Removing bright hair colors with little damage

When I was in high school I used to change my hair color so much, and I might of been dumb and thought that every time I went from pink to green to blue i had to bleach my WHOLE head and lets face it, that killed my hair. After years and years of learning from my mistakes I have come up with this way of dying my hair from one extreme color to another with very little damage, and here is how I do it. 

I made a video on youtube showing you guys how I removed my red hair and red to purple. i wanted to go a little bit more in depth on here, kind of explain things I didn't in the video or maybe forgot. First I wanted to say I DID NOT GO TO SCHOOL FOR HAIR, but I have been doing this on my own hair for 14+ years and I know what works on MY hair. So I am sharing it with you.

First off I started off with pretty red hair, (pictured above) I spent about a week before hand washing it with head and shoulders shampoo to strip as much color as I could from my hair. Now I know this may leave your hair feeling not so great, but really nothing a good deep conditioner can't take care of. That took a good amount of the red out of my hair but it was still pretty bright, and I couldn't put the blue over it. So the night before dying it I washed my hair with DAWN dish soap, YES DISH SOAP, this is a last resort and strips A LOT of color from your hair, but still Pravana is stubborn and doesn't want to fade or leave my hair,  so I had to use color remover, which isn't as bad as bleach.

So thats when this bad boy came in handy, a lot of companies make color remover, I have used color opps, and the One N Only brand from Sally's but I like this one most, As I said in my video I wish I had two boxes because this one JUST made it to do my hair, but it did the job. I kept it on for as long as it would let me, and it took a good amount of the color out of my hair, and turned it a pretty peach color.

Now that is more like it! Now I had some  dark spots in my bands and back of my hair so thats when i took VERY LITTLE bleach, like very little i ONLY put it on those spots and for a very short amount of time just to get it to roughly the same color as the rest of my hair. Now before doing that to repair the hair as it was bleaching I lathered the parts of my hair that I was putting bleach on it, with COCONUT OIL! yes Cooconut oil, this doesn't effect the bleach or stop it from working, it just helps your hair and repairs it as the bleach is doing its thing, so it doesn't feel as broken of gross when you wash out the bleach. 

In my case I wasn't going pastel or a teal or something that needed to be WHITE BLONDE so I didn't have to tone my hair, and the peach color was fine to put purple on top of, but if you were going for a different color you may have to tone your hair. But since purple tones down peachy tones anyways, when this fades it shoudn't fade that bad. Now if i left the really orange parts in my bangs those could of faded to a really pinky color and might not of matched the rest of my hair, thats not what I wanted, so the small amount of bleaching may not have to be done for you. But this is how I get my hair from one bright color to another with very little damage, my hair feels great, it doesn't feel liek straw or damaged or anything like that. This is a really good way to go from one really bright color to another with out harming your hair badly, and if you are like me and do this often, its a good thing trust me!

I hope I helped you guys, I get a ton of questions on how I do this so I hope this answered a bunch of them! thank you for reading! and please follow my blog for more awesomness!