| Hair Color Woes & Fixes |
| Victoria Wurdinger |
| Revised Date: 6/287/06 - Original Publication Date: 10/1/2004 |
Introduction
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Pink
Black & Blonde Hair
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Common
hair color mistakes are, well, just too common. Hot lines (and
Hairboutique.com) get pleas like: “Help, I tried to bleach my black
hair blonde and it’s orange.” Or, “I put crazy colors over my
bleached hair and the pink won’t come out.”
(Image of Pink with Black & Blonde hair - performing at AMA
Awards - all rights reserved).
Most problems come from overdoing it. Change your color too
often, combine color with perms or straighteners or make extreme
color changes, and you’re making hay.
If your color is all wrong or too-dark, put in this quick fix
quick, from Rocky Plateroti, co-owner of Artista for Hair Color
Group in Scarsdale, NY:
Mix:
Two ounces of shampoo—preferably, a cleansing product or one that
removes build-up.
Two ounces of 20-volume stable
peroxide. (This is not the hydrogen peroxide you cleanse cuts with;
it’s especially for using with color and is sold in beauty supply
stores.)
Powdered bleach—1/4 scoop.
Apply:
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Using an applicator bottle or bowl and
brush, carefully apply the mixture to color-gone-wrong as you watch
in the mirror. The moment the mixture changes color (about 5
minutes), rinse well.
If you have the opposite problem: hair
that hasn’t lightened enough, either your hair is too dark to go
blonde in a single step or your product and timing was off. Whenever
you go from light to dark or vice versa, rely on a professional.
Ditto for repeat coloring.
Summary
But if you’ve just ‘gotta do it, call the hotline number on the
side of the color box before you color, tell all about you’ve done
to your hair in the past, and get the 411.
Then, you won’t have to
spend your time reading stuff like this, frantically hoping for a
solution to Bozo orange hair that’s breaking off in handfuls. | 
