hey guys so today I'm finally making
that video that I've been leading you
guys on for like a month now about how I
dyed my hair from blonde to this dark
brown color that I have now to give you
a little background about my hair
my hair is naturally dark brown I
actually have about three inches of
roots growing in right now um so you
guys can see this is pretty much the
natural hair color that I started off
with except my hair has been processed
like three times and bleach death around
two years ago in my senior year of high
school I started balling the bottoms
just bleaching it like one or two shades
lighter and that was kind of just my
gateway drug into this whole hair dyeing
fiasco around a year ago I started this
mission to go platinum blonde because I
had it in my head that if it looked good
on Amanda Steele
it must look good on me which was kind
of flawed logic just a little bit so
over the course of the first half of my
year in college which was this past year
I bleached my hair around three times
aggressively each time it getting
lighter until I achieved what was
approximately platinum blonde although I
was fighting off brassiness like every
single day it was ridiculous there are
three months ago I dyed my hair like a
dark ashy brown with a box dye which let
me tell you professional colors are not
lying when they say don't dye your hair
with box dye the dye looked good for
around two weeks but then it started
fading again so my hair just faded back
to a kind of weird like muddy blonde and
all the while my roots are going in
making this even more of a mess so
basically around like a month to three
weeks ago I decided that it was enough
and it was time to go back to dark brown
hair here are some shots of what my hair
looked like right before I dyed it it
was a pretty light blonde and then
obviously they were like an inch or two
of dark brown roots growing in so
basically my goal was just to cover up
the bleached parts of my hair and blend
it as seamlessly as possible with my
natural roots so that I grow my hair I
don't have to worry about dyeing it
anymore
although my hair was bleached beforehand
I think this process would work
similarly for somebody who has naturally
blonde hair you just kind of have to
adjust it for the undertones of your
hair so there's one thing that my whole
mainly disaster is hair dyeing journey
had taught me it was that I need to do a
strand test I had never done a strand
test in the past and my hair had pretty
much every time turned out a little bit
janky so I had bought two different
colors of this Ella color charm
I permit hair dye sorry I don't have the
box with me this is just what that you
looks like but the box is like the same
color you can get it at Sally Beauty I
think they were each around like four
dollars so it's pretty affordable the
two shades that I had gotten to mix and
play around with were 5r which is this
kind of medium brown chestnut color and
3n which was a neutral much darker brown
color the key thing to remember when
going from light to dark is that if you
just use the color that you want to end
up with like if you want to end up with
a neutral hair color and you just put
that over blonde you're gonna end up
with a kind of green tone dashi color so
you need to adjust for that by filling
with a little bit of extra red dye and
that's what I had bought the 5r color
for so to do this strand test I just
separated a little bit of my clean
washed hair I picked a little
nondescript section that if I completely
[ __ ] up the color it would be okay and
I could hide it while my hair was down
or up in a ponytail so the first color I
tested was just pure three and just the
neutral darker color dye and then for
the second strand I mixed equal parts of
the 5mm is my three end and then I mix
both of these with a two-to-one ratio
with 20 volume developer on the package
the dye tells you that you need to use
specifically this well a color charm
developer but I found that any 20 volume
developer works so I just use the salon
care brand because it's the cheapest
using this little artist fan brush that
I have although any type of brush or
just your fingertips works to spread the
dye I applied the two different dye
mixtures to do strands of my hair waited
20 minutes per the instructions and then
just washed it out in my sink as you can
see just using the 3n resulted in a kind
of green swampy color that wasn't really
what I was going for whereas the five
art and 3n combination gave me a much
more natural looking color so at that in
mind I mix the rest of my dye using
approximately equal amounts of the 3n
and five are as my strand test it shows
luckily when you're dyeing your hair
dark it's so much less complicated than
when you're bleaching it I suction my
hair into a round 3 vertical section
just that I can apply the dye evenly and
make sure I didn't miss any spots but I
didn't necessarily have to use oils or
anything fancy I had to just slap it at
all on there and tried not to die too
much over my roots to make them even
darker and then it attempts to get a
little bit of reverse highlighting
action going I decided to dye the front
pieces of my hair laughs that way they
would process for less time and
therefore fade faster and be a little
bit lighter
and I feel like it kind of at least
worked I feel like these parts are a
little bit lighter than my natural hair
color so it looks like I got some subtle
highlights done another lesson from all
my years of hair dyeing has been even if
you think that you've covered all of
your hair and there isn't any possible
dry patch left there is some hair that
you haven't died yet so I ran my hands
through my hair for around the full 20
minutes that my die was developing just
to try to coat any strands that I had
missed I would especially recommend
doing this if you have thick hair like I
do that's also a little bit scared at
this point cuz my hair is looking very
very dark but it'll turned out fine when
I shower then after my 20 minutes of
processing time were up I hopped in the
shower and rinse it all off until the
water ran pretty clear why didn't you
shampoo or anything I just rinsed it off
with water just to give the dye the best
chance possible to stick to my hair I
did use a little bit of conditioner to
try to repair all the damage that I've
done to my hair and the end of the
shower I rinsed off everything with cold
water so that it would kind of help seal
the cuticle and again and give the dye
of greater chance of staining my hair so
it has been a couple weeks since I've
dyed my hair and the color has faded
very minimally when I first came out of
the shower it was a little darker you'll
insert some clips of when my hair was a
little bit fresher after the dyeing
process I would actually recommend if
you're going darker to dye your hair
just like a tiny bit like half a shade
darker than you want it to end up being
because as you shower it's going to fade
out over the next couple weeks so that's
pretty much the dyeing process it's
pretty simple in order to maintain my
hair color I'll show you which products
I use my main shampoo is actually this
L'Oreal ever pure sulfate free cleansing
balm so it's not like a real shampoo
that lathers it's kind of one of those
co-wash situations and I've taken this
bottle and added some of my five are
well it I to it to create kind of my own
like purple shampoo except it's not
purple it is just hair color so every
time I wash my hair around once or twice
a week I'll just leave this mixture in
for like around 5 minutes in the shower
which will help refresh my color and
prevent it from fading on days when my
hair is really grubby or really oily I
will use this ever sleek sulfate free
colored hair system basically any
sulfate free shampoo is fine make sure
you check the ingredients list on your
shampoo though because a lot of color
safe shampoos use sulfate in them
which is like the main ingredient that
will deteriorate non-permanent colour
overall I'm so happy with my hair I'm so
happy that it's dark again I definitely
learned my lesson while I was bleaching
my hair I'm glad that I had like a fun
time and experimented but ultimately I
think this looks so much better so much
more natural and I'm excited to grow my
hair out back to its natural color so
that's all I have today thank you so
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