HairHelp! Unintended ombré?

[TeachyTeacher]

Hope someone can help! After dying my hair (over and over!) I seem to have managed a massive build up of colour at the front of my hair (brown/black)whilst the back remains lighter brown (what I'd actually like all over 🙈) It probably down to when I do my roots, the dye getting on the front area etc but I really would like an all over colour without paying the extortionate cost (not that I don't want to, I just really can't afford to!) A few years ago I had my colour stripped (?) and had a lovely all over brown but this cost £300 🥹
Any advice on how to even it out? I'm thinking the very dark areas are lost causes!

Could you dye just the lighter bits to match the darker bits?

Hmmm I could but I wanted to go lighter not darker...but maybe this might be the only way to even it out 🤔 x

Use a box colour stripper? About £10 from superdrug. You can then recolour immediately after.

Oh lord is it safe? My hairdresser (who charged the £300) told me it's a very very risky thing to do... didn't realise you but in the shop though so makes it sound a little less 'dangerous'

Get a colour stripper and then leave your hair a few days then do an all over home dye. For best results get a foam one then you can make sure you have got the dye all over.

A colour stripper will work but there are some things you need to be careful about.

1 - rinse it really, really, really well
2 - you'll probably end up with an orangey tint to your hair immediately after, if you can stand it wait a couple of days and give it a couple of conditioning treatments before re-dying it
3 - choose a dye that's a little lighter than you want as the colour stripper can make your hair more porous so the new dye ends up darker than planned

My hairdresser has just started offering the Olaplex Broad Spectrum Chelating Treatment and we’re planning to do it on my hair when I next go in. From what she said it sounds like it does basically the same as a stripper but is kinder to hair. I’m sure prices vary depending on salon but she said it would cost about £25. Might be worth seeing if you have a hairdresser near you that offers the service and ask if it would do what you need.

Oh this is all really positive, thanks so much ladies 🙏 I thought I was destined for crap hair until it grew out and then would be grey! I'll have a look into it all. Xxx

Sounds good, if I can't manage the orangeness would it be bad to dye immediately? Thanks so much x

Another one recommending at home colour remover. I don’t understand why it has such a bad rep, other than it possibly losing hairdressers a lot of money! But yeah other than the more orangey tones you’ll be left with, so maybe then try an ash brown, and the egg smell, I didn’t find it damaging at all.

My hairdresser told me that tint + tint = darker tint. So if you’re dying your roots and overlapping you’ll gradually go darker and darker. I use a semi permanent dye on my roots instead to avoid this and weirdly it’s worked ok so far.

Reckon hairdresser was blagging you to get you to have it done at the salon! I was quoted £70 at the salon myself thought f that and did a box stripper and was fine!

Please dont do a box colour stripper and then dye again, you may end up with green hair, or hair darker than before. If you decide to do anything yourself, please, please, youtube as many tutorials as you can handle before comitting, then you'll learn from other's mistakes and hopefully avoid a huge disaster.

When I tried it it just removed the old colour and said it was safe to dye again straight afte so I did no issues at all.

Or you can pay a salon to do it but I was quoted £70 which was excessive

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Use something a couple of shades lighter, a temporary dye and check the colour as it's developing to make sure it doesn't take too dark