Hair dye question!

bellrooster

Hi folks

I wonder if anyone can help with this..

I have natural dark blonde hair that I dye with nice and easy 101 (light blonde) and have done for years. I fancy a change now though, and thought I would try a shade of brown. Can I just apply a brown dye on top of the one already have on? or do I need to grow out my other dye first. (I hope not as I have long hair )

xxvickixx

No it will go green and ashy.
I expect you'll get a lot of people telling you to go to the hairdressers and under no circumstances to do it yourself. However I have gone from very light bleach blonde to dark rich brown and back again myself and it's always looked great. When I go dark I've always used a red colour first and then the brown. This adds the red tones in to counter any green and warms it up to avoid the grey/ashy look.
I know that there is a risk of damage to the hair and it might not work for everyone butif you are determined then you must, must, must use red first. And go for a lighter brown than you think you want as it will look darker.
It's worth playing around with some strands to see what it looks like before you take the plunge.

nikki2804

Normally if you want to go from blond to brown you need to go red first.

Me being me, didn't do this and went straight from platinum blond to a light brown. It worked fine for me, hth.

bellrooster

thanks Vicki, I would never have thought to use the red dye first! Do you have to leave a gap between dying, eg, have red hair for a week ? before you add the brown?

xxvickixx

No I just dried it off and did the brown usually, but sometimes had a while as a redhead just for variety!