Another Black Dye Crisis

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I dyed my hair black two years ago and have been using a mix of permanent and semi permanent hair dye to keep it up ever since. I hate it. Recently I went to a salon and had the color "lifted" a process that does not use bleach. Well it worked..kind of...now I have a mottled brown, red, black, dark brown, and light blond roots thing. I feel skanky and it's really wearing on my self image.I want to fix it fast, not too worried about the $ issue, but from all the dyeing and processing my hair is in a fragile state. Please help. The stylist said one more treatment would take it to a dark auburn but I dont know, and I dont want to spend more money for little result. I want to try the dandruff shampoo thing but more dissapointment may lead me to insanity (or lots of kleenex use..)
Help.

― Anastasia (littlelovely), Thursday, 14 August 2003 04:25 (twenty-two years ago)

bleach it up to where you want it, do it the color you want, and do an intensicve condition, you'll be fine.

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 14 August 2003 04:29 (twenty-two years ago)

shave yer head

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 14 August 2003 04:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Anastasia, listen to your stylist. I did exactly what you did a few years ago. It's a painful, expenisve process but if you're patient you can lighten yr color up without destroying your hair in the process.

Eventually I just went back to doing black b/c I'm lazy and poor.

― Texas Sam (thatgirl), Thursday, 14 August 2003 04:49 (twenty-two years ago)

The other option is to colour it after the lifting, which is what I did. I wanted to get rid of black too, but you can't go directly from black to, say, blonde. It comes out like you said - all blotchy and red/brown. So I had a red semipermanent put in after the lifting and it came up really nice, and now it looks really red after a few more months of red re-dyes. Also, like Orbit said, lots of conditioner if your hair seems a little more damaged than it was (a good modern dye stripper shouldnt damage the hair too badly though, they work on warmth rather than bleaching).

How models go from black to platinum beggars belief - do they just wear lots of wigs!?

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 14 August 2003 05:00 (twenty-two years ago)

they are genetically superior to us all

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Thursday, 14 August 2003 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah it's good wigs. My favorite deep conditioners are the relatively inexpensive Aussie Three Minute Miracle ($4-6) or the splurgetacular Kiehl's Lecithin and Coconut Enriched Hair Masque with Panthenol for Dry Hair, which is $22.50. It smells good enough to eat, though, and really works great. Kiehl's has an even stronger deep conditioner for color-treated/damaged hair called Intensive Repairateur Deep Conditioning Pak for about the same price, but I haven't tried it. Also your stylist will have some recommendations, or you should ask him/her about certain products... Some conditoners and shampoos have protein in them which will fade color.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 15 August 2003 09:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm with dyson - shave it all off! I did the same a few years back, mainly cos I realised I'd forgotten my natural hair colour after years of dyeing, but also cos I was really interested to know the real shape of my head...

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 15 August 2003 09:31 (twenty-two years ago)

i second (third now) dyson's suggestion. you'll have a fresh base to start from again, it'll keep you cool if you live somewhere hot, it's dead handy to clean, it could make people rethink any preconceptions they have about you, you'll get to see what sort of a ripley you'd make and it'll grow back. i did it years ago and it was great fun.

― angela (angela), Friday, 15 August 2003 09:32 (twenty-two years ago)

it could make people rethink any preconceptions they have about you

Shityeah! I forgot about that one too - I actually looked a bit scary for the first time in my life! (ok, really I looked like a gay nazi alien, but still, that's quite scary, don'tchathink?)

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 15 August 2003 09:34 (twenty-two years ago)

My favorite deep conditioner for cheap is the Queen Helene cholesterol thing. It doesn't really smell good though but dear god do I need to do one. The Kiehl's info is OTM, that stuff is AMAZING.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 15 August 2003 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

six years pass...

I have natural blonde hair but for the past few years have been dying it v dark brown (almost black). NB I'm not a goth and it looked great - I just got fed up with having blonde roots every few weeks, it looked weird, and I couldn't be bothered to do my roots often enough. So anyway, as you can't really go from that dark back to blonde, I decided to grow it out using semi-permanent dark brown dye to cover the roots. I think it's about grown out now so is all only semi-permanent muky brown (with 1-inch blonde roots because I haven't touched it in months - it looks kind of dip-dyed) and looking pretty crappy.

So I think I'm about ready to get it dyed light again. The problem is I've just moved to across the Atlantic, so no trusty hairdress here, and have never had my hair coloured professionally before. I chose this salon based on Yelp reviews and went in for a consultation. The guy seemed ok and suggested a half-head of highlights. But I AM SCARED!
He seemed to think going fairly blonde would be achievable. Any advice? Is it ok to dye over semi-permanent without 'lifting' or stripping the colour? Also, I definitely don't want stripey hair, although the guy said this wouldn't happen - it would look like natural blonde. Hm.

― Not the real Village People, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 22:33 (sixteen years ago)

hair dye advice? it's just like the old days

― akm, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 22:36 (sixteen years ago)

:( If it all goes wrong, you are the ones who will have to make polite comments when I bombard the WDYLL thread...

― Not the real Village People, Thursday, 12 November 2009 03:35 (sixteen years ago)

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