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How to do dark roots but keep light everywhere else
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks agoI want to dye my roots dark and cover grey, while keeping the rest of my hair light so I can put on bright colors. The couple times I have tried this, the dark (black, dark blue, dark purple) the color stained the rest of my hair.
My hair is past my shoulders and would like to not have to bleach my roots anymore - yet, since I have greys, essentially I would be trading bleaching roots for dying roots. I have not had my natural color for so long I do not even know what color it is now, but my roots seem lighter than they used to be, probably because of grey. My hair used to be medium to dark brown.
Any suggestions?
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Chameleon“Happiness can be found in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” - Albus Dumbledore
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I am not sure how to accomplish this idea either. A dark color will always have some influence over a lighter color.
When a person wants a dark and light color in their hair, suggest the lighter color by the crown and the upper half of the hair. While the darker color should be on the lower half of the hair and by the nape of the neck. When washing the hair the lighter color, will have little ability to affect a darker color.
Two items you can put on the hair to decrease the chance a semi-permanent dye is able to stain the hair. One product is white conditioner the other is shampoo. Conditioner and shampoo decreases the ability of semi-permanent dye to stain the hair. Humbly suggest after dying the roots carefully apply shampoo or conditioner to the rest of the hair.
These are my suggestions and opinion.
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I think the first step is to figure out whether you natural, undyed hair becomes stained, or whether it's a result of dyeing the regrowth with a permanent dye.
If it's the latter, then I'd suggest using a no-lift formula on the roots. A no-ammonia dye that uses 10 volume peroxide.
If it's the first option, then I'd suggest working it into your scheme and allowing the roots to get coloured a bit. Grey goes pretty well with every colour. E.g. here's me blending my natural grey into colourful hair https://www.haircrazy.com/timelines/Jude/2015/7/5/59540/
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Your grey hair looks nice actually. My grey hair is blah. The dark parts aren't dark enough to make it look nice I think. If it were all gray or white I'd be fine. But maybe I just didn't give it enough time to grow long enough to see. I do like that picture.
Since posting this, I went ahead and did a bleach soap cap on my roots - which is what I usually do instead of full-on bleach. It usually goes light enough because my hair is fine. It actually came out a nice blonde without doing a lavender or anything. Wasn't overly yellow or gold. But, I still have a lot of faded blue and purple from about 2 inches and beyond - now they look a nice silver blue on top and yucky pink purple underneath.
Maybe I will try to just let it go next time and see what it looks like.
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Chameleon“Happiness can be found in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” - Albus Dumbledore
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