Hi everyone!
So I'm wondering how to even out / lighten my hair in order to prep it for my choice pink (ion rose quartz semi-permanent, ideally). I'll discuss the goal in a bit, but here's the history of the mess you are looking at.
- Natural roots
- Warm banding involving a colour removal on what was dyed 9G. I didn't bleach my roots at the time, but I toned everything with wella T18 and then applied ion color brilliance 8N. Roots went super warm at that time, and there's the result).
- The rest - Has had a fair bit of fun. It was bleached a year ago, colour removed (with one and only colour remover), dyed 9G for a few months, then colour removed, toned and 8N. What you see now is a 6A applied over what was a very faded 8N
The goal - I'd like a nice dusty pink (I'm leaning towards Ion's Rose Quartz. My job supports unnatural colours, but my manager cautioned to not go too overboard. So I'm thinking on maybe doing a dual layered dye with the rose quartz covering about 75% of my hair, underneath about 25% of a 9N on the top layer. Another idea is going 100% 9N and then adding the rose quartz lying on top of the hair while the 9N is still processing. Not sure how it would turn out, but it would probably be nicely subtle?)
Anyways. My biggest issue is evening out my current mess. My guess is a colour remover, but then what? Bleach bath?
I am happy to post progress pics for guidance, I don't care about showing up to work with half finished hair lol, if that's what happens.
Thank you all in advance!
Posted : January 13, 2017 3:55 am
I just had a quick peek at the Ion Rose Quartz dye and it says it's ready to use and doesn't have peroxide, so in that case you shouldn't put it on whilst a product that uses peroxide is still in your hair (if it's not designed for use with peroxide you will either end up just destroying the colour molecules or coming out with an unexpected result as the dye won't be stable when used with a developer). You should do the colour processes seperately.
I think strand tests are going to be your friend here! I would say do a colour remover then give it a few days and a few washes, see what you end up with there, then you can try a strand test of a bleach bath and see if that gets you light enough for the pink.
I haven't any experience of that particular dye so I'm not sure exactly what base you would need but I imagine as it has peachy golden tones you won't have to go too light for the desired effect.
Posted : January 14, 2017 11:49 am
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