How can I prevent brown hair color from dying my hair black?

My hair is naturally dark brown and I dye my hair medium to light brown. When i redo my hair when my roots grow in, the dye sometimes turns my hair black. Is there a way to prevent this? Recommend any brands? I use Lorel Paris: Superior Prefence.How can I prevent brown hair color from dying my hair black?
sounds like you need to go one shade lighter... browns tend to go darker than they say... a dark brown looks black and a light brown will give you the medium brown.





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hope this helped;-)))How can I prevent brown hair color from dying my hair black?
Hi There,



Sadly you can not. Here is how hair works... The real question is: ';What you have applied to your hair previously?'; The more porous the hair, the more your hair will absorb the color - much like a sponge. To complicate things further, as the level of porosity increases with each color, the hair will take in the COOLER colour molecules (blues, greens %26amp; violets), not absorbing the color equally and making it look darker down the shaft of the hair - the eye seems cooler colors as darker.



The only thing you can do is NOT to get the color on your ends. you can do this by ';blocking'; the color with water or conditioner. If the hair is full, (like a very wet sponge), it can not take on any more and when washing it out, the conditioner will dilute the color.



When professional colorists prepare and apply hair color, the virgin hair (new growth) is one formula, and the previously processed hair is often and exact opposite and slightly lighter formula AND a more mild developer (processing solution) to account for hair porosity and reaction to colour chemistry and to not compromise hair tensile strength.



To Sum Up: Block your muddy dark ends with conditioner, when coloring hair. Also Deep Condition this portion of your hair with heat or a cap and exercise weekly. The heat will help swell the hair and deposit the conditioners and may push out the old funky colour that has deposited on your ends.



~Best, S.
This is actually really common... What happens is when you dye your hair and your roots grow out, you dye your whole head again. The only problem with this is there is already color deposited on the rest of your hair. What I suggest for you to do is get the same color that you died your hair before and only apply it onto your new growth (roots). Leave that on for the time it needs to stay on and about 5 minutes before you need to wash it out.



Take the rest of the hair dye you have and mix it with shampoo. Then apply that to the rest of your hair and only leave it on for a few more minutes (about 5) and then wash out all the color in your hair. This is a color wash and what it does it is freshens up the rest of your color without making it too dark and your roots will still be the same color. It has worked every time i have done it and i learned it while in beauty school.



I do recomend going to sally's and getting your hair color from there though. It is professional color and will last longer than the boxed color. Good Luck
hey... that happened to me too! use herbal essences light-medium brown! i used dark brown and i got black, so i went lighter!
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Try using a dye 1 or 2 shades lighter than you are getting. And loreal and garnier fructis is really good box dye.