Home hair due FAIL

[Pentium85]

Have religiously gone to the salon for over 10 years and normally don't go anywhere near a box dye.
Cue getting fed up with excessively large brown roots and I bought a box dye.
Stupid, I know.
I'm normally very dark brown naturally and have my hair dyed very light blonde, not platinum, but a light blonde.
The blonde box hair dye i have just used has made the lower 50% of my hair which was still dyed blonde a lovely blonder colour, but the dark brown roots are bright orange.
Have tried my hardy purple toner but nothing has changed.
Options
A) go and buy a light brown box dye and dye over the colour again
B) by a different Toning shampoo
C) any other suggestions.
Help.

No amount of toner is going to fix this sorry but the hair need to be light enough to tone. Best bet to go dye it dark or sit tight till you can get to the hair dressers to dye it blonde!

I imagine that the box colour hasn't lifted your hair enough, hence being left with the orange tones. I would say to put another application on just the darker parts to lift them lighter

Can you lather on deep conditioning treatment
Put in towel for an hour then blow dry

Hmmm @whatacrazytime think I may well be heading towards buying a dark dye.

@applepineapple I had read somewhere that this may possibly work!

Home hair dye will not properly lighten darker hair, it would have needed to be pre-lightened first with bleach.

You need to bleach the dark parts. I wouldnt recommend doing it yourself. Buy a hat or a chunky hair band and wait for your hairdresser to fix you up.

@looondonn how will that help?

My hairdresser told me that box blonde dyes are not as strong as salon ones, they don't have the lift necessary to get dark hair properly blonde/beyond the orange stage for hair that's any darker than the lightest brown.

Ideally you'd wait until the hairdresser can fix it. It depends on how long the undesirable root section is whether or not to try putting a darker blonde shade on just the roots (maybe stretching it down a few sections here and there to help blend it in) just to tone down the orange roots enough to make it more wearable. Maybe a semi-permanent, rather than putting on a permanent that uses harsher chemicals. But that would all depend on your hair strength and how confident you would feel trying to fix it yourself.
Waiting for a professional fix would probably be the best option.

Josh Wood Hair Colour (order online). I had the exact same problem with a big name box dye on top of highlights, but JW is serious salon quality and probably your best bet to sort it out. Their colours come out very dark though, so i'd recommend going about 3-4 shades lighter than you think you want. And maybe booking an online colour consultation with them.

That would be with a view to going brown all over, mind you.

Oh dear

I’m sure you know your salon bleaches your hair to get it blonde, so not sure why you thought box dye would be sufficient. If it was that easy to go from dark brown to blonde, no one would bother going to a salon!

If you want your roots to be blonde, you need to bleach them. I don’t recommend doing it yourself with non salon products though, you risk damaging your hair. I don’t think another box dye would be enough to remove the orange and go blonde.

Dying over the orange roots with a darker colour is a good idea but be careful not to get it over your blonde

Alternatively you can try blue shampoo (not purple). Blue counteracts orange so is targeted for brunette hair.

I’m sure you know your salon bleaches your hair to get it blonde, so not sure why you thought box dye would be sufficient. If it was that easy to go from dark brown to blonde, no one would bother going to a salon!

OP did because she can’t get to the salon in the foreseeable future, not because she couldn’t be bothered to go.

Sorry, OP, no advice, but commiserations and a lot of us will be in the same boat soon.

@ChardonnaysPetDragon did I say she couldn’t be bothered to go? I assumed she’d be aware after 10 years of salon sessions that her stylist lightens her hair with bleach to get it blonde.

browzingss Are you a hairdresser?

OP, I would go dark until you can get to a hairdresser. No lectures from me, a lot of people will be in the same situation as you.

I'd wait it out if you can bear too.
Order some nice hats if you dont have any at home.
Or can you contact your usual hairdresser for advice?

OP I'd probably go dark if I were in your shoes. I'd luckily just gotten my hair done the day restrictions started here (Ireland) so have done okay hair wise so far. However I am very grey and things starting to go bad now so I totally and utterly sympathise.

I would definitely either leave it or go all over with a light brown. I’d be worried about ruining the condition of my hair doing anything else.

I'd be careful with the brown dye option. I tried that a couple of years ago over blonde highlights and it went green!

You can buy 6 and 9% developer on amazon or Sally Beauty from their website. If you can get hold of your hairdresser and ask what dye she uses then you can probably do it at home yourself.

If you have a good relationship with your hairdresser could you send her a photo of your hair asking for help? See what she advises until you can get back to her?

You need to bleach the roots and then tone it. Blonde box dye is not bleach and won’t strip the colour enough. You can buy bleach in a box like you do with hair dye.
If you do bleach then be careful to make sure you only do the dark parts. Make sure you saturate the hair because bleach doesn’t rub in or lather so you need to paint it on each individual strand. Keep an eye on it as it’s developing as you don’t want it to stay on too long and risk damage/ hair snapping off.
Tone hair afterwards but use a lower developer if you can (20% rather than 40%). Not sure if you can still buy developers and toners online at the moment.

If you decide to to back to brown then you need to choose a brown with red tones in it to stop it looking green. Hair strands that have been bleached have ‘holes’ in them. You need to add the red back in as well as the brown too fill the holes in the hair strands and stop your hair looking green/dull/flat.

YouTube as a million videos that could UK ld help you. Brad Mondo is a good YouTuber and hairdresser and he posts a lot of videos explaining bleaching etc.