Advice on dyeing hair red

[Larissa162]

Hi guys! I have a question..

I dyed the underneath of my hair, basically the hair in my neck and a bit up, nuclear red. Loved it, but wanted it a bit brighter. Yesterday I decided to bleach bathe it, before dying it red again. I was worried about leaving it in too long and damaging my hair (have done before). So I didn't leave it in very long, but now it's still very yellow. Not at all inside of a banana yellow, it's more of a very ripe banana on the ouside. I figured it doesn't have to be perfect, as it's not at the top of my head. But I'm concerned about dying now. Will yellow hair + red make orange?! Should I bleach bathe again at some point first, or would red be safe to use today? I do not like orange!

Advice please?!

[lauralei13]

Nuclear Red is absolutely fine over yellow blonde, you only really need to lighten to ginger for any red anyway. My hair doesn't go through a ginger stage when bleaching so I used to apply Nuclear Red over yellow blonde all the time and it was perfect. Nuclear does have an orange fade though, if you want a truer red fade you can mix a pink based red into it!

[Larissa162]

Are you really very sure sure?! I attached a pic of my hair as it is now. It's really very yellow.

[Janineb]

Yes, it'll be fine. Nuclear is about the strongest colour out there. It'll cover that just fine. As lauralei says though, adding a pink red will help with any orange fade that nuclear naturally has.

It went that yellow partly because of the nuclear that was already on it!

[Larissa162]

Of course, that makes so much sense! Why didn't I think of that haha. I forgot about the orange fading, so thanks to both of you. I added about 40% cherry bomb to 60% nuclear red, with one dot of atomic pink =P  Dye is currently colouring my hair, so we'll see how that works out!

[lauralei13]

Yeah Nuclear used to go neon yellow on me if I bleached over it! Like Cyndi Lauper neon yellow ha! That sounds like it should work out really nice, don't forget to show us the result!