Toning orange/red/yellow

How bright is it and what's your goal color? A blue/violet dye diluted way down with conditioner would help neutralize the warm tones. If you could post a picture of your current hair and goal color, we could give more tailored advice.

I had a series of hair disasters from a few professional salons so I want to just grow it out to my natural hair color. It's not terribly different from my natural but much to warm for my liking. I am hoping to stay the same level just want to tone the warmth down. I will try to post pictures.

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Help please!

Suggest do not panic.

Ash is green toned and hard to achieve. Assuming this is form being bleached then fading would have little effect on reducing a bright or medium yellow.

How did you get the color before received service from professionals? Was the hair natural without any previous dying before seeking professional help? What shade of ash are you trying to achieve?

Again humbly suggest do not panic.

I started with virgin hair and went in for a subtle balayage. She ended up bleaching most of my hair and adding caramel. The 'balayage' on one side was two inches from my roots and on the other side was 4 inches. I did not trust her to fix my hair so I went to an aveda salon and they repigmented my hair and then put a dark brown Demi over it. It was a cherry coke color but I just left it for about a month and it faded into a brassy mess. I went to a friend of a friend who supposedly does amazing color. She initially was going to remove all te pigment to start with a clean slate. She then decided to not do that because she said the permanent color would lift the Demi out of my hair and deposit the new ash pigment. She did three different colors close to my natural (based on the swatches she showed me) but they did not come out anything like the swatches. Not even remotely close. She told me after she used Paul Mitchell pm naturals in a cool tone. I'm not sure what that means exactly. My hair is now an awful shade of bright orange with darker pieces of orange and a gold yellow. I have no idea what to do.

Hope there will be a cliff note version out soon, that is a lot of activity. I am picturing the result as Leela form the movie The Fifth Element.

I am a non-professional with far more experience on vibrant semi-permanent colors like red, orange, yellow, blue, pink, and green.

From my humble opinion suggest would best to start with a fresh slate as best as one can. With all the demi-permanent color applied and the permanent color applied would suggest best method to remove would be a color remover. Other colleagues have suggested and used a color remover to remove permanent and demi permanent color indicated within previous posts in General Questions. If and when using a color remover suggest rinse thoroughly out the color remover at least twice if not three times and wash the hair often maybe every other day. This is to remove any color molecules and color remover left behind. IN previous posts in General Questions and/or Prodcuts and Techniques a few posts indicated the color molecules after using a color remover were not fully removed or thoroughly rinsed. Then bleach was applied to the hair to lighten, the color molecules left behind were re-oxidized and the color removed came back. Again suggest rinse thoroughly out the color remover at least twice and probably wash the hair every other day. Also let the hair air dry giving time for the hair and scalp to absorb moisture that may have been lost.

I do not know how to get any shade of ash blonde fr the current orange hair. Humbly suggest consider a dark brown which would cover over the orange.

Also have never tried to tone down a bright orange so would not suggest this route. Blue is the opposite color on the color wheel but almost certain the result would be a muddy mess of orange, brown, and grey-blue in my opinion.

Whatever you use strongly suggest a strand test on a very small section of orange hair and check the strand every few minutes. A strand test on a very small section of hair will give an estimate of the final results.

Best of luck!

As i suggested in your other thread, Adore have a range of brown/natural direct dyes. Can't really see the colour in those pics, so hard to advise on shades

Thank you both for your suggestions. I am going to go to Sally's tomorrow and check out some of their products. I believe they may sell adore if I'm not mistaken.