How Can I Get my Natural Hair Color Back?
A recently posted question on getting back to your natural hair color
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I want to let my natural (almost pure white) hair grow in. I have very healthy, coarse-textured fairly long hair that I have been coloring honey blonde for years. Is there a way to match this bright white hair with some kind of streaks or highlights? Lately, on TV, I have been seeing young men with beautiful white or silver hair, so it must be possible — surely they could not have gone completely white/grey at such an early age! A couple hairdressers have suggested bleached highlights — but they say they cannot achieve a match with the white that is my natural color — it will just have to grow out, they say. Is this true? What do you suggest I do, especially to avoid damaging my hair?
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From my perspective you have 3 options:
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Cut it short and let the color grow out, or bleach and tone.
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Bleached highlights, as the hairdressers you mentioned suggested but which won’t match your white hair.
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Bleach up and tone back with a semi-permanent color. (My choice)
Find a reputable hair colorist to do this and you’ll be happy with the results. They’ll bleach your hair up to a pale yellow hair color shade leaving your regrowth untouched.
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Then they can tone back all of the hair with a semi-permanent platinum shade. Bleaching is the only way to get the blonde hair color out of your hair. A semi-permanent tone back will fade in 6 to 12 weeks or more.
You may need to tone the regrowth to even out the color until the old bleached hair is cut out. As the toner fades, you’re left with your natural white hair. Since your hair is very healthy you shouldn’t have a problem going this route, unless you have extremely long hair. It’s more difficult to lift color out of long hair evenly.
Deep conditioning treatments would be good to do beforehand and afterwards. The young men you mentioned seeing on TV with white hair, no doubt had their hair bleached up and toned back to the hair color you’re seeing.
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i am a natural blonde, i first dyed my hair about 2 years ago, it turned out a light brown, luckily all the dye got washed out as it wasn’t perminant or semi perminant.
i then dyed my hair dark brown the next year about december time, i left it to fade to a light brown until july when i dyed it a bit lighter, but it didn’t really work.
i left that for a bit, then did a stupid thing by bleeching it blonde, i left that for about 3 months, because my roots came out really dark.
i dyed it light brown again last week.
i was wondering if anyone knew if i would ever get my natural hair colour back to blonde without dying it, and if there was a way to get all the hair colourant chemicals out of my hair without damaging it or making me go a horrible colour.
Comment by becka — October 28, 2007 @ 12:09 pm