I've wanted to go back to silver for a long time so I just thought i'd go for it! I thought it'd actually be difficult and really damaging to my hair but it wasn't as bad as I thought. When I was ginger I dyed my hair with Tangerine by Directions and diluted the hell out of it with some cheap conditioner. I only dyed it once every 2 weeks or so because I didn't mind the colour it faded too, the colour it usually faded too was a gingery blonde anyway so I knew it wouldn't be that hard to get lighter. This is the process I did, enjoy!
I used the Nutrisse Truly Blonde, Lightens up to 4-6 tones. I did my roots first because they were about an inch long, then after that I just toned my hair with Bleach London's Silver Shampoo, as you can see it really did take the orangeness away from my hair. In person it actually looked quite ashy. I was abit worried about using Bleach London's silver shampoo because i've never used it before but i'm actually quite impressed for saying I didn't bleach the ends at all.
After I bleached the rest of my hair with the same Nutrisse box set I used for my roots it came out rather yellow so I thought i'd experiment with a few dyes I had left over, I put alot of conditioner in a bowl and mixed it with a tiny bit of Lavender dye from Directions and then I put the smallest amount of Black hair dye from Crazy Colour to add some grey tones (you can't tell by the picture) so it would be abit purple. I smothered this on my hair and left it on for half an hour, the colour was so much more ashy but it wasn't the colour I wanted. Once I washed it out I used the PRO:VOKE Touch Of Silver, Twice a week brightening shampoo for 5 minutes. I highly recommend this toner! I used it last year when I was silver before and it's the best toner i've used. Normally i'd smother my hair in it and leave it for half an hour but because of what I did before I didn't feel the need.
After I did all that this was the result! I'm so happy with how it's came out and how my hair isn't damaged at all. Yes, it'd abit dry but that's easily fixable with a good treatment. In some light my hair still has hints of ginger, but i'm not too bothered because I know how hard ginger is to get rid off and in a few weeks when I do my roots i'll go over the gingery bits to get rid. I hope this helps!
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Hi Chloe! Love the blog.
ReplyDeleteIf my hair is already platinum, how would you go about doing a silver tone? would it be enough to mix the conditioner, black and lilac? Thanks!