I just realized this had posted without text! So here's what I said the first time, I'll see if it posts now...
What a NIGHTMARE color! I've been doing my own hair in funky colors for years and never ever had one as stubborn as this!
I'm pretty sure I did two vitamin c treatments followed by a bleach bath followed by another vitamin c treatment followed by another bleach bath followed by a toner and another bleach bath and then another toner. This was all over the course of several weeks of course, and my final picture is a blow dried picture with NO product in my hair.. Though I won't say it's not feeling the pain a little. The last toner left it a little purple, but I'm hoping that'll wash out through the course of regular washing, and I have an olaplex treatment booked for this Friday. Whew. Here's a couple photos taken throughout the process...
Posted : July 14, 2015 1:01 am
On a lot of people Ions blues are totally permanent, even full strength bleach doesn't shift it so that is quite an impressive result.
Posted : July 14, 2015 7:10 pm
Yeah I had read that on here, which is why I wanted to share! I had really wanted to do bright red/orange next, but I just don't see it looking great with what's going on here.. So I'll probably go for a level 8 blonde and a decent trim and sit on my hands for a while before attempting to do red. :/
Posted : July 14, 2015 11:22 pm
A good red will cover your current base with no problems, reds are pretty forgiving, much more so than blues.
Posted : July 15, 2015 11:12 am
Yeah, red will easily cover that. I've covered some really badly multi coloured bases with reds 🙂
Posted : July 15, 2015 11:15 am
I'm just afraid it would fade insanely fast if I did it right now. I did a test strand for like two hours, the red took, but washed out within a couple washes, and the orange took on a horrible muddy version of itself. This is using direct dyes of course, but I'm fine with waiting a bit to see if it'll hold better in a couple months after my hair has had some time to calm down.
Posted : July 15, 2015 6:34 pm
I would just do it now and top it up in a couple of weeks... What red is it? I usually can't get red dyes to fade!
Posted : July 15, 2015 7:44 pm
So, we went to darken my blonde.. And it went orangey. So we went with it! Wasn't exactly the shade I wanted, but I dig it.
Posted : July 21, 2015 3:13 am
I'm kind of hoping that the ends fade so I can put more of a yellowy Orange on the ends and more of a true red on the roots so I end up with a sort of fire ombré.
Posted : July 21, 2015 3:15 am
I love that colour! It looks great on you 🙂
Posted : July 21, 2015 7:45 pm
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