Loreal Hi Color Lift New Blondes (For Dark Hair)

Aug 26, 2014

Brianna M.

I was at Sally's the other day and I saw that loreal had a new line of hicolor lift that were blonde and they said for dark hair only I was really tempted to buy them with a 40 developer but instead of buying it I asked the lady if it would get my hair blonde enough to dye it a box color blonde and she said I'd still have to bleach my hair? OK what I wanted to do to get around the bleaching was dye my hair with a few boxes to get a lighter color and then from that lighter color dye it again in like a week or so and do that til I reached my desired blonde but she was like no. I'm a little confused because these hicolors have bleach already in it hence why you need developer or whatever that stuff is called and it says on the box FOR DARK HAIR I don't know should I try it anyway??

Aug 26, 2014

Shaye M.

I can't help with those particular dyes but I do know the shwartzopft Nordic blonde lightening dyes are preeeetty good with lightening hair. :)

Aug 26, 2014

Brianna M.

My hair is dark brown with red undertones would that lighten my hair? I just need a blonde base to keep dying over that blonde enough so I can put the white manic panic in my hair lol

Aug 26, 2014

Shaye M.

Yes it would :) it's worked for me with dark brown hair a lot of times, it's what I like to use if I don't want to use bleach, it's still got lightening powder with it but it's not very harsh on your hair either which is good :)

Aug 26, 2014

Kaleigh D.

Brianna I feel like since you naturally have red undertones it may eventually fade to a dark straw berry blonde/brunette. You may need a color that will counteract the red

Aug 26, 2014

Brianna M.

They aren't naturally red I had dyed my hair red before and covered it with dark brown lol and I will look into that shaye I hope I can find it in my stores.

Aug 26, 2014

Nikelle B.

Brianna I've bought those Hi Lift dyes before and was disappointed. Unfortunately if you want lift you need a bleach booster.

Aug 26, 2014

Shaye M.

This is what they look like :) they come in a few different lightening options aswell I think this is the lightest (lifts 7shades)

Aug 26, 2014

Brianna M.

I'm scared it says poison! lol

Aug 26, 2014

Shaye M.

It's cause it still has bleach in it, it's just less concentrated hahah :)

Aug 26, 2014

Beatrix B.

Well as you can see I'm a very light blonde (but naturally about a medium brown with a lot of red undertones.)
I'm not sure if you know the numbering system for haircolor - a level 1 is completely black, a level 5 is a medium brown (my natural color with lots of red undertones) going up to a level 10 which is like ultra platinum blonde.
Normally I bleach my hair with L'oreal blanc powder bleach+ 40 vol developer for 45 minutes to a light yellow, then tone using Redken EQ Shades in 9G (a golden blonde with a brown base for 20 minutes.
L'oreal's 'Hicolor Blonde Hilights" says it lifts 3-4 shades with no 'pre lightening' required - that was NOT my experience when I tried it using 40 vol developer for 50 minutes. I was left with a hideous neon orange color.
The only thing I can say is if you have a lot of red/orange tones in your hair 'L'oreal's Hicolor Blonde' will not remove them to an attractive shade of blonde.
I was really hoping the L'oreal HiColor' would work so I could skip the step of toning, but alas no.
To correct the 'neon orange' left by the "HiColor Blonde' product required another round of bleach to get the orange out & a toner to drab to the banana yellow I was then left with - I also had quite a bit of breakage & ended up with a 'Billy Idol' type pixie.
I can't really speak for Schwarzkopf's ultimate lighteners as I've never used nor seen them in the US.

Aug 26, 2014

Brianna M.

Wow OK thank you so much for that I will not be using the hicolor hilights.

Feb 17, 2018

Sheila J.

Never had an issue with loreal hi color in reds just had to color strip my red to a dirty blonde that lifts as it goes or dries I should say, brianna I will let you know how it works when I go to do my second process tomorrow