Question about this colour hair (how to achieve it)

Your hairdresser is wrong. They also seem to be ignorant of colour removers for the most part. I have no idea why, but many are either ignorant of them entirely, ignored them or just dismissed them as bad. I've had an argument with a hairdresser that my hair will fall out if I use them, yet I'd already used them with great success many, many times by then! They work the majority of the time and they do a fraction of the damage of bleach.

Colour removers shrink the artificial colour molecules, and only the artificial  so they can be rinsed out easily. Bleach breaks down the molecules that make up the natural colour of hair, but also other parts of the hair, including proteins and stuff essential to hair health and strength. Yes, they will also break down the artificial molecules, but not effectively, and as it's doing that, it's also breaking down the rest of the hair as well. This leads to bleaching far more than is necessary. Why do that?

What's better? Remove as much of the artificial colour as you possibly can and go from there, with bleach if needed (almost certain in this case!).

As far as I can tell from the french on the box that is the right kind of product and it says no ammonia or bleach so it is what we regard as a colour remover not a colour stripper, which are harsher.

Obviously you are welcome to follow the route the hairdresser advises, but here you are asking for the experiences we have had in colouring our own hair. I know that myself, Janine and Emmer all have experience in removing permanent colour with a colour remover successfully and then lightening it. I have also had experience of trying to bleach out a permanent dye, which left me with bands of dark staining around my head - this is why I am choosing to advise you to try the colour remover first!

Yeah, I know. I am not blindly following the hairdresser, and I am not intent to follow her advice blindly either. If I were to do that, I would not post here. I am thinking about using the colour remover first. As it is less harsh than bleach. Thanks.

It's not just a case of it being less harsh, it's that colour remover is made to remove artificial hair colour specifically, where as bleach is mostly made to lighten natural hair and if it does remove the dye it's a bonus. It might seem an unnecessary extra step at first, but you're attempting one of the hardest transitions from one colour to another so doing it carefully and slowly will be worth the trouble!

If you need further advice about the bleaching part once you have removed the colour as best you can then let us know.

And just to add, color removers are non damaging, bleach is extremely damaging, especially if not done correctly. So you want to try and remove as much old color through color removers and fading methods first then bleach is the last step. We are only trying to make sure you don't end up posting about a bad experience in the bleaching horror stories, lol!  ;D

Hey guys. I just bought colour remover! 🙂 So I am going to use that tonight! One more question. I was looking for a little darker colour. And came upon this:

And I really like this colour. How can I achieve this? Thanks!

Exactly the same. Just with a slightly darker dye when you come to dye it 🙂

I used the colour remover. I think it worked quite well!

Before:

After:

The color remover did a great job, that will cut your bleaching time down tremendously!

Excellent results with the colour remover!