Over dyed hair, anyone have experience?

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Evening All,

I've been dying my hair since I was 14. I'm now 30(ish). Despite Mother's warnings my hair hasn't fallen out yet. Very thick and very long.

I'm a dark brown at the moment, couldn't tell you my real natural colour, Roots indicate a medium brown with some grey.

I was to strip it back and go ginger (think Christina Hendricks)

In the last 4 years my hair has been bleached, henna'd and dyed. Am I attempting the impossible here?

no but would reccomend going to a salon. I have gone too dark with colour build up and stylist assured me that he can bleach bath and take me back to a lighter colour and put on a chestnut colour for me. get advice, colour be 4 works but I found it left my hair a bit streaky so colour on top did not look even. had a salon colour recently and love the evenness of it compared to my home attempts. I too am a serial hair destroyer! but recently have transformed mine by keratin treatment and salon cut and colour.

Great advice Step, thanks. Think I will have to treat myself to some serious salon treatment to get the look I'm after.

you're worth it

I was in the exact same boat as you until last week-had dyed hair since 15-now 33-have thick coarse shoulder length midbrown hair naturally. After a bad home hair dye job where I went black I used colourb4 -I was very nervous and initially it seemed streaky and gingery but after another wash it is back to its original colour of mid brown I think and other than a funny eggy smell and being a bit dry my hair seems fine.

I basically did this last year & have the same 'hair history' as yourself!!!

I achieved the Christina Hendrinks colour from dyed dark brown hair by using Colour B4 to strip that out then waiting I think it's 4 weeks before you can apply a permanent colour - I used Loreal Feria Intense Mango 74.

Initally my hairs condition didn't seem too bad, but infact over the course of a couple of months my hair was extremely dry due to the stripping and colouring, I had over-dyed it a lot last year & went for a 'few 'trims' - actually had to have a few inches off each time as no serum or argon oil was going to smooth my ends down. But the colour was nice, I did get quite a few compliments - even from hairdressers.

In saying that though, this year I have returned to a dark chocolatey brown. My hair is much healthier looking for it!

I would recommend a salon too. They should strip it and lighten it in stages to avoid too damage/drying out. It could take a couple of months but will so be worth it.