as well as dawn dish soap.

The blue one. I dyed the bottom half [ from ear to ear] down black. Now I want to go back to blonde. It's been a couple of months that I dyed it haven't put anything on it since. What would you recommend using to get the black dye out. Very very helpful thank you so much I probably would have lost all my hair if it weren't for you. I am Black and have natural unprocessed black hair. So I bleached the hair with 30 vol and it went brighter copper.

I am so disheartened. What should I do? I have blonde hair, but dark roots im trying to stay away from bleach, had a bad experience with hairdresser who obviously didn't know what she was doing. She put a toner on me and burned my scalp and I had a amount of breakage on top of my hair. What product would you recommend I use to lighten my roots?

Are you still answering people are have you forgot about the post just wondering cause there is alot of questions that hasn't been answered in the past 6 months I have a question but I don't want to waste my time are your if it can't be answered. I have dyed my hair black for over 10 years but I want to dye it blonde because I tired of seeing my white roots showing can you tell me the best thing to do to achieve the blonde hair with little dark roots that I want?

I have dark brown hair and i have been wanting to go completely blonde I have thick, natural frizzy, and extremely wavy hair Is it okay to use L'oreal hair dye from some place like Walmart or Target? I have approx 80 percent grey hair.

I have been dying it dark brown for over 10 years. I want to go to a silver or white hair color. I bleached it 1 time so far with wella Blondor.

I was able to achieve a light orange on the dyed hair, but my roots were golden yellow. A pretty color. I put a wella pale blonde T14 toner with a couple caps of cooling violet additives in it. How can I get my roots to blend better till I bleach again?

Should I just bleach next time a week from 1st bleach or use a dye removing shampoo first? I didn't use a dye remover wash before my first bleach.

Thank you for any advise!!!! Hello, thank you for this post. I can't see the hair level chart to determine what ash tone I need to get. Was it removed or am I just not seeing it? Could you send me a link? Thank you! My girlfriend has black hair and is trying to dye it to blonde! Thank you for your advice. It was nice to know that it will be easier for her since she has never dyed her hair before! I have been trying to dye my hair blonde so I can go a vibrant red but I seem to end up ginger no matter how many time I dye it blonde my sisters has the same hair cour and hers worked after second dye.

Hi recently I've thought about going from black to platinum blonde but I have red undertones , I am currently in the stage where your hair turns a orange gold color , if I bleach one more time is it possible that my hair can turn into a just gold color and not another stage of orange gold color? If that makes sense , thank you. Hi I had my hair ruined by 2 salons who made me a horrible blondish I now have dark roots and greys 4 months worth and want to go a darker shade like caramel kiss from loreal feria I'ive been this color before but never from this color blonde to it always from darker to the caramel..

It is waist length and I am now wanting to give myself an ombre I plan to do oil treatments in between color removal and bleaching. Also-what are your thoughts on Olaplex? My hair is a natural dark brown and a week ago I had very light honey blonde highlights put in but I want to go all light honey blonde but I cannot afford a salon every month.

How do I do this and how do I keep up with the roots. I have been dying my hair box black for 6 years now, and I really want to go lighter, not really blonde, but just brown is fine.

I used loreal hicolor in vanilla champagne twice now and my hair is still black. Should I just give up? My natural hair colour is a light brown, I don't know how many times I have coloured it, I now have black hair and I have recently used a hair dye remover and some of the hair was dark brown and some was more of a light brown, I used b blonde bleach kit I used two of them and there wasn't enough hair dye so I went to the shop and brought xx live blonde colour and I have put that on to my hair some of my hair is really light blonde and the rest of the hair is like a brassy but I wouldn't say the hair was orange I've put the blonde hair dye on so hoping it all goes blonde do I just have to keep putting blonde on until it goes to the colour I need my hair as I do want it light blonde x thanks.

I would LOVE to dye my hair a lighter shade but I have absolutely no idea what colour would suit me best? With my Italian background I'm scared that going lighter will enhance my ethnicity. Take a look at my pics by clicking on my profile. Thank you Maffew.

I will look for a good hair dresser in my city and follow your advice, thanks a lot for your help! There's not really anything you can do to make dark brown hair look that light without actually dyeing it.

At least, not for a result that isn't very unnatural or odd looking. The only real alternative is a wig. As for the bleaching, you can do this, but you need to be careful bleaching hair that is permed; damage will build up more rapidly from the cumulative effect that these chemical processes have on your hair.

For dyeing back to dark brown, you can do this as soon as you want, as long as your hair is strong enough to take the dye. It will need to be filled prior to dyeing to pre-pigment it though, as all that warm base tone that is stripped out during bleaching needs to be added back in to achieve the reverse effect and create a natural looking dark brown result.

I need to dye my hair blonde for a show. My hair is dark brown, strong and healthy but I do have a straightening perm and colour to cover up some greys. Do you know any products that could work? If not, could I bleach my hair? I could do without the coulouring for 2 months before bleaching if needed. How long do I have to wait until I can dye it back to dark brown?

You'll need to lighten it quite a bit more to reach a light blonde result. This means more damage to. Light brown is much easier and achievable if the orange is light enough though.

Apply light ash brown over the orange once you start to see it transitioning towards more of a gold tone and this will cover and tone properly. Red shades are also fine if that's what you want.

As long as the colour is dark enough, it will cover properly. It really just depends what you'd prefer to do. I bleached my hair yesterday again and its orange and some of my roots are still black cause did myself and I guess I couldn't see every spot.

I am wanting a light ash blonde but I don't know if I should just go light brown or Red? Protein treatments are the best way to prevent breakage. If you start out using one once to twice a week it will gradually ease the problem by repairing the damage that has occurred. Conditioning treatments soften your hair and make it feel and look nice, but they don't actually repair structural damage like a protein treatment does.

As the damage and breakage decreases, you can cut back use of the treatment to once every 1 - 2 weeks to maintain strength. It needs to be very light for a pastel colour to work. If your hair was natural, it would look the colour of the flesh of a banana at this point, but hair that has been dyed black tends to continue to show red tones even when it gets this light, so it's not always as easy to tell how it's transitioning through the levels.

When it does get light enough, it'll likely look a pale orange-yellow colour. At this point, you probably have at least 2 processes left before it is light enough, but there's no definite answer. It could take more or less depending on how your hair reacts. In any case, just be very mindful of your hair's condition as you continue to bleach. As you've bleached it in the past and then covered it with black dye again, your hair will stand up to less subsequent bleaching.

I have always returned to dying my hair black boxed dye each time I think I'm adventurous and try to go lighter. I bleach my hair using a 30v bleach, Kaleidocolors in blue, that I purchase at a local beauty supply store. It hits the red stage, then pumpkin orange.. I immediately freak out and put more black dye. I have gone to get my hair done at a salon which can get pretty pricey because of my color and length. This time, I decided not to freak out.

Yesterday I used a color remover to lift some build up of color. It didn't do much; it was still pretty much black with a red tone. I used a clarifying shampoo and applied a deep conditioner overnight. This morning I washed my hair, let it air dry, and applied the 20v bleach to my entire head, starting about 2 inches below my scalp. I used 20v because I wanted something more gentle on my hair. Well, because my color is so dark, it only lifted one or two shades and left me with a deep red color.

I deep conditioned and let it air dry again. My hair felt healthy and moisturized and looked in great condition so I decided to apply the bleach again, this time using a 30v developer.

One hour later it was a nasty, bright orange. I know I have to let my hair rest, so I toned it with an ashy color by Wella. It's still orange-ish, enough to make me keep a hat on for now. I currently have a deep conditioner in of extra virgin olive oil, honey, and milk.

My end goal is to have my hair light enough for a pastel lavender. How many more times do you think I have to bleach my hair in order to have a light enough color to hold pastel lavender dye? In that case since you're not after that exact colour, you can use most ash tones at level 8 to tone your hair as long as there isn't too much red tone present. Also, you can always feel free to come back and ask if you have trouble with the bleaching or need help neutralising any unwanted tone that is revealed by the bleaching.

I'm a base shade level 2 and I'm going to go though the process of bleaching it and then tone it to an light ash blonde. The I. Color soft ash tone is a violet blue base and gives a softer silvery ash than most other ash dyes.

There's not always a comparable shade in other brands. Loreal Majirel - No comparable shade, but you could use 8. A mix of 8. Are you specifically after a colour very similar to I. Color 8SA, or do you just need a good ash for toning your hair? Whilst most brands don't have a completely comparable shade, all brands have ash shades that can tone your hair and I can help you find the right shade from the brand you prefer.

I plan on getting my hair blonde. My hair currently is a light brown. I was told to bleach my hair till it is a pale yellow color and then dye it and then tone it.

Is this true? And when do I wash and condition my hair? There's no way to avoid it unfortunately. Black hair goes through several colour changes as it lightens.