I would like to know how I can permanently dye my hair silver gray?
Someone needs to sell it in a bottle, so I can do it myself. I love my gray hair and don't need blondes, browns, etc.
I use Pantene Silver Expressions. It really takes the yellow out.
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Where can I find a product to dye my hair grey?
By James
As a former cosmetologist, I can confirm that there is currently no way to 'dye' hair grey. Grey hair is hair that is missing all pigment, because it is no longer being produced. If you were to bleach your hair enough to remove ALL pigment, which is next to impossible, you would have very little hair left. The closest you will come for now, with the help of a cosmetologist, is to go platinum blonde, which is a high lift bleaching process followed by a cool (blue-violet) toner to balance out any remaining yellow pigment in your hair. But even with that there will still be color in your strands, and even more color left if your hair is darker.
Not good for your hair, or your skin and organs (we absorb some of everything that comes in contact with our skin). That said, unless you are a good candidate for platinum, realistically you're going to have to just wait until your hair stops producing pigment on its own. Sorry! PS- that was a great idea another reader had about getting the highlights, far less damage plus an overall brightening effect.
My hair is naturally, dark-brown. I want it to be a standout, dazzling silver/white hair color. How can I achieve this? Can you recommend any products?
By Ceeci
I would buy a good wig. They are very natural looking, then if you don't like it you can just take it off.
I stripped my dyed hair once with color fix stripper and then bleached it. My underlying color was a red tone with about an inch of salt and pepper colored roots. I then used Wella t18 toner and the color was lightest ash blond. I now have snow white roots and still have some light strawberry blonde areas where the old color was. All was done in one day.
I have used deep conditioner twice, regular conditioner, and I used coconut oil overnight before any process and after stripping and again overnight after bleach and then toner. I'm to the next day and hate my hair. I am going for a gray color. I can't afford a salon at this time. I have been off work for 5 months and will return to work in 4 days. How can I get the brassy color out and make it gray before I return to work. I am desperate for a quick reply! Thank you in advance.
Go to a beauty school. The prices are reasonable and the students are supervised very carefully. You will get the results you want.
I suggest being easy on your hair and waiting a little...I hear you that you are going back to work, but you can end up doing more damage if you keep fussing with it. If you can find a cute style that minimizes what you don't like about how it turned out, and you let your hair heal, you will be better off in the long run.
My hair was platinum blonde a month ago so I decided to dye my hair silver-lilac today and I didn't quite like it so I tried to re-dye my hair pure silver and it turned pure lilac. Should I have bleached my hair before re-dyeing it? The brand I used was La Riché.
Looks fine to me. Live with it for awhile!
I love it! Shades of purple are in fashion, you see it everywhere in hair now.
In a stupid moment I put my hair in a pony and cut off about 6". The hair on top is 100% white while the back is 25% gray. I have been coloring it dark brown since 20s when the top turned white. Now without all that hair I see that the top is actually a dark ashy brown while the back is med auburn/mahogany which is probably closer to my long ago natural color. It looks like I have ombre hair. I can't afford to go to a pro every 3 weeks for the roots, so I do it myself. I colored the roots once since the cut because they were really white, but used a semi perm #5 brown whereas in the past I always used #4 brown.
My question is, I need to do the roots again and want to go back to a permanent color, but closer to the med auburn, preferably mahogany. I am not sure, but I think I should find the color, do all roots then in the last 10 minutes pull through back only, leaving the really dark brown on top alone. I think that while it's shorter I'll get rid of that dark color by trims and layers. Any advice would be greatly appreciated as I'm a bit lost.
I went into my salon and all 3 stylists gave me different solutions. Mostly they recommended adding highlights/lowlights to the top which I don't want to do. Is my idea the best route to go or should I try and lift some of the long accumulated dark color? Thx so much! My hair type is wavy, thick, and very course on top. There is no breakage or other damage. The previous perm color was Loreal Dark Ash Brown.
I would carefully choose my hair dye color this time and stick with this color in the future. Maybe buy a few boxes of this color to have at home so you can always dye your roots.
My hair is white. I want to color it silver gray. How?
By yani
You have to start with a white or platinum blonde base. Then tone your hair vith a violet/ blue-violet toner. Manic Panic Virgin Snow Toner works.
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