Gone ginger again

calleyw

I dyed my hair a lot last year and ended up being ginger

I spent £40 on getting corrected and now I have tried to go a bit blonder and guess what I have gone ginger again.

I was told not to get anything that said golden/red on the box and I would be ok!!!

I picked one that was light blonde and now in certain lights it looks ginger.

What do I do now. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.

Yours

Calley

System

When I lightened my hair a few years ago it went a gingery colour. I wanted it to go light blonde. My natural hair colour is blonde but I think it must have some red in it, because lightening it does seem to bring the red/ginger out!

marrowgirl

Me too. I'm currently a natural dark blonde but as soon as I go lighter I go ginge. I was born a red head so I think I have lots of natural red in my hair. To go blonde my hairdresser has to strip my hair then add blonde and it is such a faff I have ended up embracing the ginge and going dark red instead.

Alton_Towers

You need something with ash tones to it to take out the red, only trouble is it can then look a bit silvery.

jenniewb

Wasn't sure by your opening post/question: were you trying to go blonde or trying to go pale red? Am assuming it was the latter- otherwise go back if it isn't blonde!

Not a red/pink based red implies a orange/yellow based red and this is when you near into ginger territory: a peach or warm based blond can look like ginger when as an all-over colour, your looking at asking for a cooler red and not a warmer red when asking BUT this can often clash with your natural skin tone, unless your very pale and have a cool based skin tone (ie doesn't tan in the sun, wears no self tan or bronzer...etc)

If you got this done in a salon, it's always worth speaking to the owner and asking if they can add a tone to it to tone it down or something, otherwise your only other option is (if living with it isn't an option) to dye over it slightly darker to a redder tone.

Pennywise2012

If it's only ginger in certain lights (as opposed to Fifth Element, Ronald McDonald, Linda-off-Gimme-Gimme-Gimme pure ginger), then a toner should take the worst of it out, without having to re-bleach.

There's one in Boots called Colour Restore that I've used and been happy with, and I think it's a 1/3 off at the moment.

Fire_Fox

calleyw wrote: »

I dyed my hair a lot last year and ended up being ginger

I spent £40 on getting corrected and now I have tried to go a bit blonder and guess what I have gone ginger again.

I was told not to get anything that said golden/red on the box and I would be ok!!!

I picked one that was light blonde and now in certain lights it looks ginger.

What do I do now. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.

Yours

Calley

Not using the right dye for your hair, not doing the recommended strand tests before hitting the whole head? The ginger tones are natural to your hair but previously hidden by the darker tones, so either you are not lifting them enough or not neutralising with enough ash. Have you actually fully grown out the errors of last year? If not all you may simply be lifting out the correcting and revealing the ginger from last year.

Why don't you just get a professional, say a second year student at the local hairdressing college to be MSE? They carry on doing each technique even after passing the module so you can easily get a student who is actually qualified to do tinting. Certainly they should have better knowledge than most people on MSE, and the tutor supervising certainly will.

mumofronnienreggie

hope its okay to come back to the post after it has been quiet for so long, i read through loads of hair posts ages ago but i was on my phone and couldnt respond easily .... but i am a qualified hair person so might be able to help....
basics of hair colouring ( lightening) ,,, the colour lotion, bleach, dye ( doesnt matter what it is if you are lightening, they all do the same job its just the chemical reaction that differs slightly) .. the work by removing your colour pigment in a certain order.. takes out the black, then the brown , then the red, then the yellow pigment .. regardless of what colour our hair is , the majority of us still have at least of some of each pigment. If you remove all the yellow then the hair structure collapses ( ie. it snaps, you cry, the hairdresser leaves the country etc) ...
so when you are trying to lighten your hair you need to get one that is suitable for getting all the red pigment out and some of the yellow. If your hair is 'going ginger' it is usually because the colour you are applying isnt strong enough.
also as someone already mentioned, a more ash tone can help to counteract the golden tones but you need to watch what you are doing or you will end up with Khaki grey hues which is never attractive :-/
In the salon, most of the high lift blondes have violet molecules in them which is a much better opposite colour to counteract golden hues.

any colout that is 11/0 10 9/0 12/0 generally means that it is neither ash nor golden so can be a safer bet but personally i agree with firefox, go to a professional. Local colleges also offer fabulous services and I myself have my long hair and high lights done at my local college. I get a level 3 student to do it so they are actually already qualified just building on their experience and qualifications, and its as cheap as chips. Love it.
and yes,,,, strand test before you use a colour. yes its a pain in the butt but not as much a pain in the butt as having a head of hair that you dont like and the after math of trying to deal with it.
:-)