Warm Tones

[Rubyabbot]

Hi All,

Really need your help. I am a natural mid brown but having to dye my hair as I have quite a few greys. However, since dying my hair with natural browns/ashy browns my hair has turned very warm almost orange.

I have tried brown shampoo, blue shampoos and nothing helps.

What can I do in a salon to fix this? The warm tones just keep coming back through. I don't want to go blonde but would be happy to have subtle blonde bits if that would help?

Thanks

Hi @Rubyabbot - we're a few days late, but just thought we'd give this thread a bump in case anyone's around to advise you. (Am in a similar boat so will be watching with interest!)

Hey.

So I've done something potentially terrible. I am so fed up of the warm orange tones that I purchased the john frieda go blonder shampoo in hope it will lighten my hair and the warm tones. I also fear it will make my hair more orange.

I don't find the coloured shampoos (like Fanola, etc.) to work too well, but Shwarzkopf Colour Wash shampoo in blue, which is actually a dye, does a very good job of toning my orangey bits to something much closer to brown. I just smear it on the bits I want to tone and then wash it out in the shower. It washes out fully after about three washes, if you want it to. I do my roots every time I have a shower. My blonde bits are ever so slightly blue, but I want them to be.

Thanks @RacheyCat

How long should I leave it on for to avoid it having a blue tinge?

if you don't like the orange tomes then but an ash dye this should counteract the orange

It sounds like you have been using box dye? Even though you are essentially placing a darker brown colour on top of your grey hair, the developer in the box dye actually lightens your hair slightly as part of the colouring process. (Tints can slightly lift colour, believe it or not.) This gives a gingery undertone as your hair has been partially lightened from your natural colour by the developer, and then covered by the colourant, and when the colourant naturally fades you’re the a warm undertone to your hair becomes more apparent.

A salon can help as they can customise the a full head dye more accurately for your needs eg add more of an cool tone to it vs the a “one size fits all” box dye composition and add other colours for a more dimensional look. However the ginger undertone will probably still come through as the dye fades.

You can bleach it and completely remove the warm tone then dye it back to brown, but this could unnecessarily damage your hair.

You could get highlights but you’d end up with cool blonde highlights next to warm brown hair which won’t necessarily look nice.

I would go for a salon consultation and see what they advise.

go for ash toned colours, in box dyes. You can also try using a 'purple' shampoo'. Designed for blondes, but they should remove the orangey warm tones. Provoke is sold in home and bargain, cost around £2.

Use Majirel cool cover