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I’ll give you a little background on hair color and what they are actually doing to your hair. Semi-permanent hair color is most often used to go a shade or two darker than your natural hair color. Many people like a semi-permanent color because it is less damaging to the hair and tends to fade out for a soft out-growth. On the other hand permanent hair color penetrates deeper into the hair cuticle providing a longer lasting color with a more defined out growth.

There are a few ways you can get a good start at becoming blonde again. The only home remedy I would suggest is to try a clarifying shampoo a few times a week until you feel you have reached maximum results. The clarifier will slowly remove any build up of hair color in the hair. It is a less damaging approach to lightening the hair but, it’s not a guaranteed way to remove all hair color. Aveda’s Hair Detoxifier and Bumble and Bumble’s Sunday Shampoo are two great clarifiers to choose from.

Your other option would be to call a hair salon and see a hair coloring professional. Going lighter once you have dark hair is much more difficult to achieve at home than vice versa. The problem you are having with lightening your hair is color will not lift out previous color; you have to remove it. Putting a blonde hair color over dark hair has the same effect as using a highlighter on black paper, it does nothing.

By going into a hair salon a hairstylist can take a look at your hair and formulate what will best suit your needs. The hairstylist could take a dramatic route and do a bleach and tone on your hair to remove the old box color. This option could potentially be very damaging to the hair depending on how the box hair color lifts out of the hair.

A better approach would be to do a foil/highlight in the hair. The unfortunate side to this option is, you will not completely get rid of the brown. The benefits to this option are:

* Appearance of hair color being lighter all over

* You will save the integrity of the hair

* You will have great dimension in the hair

* Your outgrowth will be less harsh and more natural looking

Let’s face it, no one naturally has one single, solid, hair color right? You can have the best of both worlds by adding highlights to your brown hair and be adding depth and interest as well!

Got a question, war story or comment about this topic? Click on the "Leave Your Comments" link at the very bottom of this article. Some of my best ideas for future articles come from reading reader comments. I'd love to hear from you!

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Has this color for hair type of issue happened to you?

Color for hair can be a tricky business.  In Alyssa’s case the trouble becomes twofold as her hairstylist/colorist is the daughter of a close friend. I’m well aware that Alyssa is not alone with her hair color dilemma. But things could get a lot more difficult to correct if she doesn’t take action fast. 

Alyssa writes:

You have done the right thing in trying to reach your hair stylist. It’s never too early to go back for a color correction! It becomes more complex and difficult if new roots grow in.  I’m afraid, as you probably have suspected, that your hair stylist doesn’t know what to do.  The fact that she hasn’t called you back speaks volumes about her level of hair coloring experience. No doubt she is stressing out, as she wanted to please you and hasn’t got the confidence that she can now fix the hair color problem.

First of all, you need to go back sooner than later to get the color for your hair fixed.  The problem will only get more complicated if left long enough for roots to appear. My suggestion is that you force the issue with your stylist or your salon. You could do this a couple of different ways. First, you could simply walk in and have your stylist look at your hair color. Tell her you aren’t happy with the color and ask her directly if she is able to get it closer to what you had in mind. Use your women’s intuition here, I’m suspicious that she is afraid of her capabilities of handling a hair color correction and might be relieved to be let off the hook . . . as you should be too if she isn’t positive of what steps to take.

Another option is talking with the owner, who I’m sure would want to know of the problem. She wants to have a chance to fix it and keep you as a hair salon customer. Most hair salons have hair stylists who are at different levels of experience. They should be able to fix it for you and for what you paid, it should be at no cost to you.

If your gal hasn’t the experience or know-how of correcting this color problem, this will be a big learning moment for her. This can be a win-win situation at this point for everyone if handled correctly.  You can come out with the hair color you were after, the hair salon keeps you as a client, and your friends daughter will increase her knowledge of not only color for hair, but how to face-up and work through problems that can  and do arise when coloring the hair. 

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You can continue tinting every few months until the old lightened hair color is cut off.  Or, you could bring it to a professional hair colorist or an advanced beauty school for a reduced price but, don’t try correcting this yourself!  Right now your problems are few. If you color it at home and get the ends too dark, the price for correcting the hair cololr mistake goes up and the damage to your hair will be more extensive.

A professional hair colorist can fill the highlighted part of your hair with a more permanent hair color than you are using now. That will hold  more haircolor on the ends so they don’t fade out as much. But they will still most likely do a semi-permanent coloring throughout the hair to blend your new growth to your ends. 

When this type of hair color correction is done right you can eventually stop using the semi-permanent color altogether if that is what you would like to do.

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