Dd bleached hair disaster

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Hello all, really desperate for some advice. My 15 yo dd has bleached her hair with a box dye. Her hair was a dark blonde and it’s now a bright yellow. I told her repeatedly not to do it because it wouldn’t have the result she is hoping for but she has done it anyway and now devastated by the result 🤦‍♀️

Can anyone advise if there is a way to fix this at home without her hair dissolving or turning an even worse colour? I can’t afford to take her to a hairdresser to get it fixed!

Thank you 😊

Happened to me many times I’ve been bright orange, pink, all amber. I dye it back to brown and hope that it works. It does for me.

@FleaBeeBob thank you. For some reason I have always believed you couldn’t dye over hair after you’d bleached it or it would go green or something?

It will absolutely go green.

It needs a toner - but I don’t know enough about it to recommend one.

You can buy toners from lots of places which takes the yellow off. Clairol do some and another brand too. Clairol has worked well for me. Goes pretty ashy but wears off well. Also purple shampoo to maintain.

I've used this. In most supermarkets or boots.

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Yes but aren’t they all different ? And different timings required ?

Don't leave it on too long though or it gets very grey. I just do 10 mins.

I too would use a toner. I definitely wouldn’t dye it again, and certainly not bleach it (it will snap off).

Well if you are worried about results and don't need a cut etc, a salon might put toner on fairly cheaply to correct. Probably the best option.

Get a purple shampoo and conditioner. Like Touch of Silver. Use daily for a few days.

Can you post pics so we can better advise?

Also what is the condition like, is it normal, a bit dry, very dry or gummy?

My daughter did the same thing when she was about 15, there were white bits, yellow bits, orange bits - what a mess. I did take her into town to the hairdressers and they spent several hours making it brown again - at the time (10 years ago) it cost me £80 and I made her refund me half of it over the next few weeks from her part time job.

I'm not a hairdresser but slavishly watch Brad Mondo videos. He's always going on about the colour wheel. He recommends purple toner for yellow hair and blue toner for orange hair.

I bleached my hair last weekend (3 times, to get it even) and ended up with yellow blonde. I used Shrine silver toner but I didn't measure how much I used. You add the drops to hair conditioner. I probably used 12/15 drops? I left it on for an hour and a half. The conditioner works well on the dryer hair from the bleach.

It came out a bit silvery lilacy, but I used some dandruff shampoo to take some of the lilac out (at my age it looked like a purple rinse 😂). You can get it in Super Drug or Boots I think.

If it's bright yellow, you need a toner/semi on a base 8 otherwise it won't do much. Yellow is neutralised by violet. Purple shampoo won't do much to help I'm afraid.

Depending in the product she's used, you need to be careful hay whatever goes ont op is compatible, otherwise you risk breakage and unstable/unreliable results.

Good luck

There is a brand of hair dye/tint called Directions by La Riche. When I made a misguided attempt to bleach my light brown hair to blonde in university, I put the lilac dye over the top, which initially did go quite purple, but then faded to a lovely silvery blonde tone. These dyes are usually sold in 'goth' shops.

Go to a hairdresser and ask if it’s lifted enough for a toner.

Has she covered it all evenly or are there patches of dark hair still?

I did this at a similar age.
I dyed it and it went sort of patchy green- khaki.
DM dragged me to the hairdresser's before I could do any more harm.
They sorted it.

Home hair dyes met have improved since the 1980s though.

Thanks everyone for your suggestions. Unfortunately she won’t let me take a photo f it, still too upset. I do have a friend who is a hairdresser but I’m reluctant to ask her for hair advice outside her work hours! I’ll maybe speak to her tomorrow about toner and see what i can buy off the shelf.

There is a shop chain called Sally Beauty, the people who work there are generally off duty hairdressers. You can buy something like a 1.9% developer (no lightening power) plus a toner. They can advise you on what toner shade will fix this. It is then going to keep growing out so she'll need an ongoing plan. If she likes the look once the toner is on she can keep doing her roots and toning it. Or you can pay a hairdresser to fix it - the cheapest way would be a balayage style so her natural roots can grow out without demarcation.

if you buy an off the shelf toner it will most likely have a higher % developer which will have lightning effects. You may want to avoid this on damaged hair so I'd recommend Sally beauty or a similar shop.

If you don’t want to ask your hairdresser friend for free advice in her spare time, ask her in her work hours and pay her, or any other colourist. DD has shown what happens not using a pro, as you predicted, so surely the right thing to do to fix it is to go to a salon and get proper help. Definitely don’t add more chemicals to the mix when no one here really knows what she’s done or what her hair is like and how it’ll react.

(I know you said you can’t afford a hairdresser but if you won’t ask the friend for free, there’s no safe option that doesn’t risk making it worse. Surely DD can pay you back whatever it costs even if it means selling something.)

Hair and beauty colleges are very cheap and love tasks to help them finish their training.

Fanola No Yellow shampoo. You can use on dry hair and it’ll get rid of the yellow. I had bright canary yellow hair and this toned it down to a beautiful platinum

So this is what DS ended up with after bleaching his hair last year 🙄 I redid it and then toned it - fortunately as it was short there was no breakage.

Came on here to recommend this. Order from Amazon. It’s properly amazing stuff - leave on for five / ten minutes and it will neutralise the yellow tones. It’s one of my holy grail S&B products.