Red & gold tones

Feb 12, 2013

Phylicia V.

I went to the salon and they put highlights in my hair. My hair was brown and had anowhere little red in it. After they washed the bleach out, I now have red and gold tone in my highlighted hair but the end are blonde. How can I remove red &I gold tone color in my blonde highlights?

Feb 12, 2013

Phylicia V.

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Feb 12, 2013

Stephanie D.

As your hair goes through different levels of lightening, you start to see remaining contributing pigments like red and gold. Basically, they slapped some straight bleach on there and didn't tone it. The ends were probably a little dryer or had some kind of previous color in them that lifted your underlying shade so they processed completely to blonde.

IMO, straight blonde doesn't look that good on girls with dark skin. I don't even like it on Beyonce that much...but whateves. My suggestion is to get a semi-permanent level 7 or 6 natural brown and tone your whole head. It should take down the blonde a notch or two and reduce the red/gold to a liveable level.

Feb 12, 2013

Phylicia V.

Thank you and I'm actually not dark skinned. I'm light skinned.

Feb 12, 2013

Stephanie D.

Whoops, sorry! I assumed that was a picture of you. Either way, toner will still take the edge off :)

Feb 12, 2013

Phylicia V.

It is me but the pic is one of my model pics and the photog. edited my pics and made it dark lol
But I'm actually much lighter.

You wouldn't suggest the color additive to remove the gold and red that I can buy at sally's?

Feb 12, 2013

Stephanie D.

It'll probably fix the highlights, but you have to consider how it's going to look on the parts that aren't highlighted. The rest of your hair might turn out a bit drab looking if you try kill off ALL the gold with an ash. You also run the risk of turning your highlights green.

Feb 12, 2013

Phylicia V.

True. Okay. Thank you so much ;)