[Sticky] Colour B4 Information

Hi guys! My hair is currently a pastel pink/salmon-ish, because of the orange base underneath. I dyed my natural light blonde hair ginger, later got bored and threw a mix of brown and Cherry Bomb over it, which turned pink. Very pretty, but I need to get a new job, so I'd like to get back to blonde. Should I get the normal Colour b4 or the extra strong one for darker colours? It'd be a shame to spend my money on the normal one when it won't make the orange budge. Gotta be honest though, we don't have Colour b4 here, it's a knock-off brand, but it seems to be okay.

Edit: bought the brown to blonde version, no mind! 🙂

Does everyone bother doing the allergy test? I just wondered what ingredient might commonly cause an allergy. Dyes say 'conduct an allergy test, contains PPD' etc, but decolour just says to do an allergy test -,-

Edit; doh, says 'contains sulphites', I've never had a problem with sulphites, are the reactions typically like ppd, as in random and severe?

Sorry to add to this post with probably the same question that's been asked a million times before but I just want to double check.

I have box-dyed black hair - on top of a salon blue/black, on top of another salon copper-red - and would like to go back to my bright orange colour or maybe try the rainbow tyedye effect shown on here.

Which would you recommend: ColourB4 Regular or Extra Strength? And if that doesn't work how many bleach baths do you estimate it would take to get down to a colour I could get a bright, virbrant semi-colour out of?

If I do get down to a orangey/gingery colour after using B4 would I still need to bleach or could I used another method to go light? Then use toner to take out the yellow/orange?

Any (extra) advice you could give me would be most appreciated and welcomed. I've never really, properly dyed my hair by myself before especially with such risk-y colours before but I feel I've got to learn if I want to manage my semi-permanent hair colour fazes.

I'd use the extra strength. Though, I'd actually use Decolour remover instead.

As for how many bleach baths you would or would not need to do, its impossible to guess really. It depends on so many factors that we can't predict p, all you can do is try, then come back and show us what stage you're at. At that point we might be able to estimate 🙂

I'm sure it's here somewhere, but I can't for the life of me find it! I'm doing a Vitamin C treatment the day before I wanna attempt using Colour B4 and I read that after doing the Vitamin C you should condition your hair, but will that affect the Colour B4? Are you allowed to condition before using it?

I just wanted to update after earlier questions that I did try the Colour B4 fashion colours pack and it removed very little colour. I would say it removed less a normal clarifying treatment really.

I need to find out more about this decolour stuff...

You will need to clarify shampoo your hair and dry it before doing the colourb4

I did mine did 3 applications, after this i went blonde with bleach and toners, i know some people who have regrets using this but for me i was very pleased it stripped all the colour from my hair, one tip i would give is to always start applying from the ends never the roots, put hair on top of head, wrap in cling film, and add some heat from a hair dryer now an then as it helps it work better, and rinse rinse rinse.

Just picked up some ColourB4 in Tesco for only £6. This is a bargain for me as I can't seem to find Jo Baz, and previously paid around the £11 mark.

I had highlights in my hair and really went off them, so I started using Daniel Field's dye to cover them up but it wasn't quite doing the job with the odd grey bit that I have.  I then used Superdrug's own semi permanent in Rich Chestnut.  Covered them and the greys a dream and looks really really nice but it is a lot darker and redder than my natural colour (not sure what that is really but I think it's maybe a dark blonde/light brown - the little curls at the nape of my neck are a dark blonde anyway).

I do love the colour but it's a nightmare to keep with my roots coming in really quickly (yep, grey hairs) - I'm having to redo my roots every 3-4 weeks and there's no way I'm gonna go grey gracefully.

I thought of trying to get back to my natural colour and doing my roots in my natural colour - might not be so hard to keep and I wondered about using this (or similar product).  Thing is, my hair is prone to being very dry - moreso where the tiny last remaining highlights are - is this likely to really wreck it and make it even more dry?  Is it likely to work with permanent and then multiple semi permanent applications?

Is there any other way of sorting it out?

i am terrible with computers, this has been very stressful haha
i was just wondering if anyone has ever used colour before and then dyed over it with a permanent colour. i used colour b4 on monday to get black out of my hair, and it has gone a rather nice light gingerish brown. i was going to dye it a nice copper ginger witch is a bit brighter but i didn't realise it was a permanent colour (which it says not to do on the colour b4 leaflet)
i have washed it 3 times since and i can still smell the colour b4, i really want to dye it but I'm not really sure why they say not to dye it. will it to lighten ?
if anyone has any idea i would be really appreciative as i would rather not bleach my hair again, it has been through enough
thanks for your time x

I would shampoo a couple more times, then leave it a couple of days (you need to do permanent dyes on hair that is a couple of days dirty) you should then be ok. There's always a chance of it re-oxidising though.

@ukpayne, I of course agree with all of what JanineB said, she's a pro.

I hadn't a clue what re-oxidising was when I first heard the term, but the Colour B4 leaflet gives you the warning on the package because, for instance, your "nice copper ginger" colour will have peroxide if it's a permanent dye.  And if you put peroxide on top of your hair after using Colour B4 and if there are ANY black colour molecules still left in your hair, the peroxide could react and with the black colour molecules and cause the black to return.

Sorry if you knew already - it's just that I didn't. 🙂

Thank you thats great, i really appreciate the replies,  i think I'm gonna hold off for now.
So should  i give it a bleach bath before i colour again, incase it reoxidises? because i want to go to a ginger colour i could just buy some more colour b4?
not sure what is for the best
In the meantime, should i use the buffer to shampoo? i still have some left.

No bleach bath, it's adding peroxide (in the bleach bath) that can make it re-oxidise. It won't harm to use up the buffer though 🙂