Dying my hair lighter

[Kangar00]

I have very dark brown hair. I want to go auburn or lift brown. I will have to lighten it first. I've seen bleaching kits on amazon so wondered should I bleach it (not fully) first. Would I leave the mix on half the time? After it is lighter I can use a normal hair dye colour.....

Or should I just pay an arm and a leg and go to the hair dressers?

Go to the hairdresser. Your hair may go orange if you diy it.

Speaking from experience, definitely worth forking out for the hairdressers to go lighter. I tried most things - colour b4, bleach etc and nothing did anything except turn my hair a very strange shade of orange.

Even if you then put dye over the top?

I went from very dark brown to honey blonde to hide the grey. I did it myself but one box of hair lighter isn't going to do it. I initially used 3 boxes in a week to strip out the colour costing about £22 for all 3. Then once the colour was removed I put an actual blonde colour on, Claire Honey blonde to give a nice warm tone. I did also go from shoulder length hair to a short graduated bob to make colour lifting a bit easier. I've had loads of compliments on my colour but I've been colouring my hair since I was 18 so I'm a dab hand at it

Baking addict- what is your natural hair? Mine is virgin dark brown hence why I was hoping I could lighten it

If you're putting a dye over orange-y hair make sure it's ash toned. However, still wouldn't recommend it as warm tones are notoriously hard to get rid of and even putting a box dye over the top could end up in a colour you really don't want.

Could you enquire if any local colleges offer hair colouring by the hair dressing students ? Ours used to be really cheap (until they built proper hair studios in the college ) they are being trained and watched by a tutor .

IT is really easy to do and because you are adding red you don’t have to worry about hair tone etc because you are adding back the red pigment that the bleached stripped.

You need to do it in two processes. Firstly prelighten it to a ginger shade, rinse and dry the hair. L’Oréal do a prelighten one that is pretty good.

Next pop an auburn over it. I would say that loreal excellence is a really reliable one.

Go to a hairdresser.