Red hair dye question.

Jul 14, 2014

Becki W.

I am planning to dye my hair red with Schwarzkopf permanent colour foam in cranberry kick. My hair has been bleached blonde and I have used vegetable based dyes (directions, fudge paintbox). I just bleach bathed the blue and purple and now I have light green and blue hair. Will a permanent red dye actually work. I don't want to bleach my hair blonde because I don't want to damage it more and the colour doesn't want to lift.
Anyone have any experience with this
( I also have a dark purple dye and a black dye if it goes the wrong colour)
Thanks everyone!

Jul 14, 2014

Julia K.

Let it fade as much as possible, maybe use lemon juice once a week (it's acidic, so it fades colour very much, leave on for about an hour) and after a few weeks is should work, at least it did for me :)

Jul 14, 2014

Z M.

I would use hi color by Loreal

Jul 14, 2014

Becki W.

Thankyou Julia and Selene!

Jul 14, 2014

Leslie N.

The hicolor by loreal you can use over dark hair like black and chocolate brown but I do not know about green or blue but I don't see the problem since it's light and it should be able to go over it. Most people who use this brand dye it one day, see how it looks and then do it again. Which I would recommend for you

Jul 14, 2014

Alyx T.

Don't use lemon juice. Get a dish soap in orange or red (think opposite of the color wheel and spread it onto your hair. It'll somewhat tone it while removing color. Lemon juice lightens but it'll just push the color deeper since you already did a bleach bath which is honestly one of the worst things to do with veggie dyes because it pushes it further into your hair, causing it to stain. I had the same thing with my turquoise and what I did to get rid of it was dish soap for about two weeks, using it every second day with hair masks in between. It might still leave a tint. You can try to go red, but the chances of it going a gross brown (think of green and red mixed together) are quite high. If you have time the easiest and least damaging way to do this and achieve red is to go purple (blue based like mp ultra violet) than let that fade, than go red based purple, let it fade and then go red (still semi permanent first then permanent if you want). That's what I did to go from mint green to pink, because the green stained too much from me doing a bleach bath.
It only took me about two months to go from the day I dyed it to a blue based purple to when I dyed it pink, but I was in school and didn't want color to fade out to fast so I was only trying to fade it on weekends lol.

Don't use loreal hi color. Your hair is not dark, and it's veggie dyes so it won't do anything.

Jul 14, 2014

Alyx T.

Here's a longer explanation of my whole dye your hair till you get your color thing. 
http://haircrazy.info/hair-science/colour-theory-for-hair-dyeing/