How to tone down very yellow hair

[Littleslippers]

First of all, my hair is so porous that purple shampoo just turns my hair lilac. I've tried Fanola and failed.

My hairdresser did some highlights last week but instead of that blended yellow / beige / dark blonde mix - its all one block of yellow.

At the time she was washing out my bleach she asked which toner I'd like and I selected a mushroomy dark blonde. She agreed this was a pretty colour and then applied it (at least I thought she did!)

Anyway, she dried it and styled it with waves. Not mushroomy at all. I paid up and off I went. I think the waves were added to hide blockiness.

Just washed it and it's now yellow. Purple shampoo was a fail. I'd like to tone down the yellow to a dark blonde. Something I can do at home?

The salon said it'll be £20 for a toner refresh. And I'm not convinced I want to go back anyway.

Any ideas? 🙏

Bump for the late afternooners 😊

I like lilac hair, but that aside you could try a different purple product like a conditioner and/or dilute it with regular product. I find purple conditioner less effective so it might be the right strength for you

Yep, dilute the purple and only use a tiny bit.
I used to dye my hair various shades of purple by mixing the dye with normal conditioner to get really soft colours.
Start with a really weak mix, and put in more purple until you get the colour correction you need.

I use Brass Off toner on my highlighted fine hair. It works really well for me, cools down the warm tones. DD changed her hair from dyed red to dyed brown and she used it to tone the warm that was showing through. Both of us were happy with the results. It is blue though, not purple.

I’d buy a semi permanent purple dye, something like manic panic... and add literally a couple of drops into your conditioner before you put it on, if it’s not enough do it drop by drop.

The dye itself is moisturising so won’t do any damage and adding a tiny bit and mixing it in should stop it being too purple for your hair.

I've more or less given up on my hair not turning brassy. I have all sorts of specialist purple hair products and after one wash, my hair always looks nothing like the toner. I've had it toned at multiple salons and nothing has worked!

Ketchup

I like the wella professional care colour fresh semi permanent colour mask. It leaves my hair in great condition. I use the pearl blonde colour which is perfect for what I want ie no warm yellow tones. There are other colours though.

My hairdresser uses something similar as a toner when I get my colour done and it lasts for ages.

Is that not for when it goes green in the swimming pool?

I use this

uk.colorwowhair.com/products/hard-water-preshampoo-mineral-remover

Thanks everyone! I am really interested in that Wella stuff so I'll have a look. Just tried blue conditioner and my hair went a bit silvery. So thats a slight improvement