Is it normal for bleached hair to turn red after dying it black?

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I had yellow hair that was bleached. Then I dyed it black (well on the box it looked dark dark dark brown) though, because I didn't like it. It's turning brownish red now though. So my questions are..

a) Is that normal?
b) If i were to get a hair color remover, would my hair turn blonde (like the bleach) or reddish brown?

Answer
First of all, no hair color aside from bleach is permanent.
Because you stripped all pigment from your hair when you bleached it, the black dye has nothing to stick to and will fall right out.
It is suggested that if you want a brown or black color after bleaching, that you first color your hair redish to add pigment and then put your desired color.

Can someone help solve this perplexing hair issue?

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When I want to dye my hair red after dying it dark, I use a hair color remover (not bleach, it only lightens the hair to what the latest dye lightened it to, or your natural color) and then when I put on the new dye, it ends up brownish and ashy even if it's red. What is the reason for this? Is there anything I can do to prevent it?

Answer
The difference between an extractor (what you are using) and lightener (bleach) is that an extractor robs the color molecules of oxygen and they decolorize, shrink, break apart and dissipate out of the hair. Lightener will decolorize, shrink, break apart and dissipate all color molecules out the hair. The reason extractors are able to only remove artificial color is because artificial color relies on oxygen for the color to develop (oxidize... become the color you can see). Natural color doesn't rely on oxygen to be the color that you see. So robbing natural color of oxygen leaves it unchanged. Lightener breaks up all color, artificial or natural and makes it small enough to pass out of the hair shaft.

What is happening to you is that you have artificially colored your hair so many times that your hair is highly saturated with color molecules. When you are trying to use the extractor you are not getting out all the artificial color molecules. Some color is left in the hair even if you can't see it. Then when you reapply the color the oxygen from the developer is re-oxidizing (giving the molecules back the oxygen they were robbed of) the old color pigments and they are turning back to the dark color. If you mix enough colors eventually you end up with "mud" or brownish and ashy even when you are trying to go red. Have you ever mixed paints or even color crayons with a ton of different colors to the point that no matter what color you added it stayed the same "muddy" color?

The best thing for you to do (short of seeing a professional... which I HIGHLY recommend) is to use a lightener to remove enough of the color instead of just temporarily robbing it of oxygen to be able to get to the red shade you desire. Once you have enough pigments removed you will be able to apply the color you desire without risking the old dark color redeveloping. This is going to be VERY damaging to your hair, then again what you are doing now is damaging also. It "could" infact damage your hair to the point it will no longer accept any color pigment at all either...

This is why it's best to seek professional help. There are so many factors that go into haircoloring. This is also why professionals that specialize in color correction make bank!!

Anyway, hope this explains your perplexing hair issue. I wish you the best of luck :)

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