Emergency hair dye help needed - traumatised teenager!

[wonderinglinda]

Desperately need help on this one -
have a teenager who is very keen on home hair dyes. Last month I sent her off to a proper hairdresser to get it all evened out. She's naturally mid-brown with some auburn bits and had bleached/blonded it for ages then had it brown (by hairdresser), then had lightened it a bit herself. This hairdresser did what she could and made it lightish brown with a few fairer streaks but also told her that it would be fine to use Nice & Easy blonde herself. A week ago she used Garnier nutrisse in something blonde, then today TWO boxes of Nice and Easy SB2 Summer Blonde.

It's ginger.

She wants to be very blonde and she wants to not be traumatised - any ideas what she can do (which doesn't involve spending a fortune at a hairdresser) as this seems like an emergency to her?

Thanks so much!

She's never going to be very blonde without utterly knackering her hair (and I mean knackering it to the point of it falling out). I am brunette and remember facing up to a similar reality after going ginger and seeing a bleached blonde friend with appallingly badly damaged hair. Not such a drama if her hair is very short, I suppose? She can just keep bleaching, although her scalp will get sore.

Would recommend abandoning blonde hair and dying hair dark again - maybe go for a couple of bright coloured streaks instead? The bright dye kind of seals the bleached hair (necessary to bleach dark hair to get it to show bright colours) and makes it seem less appalling condition.

sorry no advice but lol at teenagers
hope she gets it sorted

ggirl yes, I'm trying to be very mum-like but keep getting flashbacks to times when mine was black, brown, auburn, blonde, red, green stripes, white, blue tips, shaved up the sides, permed, feather cut, Farrah cut, Purdey cut, and a million other horrors in between AND IT DIDN'T FALL OUT!

I know I used to henna mine ALL the time ..god knows why..was like a beetroot fgs

I would get some fudge hairdye in whiter shade of pale and that should help bring it to a White blonde instead of Ginger.
Alternatvely choose 'cold' blonde dyes. Ash blonde is a blue tint or a purple. No honey blondes as this will escalate the ginge.

I wouldn't put anything on it tbh - it needs correcting by professionals!

i wouldn't try any additional hair dye just yet, her hair will become overloaded. get her to give it about 4 washes with head and shoulders to strip out some of the colour, then try something like one of these shampoo's, it's purple!, it'll help balance out the ginger tinge of the blonde dye. i use it on mine (dyed mid ash blonde) and it's good, leaves hair in good condition.

if she is insistent she wants it blonde, next time she dyes it, go for an ash toned shade which will also help counter act any ginger left over. the problem with blonde home dyes, is they do fade quickly, but the red within the dye mix fades the slowest which is why it will gradually go strawberry blonde as it fades.

this brings back so many memories, i dyed my hair red as a student and had a tide mark for ages while it grew out!

Maybe you could find a local salon that looks for models and get them to help correct it for a small fee, rather than anything extortionate?

But honestly, sticking more dye on top of 3 boxes of colour in the last 3 weeks will start to knacker it a bit (well. Maybe a lot!)

id buy a brown dye and tell her to pay for her own fuck up if she wants something else.

you can get them for under £2 at tesco.

thats the kind of loving mum i am.