Using home hair dye after a full head of bleach

[wonderpants]

The hairdresser bleached my shortish hair, I was hoping for a funky platinum but it kind of isn't! I went to a new hairdresser who advised it needed more careful bleaching and a toner, but it could be a long process and not dead cheap.

I'm not too bothered about going platinum and I was considering colouring it with nice and easy (or similar) myself, a light ash blonde. Would this work on bleached hair with 6 weeks of greyish roots?

I just want to cover my grey cheaply and relatively low maintenance!

Any ideas??

Thank you

Won't last long, dyes don't stay on bleached hair or so I've found

Okay. One way of achieving this is to use a 30vol cream bleach developer ( the Jerome Russell one is fine) mix with Majirel. You basically need one 50ml tube of the Majirel mixed with 75ml ( which is one bottle) of Jerome Russell stuff. You have to buy the Majirel online as it is a professional colourant. You will also need a tint bowl, tint brsh and latex gloves ( I picked all this up for about £5 from Superdrug and it's reusable). I will look up the sort of shade in a sec that I think you are after and you can google it to be sure.

You will need the 30 vol to lift the hair enough but if it was darker you would go for 20 vol to deposit the colour and lift very slightly if you wanted to go a tad lighter than your natural colour.

Once you have got the whole head toned ( it takes 30 mins at first) you just need to do the roots thereafter and run the colour through the whole of the rest of your hair for the last five mins.

It's a brilliant dye as it covers the grey and is really thick so it makes the application a breeze. My hair came out better than ever after using this last month after years of struggling with the badger.

Right will come back with the shade.

Either 10.1 or 9.1 with the first being the lightest.

Forgot to add using silver shampoo a couple of times a week helps to counter the brass. Touch of silver always gets good reviews.

That all sounds a bit scary to me!

It's what you pay around £80 a time for the hairdresser to do and will cost you about £10 for the whole head and around £2.50 when it's just a root touch up required.....

It's just a case of mixing two products together just like you do when you buy a box of home dye but this actually works! Sorry you seem to find it scary.

Maybe just dyeing over it with a chestnut brown ( you need to put the red part in because it is stripped out when hair is bleached) or warm colour might suit a more and seems less worrying.

La Riche Directions or Manic Panic are a cheap and conditioning toner in all colours inc silver or white. From eBay or if you have a local goth shop.

Sorry to be a pita flange...

Once you have got the whole head toned ( it takes 30 mins at first) you just need to do the roots thereafter and run the colour through the whole of the rest of your hair for the last five mins

Do you mean that it takes 30 mins the first time to apply it all over and then it's just a roots and run through every other time after? When I apply it for the first time, should I start at roots or just slap it on all over and leave it to develop all over for the same amount of time? How long do you leave it to develop the first time?

Sorry for all the questions, this sounds like the best way for me to achieve the colour I want

Because you have roots to lighten I would pop it all over the first time and leave it to develop for 30 mins. The usual advice is to leave the roots until last as the heat from the head develops this area first but since yours need to be lightened this will work to your advantage.

The next time you colour because your roots are through you need to just target these alone first (try not to overlap) and then run it through the rest to freshen up the colour for the last five mins of the development time.

make sure that nice and easy ash blonde is very light (high peroxide %) or you risk khaki hair.

Thanks flange, that's fab

Forgot to add-do a strand test first to make sure you are happy with the amount of lift and tone etc.