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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | I have a question and google wasn't giving me a good answer. I al a natural light light blonde. I was like one shade darker than white because my hair gets sun bleached every easy. My natural roots that are coming back are light blonde but not as light. I started dying back in August. I'm tired of having it dyed because it's more expensive to keep up than I thought it would be and I just don't have the extra $100 to have it done every 5-6 weeks. I went rotary and talked with the lady that's been doing it about having it stripped. Yes I know. Stripping is bad. Anyway, she said she would have me come back in Thursday and she would use Purple Shampoo on it. She said it would take a few times but she never fully answered my question when I would ask her about going back to my natural color. So what is purple shampoo and what exactly does it do? If it matters right now it's a light golden red with blonde highlights.
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Location: Florida.. | If I were you Id just let the red fade .. Id not mess with it ..The purple is to tone down red highlights. |
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | Bibliafarm - 2015-02-24 9:03 PM
If I were you Id just let the red fade .. Id not mess with it ..The purple is to tone down red highlights.
But what about the blonde highlights? There platinum blonde |
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Location: Texas | TessBelle - 2015-02-24 9:07 PM
Bibliafarm - 2015-02-24 9:03 PM
If I were you Id just let the red fade .. Id not mess with it ..The purple is to tone down red highlights.
But what about the blonde highlights? There platinum blonde
the "purple shampoo" is purple because it has a toner in it. |
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| My light blonde hair pulled green really badly, one girl have me purple shampoo to use every other day. It is a dark purple color and can dye your hands, but it really didn't do much for my hair! I don't know if it's supposed to work for red or green, and I'm not sure using it once would do anything, i used it for about a month and gave up because I saw no results. Wow this really didn't help you at all, sorry! Just my experience with the stuff. |
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Location: Canada | Purple shampoo is used to remove the yellow/brassy color from blonde hair. The purple is a "toner" because it is opposite the yellow on the colour wheel so it neutralizes it. This will only help even out the brassiness or yellow tone to your sun bleached hair but will not help match it to your darker regrowth.
Stripping the hair removes artificial colour from the hair but won't make your blonde hair darker.Stripping doesn't act like an eraser. The colour that is left after stripping is usually awful and you have to add a colour to fix it. If you want your hair to match your regrowth you'll need to have the lighter hair filled and a color that matches your regrowth placed over top. The filler is a "N" natural color and helps to fill in the blonde colour so your permanent colour doesn't wash out as quickly.
Basically you can either do an a filler and all over color to match your regrowth and then just touch up as necessary.
Another option is to add low lights (colour that is darker then your overall hair color) to your hair so that it helps to hide the darker regrowth while your hair grows out.
Hopefully this answers your question
Edited to fix spelling mistake.
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Location: Cocoa, Florida | What color is your hair now? I'm a cosmetologist and if you were my client I would (depending on the color of your hair) soap cap it (a diluted bleach and shampoo mix) which would lift out some or most of the artificial color and then I would tone it to the appropriate tone- trying to match it to your lighter roots.
There's a few different ways to do it that's just one way. There's really a lot of variables you Have to consider, hair texture, density, color, natural color, contributing pigments etc.
Purple shampoo is used as a temporary toner for brassy blondes usually. Purple is across from Orange/yellow on the color wheel. Therefore it corrects those colors |
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | RnRJack - 2015-02-24 10:04 PM
What color is your hair now? I'm a cosmetologist and if you were my client I would (depending on the color of your hair) soap cap it (a diluted bleach and shampoo mix) which would lift out some or most of the artificial color and then I would tone it to the appropriate tone- trying to match it to your lighter roots.
There's a few different ways to do it that's just one way. There's really a lot of variables you Have to consider, hair texture, density, color, natural color, contributing pigments etc.
Purple shampoo is used as a temporary toner for brassy blondes usually. Purple is across from Orange/yellow on the color wheel. Therefore it corrects those colors
Right now it's all over light golden red with platinum high lights. That's not what it was suppose to be but it didn't look bad so I left it. The red has faded some though and just a tacky gold color. |
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Location: Cocoa, Florida | Unfortunately red has the least amount of pigment, it's always so pretty when it first goes on but it never lasts and can fade into ugly brassy colors. The purple shampoo will help tone but not correct the problem, she should have offered to put a more
Permanent toner in your hair. I would just keep highlighting to lift it back to your natur color if you're a blonde, and get away from the all over colors.
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | RnRJack - 2015-02-24 10:21 PM
Unfortunately red has the least amount of pigment, it's always so pretty when it first goes on but it never lasts and can fade into ugly brassy colors. The purple shampoo will help tone but not correct the problem, she should have offered to put a more
Permanent toner in your hair. I would just keep highlighting to lift it back to your natur color if you're a blonde, and get away from the all over colors.
So what will the purple do to my platinum highlights? |
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Location: Cocoa, Florida | It won't do much, it may dull them down a little and if you use it everyday you will start to see a little of a purple cast in them so don't use it everyday |
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | RnRJack - 2015-02-24 10:44 PM
It won't do much, it may dull them down a little and if you use it everyday you will start to see a little of a purple cast in them so don't use it everyday
I'm going to talk to her agin before she does anything. I'm not positive she fully understood what I was wanting. I don't care if I have to dye it bleach it or strip it. I want my natural hair back. I wish I wouldn't have started this in the first place. I had pretty light blonde hair with even lighter natural highlights and darker blonde lowlights. But I let someone else talk me into it "just for fun" not realizing that it required so much expensive up keep.
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Location: Southern Indiana | As a blonde who has been artificially blond for a long time, it sounds like to me she thought you were just complaining about it being to gold/brassy and was just going to shampoo your hair with the purple shampoo to try to help it. Purple shampoo is great to use on a weekly basis to keep your highlights/or blonde hair looking fresh, but it doesn't really do anything spectacular.
I would have her re-dye your hair to closely match your roots and do some highlights. If you are satisfied with the color I would just do highlights from then out. They will help to blend your natural color. Eventually you may be able to pull off an ombré for awhile while it grows out, if you really want to go back to your natural color. It sounds like it was probably pretty before. Unfortunately, once you dye it takes a long time to transition back. With the highlights you should be able to go 2-3 months before you have to go for a return visit. I only get a partial high light where the bottom half below my ears is not highlighted. It's all my natural color which leaves a nice contrast. This will save you money.
I have had bad experiences with toner turning my hair gray, so I'm pretty sure I would never let anyone do that again. Just my experience.
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Location: Cocoa, Florida | You definitely have to know exactly what you're doing to tone (color correct) people's hair! I have also seen people's hair turned grey, green and purple! |
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Location: Southern Indiana | RnRJack - 2015-02-25 9:12 AM You definitely have to know exactly what you're doing to tone (color correct) people's hair! I have also seen people's hair turned grey, green and purple!
I agree. This first time my hair was really blonde dyed & highlighted and it made it a tab gray, but faded easily. The second time I had just started going to someone new and she toned it to add some darker deminsion back to it. It was fine but I was just too dark and yucky for me. The color line had its own "remover" and that is what made it gray. I went back again and she stripped it. It was fine after that.
I stick with highlights/lowlights because I know they will always turn out good. I also get my base bumped and it works good too. Blonde hair is such a challenge! Lol |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | I started letting mine grow out... It looks like I dyed it ombre but it's just my roots growing back in. I've just gotten a trim every 8 weeks or so and it's grown out a lot. I will never dye my head again! My haor color is a dusty dirty blonde. I learned to love it.
Like everyone else said, the purple shampoo tones down the brassy colors.
My friend uses boxed dyes a lot (wouldn't recommend) and uses the shampoo when she tries to go blonde because her hair always looks brassy after trying to go blonde...She's a red head. (gorgeous natural color) It's always a mess to try and tone down the brassy colors. |
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | She got all the red and gold color out. As well as some orange that I didn't even know was in there. She dyed everything to match my roots that was growing out. If that's what she did, Why is my hair a lot darker now than it was before I started dying it? |
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Location: The edge of no where | TessBelle - 2015-02-26 10:41 AM
She got all the red and gold color out. As well as some orange that I didn't even know was in there. She dyed everything to match my roots that was growing out. If that's what she did, Why is my hair a lot darker now than it was before I started dying it?
You did say it bleaches a lot naturally in the sun. I would imagine that she did it back to your roots (which wouldn't have any sun damage yet). |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | MS2011 - 2015-02-26 10:56 AM TessBelle - 2015-02-26 10:41 AM She got all the red and gold color out. As well as some orange that I didn't even know was in there. She dyed everything to match my roots that was growing out. If that's what she did, Why is my hair a lot darker now than it was before I started dying it? You did say it bleaches a lot naturally in the sun. I would imagine that she did it back to your roots (which wouldn't have any sun damage yet ).
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | IRunOnFaith - 2015-02-26 10:58 AM
MS2011 - 2015-02-26 10:56 AM TessBelle - 2015-02-26 10:41 AM She got all the red and gold color out. As well as some orange that I didn't even know was in there. She dyed everything to match my roots that was growing out. If that's what she did, Why is my hair a lot darker now than it was before I started dying it? You did say it bleaches a lot naturally in the sun. I would imagine that she did it back to your roots (which wouldn't have any sun damage yet ).
OMG so I'm not a true blonde???? I always thought I was. I just might cry lol. Here it is
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