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Help me complete my quest of dream hair?

 
(@fr3ckled)
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Hey guys!
I'm currently on the quest to get strawberry blonde hair.
So far I have used color oops on my hair twice which brought it to a medium red brown. Before that it was a dark cherry brown, I used John Frieda 3vr. Ive gone from natural medium brown, 5r, 4r, to 3vr.

So far I'm stuck on what to do, I was hoping color oops would take me lighter than it did.
Is it possible for me to use loreal quick blue with a 30 developer to get a pale yellow on my current hair?
After that my "plan" was to use well titan red blonde and light golden blonde with a 20 developer to achieve my hair goal.
Would this work?

Any suggestions would be highly appreciated!  πŸ˜€

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Posted : January 17, 2015 12:48 am
(@amydoesthings)
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Hey fr3ckled  πŸ™‚

This may be entirely unhelpful, but I got to a light golden-brown/strawberry blonde by accident. If your hair has any natural red tones (which it should if you're a natural brunette), those should emerge in the bleaching, so you may not have to go to pale yellow then add the colour in. My deep pink hair dye then faded over my warm, golden colour to a definite strawberry blonde, although it's still a little bit pinkish in places. So maybe it's worth trying mixing a bit of pink or red dye with something more neutral (once you're at your desired lightness) to get warmer hints.

I realise that this probably sounds a bit alarming, but it may be worth trying tinting en route to pale yellow to see if you like it!

On the other hand I just looked up your planned colours and those are gorrrgeous, so all I can really say is good luck on your quest, and be sure to wait between bleachings! I look forward to seeing your end results!

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Posted : January 25, 2015 9:53 am
(@kitebunny)
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I don't think you need to bleach to pale yellow to get strawberry blonde, that's like running up six flights of stairs when you only need to go to the fourth floor.
Try another round of colour remover, maybe a different one than what you've used previously.  From there you might just need to do a bleach bath to lighten to strawberry blonde.  But bleaching past it then dying seems like more effort and damage than necessary.

(note I have only a vague idea of what strawberry blonde is, where I come from it's a euphemism for ginger)

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Posted : January 25, 2015 11:21 am