Back to brown...

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...currently in the midst of dying my hair back to something at least vaguely resembling my natural color.

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[pinkpolarity.livejournal.com]

Weird, how these things go in cycles, as I was supposed to be doing the exact same thing tonight, except no place seems to stock the proper shade of Feria. I'll miss my pink, but the hair needs a break. That why you're dyeing back too?

[fuego.livejournal.com]

I haven't bleached my hair in months, so it had a few inches of regrowth, and the last time I bleached, I missed some spots, so there were some random unbleached/dyed spots in there, it looked pretty awful and yeah, I don't feel like bleaching it again at the moment to do another run of fuschia.

Funny how having something like my natural color is such a novelty.

I use Feria too, for the dye anyway (Feria bleach will barely lighten my heair, even if I do it multiple times. The first time I tried Feria bleach, I ended up doing it four times and it was barely lighter than my natural color. One use of Herbal Essences got it pretty gosh darn light though. Amazingly enough, my hair wasn't completely wrecked, but I'll never do that again.)

What color are you unable to find?

[pinkpolarity.livejournal.com]

I'm tempted to let my hair go natural, except for me that's all grey in the front and salt-and-pepper everywhere else-- I keep saying that if it was all white, like my grandmother's was, I'd let it go. I'm just not keen on looking even older than I already do.

The color I couldn't find was Chocolate Cherry, which my husband found at the grocery store tonight. I dyed it. Not sure what I think. For some reason, losing my pink hair bugged me way more than I expected it to. Ah well.

I don't use the box set bleaches, I haven't found them to work very well. Not sure if they have Sally's Beauty Supply in Baltimore, but the L'Oreal Quick-Blue (I think that's what it's called, it's a blue packet) works *incredibly* well. Sadly, my local store is usually out of it, so I'm stuck with Kaleidocolors (I think? I just know the packets by sight, not name) instead, which isn't quite as useful. I still get a near-white blonde most of the time on 20 vol. or 30 vol. developer, unless I'm lifting brown. Which is the other reason I *hate* dyeing back to normal colors, the things just won't lift for beans. I have to go brown-to-purple before I can do either blue or pink.

Hope yours comes out really well!

[fuego.livejournal.com]

Ahh...Cherry Chocolate is a good one, I used that for a long time before they came out with their "power reds" line, and I started using the one from that line that was closest to Chocolate Cherry...I think they called it Blowout Burgundy, then I tried one of the other red shades at one point that I really loved....Ruby Rush I think it was called? And used that for a while.

I don't go for white-blonde when I bleach, gold-blonde does the trick well enough for me to get something pretty gosh darn close to the sample color for the technicolor dye that I use, so the Herbal Essences bleach works just fine for my hair, and when I've dyed my hair back to a "normal" color, I generally let it fade enough that there's not much left and then rebleaching it isn't much of an issue.

This one didn't come out bad. Funny enough, it's almost *exactly* my natural hair color, but doesn't look quite like I'd like it to. I figured out that the last few times I've dyed it brown, I've used a more golden shade- this one is a fairly brown-brown with only a very slight gold tone to it, and the color isn't really flat, but it came out very....all one shade. it looks decent enough, I'm not all "OHMGEEZ DYE OVER IT!!!!!!" but I don't think I'll use this shade again. Maybe next time I dye I'll go back to one of the reds....hmmm... :-)

[purplelover13.livejournal.com]

Be careful...I did that and ended up with hair too black. Whoops.

[corpslave.livejournal.com]

I just redid my hair color on Saturday. I use Natural Instincts about once a month to make my brown hair a light auburn.