Hello,
I had my hair stripped by a salon as I wanted go blonde after I had a few different hair colours over the last 18 months. For the last few months I have been using Nutrisse Ultra Colour 5.62 vibrant red, however when the hairdresser put bleach on to my hair it started to go back to the red colour.
She tried many different blonde tones but each time the same result, so she had to use a five minute all over colour in brown, however I can still see the red tones in my hair.
Thank you,
Anon, Wales
I have to be honest here and say that you might have to wait a while before you attempt to get your hair to a blonde of any colour. If you have been using a red colour over and over it sounds as if you have got "cuticle stain". This is when the outer layers of the hair shaft get artificial pigments trapped in them from overlapping dye and cannot be removed easily if at all, even with bleaching. This red pigment will remain in the hair even if you attempt to cover it with brown shades.
I don't agree with the hairdresser saying the colour having "salts" in it as that particular manufacturer doesn't use that type of dye stuff, these metallic salts of which they speak of is normally present in progressive hair dyes that men use to "restore their hair to its natural shade".
So what can you do? I would say that if you can refrain from colouring your hair for a while and then have good a hair cut to remove as much of the old colour as possible this will all make taking it lighter easier in the end.