I dyed my hair 3 weeks ago light beige with Nice and Easy, but it's a ginger colour and it looks like a coconut. I would like to dye it natural lighter golden brown. When will I be able to do it?
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I don't think you colored your hair light beige. Would it be more correct to say you applied a light beige color, but the resulting color was ginger?
High fashion blonds are not the only colors that require pre bleaching. An example would be, if you had black hair and wanted a medium auburn color. You would not be able to go from black to medium auburn by using a one step color such as Nice and Easy. It does not have the ability to remove enough of the dark pigment to produce an auburn color. You probably would end up with a dark brown with reddish highlights.
I will tell you exactly when you should do it....When you have learned that you cannot go from a dark color to a 'lighter golden brown' by using a one step color. Applying a one step lighter golden brown to ginger colored hair (and without pre bleaching) would probably turn your hair a lighter brassy red gold.
It's funny that these hair coloring questions are always by 'one timers', and not by long standing ThriftyFun members. Guess the regulars 'round here know a thing or two.
Hi Mags - I use Nice and Easy myself, and sometimes I get an orangy tinge to my hair if I try a different shade of blond on my brown/grey hair. I just put up with the colour for a few weeks, and it fades out to an acceptable shade. I think about 6 weeks is right to re-dye, but that's just my opinion. There is a number on the box -- 1-800-clairol -- that you can phone and talk to a colour expert.
By the way, I have a medium brown hair, and I quite routinely dye my hair with the blond tones, and am usually happy with the result. One step products work just fine, unless I happen to choose the wrong one!
By all means, Mags, do call Clairol.
Do know that each head of hair is different, and that different results will occur when using the same product. Results obtained by one person when using a particular product is no indication the same results will be obtained by someone else.
You did not state the color of your virgin hair. By getting a ginger color when applying a light beige shade of Nice and Easy, I assume your virgin hair to be quite dark.
The fact that one person with medium brown/grey hair achieves a particular result with Nice and Easy, is no indication you will achieve the same results. Excepting porosity, applying color to the grey hair is, result wise, essentially the same as applying it to highly bleached hair, in that, in both, there is an absence of pigment.
If you do apply a 'natural lighter golden brown' shade of Nice and Easy to your hair without pre bleaching, please do report back and tell us the results.
PS
I think a lot of people are of the misconception that hair color is like paint. If you have a wooden table which has been painted black, you can apply white paint and get a white table.
This is not the case with hair. Hair is translucent. You cannot expect to apply a light beige color applied to black/brown/medium or light brown hair and get a light beige result. The translucency itself will permit the underling darker pigments to show through, including the ginger shades revealed by the lifting action of Nice and Easy.
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