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(@z0mbiemurder)
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SOOOOOO, hey. Heres the thing, I've had lots of different colors over the years but my favorite so far was blue, lots of people know me by my blue hair :3 but I kinda got tired of it and tried purple, Plum directions, but it just faded to green and blue and it was a total mess and left me a bit ceptical, so I turned back to blue again.
Now I started to fade the blue but it kinda WONT go away, I did a bleach bath and several washes with head and shoulders soap and baking soda, it was dark blue, and is now a wierd turquoise at the ends and greyish green at the roots, im just wondering could I cover up blue/greenish hair with Cerise or any other strong pink from directions ? and maybe Violet too ?

a big thanks for the help, need it ):
btw: it has faded a bit more since I took the pictures.

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Posted : June 22, 2014 10:02 pm
(@Wicked Pixie)
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I would try a colour remover, i have had success getting green staining out with them in the past. Cerise or Rose Red would definitely cover the turquoise, although it will be more towards purple if the turquoise is still quite strong.

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Posted : June 22, 2014 11:16 pm
(@katiesiepierski)
Prominent Member Registered

Those colors are all so pretty! I understand wanting a change though πŸ™‚ A lot of people have been having trouble fading the new formula of Directions Plum (fading to blue/turquoise on most). Cerise would cover any of that, as well as Rose Red. I think their Violet fades kinda fast and would just make it more blue looking because of the green.

There's a lot of other things you can do to try and fade it more though. There's a lot of fading treatments on here, you could make up your own, there's non damaging color removers like One n Only Colorfix, Colour B4, Jo Bazz, Color Oops, Decolor Remover, Provoke, etc. Even if the remover itself doesn't take out a whole lot, I found that after doing a color remover, fading treatments seem to work really well.

Here's some of the basic fading treatments:
http://www.hairdyeforum.com/index.php?topic=1704.0

And here's some more intense ones:
http://www.hairdyeforum.com/index.php?topic=12029.0
http://www.hairdyeforum.com/index.php?topic=13752.0
http://www.hairdyeforum.com/index.php?topic=13842.0

You should be able to get it at least a few shades lighter by doing some of these

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Posted : June 23, 2014 2:34 pm
(@z0mbiemurder)
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I would also consider trying a color remover if I wasn't worried about the damage which I read was quite significant, and haven't considered Rose Red yet (because of the name mostly) and I'm quite fine with it ending up a bit purple actually, I'm just afraid it turns out brownish in the areas my hair's a bit grey ): Wicked Pixie

Aw thank you, they all look terrible on me though ahah, I think I'll skip the Violet and just stick with Cerise or Rose Red as long as it doesn't fade to a brownish tone (??) and I did try some of your fading tips and it worked wonders until now, it just wont come off ): but it's quite a bit lighter
I'll consider getting a color remover if it won't make any damage then (: thanks so much for the help guys

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Posted : June 24, 2014 7:11 pm
(@Wicked Pixie)
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Colour removers are non-damaging, but they do dry your hair out like any fading treatment. They are different from colour strippers, which do damage your hair.
Rose Red is a lovely deep neon magenta that fades pinker, it has the worst name, it is not red at all.
I don't think it will go muddy, I have put very diluted rose red over faded turquoise and only got lilac shades, if you are going for a deep pink they cover most bases.

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Posted : June 24, 2014 7:26 pm
(@z0mbiemurder)
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I'll look the colour removers thingie for sure now.
And wow, I think ill be going for that dye instead of Cerise, and love the idea of lilac shades (: but then again eveyone's hair is different I have to try it to find out ahah
Thank you so much xx

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Posted : June 24, 2014 10:07 pm
(@marthakins)
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I would second rose red, I have my hair this colour at the moment and it really is lovely. I also used it over faded blue/green before and it came out a beautiful purple colour.

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Posted : June 25, 2014 10:19 am
(@z0mbiemurder)
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I think I'm really going for that one, maybe mixing a bit of flamingo pink or cerise (if avaiable) just to get it pinker,  as soon as i get a chance to go purchase them, no dyes nearby ):
thank youu

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Posted : June 29, 2014 6:28 pm
(@marthakins)
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I think I'm really going for that one, maybe mixing a bit of flamingo pink or cerise (if avaiable) just to get it pinker,  as soon as i get a chance to go purchase them, no dyes nearby ):
thank youu

If you want it pinker I would suggest adding rose red slowly in to the flamingo pink, because if you add flamingo or cerise  in to the rose red then it will just eat it. Rose red is REALLY highly pigmented.

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Posted : June 29, 2014 6:45 pm
(@janineb)
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Yeah, I agree. I've just mixed rose red with some other pinks and used barely any of it, but it's still mostly rose red colour!

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Posted : June 29, 2014 6:46 pm
(@z0mbiemurder)
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OH yeah, my mistake ladies, I meant use a lighter pink and and a bit of rose red for it to take over the blue (:
I hope hope it doesn't end up mostly red, really want a vibrant pink
thanks again xx

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Posted : June 29, 2014 8:58 pm
(@Wicked Pixie)
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I can promise you there is no red in Rose Red, it only comes out reddish if put over orangey bases.

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Posted : June 29, 2014 9:38 pm
(@z0mbiemurder)
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Aw than you for telling me that, rose red it is xx

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Posted : June 29, 2014 9:43 pm
(@marthakins)
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Yup yup, this is how incredibly diluted rose red came out on my hair, you can see the base is pink πŸ™‚

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Posted : June 29, 2014 9:52 pm
(@z0mbiemurder)
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I wanted a really deep vibrant pink but oh my god, looks like lavander I simply adore it, beautiful color gosh
but did you have some green bits ? because I do and the roots are greyesh ):
oh lovely color im so in love with it now ahahah

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Posted : June 29, 2014 10:11 pm
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