Miss Ginger, this is a site for professional technicians. So do you expect us the professionals, with so many of us working in our industry for decades to prefer free advice?
Wake up, you created the mess so might I suggest that 1. Continue to play around with your hair and try and fix it yourself or 2. Get your benjamins out and pay a professional to fix your mess. I personally would charge a premium fee...
That will teach you, for messing about with your own hair colour.
No, I thought this was just a hair advice forum lol. My mistake... I’ve been using it for two years as a hair advice forum and never realized that, guess I should be a blonde!.... Yeah, I’m being quoted $500-$900, sadly COVID-19 basically put my small business out of business and so I no longer have the income to support paying to go get my hair done. I used Overtone after watching several videos on it being used on hair as blonde as mine was, and it coming out a beautiful ... natural ... ginger. I suppose my hair was more porous than I thought it was and just completely nuked it into a bright orange. Thanks for letting me know that this is for professional salon owners / stylists... woops.
You need to see a highly trained colourist before you damage your hair any further!
Unfortunately, using dish washing soap (!) followed by bleach will have permanently damaged your outer cuticle layer and your hair will feel very dry and will have lost some of it’s elasticity.
You need to use moisturising treatments and possibly, a leave-in conditioner to make it feel better in the short term.
I sadly don’t have the income atm due to COVID. Of course I did this during quarantine, out of boredom and a depression that made me feel like totally messing with my hair... which I have always done when feeling depressed, since I was a teen. Would think I would learn my lesson after the time I gave myself a pixie cut... thank you for being kind in your response. I’m sorry I didn’t realize this was a forum for professionals only until someone below pointed it out.
If you don’t mind, do you have any leave-in suggestions? I have no idea what to even do with my hair. I look best blonde, by far, than any color but I’m thinking my only option now is to go dark until my natural hair grows all the way out in a year or two. Sigh. What a big mistake on my part.
i did the bleach bath on advice from my old stylist who is a hair coloring wizard - we live states apart now but she occasionally helps me out. She had no idea Overtone was a textile dye basically and that bleaching would drive it further into the cuticle. I might use a malibu DDL or CPR on it before I make the decision to just go darker... sigh. Wish me luck, and again I appreciate the friendly answer a lot. Thank you
What is Ginger Overtone?
Sounds like it's stained the cuticle. By putting bleach product with developer on it you may have just made it 100 times harder to remove!
Yes!! My old stylist has never seen a textile dye (overtone is like Splat 2.0) and so she recommended the bleach bath to me. She was just trying to help, so no foul on her part. I am sad now though! I have pee hair lol. Attached is before, after the ginger overtone, and now. Yup... a huge, impulsive mistake!
it will fade off eventually, it'll just take longer than it usually would 
Yes rock that yellow!!
