I bleached my hair last night to remove the dark hair dye I had in. How long before I can dye it again?

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hayley

Okay, so I have naturally light brown hair. A year ago, I dyed my hair very dark brown-almost black. BIG WHOOPS. I have spent the last year trying to get it to fade out/ grow out and return to my natural color. I dyed it a lighter brown once, and that was about 6 months ago. It made the previous dark brown lighter, but it also made my natural roots even lighter. I wanted to get rid of the ridiculous stripe around my head from the unmatched colors, so I bought a box of Permanent Hair Color Remover from Walmart that said to recolor your hair immediately after using it. Even BIGGER mistake. It made my roots bright yellow and it faded into orange, then redish orange tips with some random brown streaks in there. I cried myself to sleep, woke up, and recolored my hair as the box had instructed. It looks a million times better, but is all over a light brown/auburn color. It still looks like a bad dye job, and I have to wear a hat to work tonight. How long should I wait before dying it a richer, slightly darker brown? My hair is not damaged... it still very healthy and silky like it has always been. I did a hot oil treatment on it earlier just incase. Also, I have never lightened my hair at all or had it bleached before last night. PLEASE HELP!!! I don't want to look this hideous, but I don't want my hair falling out either. Thank you!!!

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I'm a licensed cosmetologist. Bleach and lightening products are so tricky and unpredictable sometimes. You have to be very careful when using bleach. It lightened more towards your scalp because of the heat coming from your body. Heat speeds up the process with hair chemicals. If your hair is not feeling weak or anything, go ahead and color it right now. but DO NOT bleach it or lighten it anymore. Keep strengthening it up and you should be fine. From what it sounds like, you should be ok to apply a color over your hair right now. But, be aware that the color will only change the parts where the color is light enough to go over it. Make sure you pick a color that is not ash based because often times.. it will turn your hair greenish. If you pick a red or orange base color.. you will get a lot more red than you want. haha it is going to suck up what you put on it.. and amplify it if you aren't careful. Just put a neutral color on your hair and it should be fine. Use a filler on the hair to make sure that the color is accurate. (here's a link for a filler that you can get at sally's beauty supply http://www.adiscountbeauty.com/store/products.php?product=Colorful-Neutral-Protein-Filler-16-oz.)

If you still have problems after that.. see a salon stylist and get their opinion after they examine your hair.

good luck!!

What color highlights will look the best?

Mrs. Emmet

I have dark auburn red hair and I have been wanting highlights for about a year and a half. What color would look the best? I have brown eyes and my skin is very light. Thanks for helping! = ]

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I think that blonde would look the best. Or black, that would look nice with you dark auburn hair ! If not, then you can always re-dye your hair ! I would suggest to try using the washable highlights, just to try it out, and see which one you like the best. Plus if you don't like them, they wash right out ! You can get them and your local walmart most likely !

Well good luck girl !

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Is there a way to measure color change/difference numerically?

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Q. I am doing a study one hair color change using Hydrogen Peroxide and a specific rare fungus. I need some data to run through T-Tests so what could I use to measure this numerically?

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Hi
Not sure how you would go about it but
colours on screen can be given by 3 numbers the RGB....Red Green Blue...differing integers up to 256 for a lot of programs....e.g. in Java you can define a colour in this method...
You could match the colour you see by the colour you create..excel and html use RGB or hexadecimal code,which is a 16 base number to generate colours... a small point Colour is spelt color in programs usually..do a search in google..
One point to note about matching colours screen colours depend on your monitor and these vary a lot...It has been that graphic artists used the most expensive CRTs to do the best accurate colours but that was over 5 years ago..Not sure now...scanned hair or fungus are subject to errors in rendition and errors in processing...but the match to the two after scanning might be more accurate as the two created colour and scanned colour do appear on the same monitor.This might depend on the quality of your scanner and software....A good OCR software if you go down this path be a must...as well as good quality scanner...but then they have improved a lot...
Depends on your budget and what facilities you already have.....
Hope this helps...
You could devise a program to match a colour....I'm rusty..could be a scanned item might give you its colour code with only a little manipulation..One might be able to form a program to automatically compare colours but you could obviously do it manually...A lot of programs give a colour palette html
e.g. macromedia
a few sites displaying web colours with codes
http://html-color-codes.com/
http://www.computerhope.com/htmcolor.htm
http://www.web-source.net/216_color_chart.htm

What type of hair dye do I need to get my hair like Ariana Grande?

Alex

My hair is already red but not as intense as hers. I go to Sally's & all of their colors go by letters & numbers. So what can I use without bleaching/damaging my hair?

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I read somewhere that her hair dye is called "Rock N Roll" and it's by Manic Panic. Ariana herself says that to keep the color intense for the show, she must get her hair done every second week , which she says always takes very long. Ari also advised against bleaching!
If you don't want to bleach and still have something nice and bright, try a henna treatment to intensify your hair color. I think they have a lot of reds. And henna doesn't damage! :D

Anyway, good luck and stay gorgeous! <3<3

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