Orange head Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 Girls who are experts of dyeing their hair at home, I need help! I did a stupid spur-of-the-moment thing and bought myself a colour and highlight kit by loreal. A friend helped me out with it. The base colour turned out ok (a bit too reddish on the top though), but the highlights came out HORRIBLE. They look orangey brown, and are too thick and blotchy on the top of my head. My natural hair colour is dark brown, the new colour is pretty close to my original colour but a bit reddish, and the highlights are orangey brown. I can't afford to go to a salon to get it fixed. if I buy a regular dark brown dye and colour all my hair, will it go back closer to my original colour? Will the highlights be coloured over? If not, what do you suggest? I read somewhere, I can colour over my highlights with block colour. Is that true? More importantly, what is it? And how do I go about doing it? Please please help. I'm in tears. My husband loved my original hair and begged me not to colour it, but I convinced him to let me try it. I feel so horrible. Link to post Share on other sites
agnf666 Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 So you have adventured into the world of dying your hair... Sometimes it can go really well and other times it can go really bad. Your hair is naturally dark brown and you put a highlighting kit on your hair. Here are a few reason's why it didn't come out right. 1. You have natural red highlights in your hair so when you put the highlighting kit on your hair it made the natural red highlights orange. 2. You didn't leave the highlighting kit on long enough. When you do that you have to leave it on for a long time sometimes longer then what the instructions say. Sometimes if you use a blow dryer to give your hair some heat it will help the highlighting kit work better. Here is what I would do to fix this problem... Get a brown hair kit. I would go for a medium brown hair dye. The brand I would use would be Feria or Herbal Essence. If you go any darker then medium brown then it will turn your hair black! I would go for a shade or two before Medium brown. Make sure you cover your whole head with the dye. Now depending on how long and thick your hair is you might need 2 bottles. So, if you hair is below your shoulders and is thick then I would suggest getting 2 bottles just incase. Follow the directions in the kit and you should be fine. It should cover the highlighting error but some parts of your hair might be lighter then others because of the highlighting kit. In which that shouldn't look bad at all. I have dyed my hair almost every color in the book so I know all the fun mistakes that can happen. Let me tell you when you bleach your hair after dying it red it will turn orange... Horrible... If you have any questions just ask... Dying hair is my thing... Link to post Share on other sites
Fun2BMe Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 Many years ago I tried dying my hair on my own. My whole hair turned GREEN! It was blonde and I was trying to dye it black thinking it would be easy going to a darker shade. I found out the black has blue dyes in it and with the yellow the whole "yellow plus blue turns green" reaction took place on my head. I worked (still do but a different office) at a conservative brokerage company and was in a state of panic as to how I would go to work. It was past midnight when I finished and I had no salon to go to to have it corrected and I had to be at work at 5:30am. I was up crying all night, then I ended up wearing a berret that covered my entire head with my hair pulled up inside. After work I went to a salon to have it corrected. He changed my look as if I had a make-over but it cost a fortune. 15 years have gone by and I never touch a home kit again and the memory is enough to make me shell out the money at the salon. I think like agnf666 said you didn't keep it on long enough. If you are highlighting and you wash the chemicals out too early, it turns orange. You can even try it over again and take her advice to blow dry it. Separate your hair more evenly even if it takes long so it won't be uneven on the top like you describe. Or else save up to go to a salon so you can look nice and make it up for your husband who didn't want you to color your hair in the first place. It will be worth it. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Woggle Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 Shave your head and get ready for Sinead O'Conner jokes. Link to post Share on other sites
orange head Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 agnf, that's exactly what I did. I went with a medium brown colour, and it came out really nice. The hi-lighted bits shine through and give a really cool effect now. Thanks Fun2BMe. Woggle, very funny. Link to post Share on other sites
agnf666 Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 Orangehead I am glad that your hair is back to a normal shade!!! Sometimes DIY hair dye can be horrible... Actually right now my hair isn't looking so good but since I have dyed my hair more then 50 times I have to let it grow out a little more. Dying your hair is addicting... Atleast it was for me... Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 I look like a complete bimbo! My friend used a cap to highlight my hair but cos my hairs quite thin she pulled it all out the holes so there was none left of my natural dark blonde colour, the result is an entire head full of bright yellowy bleach blonde hair which looks cheep and awful. i just want my colour back! i asked a hairdresser how much it wud cost to put lowlights through the top and she said £45...i cant afford that :-( if i use another home dying kit to put dark ashy blonde through my hair will it go a funny colour??? if so what colour can i put through myself to town it down? please help! Link to post Share on other sites
agnf666 Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 One thing is that you have to be very careful when you let your friends dye your hair. I know that you know that by now. I would try using a light or medium ash blonde first. After you do that see what happens. That should tone it down a good bit. I wouldn't use the dark one because it is going to make your hair look brown. If your hair is still not the color you want it then go one shade darker. Then if you want to put highlights in your hair with a cap... You might want to pull your hair through the cap, this way you can control how much hair is getting highlighted. The thing is that you probably didn't wait the whole amount of time that is why it turned yellowish. So, try the light/medium ash blonde first... see what happens. Good Luck! Link to post Share on other sites
IfWishesWereHorses Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 I use a "light ash blonde" and last July my brand was out so I just picked th same color in another brand. It had about the same result as you just described! My daughter walked in, cracked up and asked me if the color I had used was "stripper blonde"! YUK!!! I redyed with with my original brand and was fine. Same situation happened a few weeks ago and I tried yet another brand of the same color and it turned darker that its been in a very long time. Unfortunately the colors of different brands are not consistant. Link to post Share on other sites
agnf666 Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 Since I have dyed soo much, when I pick out a new color it never looks like the box... Which kinda sucks... lol. I have heard that before with the light ash blonde. My grandmom uses that color and she got acheap brand of hairdye (colorsilk) and it turned her hair brown. Link to post Share on other sites
IfWishesWereHorses Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 LOL, how funny! THAT is the brand that I love and get the color that I prefer, but I am having trouble finding it in "light ash blonde". Nutress was too dark and another brand was WAYYYY too light! And yes, it is the cheapest brand available! I'ld pay to have it done but I HATE sitting in the salon for 3 hours!! Link to post Share on other sites
agnf666 Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 Have you tried Nice and Easy. They seem to be cheap and have alot of colors. I hate having to wait in the Salon for them to do my hair because they always insist that I need a color correction. Then when I leave there my hair looks worse then it did when walking into the place... Link to post Share on other sites
Trialbyfire Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 I hated sitting in the salon chair for hours as well, which is why I stopped putting highlights into my hair. Since my hair is past my waist and almost black, it used to take 5 hours. They had to bleach pieces of my hair to as light as they could get it, to remove the red and then redye those parts to a light, warm brown. Even then, it still went slightly orange due to the amount of natural red in my hair. In one instance, they ended up having to redye my whole head twice to tone down the orange. I can't imagine even trying to do my own hair. Too many disaster stories from friends to make me even want to attempt it. Link to post Share on other sites
agnf666 Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 Everytime I bleach my hair it turns orange. You would think I would learn my lesson with that one. lol. I just love when I go to the Salon and they tell me that my hair looks green or something just so they can do a color correction on my hair. Link to post Share on other sites
Ladywithafan Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 ....I'm a natural med. brown....that used to go bleach blonde (FL...what else is there to do ...lol) but here's the thing....I haven't had my hair streaked since Oct.....payed $180 to have it professionally done...laugh....I was so mad walking out the door....I didn't leave a tip....I thought I could have done a better job...I never went back...so Dec. 31st, I did my favorite thing & dyed it reddish brown w/Feria...love that product.... ok...it's finally toned down & since it's March....I am starting to see my grey around my temples underneather my bangs....I'll be 45 this month, look 35...but damn I've had my hair streaked for sooo long that going closer to my natural color is when the grey comes in.... I was thinking of doing a lighter base color & then either cap or painting the highlights myself.... Any color recommendations? Hair is almost to my shoulders...but I have about 5" of good regrowth, with no bleach in hair and probably from ears to ends....a lot of broken hair....from bleach....& chlorine that runs through our water at the beach. Should I forgo the coloring myself or get it bobbed before coloring? (I'm a person that goes for the bob w/bangs....boyfriend wants me to do a pixie...that would certainly get rid of the damage but if I go that short I'm bleaching it up.... Help? maybe shave it all off like brittany? Link to post Share on other sites
Trialbyfire Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 Is your hair medium brown with more ash blonde or is it more auburn? Link to post Share on other sites
agnf666 Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 My natural color was medium brown with red tones so that is why it always goes orange no matter what. Link to post Share on other sites
Trialbyfire Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 Have you considered a lighter shade of toffee brown then? Also, you mentioned damaged hair for assorted reasons. I've seen some pretty sexy, Halle Berry style spiked haircuts. I don't know what your facial shape is though. I can't do that because I don't have her facial shape or else it would be a definite consideration for me. Link to post Share on other sites
Ladywithafan Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 ....I'm looking auburnish brown, but it has lightened tremendously since Jan 1st for me....and the other thing is I have a crazy wave that comes out in the Florida humidity as it grows long....but I just didn't know if my hair will keep breaking up the shaft from the previous damage? Link to post Share on other sites
agnf666 Posted March 10, 2007 Share Posted March 10, 2007 ....I'm looking auburnish brown, but it has lightened tremendously since Jan 1st for me....and the other thing is I have a crazy wave that comes out in the Florida humidity as it grows long....but I just didn't know if my hair will keep breaking up the shaft from the previous damage? Well, My hair is really damaged because of all the dying. Your hair is breaking... hmm don't recommend dying it for a while if that is still going on. The only thing I can tell you is to try some really deep conditioners for a little while before dying it agian. I use Paul Mitchell Deep Conditioner, Aussie 3 minute Miracle (the best), Bed head has some really good conditioner. You might want to get a leave in conditioner too. That will help your hair not be soo dry. Have you considered a lighter shade of toffee brown then? Also, you mentioned damaged hair for assorted reasons. I've seen some pretty sexy, Halle Berry style spiked haircuts. I don't know what your facial shape is though. I can't do that because I don't have her facial shape or else it would be a definite consideration for me. I have done that whole spiked thing a few years ago. Right now my hair is actually pretty short but it is really good looking. I really don't want to go much shorter. I have a round face so some of those short haircuts look super horrible with my hair. Link to post Share on other sites
Ladywithafan Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 ...and it looks great, feels fantastic! Link to post Share on other sites
Fun2BMe Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 I'm in a hurry as we speak to get to my hair appointment. She does miracles, can't wait to get it done! Link to post Share on other sites
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