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journey to white/silver blonde hair pt.2 + Living Colors review.

so after a few trial and errors of toning and coloring, i’ve finally reached the silvery blonde i’ve been after!! (Note: I did not bleach/dye my roots which is why they’re a weird yellow color.)

Heres how I did it:

My base was a very pale yellow to begin with, and I began with the toner Wella T18 mixed with 3 capfuls of 050 Violet Additive

This alone got me to a nice silvery-blonde color, but I still wanted to go a bit more silver, so I decided to try out “Living Colors” in Platinum #44.

 The dye itself was a bit more liquidy than I had expected, and was a dark purple color. I left it on for 25 minutes. (Note: It says to use a head cap and apply heat, I didn’t do this step.)

 And the end result was far more than I had expected! I do have a slight purple-tinge from the dye, but my hair tends to suck up color pigment, and whenever I use a silver dye, the blue or purple undertone tends to show more.

This is from a day after dyeing! 

Overall I’m happy with how silver the dye made my hair (It’s a lot more silvery in direct sunlight, which I tried to capture in my picture), it also has Keratin oil in it and it made my hair feel a lot better and look a lot healthier.

I was a little nervous to try a new semi-permanent dye, but living colors has impressed me thus far with their platinum color, and I will continue to use it to keep up with this new silvery color!

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journey to white/Silver blonde hair pt.1

after being a redhead for a few weeks I’ve ultimately decided to go back to my previous white/silver hair.

It was easier to achieve this hair before because I had already had light hair to work with, and this time around I had a strawberry blonde color on top of a coral-colored base.

this was my hair before I began:

It was a mixture of the coral base, strawberry blonde dye, and blonde colors.

(It also matches my front door!)

To begin my journey to blonde hair I decided to go through and bleach rather than strip the color (Stripping is great for color removal except it makes your hair smell like bad eggs because of the chemicals, and I didn’t want to smell like an egg out in public)

I went to Sally’s and to my dismay realized they were out of the “Age beautiful” creme lightener.

So I decided to test my luck and go with another creme lightener called “7th Stage” by Clairol 

I also picked up some toners by Wella (T18 is amazing!)

Note: You *have* to use the lightening activators with the creme lightener in order for it to work. I used one for each bottle of lightener but you can use up to 3 packets. In hindsight I should have probably used 2 packets per lightener for extra strength.

I mixed the lightener with the appropriate amount of 20 developer and left it on for 55minutes

The bleach itself turned a nice blue color that kind of freaked me out because it looked more like a toner mixing rather than a bleach.

Leaving it on for so long and you couldn’t really tell if your strands were changing color either. But have faith!

Because the bleach worked well and took off the strawberry blonde color and got me back to my coral-colored base like the one pictured here after bleaching.

I then mixed up the T18 (with 20 developer) and slathered it on. Leaving it on for 30 minutes before rinsing.

I’m currently at a light golden blonde color. (don’t mind the bathroom selfie) ;)

I’m using the methods I listed here to keep my hair healthy and alive before I begin the process of getting the rest of the yellow removed to get my hair to a white platinum.

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How to remove blue tint from hair

Pravana silver is one of my favorite colors that I’ve used to dye my hair.

It wasn’t my workplace’s favorite, however.

After my first initial application of pravana silver. I mixed the tube of dye with a 1:2 ratio of dye to white conditioner to get a lovely pastel silver.

When it came time again to reapply my hair color, I decided to be a bit more adventurous and just apply the color directly to my hair strands without diluting with conditioner.

I got the prettiest color as a result. A dark silver fading to a lighter silver at the ends.

**This is the color in direct sunlight**

It was probably the prettiest, darkest silver I’ve seen and I was instantly in love. I figure it would fade the same as the diluted color did, and thought I had struck gold with this color.

Then I washed my hair.

This is the color I woke up to. Taken in direct sunlight. The color had turned purple and blue all over, with greenish roots. 

The worst part was the fact I had to work in less than 7 hours.

My work does not allow unnatural colors of any kind, and I knew I would be sent home right away if I even tried to go in with this color

And my hair had been through so much in just a few weeks I almost dared to risk it.

But my judgement got the best of me, so I decided to tackle the blue tint and get my hair natural-ish before the workday began.

And so my journey began.

Frantically googling ways to remove blue tint, I’ve tried the highest rated results, and I’ve compiled a nice easy list on what works and what doesn’t

* Putting regular 40 developer straight on to hair dye*

Not sure why this was even an option, I put it on and waited and rinsed and the only noticible difference was the fact my hair was dryer than when I first started

*Baking soda in shampoo* (I mixed with dandruff shampoo for extra strength)

I can see this working if you had a slight tint to your hair, but all it seemed to do was lighten the pre-existing color, making my hair a light blue instead of the dark blue in the picture. Which still wasn’t cutting it

*Lemon Juice/Citric Acid*

No noticable difference in lift, but did make my hair dry out.

Finally with the clock ticking and my work-anxiety setting in, I darted to Sally’s to find a quick remedy to remove the tint and considered buying a cheap wig for the day.

Then I came across this beautiful product:

Seriously the. best. bleach

I’ve been bleaching and dyeing my hair since I was in middle school.

I’ve always used a powder bleach but I wanted something less-damaging, or as less-damaging a bleach can be.

This is it. This is the only bleach I’ll use now.

Not only did it not make my hair worse in it’s condition.

IT TOOK OUT ALL REMAINING BLUE TINGE

I could have cried with happiness

Even with powder bleaches I usually get spots from uneven lift

This product is a miracle-worker. I wish I had went straight to using it before doing all of the “home-remedies” for blue tint, which dried my hair out an insane amount.

My hair did come out an orangy-coral color from the lack of blue pigmentation, but I slathered on some copper-blonde dye I had stored away from previous dye-experiments. 

My hair came out a bit more orange-y than I had wanted, my hair is extremely porous and soaks up color.

The color matched my orange shirt for awhile until after a couple of washes and then it toned out to a nice strawberry/blonde

My managers ended up loving this color (surprisingly) and I had never felt relief such as that on that day.

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So you fried your hair. How to fix rubbery/elastic-feeling/breaking hair

Have you ever gone overboard on dyeing or bleaching your hair that it feels all moisture has been lost forever? Does your hair break at the slightest pressure when wet? Are you sick of the elastic-feeling and the fried frizzled ends? Does the only form of redemption for your hair seem to be cutting off inches? Before reaching for those scissors, here's a list of tips I've gathered from my own bleaching-gone-wrong experiment and how I brought my hair back to life. My ends were frazzled when dry, and my hair limp and elastic when wet. Here's how I fixed it: (All purchased from Target) * Aussi 3-minute miracle Okay I'm usually very skeptical about conditioners, but this one had good reviews and it was less than three dollars. ITS AMAZING, you guys. Seriously. I used the "3-minute miracle moist" and it was a life-saver. It's a very thick and creamy conditioner and smells like coconut. I left it on for around 10 minutes the first time I used it, and my hair was noticeable softer and healthier looking with just one use. I use it all the time now. In place of normal conditioner, and leave it in for about 2-3 minutes * Organix Argan Oil of Morocco extra penetrating oil This is a nice leave-in oil after showering to help repair your ends and leave your hair shiny and healthy looking * HASK Argan Oil from Morroco Intense Deep Conditioning Hair Treatment This stuff was amazing. I use it once a week for 10 minutes at a time. It helps to penetrate my hair and condition and repair it from dryness and breakage, plus it smells like citrus. ** I've been using these products for two weeks and already my hair is softer and healthier. I would recommend these products to anyone looking to repair damaged hair, and if you have any further tips for let me know!

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Besides a failed L'oreal Hicolor experiment, Irene’s hair was virgin to the hair-dye world. She wanted to change her dark brown to an Ariel-Red so she enlisted me to help. We started by gathering supplies: *L'oreal Quick Blue Bleach * 30 Developer * Ion Color Creme in “Medium intense red blonde” * 20 Developer *Ion Color Sealer *Pravana Black additive I mixed the bleach with a 30 developer and slathered it on her hair(and ear, sorry Irene), and to my dismay, the previous failed Hicolor began to poke through, making her roots bright yellow and middle bright orange We quickly rinsed and covered the area in the hair dye, hoping her hair would take. I mixed some of the red dye with Pravana black additive to make a darker red to add more dimension to her hair. The end result? A Tongan Mermaid We sealed the color shortly after. Her Tongan hair is very thick and course and the HiColor didn’t seem to be able to penetrate and lighten her hair, instead it left a faint red tint to her dark hair, and after bleaching did it begin to show. I would recommend bleaching first before dyeing, that way you get an even lift and not a multicolored hair strand like we did, but the Ion dye covered it easily enough, and made her hair an even and beautiful shade of red.