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Hair Color Correction Question

Getting back to your natural hair color is a challenge that Rosy faces

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!

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