My first bleach bath attempt

You should never start with your roots when applying the bleach. It's always, ALWAYS, the last part you apply it to, because of the heat your scalp produces.

Have You tried colour removers? Or vitamin c?

Good luck!

Oh darn, I should've known better.  It's just that it's the top half of growth that needs it the most, the older growth has already had so many rounds of colour so I figured it was safer to start at the top. 
The new growth looks so dark, I hate it.  I've tried colour removers before a couple times and they worked pretty well.  But I still have the problem of old highlighted bits that stand out because they are so much lighter.  I just want my hair all one colour!  Now it's worse than ever.  I wonder if I should wait a month or so and then just dye the whole works with a colour.  I have some tubes of colour from Sally's I could mix with a low volume peroxide maybe?  Oh I don't know anymore!

I feel your pain... My hair is now a mix of brown, orange, yellow, white and lavender. If I bleach, the lavender bits, which are practically fried as BBQ chicken, they will break off, and the brown will lift only lightly I presume, that's why I opt for colour removers first.

If you dye it a darker colour, they uneven base will shine through. Adding peroxide won't make a difference.

Continue with colour removers, vitamin C treatments, and maybe try a diet coke? I don't know if it's approved or heard by anyone else in here, but I've read about it today, and that's what is used to clean crime scenes and stuff lol.

Don't bleach at the moment. Are you aware of the correct method of colour removing? You apply it to dry, freshly clarified hair, you leave it on for a while, then you wash your hair 3 times, dry it, wash again, dry it, wash again, rinse it with very very warm water, practically as hot as you can take, and you rinse it for about half an hour, or even longer.

Try different brands of colour removers, try vitamin c, they're not damaging so do anything you can and see bleach as a last resort

Good luck!

Thanks, at least I'm not alone!  I just finished another round of Adore in the darkest colours I had left in my stash, I used a mix of paprika, cinnamon and honey brown (has anyone else noticed just how green Adore honey brown looks on its own?) and let it sit an hour.  It helped a BIT but in that area top and front of my hair where it turned blonde it still looks pretty intensely bright compared to the rest.  I don't think I can live with this too long...
*boo*

The colours I already have in my cabinet from Sally's are Illumina in number 7/.  I think it's a medium neutral blonde colour.  Does this sound logical - if I dye my hair all over with the lighter colour of medium blonde that it will add colour to my old highlighted areas and lift colour a bit in darker areas? Or am I delusional??  I don't plan on any bleach again for a bit though since I just did this bleach bath yesterday.  ARGHHH

It's hard to tell anything, everyone's hair is different and one colour may look entirely different on various people.

Avoid box dyes, they very often contain high percentages of peroxide and getting them out of the hair is just.. You better be Chuck Norris gurl. (or Katiesiepierski)

I am almost certain your reasoning on how this light blonde will work is wrong.

Adore's dye is probably green because it's supposed to be applied to ginger-y hair, as it won't take on really dark hair, and in order to neutralise the red, you have to use green.

It's so hard to tell anything. Look at your hair, look at the colour spectrum, think what dye you should use. In the sense of green covering redness, purple covering brassiness/yellow tones etc.

Hair is like an underwear, personal <3 LOL

"getting them out of the hair is just.. "

Actually, it's often easier. Colour removers are designed for permanent hair colours, not veggies/direct dyes. The issue comes in when the dye has silicone in it and straighteners have been used.

But, don't use the hair dye. It's also going to lighten the areas that are too light now, because that's what they do.

I can't really think of a way of getting it closer to one colour, other than spot dying the lighter patches with a darker shade of the dye you're using now.

It isn't sounding too good... Well what about using a lighter permanent dye or maybe just another bleach bath on everything except the light bits?  The hard part would be trying to avoid those but maybe it's not impossible.  At least then there wouldn't be so much contrast between the light and dark bits.  What do you think?