I am suffering here.
Two months ago, I bleached my bangs and put Beyond the Zone Tripped Up Turquoise in. The color was the most disgusting florescent green and awkward blue. I dyed over it again the next day with the same color, which fixed the patchiness, but it was still a gross color. I bought Ion Color Brilliance Sky Blue. I dyed over the prior blue, and it came out nice but missed a couple spots, so I dyed over it with the same blue that night. This was all two months ago, and, well, the blue is still there.
I have been trying to get rid of the blue for a little over a month now. I have tried baking soda, honey, Vitamin C treatments (I have done a good ten), dandruff shampoo, clarifying shampoo, and I have been washing my hair with dish soap for two weeks. I have every washed with all of those ingredients combined. It always fades a little bit, but by a little bit, it is like comparing the numbers 6.5 and 6.3. It is barely a noticeable difference. I also tried Color Opps, which I did not find out that it does not work for unnatural colors until AFTER I bought it and tried it with no results.
I have my senior picture on Monday, and it is Friday night. I have to get the hair back to blonde on my bangs. Earlier tonight, I did two bleach washes. The first one barely faded it and just bleached my roots, and the second one faded it a lot, but it is still pure blue. It is still nowhere near blonde. I would not say my hair is not too damaged from these bleach washes; I think a deep conditioning will fix it right up.
Does anyone know some miracle I could try to tear the color from my hair? Ugh. I have looked at sixty million websites and forum posts and this is my last resort.
Posted : September 13, 2014 3:16 am
You're not going to get it back to blonde, I'm afraid. Turquoise stains, a lot. You're risking your bangs snapping off if you put any more bleach on it. Deep conditioning does not fix hair; it just coats it in silicones (plastics) which make it feel nicer--the hair is still damaged underneath, and it can take up to a month for damage to fully show.
If you can't have unnatural colours in school, you're probably going to have to go a light warm brown like this:
Unless you want little frizzy broken bangs in your senior photo. Like this.
We usually advise to wait at least two weeks after a bleach bath (preferably a month in your case, as you did two back to back which might as well have been a full bleach) before using a colour, or else using a true direct dye semi. If you really can't find a direct dye semi in a warm brown (should be labelled as 6-8 washes), you maybe could use a demi on Sunday night (typically they're labelled as 28 wash "semi" dyes, but they do contain peroxide, so don't wash your hair all weekend if you go this route).
Posted : September 13, 2014 10:02 am
Yeah, I know that deep conditioning does not actually "fix" it and just coats it, but I have short hair. By this, I mean, barely any hair is bleached because my "bangs" are barely anything as a side of my head and the back are shaved. I risk damaging my hair because if my hair really ever gets too bad, I can just shave my head with not a care in the world. It is still nice deep conditioning because it keeps it feeling nice 🙂 .
I guess that there really is not much I can do to fix it! That kind of sucks. I'll just have to let it fade, I suppose. I just have a bad feeling that color will not cover this blue. I must live with it!
Posted : September 13, 2014 2:29 pm
Ions blues are pretty much permanent, it is unlikely to fade or bleach out. Try neutralising it with its opposite colour (put a pic into negative) it will be a red/orange colour. Then put your brown dye over the top.
Posted : September 13, 2014 10:29 pm
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