For Professional Knowlegable Hairdressers. (or people who know a lot about hair)?

i need serious hair advice. I'm a natural strawberry blonde, the color the girl from "That 70's Show" had. My face is completly different however. A few months ago i died my hair dark dark brown, almost black with a tint of red. The color looks good. However im thinking of going blonde now. Something a bit lighter then my natural color with highlights. I do not want to bleach my hair nor wait until it grows out. Is there a way to remove the die from my hair and work that way?

P.s My hair is relativly short. Shoulder Length

For Professional Knowlegable Hairdressers. (or people who know a lot about hair)?

Well you can strip the color, but I dont know of anything you can get like that at say, walmart. You'd have to go to a salon, and even then, you'll still have to bleach your hair. The only thing I as a stylist can think of to do at home it to get a "Malibu" treatment, which will pull out some of the color, but I don't think it will be anywhere near light enough to go blonde. Although if you pull out some of the color, you won't have to bleach quite as long. Try a cream bleach. It's more gentle than powder bleach. They do make "high lift" blondes too. In short....

1. Go to a salon

2. Malibu to pull out some color, bleach, hi lift blonde

3. bleach and an ash blonde color (to cut the orange from your current color)

For Professional Knowlegable Hairdressers. (or people who know a lot about hair)?

If you have used a permenant dye to darken your hair, then there is nothing you can do besides bleaching or using a color stripper to remove it. However, within these confines you do have options:

-Use a mild bleach and do multiple applications to gradually lighten your hair with as minimal damage as possible. The hair will need to be toned when it reaches the gold or copper-gold stage. Highlights can then be placed on top of this base you've created.

-Doing full heads of highlights or foil streaks multiple times

-Using a color remover which works much like a bleach. Some people swear they aren't as harsh on the hair.

-Allow it to grow out. Not what you really want to hang around n wait for, but an option nonetheless.

Going Light from extreme dark is not recommended if the dark color is artificial. It's damaging on the hair no matter which option you choose, but there are better choices than others. Whatever you do, do not attempt to use a harsh bleach to lighten the hair in one go. Most hairtypes wouldn't be able to withstand this, and could leave it irreprably damaged or worse, it could snap off.

For Professional Knowlegable Hairdressers. (or people who know a lot about hair)?

when colouring hair (no matter whether a dark colour OR a light colour or bleach) if it is permanent then it is mixed with hydrogen peroxide which carries the artificial colour or bleach into the hairshaft to allow it to develop. hydrogen peroxide has no real lightening ability but CAN and often does lighten up to 2 shades so you will never get your natural colour back. however you can use a colour remover like Goldwell: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GOLDWELL-colour-ti... it CANNOT take you back to your original colour but it will take it back to it's state + hydrogen peroxide damage which will leave you orange. from there you can use a neutral blonde colour like Goldwell 9N but to get highlights in over that then you WILL need to bleach i am afraid as "colour will NOT lighten colour"