Hair Dye potential disaster - please help

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Hi

DD has mid-brown hair and wants to dye it blonde.

She's brought 2 kits. One very blonde to lighten her hair and then a darker blonde.

So, what she wants to do is go about 3 shades lighter than her natural colour.

So, the first thing is, is this entire plan doomed to failure?

Second, she wants to both tonight. I've suggested she do the first one tonight and then give it a couple of days to settle.

Can anyone tell me if this is going to go horrendously wrong?

Sorry yes, it's probably going to look awful.
It will lift to a yellowy orange because what you're using sounds like the equivalent of a high lift tint which doesn't work well on anything darker than naturally dark blonde to start with.
Seriously, you need to get it done professionally with good quality products.
Also, don't know how old DD is, but hairdressers aren't insured to apply hair colour chemicals to anyone under 16yrs.

Bugger!

And no, she isn't under 16.

If she's trying to save money, she could book into a salon that runs training sessions or a hairdressing college salon.
Also, a high end salon usually trains it's own junior staff and will advertise for models via Facebook usually.

The colour is on her hair already.

it's not about the money, she'd just rather not go to a hairdressers.

Your daughter really needs to see a professional hairdresser.

2 permanent colours or 1 perm 1 semi perm? The perm will lift her colour but then she'll need to tone, another perm will lift her colour (bleach her hair essentially) again and may deposit some colour (work as a toner of sorts) but it'll ruin her hair. A perm them semi still isn't ideal but is the better option. How did the first colour come out?

I used lightener when I was 18, to lighten my dark blonde hair. It went a very patchy orange/canary yellow with platinum bits. I had to wear a hat until I persuaded the local hairdresser to help me, and then had to have my shoulder length hair cut to a bob and 2 years of professional highlights before it was sorted.

Have a hairdresser on standby if she's already started, and definitely don't apply the colour straight after the lightening treatment.

Did she do a patch test !?

Thanks Stickybunfighting
It's drying now.

The one we've done is permanent. I think the other one is a semi.

We def won't be doing it tonight.

HarrietSchulenberg It might well be patchy, but I don't think that'll upset her too much.

Didn't do a patch test, Pinkgeorge, but have dyed her hair before and we did do one then.

How did the first one turn out?

Drying rather patchily

It's a teenage rite of passage isn't it?

The funny thing is it would have been so much easier to go to a salon to begin with! As it will look much nicer, minimal effort on her behalf and she’d maintain her hair condition. Now she has to correct the patchiness, the tone etc where she’ll probably end up in a salon to sort it

Why ask after you’ve done it?!

Is it a problem with going to the hairdresser? Could you get a mobile hair dresser. She will ruin her hair (and I speak from experience, my hair turned to chewing gum at one point from bleach). It's incredibly difficult to lighten your hair unless you know what you're doing, and even from home it can look shit.

I dyed my dark hair blonde, the trick is after you bleach it get a grey hair dye for over the top to take the orange brassiness colour out. You'll get them in Superdrug, there's a few different shades of grey, it was the darker steel grey I used and only kept it in for 20 mins Worked really well for me and went on to lighten it further, doing the same again with the grey dye after to stop it going brassy

MeMyselfand thank you. I'll suggest that to her.

Why ask after you’ve done it?! - I didn't quite. She mentioned it a couple of days ago. I said 'fine'. Made a mental note to ask about it on here. Forgot. Got home at 7 yesterday to have her saying "here's the kits, can we do it now". I posted on here straight away, but hadn't had many responses by the time I'd run out of excuses to delay.

She wasn't happy before she went to bed last night as there's a few very blonde bits and some of it's hardly taken at all. I've told her I think it looks fab, and as if it's just been naturally sun-bleached. She's not up yet, so I don't know how she's feeling this morning. She's generally not very happy right now for totally non-hair related reasons, so it won't be easy to suss out if it's hair-upset or broken-heart-upset. (hence why I went along with the scheme in the first place).

Well fingers crossed it looks okay, if not just colour it back to her natural hair or go to a salon. No more home bleach! It’s not as easy to lighten hair as you may think, some salon’s costs are justified imo

Can I just add you need to to a patch test EVERY time you dye your hair, regardless of brand/shade etc. you can get a reaction to the dye even if you've used that shade for the past ten years.

I did this at least once a year from 14 - 18, always looked crap, always regretted it, but it really is a rite of passage!!

I used to do a platinum blonde first (which made it orange), then another platinum (which made it brittle but white) and id then do an ash blonde colour. I'm not recommending that at all- but it did work (ish)

Too late now, but she might have been better doing highlights to start with then adding more,which would gradually look all blonde