Brassy Orange hair toner miracle - Japanese hair colour

I wanted to share my experience with you.

I moved to Tokyo and couple of months ago and I decided that I was bored of my hair again. Plain colours are just not for me and as soon as my hair gets in better condition I get the urge to damage it again  😉

As you can see from the pictures below, my hair was a reddy brown. Before I dyed my hair this colour I had bright ginger.

I wasn't sure what products to try as I can't read Japanese. I took a chance on a box bleach by a company called Fresh Light (apparently the company are Schwarzkopf). This lifted great with little damage but as I expected my hair was a bright Orange hot mess. I'm sure you all know if you've bleached your hair before from a dark shade what colour I mean.

I wasn't prepared to bleach my hair anymore as I've been silly in the past and ruined my hair. So I looked around to see what colours I could buy to try and tone down the Orange. I came across a colour in the same brand as the bleach I bought and it was called Ash. The box shows a kawaii dolly with grey hair, Yep completely gray. I bought this and gave it a try. To my surprise, the product was crazy strong so I think it contained bleach but I went along anyway.

After checking my hair every 5/10 minutes I could see it was going darker so after around 20 minutes I washed it off. I dried it and I couldn't believe my eyes. There was practically NO ORANGE. Most of my hair was grey with some yellowy tones but definitely not Orange.

Please see the picture. Unfortunately I forgot to take a photo of when it was Orange but I think you get the idea.

If you can get hold of this product, do it, it's amazing. I'm now using purple shampoo to lighten it up a bit ready for lilac later on. The best part is is that my hair isn't even damaged, after a few deep treatments it should be back to itself.