Michaela scott jackson
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Hi guys,
So my friend and I ( we are both stylists)decided to have a hair day, I was definitely up for a colour change as I’d been having the same variation of shades in my long bob length hair for too long. As it was already a skillfully done balayage/ombré I decided to stay along these lines with a root melt but mix it up by changing the the tones. We chose to move it from a Wella illumina 6/16 root with peachy coraly ends to wella illumina 6/16 with 10 grams of wella kp 0/66 and tone the rest with a soft grey/lavender. Guy tang toner.
We Did a few various tech]niques with some bleach in foils to Lift out the peachy tone it had and as I’ve gradually been going lighter this year, it lifted\ out quite quickly and cleanly. We then moved onto the root area, applied our illumina and once that was complete, we added the guy tang dusty lavender then I sat under the Climazone for 20 mins.
Amazing, we had a beautiful mulberry root fading into the beautiful pale soft lavender with a grey undertone. Fabulous!
Until the next day when I washed it again to get ready for work. The toner disappeared down the plug hole leaving me with a silvery grey toner which was not as complimentary with the mulberry root nor as great with my skin tone.
So, once home from work I proceeded to retone, always using Olaplex to maintain hair quality and job done again, beautiful. For 5 days, aaagh. What had I started?.
So, I got to thinking how I could maintain this shade without constantly having to retone which would no doubt result in damaged hair eventually.
I bought some more guy tang, set about retoning that night, then after, decided to give it a a bit of an extra boost with equal parts of lavender and violet crazy colour by renbow( I couldn’t decide which one out of the two so chose both)
I was hoping that this way I could add a little every time I could see the colour fading and just do it in the shower on a morning for a top up.
Disaster. The colour went an inky dark denim blue colour! I hated it . Everyone else loved it but it just Wasn’t my bag so today, I redid the roots, 9I find illumina fades so quickly0 and tried a different brand of toner, still a grey lavender but by wella, but, even more disaster,
it’s now a pale turquoisey blue with a minor grey undertone.
I want rid, I really dislike it, so I’m racking my brains for solutions.
I can A, retone with the original guy tang toner and see what that does but I’m very sceptical and think l this blue is here to stay.
B, rebleach, I’m reluctant, my hair is silky soft, relatively fine but enough of it, I know it’s limits and we’re 2/3rds there.
C, and this is the colour theory bit: retone with something light pink. This should technically add to the blue and get me back on the purple track but I have no idea what to use.
Does anyone have any advice pls?
I’m so sorry for the long post. It’s my first one and I thought I’d be as informative as poss.
Thanks In advance for any solutions.
Michaela x
So my friend and I ( we are both stylists)decided to have a hair day, I was definitely up for a colour change as I’d been having the same variation of shades in my long bob length hair for too long. As it was already a skillfully done balayage/ombré I decided to stay along these lines with a root melt but mix it up by changing the the tones. We chose to move it from a Wella illumina 6/16 root with peachy coraly ends to wella illumina 6/16 with 10 grams of wella kp 0/66 and tone the rest with a soft grey/lavender. Guy tang toner.
We Did a few various tech]niques with some bleach in foils to Lift out the peachy tone it had and as I’ve gradually been going lighter this year, it lifted\ out quite quickly and cleanly. We then moved onto the root area, applied our illumina and once that was complete, we added the guy tang dusty lavender then I sat under the Climazone for 20 mins.
Amazing, we had a beautiful mulberry root fading into the beautiful pale soft lavender with a grey undertone. Fabulous!
Until the next day when I washed it again to get ready for work. The toner disappeared down the plug hole leaving me with a silvery grey toner which was not as complimentary with the mulberry root nor as great with my skin tone.
So, once home from work I proceeded to retone, always using Olaplex to maintain hair quality and job done again, beautiful. For 5 days, aaagh. What had I started?.
So, I got to thinking how I could maintain this shade without constantly having to retone which would no doubt result in damaged hair eventually.
I bought some more guy tang, set about retoning that night, then after, decided to give it a a bit of an extra boost with equal parts of lavender and violet crazy colour by renbow( I couldn’t decide which one out of the two so chose both)
I was hoping that this way I could add a little every time I could see the colour fading and just do it in the shower on a morning for a top up.
Disaster. The colour went an inky dark denim blue colour! I hated it . Everyone else loved it but it just Wasn’t my bag so today, I redid the roots, 9I find illumina fades so quickly0 and tried a different brand of toner, still a grey lavender but by wella, but, even more disaster,
it’s now a pale turquoisey blue with a minor grey undertone.
I want rid, I really dislike it, so I’m racking my brains for solutions.
I can A, retone with the original guy tang toner and see what that does but I’m very sceptical and think l this blue is here to stay.
B, rebleach, I’m reluctant, my hair is silky soft, relatively fine but enough of it, I know it’s limits and we’re 2/3rds there.
C, and this is the colour theory bit: retone with something light pink. This should technically add to the blue and get me back on the purple track but I have no idea what to use.
Does anyone have any advice pls?
I’m so sorry for the long post. It’s my first one and I thought I’d be as informative as poss.
Thanks In advance for any solutions.
Michaela x