r/haircoloring

Hey! I’m booking an appt to color my hair. I want to go darker. I think espresso brown is the color that best suits my complexion without being too harsh (like black) and without pulling the red/pink tones on my face. Let me know what you think! 🙌🏻

What looks better than black or the honey brown? I’m lowkey missing the black locs.

Put ginger over my dark blonde hair at the beginning of the year and now I’m trying to tone it out. Would a toner cut the orange? Thinking 7NA or 7NN? Not trying to be a platinum blonde or anything, just trying to tone the orange out without bleaching or going brunette. Thoughts?

thanks (:

My daughter had her first ever highlights done. She’s naturally dark brown and asked for a soft, warm-toned caramel/honey blonde balayage - pic 4 was the inspiration photo she showed the hairdresser.

Pics 1, 2 & 3 are what she actually came away with.

Our biggest issue is that the highlights are very bright bleached and stripey against her natural dark brown hair, with nothing really breaking them up or blending the blonde into the brown. There also aren't any of the warm caramel/honey tones she asked for. They also have an ashy/grey tinge.

When I asked the hairdresser about it afterwards, she said my daughter’s hair had lifted very quickly because of the heat and that she had used a purple shampoo. We won't be going back to the same hairdresser - ever!

Can this be fixed? I feel so bad for her as this was her first time having her hair coloured and it's really not what she wanted. We're hoping to find a colour technician to correct it, but I'd really appreciate some advice on what can realistically be done to get it looking softer, more blended and closer to the warm caramel/honey look she originally asked for. Thanks 🙏🙏

relevant history
- subtle highlights professionally done july 2025
- whole head bleached by a friend october 2025, left it on for too long and applied with poor timing leading to an uneven result. using manic panic 20vol
- roots done by same friend twice i think a few months apart, although it was much more chill same bleach. every root bleach has gotten to basically white
- last two root bleaches were at the aveda student sallon, got super light.

so basically i shouldnt have much overlap in my hair but a lot of it was left in too long or uneven.

i desperately want to be as pastel pink as possible. i am light right now but its already a bit muddied. also according to a hairdresser the purple manic panic i used left a green stain on some of my hair which also is supposedly under my pink. i did the vitamin c and dandruff shampoo thing before my color and idk if it made any difference.

i just want to know if its possible for me to bleach again or even out my color and what method, what supplies, etc would be reccomended. please!

I wanted a dark red/ purple color. I had virgin hair and just used what came in the L’Oréal box and followed instructions but ended up with hot roots and my ends look like my natural color. I’m not sure what to do

Hi guys, I’ve been debating on what color to dye/bleach my hair to. I have a habit of not being able to tell what colors would suit my skin color and face. When I ask people I know they tell me I’ll look fine no matter what, so it’s bad advice. I’m looking to go either blonde, some sort of red, or some sort of copper/ginger. Please please send help! Here’s a few pics of me.

I’ve been thinking about getting dirty blonde highlights for a while but I’m not sure if it would suit me or not

My hair is green rn but i want my hair w 2 types of green. I like both of this colors🥲 and i like the rooths blue too… so i need u help D:

I want to dye my hair this color, what should I ask for? It’s kinda like a light brown(I don’t want it too dark bc I’m planning on doing highlights in a few months)!!

I dyed and bleached my hair not too long ago, and it’s a bit faded. Idrk what color it is currently. Would it work to slap a maroonish dye over it? (My hair is a peekaboo kinda thing rn)

Thinking of changing my hair color, I have had it black for over two years and I’m thinking of dying it dark brown, but it is naturally light brown. I have also had it blue.

What should I go with?

(Please be nice I know I was copped and emo in the old pictures 😭)

Edit: blonde is not an option and will never be an option.

This time last year I was getting regular highlights every 8 weeks and I LOVED it! Felt so confident. The first 2 pictures are the lighter. I moved country about 5 months ago and I’ve just been letting it grow because it’s much more expensive to get it done here. Second 2 pictures are now. I don’t hate it but I just feel very… bland. I’m feeling very self conscious and insecure lately and I think my hair being so lacklustre is adding to that. The last 2 pictures are when I dyed it ginger (about 5/6 years ago now). I’m not sure if I should:

1. Leave it as it is and allow it to grow and get a good rest from highlighting. However when it’s greasy it looks terrible.
2. Pay up, go to a salon, and go back lighter with highlights again. I do have the money but it’s just difficult to part with it lol.
3. Dye it box dye ginger. I did that before about 5 years ago and I did love it however I’m worried I’m just so stuck with it and using that idea as a cop out. I was also 24, in 30 now. Thinking maybe I can’t get away with it anymore lol.

I try to find any green hair dye I can. I always go with Shamrock from Ion, but I really wanted to try to see what all the hype was with the brand Good Dye Young by Hayley Williams, and it is stunning. So I applied the colour over the already existing Shamrock green. I would say it is much more vibrant. The colour is very long-lasting as well. It shows even on darker hair. The only issue is I do think it’s quite expensive. It’s $28 for one tube! As Ion is around $15.

Buzzed my hair a month ish ago and bleached my hair a couple days ago, been toning it as much as I can, thoughts?
I think it’s sick but I’ve gotten a lot of Eminem and scooter comparisons haha

I am curious if anyone has used color/toning shampoo to tone henna? My hair is dark blonde and I used henna (light mountain red) to dye it ginger at the beginning of the year, and now I’m trying to get back to my roots color by toning the ginger out. I’ve already used a mix of conditioner and blue demi-permanent dye and it worked almost completely except some of my hair turned green 🙈 so I am considering a shampoo now for the rest of it.

thoughts?