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Do you think this will work - hair coloring question

Posted: Feb 28, 2010

I posted awhile back about the awful black black (tar black) color my hair is from coloring. I used the suggestions everyone gave. I did the Prelll thing too. After one week of coloring and shampooing, the first time I used Prell (let it sit on my dry hair for 15 minutes), when I rinsed it out of my hair you wouldn't believe all the black that still came out. I was shocked. So...after 3 weeks of using Prell shampoo (and I'm gagging every time I use it - can't believe I grew up on this stuff - it's a really disgusting smell to it), the gray is starting to come in at the roots. My hair is still very black. So..., sorry to get side tracked....here's my question.

I bought a box of light ash brown hair color. Do you think if I use it, it will lighten my hair some, or do you think it will just add more darkness to my ever pitch tar black hair?

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I'm the Prell gal - Anon

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I know it's disgusting, besides being Very harsh. I only used it to get the color out of my hair and then switched back to my regular shampoo.

I think the light ash brown would work. Mine turned out lightish brown, but definitely not really light. I really couldn't tell the difference in color between the gray roots and the dyed dark color.

Let me know how it works!

I have been doing my own hair for years.... - blondie....

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I have blonde hair, but I do it myself, and I have messed up my hair more times than I can tell you. I have learned a lot through trial and error. You need to go to Sally's and buy some color correcter. It will strip that black out of your hair. It gives you instructions of what to do. Then put a color you would like.
I have also learned not to buy hair color at Wal-Mart, drug stores, etc. I only go to Sally's. They have professional products there. Most of the mishaps I have had with my hair were from buying stuff from discount stores such as Wal-Mart.
Good luck.

Hair Color - Gina

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Before transcription I was a hairdresser for 30 years with my own business...it seems that you are adding color to your entire head each time you color...so on the regrowth is the first color and the rest of the strand has had the color lighted (color contains peroxide) and then what ever color you chose..black, brown, blonde; is then deposited. The rest of the hair is so damaged (lifted) (cuticle of the shaft) and that is why the color came out with leaving on the shampoo. The hair shaft is really not holding color...it is just so damaged. The brown will not work...only on the roots and may temporarily give you a greenish cast (ash)to the rest of the hair...you will need to get the rest cut...that is the only way you will restore the rest to accept color evenly.

Good advice from Gina. . . - I think she is right

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same thing happened to me - including using the ash color - big mistake, it did turn greenish.

OMG - Thank God you answered before I did it - Ima goof

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Thank you to "I think she is right" for confirming this too. If I think the tar black is bad I'd be absolutely horrified if it came out greenish. I think I am going to just break down and go to my hairdresser and ask her to fix it. I've used Loreal Preference for years and years and had no problems, always loved the color. Then I tried this new stuff that does not have chemicals, but the color is awful. The last time when my hairdresser cut my hair she was laughing and saying you missed a spot, you missed a spot. I think she is kind of hurt I don't have her color my hair. So, think I'm just going to have her fix it. I think if she can fix it then I can start letting the gray come in after that, and at least feel better about it.

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