Need professional hair color advice: how to correct home coloring gone bad - curly afro-amer/black h

HI! I checked the archives for advice but all of them are for people who don't have my hair color or texture. I am an african american/black woman with naturally curly (kinky) black hair.

I dyed my hair "honey blonde" but it turned out to be "Ronald McDonald orange." From what I can tell from other responses, it might be good to use an ash-based demi-permanent color to fix this mess, but I don't know:

1) Does it make a difference whether I use "blond ash" or "lightest blond ash,"

2) How do I make sure I apply it evenly -- my hair is so frickin curly that I'm bound to miss something if I just apply it straight.

3) I'm just assuming that an ash demi-permanent color is the answer -- is there some other advice for black hair??

Please help!!!

Need professional hair color advice: how to correct home coloring gone bad - curly afro-amer/black hair?

i think you have to wash it with a clarifying shampoo. then with a baking soda. i forgot the brand, but the mag suggests that it will faden the color.

Need professional hair color advice: how to correct home coloring gone bad - curly afro-amer/black hair?

show us some photos first ...........ronald...rofl

Need professional hair color advice: how to correct home coloring gone bad - curly afro-amer/black hair?

I am biracial *black and white* and I kinda know wut you are saying. I would go to a hair salon to fix the problem. That costs money I know but you need to have someone fix your hair. Otherwise you might damage it more. Sorry I couldnt be more help.

Need professional hair color advice: how to correct home coloring gone bad - curly afro-amer/black hair?

Well it depens on the color u were befor u colored it! U might want to go to a salon!!!! but u could bye a dark color to cover up the orange! But a blue base color will get rid of the orange!

Need professional hair color advice: how to correct home coloring gone bad - curly afro-amer/black hair?

I would go to a well respected stylist... Color Correction is such a hard thing to do yourself, and the colors you buy from Sally's and other stores, are premixed and usually don't even tell what base it is... You never know what your going to get...Also, the color it shows on the box only turns out that color when you apply it on white or pale blonde hair....Save you hair more damage by going to someone who has experience with this kind of mess... It will be a little more expensive, but well worth it in the end...

Need professional hair color advice: how to correct home coloring gone bad - curly afro-amer/black hair?

Sounds like you didn't leave the dye on long enough. Pulled most of the color out, but didn't get the honey blonde. Get to a salon asap. They have the miracle stuff to pull out what you used, and then can dye your hair back to your natural color. My advise is to leave it alone and let it get healthy after that. Too many applications can damage your hair and make it fall out. Crurly afro american hair breaks easily anyway.

Try that shiny thick oil smoother on your hair. (like Citre Shine) It should take your curls and make them soft an beautiful. It will soften your curls and friz and with a headband you'll have a crips and clean doo.

Need professional hair color advice: how to correct home coloring gone bad - curly afro-amer/black hair?

well... for black coloured hair or dark brown... i dont think ur supposed to really dye it blonde out of the box!

it should say it on the box!!!!!

sometimes the blonde will come out orange... or yellow... or in this case red because it needs to be bleached.

i have dark brown hair and i put in honey blonde highlights... but they came out yellow! ... not blonde... or honey blonde for that matter!

BUT! i would go to the salon and get it fixed!

in the meantime... washing ur hair will help the loose some of the chemicals in there still!

Need professional hair color advice: how to correct home coloring gone bad - curly afro-amer/black hair?

First of all, I understand you said that your hair is kinky, so I am going to assume that you have not attempted to relax your hair prior to the coloring. If you hair is relaxed, I would not suggest you try to go any lighter. Next, typically using a box color on VIRGIN hair (not relaxed, permed, or previously colored) is only capable of lightening about 2 shades (unless you use a high lift color, in which case you could get 3-4 shades lighter.) So if your hair is darkest brown to black, what you have ultimately done is just exposed the underlying pigment in your hair and no extra processing time would have made the result any different. Ethnic hair is very tricky because it is much more delicate than other hair types. I would not recommend you attempt to correct this on your own. In answer to the question, an ash base will neutralize, to a small extent, the amount of red/orange tones, but probably not enough. Your hair should have been lightened with a bleach product as opposed to a box color. However, it will be extremely difficult and dangerous to try and get black hair to any shade of blonde due to the amount of processing time it would take to get to that point. By the time it is blonde, it will likely be on the floor. In conclusion, the best thing for you to do is to go to a salon to get your hair to a color that is tolerable. Once you have grown out your hair and it is completely virgin, you can try again, but have it done by a professional.