how do i get the orange-ness out of my bleached hair?

okay so you may have seen another post i did where i bleached my hair a month or two ago but i put a dye over and it went back to bleack grr.

ANYWAYS i just bleached it again, took it off with water when it went a orangey colour and then put on superdrugs equiv to the 10 min colour by clairol, it was called soft intense golden brown...last time i put a brown dye over orangey hair it went back to almost black (my natural colour) :s-smilie:

so this time i only left it on for 5mins but its now come out a browny but very orangey colour, mainly at the roots/top of the hair, (im mixed raced btw so this doesn't look good on me haha) so i'm well skint now so am just wondering if there are any inexpensive ways i can take the orangey tint out? and what do toners do?

I'm planning on going salon in two weeks as its my bday soon so will be getting highlights anyways but dont want to have to wait till (as they can colour it again for me) then to not have orangey brown hair :P

thanks for any advice, dont waste my time with rude comments thanks :smile:

Reply 1

aimeelala

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fairy_dust20

took it off with water when it went a orangey colour

I think that's your problem - you didn't leave it on long enough, or didn't use the right volume peroxide. Anything with the words "golden", "warm" etc is going to have red tones in which is why it has an orange tinge (sorry, that probably sounds really obvious!). If you are able to find a really good toner it might ease the orange-ness a bit!

Reply 2

fairy_dust20

OP

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aimeelala

I think that's your problem - you didn't leave it on long enough, or didn't use the right volume peroxide. Anything with the words "golden", "warm" etc is going to have red tones in which is why it has an orange tinge (sorry, that probably sounds really obvious!). If you are able to find a really good toner it might ease the orange-ness a bit!

hey,
thanks for the reply, yeah i don't think i did leave it on long enough plus i was so silly, i simply thought "gosh what a nice shade of brown" and then after i had put it on rememebered that it was golden so would OF COURSE have red tones lol, silly me. Do you know what toners do? as i'm not too sure, but i know you use them after bleach...i think...

Reply 3

Knocking One Out

Shave it all off. By the way does the carpet match the curtains?

Reply 4

Cesare Borgia

10

Go swimming, the chlorine will sort it.

Reply 5

Reply 6

fairy_dust20

hey,
thanks for the reply, yeah i don't think i did leave it on long enough plus i was so silly, i simply thought "gosh what a nice shade of brown" and then after i had put it on rememebered that it was golden so would OF COURSE have red tones lol, silly me. Do you know what toners do? as i'm not too sure, but i know you use them after bleach...i think...

AFAIK you don't always need to use toners after bleaching. It depends whether you have achieved the shade you wanted by bleach alone. When I've had my hair bleached in the past at the hairdressers, they haven't always needed to use toner, because they managed to get the right shade by bleaching alone.

Well I'm no expert, but try Capital Hair and Beauty (http://www.capitalhairandbeauty.co.uk/chb.storefront/4b36596e0186b7a027430a022f0205dd/Catalog/Stores) or Sallys (http://www.sallyexpress.com/ - there's a store locator on the main page) for toners...don't think ones from Boots or whatever will cut it! Hope you manage to sort it out!

Reply 7

LOV3R

fairy_dust20

okay so you may have seen another post i did where i bleached my hair a month or two ago but i put a dye over and it went back to bleack grr.

ANYWAYS i just bleached it again, took it off with water when it went a orangey colour and then put on superdrugs equiv to the 10 min colour by clairol, it was called soft intense golden brown...last time i put a brown dye over orangey hair it went back to almost black (my natural colour) :s-smilie:

so this time i only left it on for 5mins but its now come out a browny but very orangey colour, mainly at the roots/top of the hair, (im mixed raced btw so this doesn't look good on me haha) so i'm well skint now so am just wondering if there are any inexpensive ways i can take the orangey tint out? and what do toners do?

I'm planning on going salon in two weeks as its my bday soon so will be getting highlights anyways but dont want to have to wait till (as they can colour it again for me) then to not have orangey brown hair :P

thanks for any advice, dont waste my time with rude comments thanks :smile:

I seen a girl like you in my class, she had orange on her skull, I mean her roots were fine, but the technique was really bad, I recommend you go to the salon and do a proper job. I like girls like you, take account of your looks, some girls dont even bother with there hair, its all greasy and not comed.

Reply 8

Kasphlam

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Ash brown, or ash toner.

Reply 9

fairy_dust20

OP

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aimeelala

AFAIK you don't always need to use toners after bleaching. It depends whether you have achieved the shade you wanted by bleach alone. When I've had my hair bleached in the past at the hairdressers, they haven't always needed to use toner, because they managed to get the right shade by bleaching alone.

Well I'm no expert, but try Capital Hair and Beauty (http://www.capitalhairandbeauty.co.uk/chb.storefront/4b36596e0186b7a027430a022f0205dd/Catalog/Stores) or Sallys (http://www.sallyexpress.com/ - there's a store locator on the main page) for toners...don't think ones from Boots or whatever will cut it! Hope you manage to sort it out!

Okay thanks for the advice etc, i shall have a look on those sites. yeah me too hehe, thanks again :smile:

Reply 10

fairy_dust20

OP

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Kasphlam

Ash brown, or ash toner.

thanks for the advice :smile:

Reply 11

Lucyyy

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I'm not too hot on bleach and toners, having never used them myself, but this seems to be a fair explanation of toners; http://www.beeunique.co.uk/Hair-HowToner.htm

Reply 12

Sweet by and by

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tbh I think you should just get a colour stripper and start form scratch. Its not a great idea to colour over a bad dye job it could make it worse. I used to work as a junior in one of the top hair salons in Scotland so I'm not making it up aha! Plus if you dye over your hair just now you run the risk of a chemical reaction between the two dyes which could be catastrophic.

Reply 13

Hello Laura!

12

If it's not completely orange, get a silver saver shampoo. It gets rid of orange/yellow tones. I used to use it when I had my hair bleached to make it white instead of yellow.

Good times.

Reply 14

fairy_dust20

OP

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thanks again for all your advice guys :wink:

i straightened it (my hair's naturally curly) and i love it now, its not as orange as i first thought, looks like Aishwarya Rai's hair colour in "Bride and Prejudice" still want to tone it down to more of a "normal" browny colour but will proabably just wait now till i go to the salon in 2 weeks :biggrin:

Reply 15

O’Connor j

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I have a lot of warm in my hair an grey in front of hair certain colour sends front of hair blue were it’s grey went to hairdressers she bleached it an then put high low lights in it the front hairline has gone orange how to I get to go blonde

how do i get the orange-ness out of my bleached hair?

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