Remove Brassiness from Brown Hair

by Caylea
(Big Spring, Texas)

I recently had my hair dyed a light neutral brown, but it ended up being a dark brown with a lot of red tones. Then a few days later I had my hair color stripped and recolored a light ash brown. It is still too dark and has too much red tones in it. My natural hair color is a medium brown with some red in it but I'm trying to get my a hair to a light brown or almost dirty blonde. My problem right now is my hair after being recolored and stripped looks really brassy and has too much red in it. What do i do to get cut down the brassiness and the red in my hair?

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If you have dark brown hair and want it to be a light brown color, you can't just use a light brown hair color and expect it to be that color. Your hair needs more 'lift'.

The brassiness is a result of stripping your hair and undertones left behind from your natural hair color and from the dark brown hair color.

You maybe able to remove some of the brassiness by using toner or a tone refiner for brown hair. Do that first if you want to try it.

You can try lifting your hair to a lighter color by using a light ash blonde hair color and a higher (i.e. 30 or 40) volume peroxide. If your hair still has too many red tones in it, mix equal parts of an ash blonde color with 10 volume peroxide and apply to your hair. It should help remove the rest of the unwanted brassiness.

If your hair is still a little too dark, try the a blonde ash color again but only use a 20 volume peroxide.

The fastest way to get your hair the color you want it to be is to remove the color again via bleach or a hair color remover and then use a light brown toner afterward.