Can colour remover (the kind out that takes out temporary and permanent tints) wreck your hair.

[Lemonsmakelemonade]

I've got fine hair and lots of it. Bit wavy. 10% grey. I grey out some highlights last year and had new ones put in in March but they were fine bleached ones. I have used colour remover on my hair a couple of times as I tinted it light and mid brown (the Nice and Easy wash out one bottle ones) and then didn't like it. Could the bleach (done on pretty much virgin undyed hair) have wrecked it or the remover. My hair isn't terrible it just I like to wear it in a long blunt bob and the ends look a bit wispier. I'm going to try and overhaul my diet etc...

IME it’ll be the bleach not the colour remover. Have you tried Philip Kingsley Elasticizer?

Yes I have, I thought it might be the bleach. Thing is I had fine highlights over hair with only old dye right on the ends (this has since been long cut off) I want to grow my hair about three inches longer. The bleach was Aveda which I thought was good. I'm wondering whether to get my hair dyed it's natural colour - a rich mid brown - on the highlights and then leave it to grow out...

When I had bleached hair, even though it was good quality bleach as you say, the older the hair got the worse the condition was. I thought I’d got away with it at first!

I also re-dyed it a dark brown after a while, and deep conditioned constantly, but the only thing that sorted it was a haircut. I went from boob length to a bob. Sorry if that’s not what you want to hear!

I'm thinking of growing the highlights out again. I think if I want long hair I will have to grow it to the length I want first and then have a few highlights, or use toners on it. If I had an inch off it would probably look okay, but that would take away 2 months worth of growth (but I noticed when I was having it trimmed last year and it wasn't being dyed it grew quicker! So maybe a trim is the best thing.

Olaplex is worth a shot.

I had Olaplex with the highlights I had in March but I don't think it long term is going to save my hair.

Do you use it at home though? Made a difference to mine to use it weekly or so when I was growing out frazzled bits. Managed to grow it to a length I didn’t mind getting cut.

No I haven't is it too late to use it at home? It was used in March with bleached highlights?