Dying bleached hair brown

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I’ve been bleaching my hair at home for a while now and now think I should go back to brown and get a somewhat stylish cut to look a bit more grown up. Also I’m pregnant and it’s probably better not to bleach atm. I can’t really afford to go to a hairdresser as I asked for prices at a few and it’s so expensive!!! I’ve done a bit of research and I think I can do it myself with a semi permanent red and then a semi permanent brown over the top. I’d rather not try permanent myself. I think at the hairdressers they would use a red filler but I can’t find any in hair supply shops so a semi dye might work? Has anyone done this before or any hairdressers can tell me if it sounds like an ok plan? My hair colour now is quite a warm blonde

I wouldn't use red, it's a bugger to get rid of, you'll always have a red tinge.

Just colour it brown.

The reason I was going to do red first is because I’ve read that bleached hair can’t pick up pigment well so needs warmth put in it. And that browns can turn out khaki or green without red underneath? But I don’t really want a bright red final colour, just a warm brown

I promise if you use res you'll have red hair, and you wont be able to fix that at home.

I went from white blonde to a very dark brown. Its faded into my natural moiswy brown hair colour now, the bleach does come through after a while and the brown fades, that why I opted for a darker colour to begin with.

My friend owns a salon she she does it, but I remember from my hairdressing days the trouble that res can cause

I've put a brown box dye over bleached parts of my hair and it definitely turned a green hue.
I was also told to dye a red first and then brown over top but honestly I'd just go to the hairdresser to have it done as they know what they're doing 😊

I have done this before and it was fine using a warm red toned brown, no khaki at all. That comes only using ashy tones in bleach I think.

Castings do warm toned brown semi-permanents, just be aware that their cookies come out much darker than the box says. Saying that I have never gone wrong with nice n easy

Semi-permanent is permanent. Anything with peroxide permanently alters the hair. If you make a mistake or get a colour you don't want you will need to recolour it to get rid of it and could only go darker. It won't wash out but it will fade quickly over bleached hair leaving a muddy khaki behind.

You do need either red or orange first depending on the depth of brown you want.

If you want a lighter brown use an orange/ginger/copper colour mousse. If you want a darker brown use a red (as in post box red) pre-pigment treatment (available as colour mousses or direct dyes in all salon supply shops) then put the brown over the top.

You might end up with a red hue if the red is too red and the brown is too light. Hairdressers are trained to understand tones and colour depth and how to neutralise unwanted tones. It's not something they could advise fully about on an online forum because they would need to see and feel your hair in natural lighting.