Root Re-Dye with Applicator Bottle

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and I love the xxl range, cant believe how it lightened mine 🙂

I'm thinking of buying those handy root touch up kits in light blonde, that would work as well right? Since my roots are very light brown?

Are they the clairol root touch up kits? If so I used to use them and I've got mousey hair and they worked fine. The only time I think they might not be good is if you're doing blue since they're blonde and could cause the blue to go green.

Are they the clairol root touch up kits? If so I used to use them and I've got mousey hair and they worked fine. The only time I think they might not be good is if you're doing blue since they're blonde and could cause the blue to go green.

I'm just sticking to like Blood Red or Devilish, I don't want any other crazy just red (even though I've never gone red, I wanna!) And I was told with red that any orange bleach color will work perfect, so I'm feeling okay about any root touch up in blonde working since I don't even need it that light!
I was thinking never to use clairol again, as they have a lot of recalled products and every time I use their dye, my hair turns out so bad, I think it's their "new and improved" formulas. I was thinking like Revlon or any other kind, I see them at Walmart all the time and my friend used to be a blonde, so I'm planning on her helping me with roots:p

Great tutorial will be taking this on board when i do my roots! if i wanted to fade my colour on ends can i put the xxl on that to fade it out for new colour?

XXL will fade out old colour, but beware of pinks--they stick like a beast no matter what (but most colours cover up faded pink just fine, anyway).

I didn't realise xxl box dyes could be used, this has made my life a LOT easier 🙂 Thanks for the tutorial! x

This seriously makes me thinking.... convert to a blonde???

Ha, I feel such an idiot, I always get loooooads of overlap ... probably because it never occured to me to NOT put all of my hair inside the bag! #genius

I have a question though -- how do you avoid overlap at the back without missing any? Or, just in general, how did you get decent back coverage? I am the WORST at that!

I use two mirrors for the back ... I now use a tint brush to minimise overlap as well, and I still use XXL blondes for my roots.  I section my hair for the back with clips, hold the mirror in my left hand, put a line of the lightener along the section, put the bottle down, pick up the tint brush, cover roots, make a new "line" section with the pointy end of the tint brush approx 1cm over and start again.

It probably takes me about 20 minutes or so to do all of my roots by myself, but I have been dying my hair on my own for over ten years so it's kind of second nature to me.

Great Tutorial, I love Wella Professional Liquid Applicator Bottle for this. I also use Two Mirrors. One hangs on a door. The other I place in front of it either using the door frame or a drawer in the bathroom to keep it steady and move to any direction I need.  I sit on the floor between the door opening and I can see each angle, side. I also use a hand mirror to make sure all is going well!  I actually go the slow pokey way and do 4 sections one by one.  I slide each section of hair into The Assistant clip on the opposite side that has a comb on it that keeps my long hair out of the way.  I like having a Handheld Shower head w/massager options to rinse each section out 1 by 1 and keep water off the others (when the sprayer works properly  😉

This was super helpful - thanks!

Quick question though - can you then use dye all over lengths and roots and achieve the same all-over colour as before you dyed the roots? Something silly like your hair going a darker pink on the already-pink lengths and being a brighter pink on the roots won't happen, because the base was the same and you're sort of refreshing the lengths. Right? Or do you have to try not to overlap already coloured hair?

If you're using the same colour or the same range of colours (i.e. pink to pink or pink to red or blue to purple) then there is no need to do the lengths at all; you'd just be causing unnecessary damage. 

This is how my pink turned out applying to the above:

No difference in colour from root to length 🙂

Oh no I mean applying colour all over both bleached roots and already pink hair, rather than re-bleaching everything. If you do the former, will it just refresh the colour of the lengths and get the roots to match that?

For example, I bought brown dye to match my lengths as closely as I could, and I want to dye my roots to match to get an even base to start dying my hair blue. I want to get the same colour all over rather than possibly darkening my lengths and having (still!) lighter roots. In this case I'm using permanent box-dye and veggie-based blue, so damage shouldn't be too drastic I'm hoping. I don't know how else to go about getting an all-over base colour to achieve the blue-black I'm hoping for.

That picture is stunning though - you're right. c: It would almost encourage me to go pink! And sorry for hijacking your post like this.

Oh no I mean applying colour all over both bleached roots and already pink hair, rather than re-bleaching everything. If you do the former, will it just refresh the colour of the lengths and get the roots to match that?

I think you  misunderstood my post :).  I didn't rebleach everything in my tutorial, and the above picture is how it turned out over the last photo on the first page, where just my roots were bleached (with some overlap), but the lengths and ends were pink.  The dye was applied over the whole head after, from root to tip.

In answer to your second question, if you match your roots to your lengths and your lengths are already processed, then the dye should take evenly across all of the hair.  Darker dyes are more forgiving as well, so even if it's not a 100% colour match, it should still turn out even.

And thank you 🙂  I miss my pink so very much; it was my favourite.