Hey! So today we're going to talk about
how to rescue ugly disgusting orange bleached hair.
For those accidents where you have tried to bleach at home
and obviously the results were far from what you wanted.
I've made a video on how to tone hair and on how to remove brassiness.
Now brassiness from hair means that it is blonde, there's just a tinge or a hint of orange.
Now a lot of people were asking me questions as to when their hair comes out this color.
And they tried to tone it and obviously that didn't work.
And then I got a lot of messages saying that the toner didn't work.
So I'm trying to explain to you what toner is exactly, and how it works, and why it doesn't work for that.
So when this is pretty much a scale of all the hair colors that are natural in the world.
Or how you can bleach it.
Obviously, you can make a red out of this color and you can make a red out of this.
But this is the neutral state of all hair colors.
So this obviously, being the darkest and this being the palest blonde.
And when you're going say, from here like level 3 or 4 dark brown hair
and you want to go to a pale blonde,
obviously, that's a lot of shades that you're trying to get to.
And normally bleach only gives you 3 to 4 levels of lift.
And people are like, "Well how do I get to there in one appointment?"
And the reason-- or the only way you can do that is by having 2 processes.
And the only way you could do that is if your hair is healthy, obviously.
If you go up there that's obviously opening up the cuticle,
removing parts of your hair and leaving it pale
and obviously, if it only left you say, here and you still want to get here,
you need to do another shampoo, dry it out slightly and then do it again.
And then It will give you the other four levels of lift
but you have to keep in mind that each time you do it in the same day,
you're gonna have a slightly less range of further on the scale then you did the first time.
So, in a perfect world if you bleach from here to here, it would come out this tone.
But unfortunately, our hair is made of the red and orange pigments,
which is what gives you big, I mean, gorgeous, rich, beautiful brunette colors.
No dark hair is normally this flat naturally.
So it's all those orange and red undertones that are in the hair that come out
and that's what makes hair looks so orangey and ugly.
In fact, you do want that there,
because that's what makes your hair beautiful and shiny
and when it is brown it makes it beautiful.
So, say you have bleached it and you've gotten it to the desired lightness,
then all you have to do is tone because maybe that's the lightness you want.
But you want to add a little ashiness or you want to make it more champagne color
or you might want to make it a little more pastel color
and that's what toners are for.
They don't lift, they don't make you darker and they don't make you brighter
but they give you the tone that you want within that section.
And so what a lot of people do wrong is when they go from dark
and they try to go to this but obviously, they ended up about here
and with someone that has naturally dark hair, this is the pure orange.
And so when you get to here, the problem is that you haven't gotten this light.
So what you need to do is obviously, bleach one more time.
But instead of applying a toner to this and hoping that the toner will fix orange hair.
And basically, the answer to that is toner does not fix orange.
It fixes slightly brassiness within blonde hair.
So imagine, when you look at blonde and it looks slightly yellow,
that's what toner fixes.
It will never fix orange hair.
And if your hair is actually orange,
and I know a lot of blondes kid around and say, "My hair is orange, when it is only slightly orange."
I mean, only slightly brassy,
if you can see actual tones of orange then that means your hair is not lightened enough.
And what that means is that you need to just bleach it one more time.
So inside the swatch here, it shows the actual underlining pigments of natural hair.
So this is the color level you would get with a color, not bleach
and this is what natural hair, kind of the process it goes through.
So if you see a level 8, which is really pretty bright.
If you look in here, a level 8 is actually really orangey.
Not pretty, whatsoever.
So anytime you have anything within these colors,
even this, which looks pretty darn bright to me,
if you even get it to that brightness, toner will still not work on that.
Toner only works say, on something about like one of these.
So now let me just show you colors which have been toned and colors of actual toners
and these are colors that bleach necessarily can get you to.
So if you can see this is pretty much yellow.
So this is-- bleach can get you there and then the rest are all toners.
And toners don't necessarily mean that it'll make your hair ashy or cool.
I mean, you can totally put a gold toner in there.
Say, some people bleach really ashy
and they actually want to be have a warmer softer look
and you would put a gold toner on it.
And, or something more along towards this end of the scale
which is a lot ash here, which is kind of what I normally have in my hair
and just it looks bluish and more grayish.
Obviously, it's a matter of opinion
and a matter of what skin tone you have and what looks good on you.
So it mean it's not that everyone should be ashy and another thing in my toning video,
a lot of people said that the hair--
They thought the hair looked better when, before the toner.
So when it was slightly warmer. So again, it's also a matter of preference.
So now for the other problems, say, you did go orange
and you don't want to bleach anymore and you don't want to go any brighter
but you also don't want the orange pigments, then what you need to do is not tone
but you need to add a semi-permanent hair color to that hair.
And what that's doing is, it's technically just staining the hair.
So the easiest-- Say, you want to stay within a level 7.
You need to use a semi-permanent or demi-permanent hair color,
which means that, you know, within 20 to 30 washes it will eventually come off.
Which is fine because by then you'll need to do color anyway.
And so it'll be fine
and semi and demi permanent hair colors normally applied with a 10 volume or less
so that isn't damaging really to the hair, so it's fine.
So what you need to do is get the color to obviously cover that.
So that you're not just left with those ugly underlying pigments
that were exposed in your hair through bleach.
So now picking the color.
So say, you come up with that ugly orangey level 7
and you want to be a more cool, more ashy but still level 7
and you don't want to come to a level 10,
what you have to do in that case is,
you of course, use the demi-permanent color
but if I use a 7 on it, it'll make it darker
because I'm piling on another color on top, it can only go darker.
So if I use a 7, it'll actually drop me down to a 6.
It'll be a cool, it'll be better and more neutral and more balanced color
but it'll be darker than what you were looking for.
So if you want to stay within the same level but you want to bring down just the brassiness,
then you have to go for a level 8 or one level up.
Say, you're at a level 7, you need to go one level up on a demi-permanent color.
So I would go with say a 7.
If you were at 7, I would go with an 8 neutral or an 8 ash
and apply it to the 7, you know, to your hair
and applying that it would mask it only a little bit
and then it would leave you still out of 7, if that makes sense?
So if I have a 7, I put a demi-permanent on top of the 7,
it's gonna bring me down to one less.
So if I don't want to move levels, then I have to use the one higher
so it ends up down at the 7, so if that makes any sense?
I hope this video was easy to follow.
I hope it wasn't too confusing
and may this help you decide your future colors with so much more ease.
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