Has anyone has their dark hair colour stripped to go blonde?

[TellOutMySoul]

I have a lot of dark colour build up after many years of colouring. Natural colour is brown but getting very grey and I have to have the roots done every three weeks which is so tedious and seeing the grey tram line really depresses me.

So, I'm thinking of going lighter. I have a horror of it being orangey or golden so bleach would be required and lots of highlights.

How does it work? Do you spend a day at the salon getting it all stripped out then put highlights over it? Does this help the grey? Is it less time consuming, or more??

Help. Please.

I went from almost black after layer upon layer of dark brown to light brown/blonde with several sessions of highlights and then balayage.

I now only need my regrowrh doing every 8 weeks as opposed to about every 3 or 4.

I have stripped my own hair a few times. The first was going from black to blonde for my wedding, and stupidly went dark again a few years later and had to strip it again.
I used colour b4 extra strength, then put a dark ash blonde semi permanent over it then gradually lightened it over the next week or so.
I do have very resilient hair though so this may not be for everyone!

Oh and I just remember I had it done professionally before that and it cost a bloody fortune (and this was around 18 years ago!)
Clearly I've not learnt my lesson!

Yes I am dark brunette and did this a couple of years ago. It took ages and stages including a few weeks of ginger. I trusted my colourist to take it slow. It did look brilliant I loved it but maintaining it was expensive and time consuming so I'm back to brown and battling grey roots now!!

Let a hairdresser do it. I went from very bleach blonde to dark brown almost black to bleach blonde again. Did it slowly with highlights took about 4/5 appointments but I liked my hair inbetween and my hair is still healthy now. I hate stripping my hair makes it like straw! Goodluck x

norfolklassie that's my goal, reducing the frequency of salon visits and the awful grey tramline.

My hairdresser used a product Olaplex on my hair when i wanted to go from dark brown to blonde balayage/ombre. I had been dyeing it at home for a few years so it had brown/red/lord knows what else on it.

She used Olaplex the first time, then built up the colour naturally over a few months - she said its the only way to do it without wrecking your hair in the process. I know bugger all about hair really!

Couple of years on, hair is in much better condition and looks really natural.

Definitely go to the hairdressers rather than a DIY job though!

Telloutmysoul
They put some highlights in using foils around my face which hides the grey coming through in my hairline. My hairdresser uses Olaplex too, it’s really good.