How to Get a Uniform Hair Color
by Tasha Brown
I have the worst most horrible problem ever. First I want to say that I have ethnic hair. I've permed it straight many times but I never permanently dyed it, until yesterday. It was a disaster! First I want to say that I have naturally dark brown hair. Close to black. I've always liked to keep it really dark tho so I've used jet black rinse a lot. After taking out a sew in that I did myself I decided on a whim that I wanted to go lighter! I have really light skin so I figured anything would look okay. I got a honey blonde dye but I intented to only let it turn to a brownish color (like a 30). The top of my hair turned really really fast.. But like a good 6-8 inches of my roots.. Not so much:( I had totally forgot to wash out the jet black rinse build up!!!!!!! ARRRG!) So now I have a horrible dye job. Some parts of my hair are really really light blone, others a orangy color. Some of my ends in some places still look black and others look like a really weird brown color. I calmly washed out the rest of the rinse got all of the jet black out (I made good sure this time lol) Now what I want to know is.. Is it okay to maybe try again? Try to get all the color the same by only doing the newly cleaned ends? *************** In order to get a uniform color, you need to start with a uniform color. You could try and apply the blonde hair color only to your ends but if you get any color on previously lightened hair, the color will only get lighter in these areas. I am a bit confused as to how you got the black hair rinse out of your hair after you used a permanent color on your hair? Hair rinses are only temporary so they should wash out each time you shampoo, (or get your hair wet) unless like you said, you had build up in your hair. One thing you should understand is that temporary colors (rinses) can become permanent-like when you apply them repeatedly to overly dry hair. Dry hair is very porous so it will absorb anything you apply to it quickly. Dry hair needs to have lots of moisture to help 'fill in' the areas of the cuticle that its missing from, before you color, which helps correct hair porosity. Color results are more even because all of your hair will absorb whatever color you put on it, at a more uniform rate. So what I'm saying is that before you use a permanent color, you should first remove build up from your hair but you should also moisturize your hair well! Using a shea butter conditioner is a great choice for ethnic hair. |
