from blonde to brunette

jacquij123

Hi,
While there are some 'people in the know' are here could I please ask for some related advice. My daughter has naturally fair hair, not bright blonde, for some reason she wanted to go brown, now she would like to return to her fairer colour. Does she have to wait for the colour to grow out or is there any way she can lighten it without bleaching and damaging her hair. We tried a light colour on it but it didn't make any difference.
Hope someone can help and thanks in advance.

Gingernutmeg

dumb_blonde wrote: »

ok i will keep my fingers crossed as i really cant afford the hairdressers, thanks for your posts

Have you thought about trying your local college? I've been looking round for a haircut recently and I was a bit staggered at the prices (£30/£40 for a 'restyle', shows how long it's been since I had a haircut lol) and I noticed that my local college has got two salons, a training one and a professional one. The prices for colours especially looked really cheap compared with the high street salon prices, and I can't imagine they'd make a mess of it (or if they did I bet they'd sort it ). I'm definitely going to book so it might be something to look at if you're looking for a cheaper hair-do.

upsetonerightnow

dumb_blonde wrote: »

there was a tiny hint of green so my daughter said but i couldnt see it,so i just put a wash in/out chestnut brown on top.(the things you do when you have had a wine or two)

Put ketchup in your hair it neutralises it thats what I did my hair was khaki green and went brown once i did that

HTH

peachyprice

Funny, but the hair colour I use says if you want to exactly replicate the colour on the box to use their superblonde lightener first

hemophobic

Gingernutmeg wrote: »

Have you thought about trying your local college? I've been looking round for a haircut recently and I was a bit staggered at the prices (£30/£40 for a 'restyle', shows how long it's been since I had a haircut lol) and I noticed that my local college has got two salons, a training one and a professional one. The prices for colours especially looked really cheap compared with the high street salon prices, and I can't imagine they'd make a mess of it (or if they did I bet they'd sort it ). I'm definitely going to book so it might be something to look at if you're looking for a cheaper hair-do.

My girlfriend does hair dressing at college and we have a salon open to the public which is really cheap. They are always supervised and I've never head of anything going wrong.

sleepymy

My aunt's went bright orange years ago, she phoned my mum in hysterics (not the laughing kind lol).

dieselhead

hemophobic wrote: »

My girlfriend does hair dressing at college and we have a salon open to the public which is really cheap. They are always supervised and I've never head of anything going wrong.

I can defiantly recommend going to a college, I went to the college for the first time a couple of weeks ago and I can honestly say its one of the best hair cuts I have ever had, It was checked every step of the way by the tutor and I actually found it much easier to explain what I wanted, and best of all for a wet cut and blow dry it was £6.60 compared to the normal £25-£30 it was defiantly MSE!!

dumb_blonde

wish i had thought of the college earlier, just had a haircut,been putting it off for ages for two reasons,one i couldnt afford it and two i have a tremor and it can be embarrasing at the hairdressers,decided i needed spoiling for a change but it cost me £25. Will definately try the college next time.Thanks

dieselhead

I should probably just note if you do go to the college be prepared for it to take a little longer than usual!! Worth it though!

mazza111

Ahh the dreaded green hair stories.

I was 14 and my sister had her on Salon. Lots of new things were coming out at the time, like foils and guns for doing highlights. Muggins got tested on a lot Went from having Blond streaks to having brown hair. I used to swim a lot in those days, and yes I went green. Red does neutralise it, and it's advisable to dye it red b4 dying it brown. Am actually surprised my hair didn't all break off in those days, I was dying it every other week :eek: