Q&A for How to Dye Naturally Black Hair Gray

Toner is usually applied to damp hair that has been shampooed but not conditioned. You saturate the hair thoroughly, wait for the desired tone to appear, and rinse immediately.

Blonde hair is achievable on naturally black hair, but it may take a few separate processes. If your hair is dyed black, you may not be able to achieve blonde.

You can achieve fairly strong coverage with henna. If you want a darker color, use henna first, then apply indigo as a second process.

Over time, the toner is going to wash out, and you'll see yellow tones coming through. The purple shampoo will help block that yellow, but it can't do miracles, especially if your hair didn't lift all the way in the first place.

You can use a temporary wax or spray-on hair color that deposits an opaque gray or silver color on top of your natural hair color. Keep in mind that this is a very temporary color that will come out the next time you wash your hair.

If you use a permanent black hair dye, the color will stay until the dyed hair grows out. You’ll need to touch up your roots as new grey hair starts to grow in. Unfortunately, there’s no truly permanent way to change your hair color.

Try getting your hair color-corrected by a stylist so that there’s a more natural-looking transition from the gray to the dyed color. They may lighten the dyed hair to make it look more similar to the natural gray at the roots. You’ll need to maintain your color-corrected hair the same way you would highlighted hair, with toners and cool-toned shampoos.

It would be best to go to a salon and ask a professional to do it for you. Otherwise, you can try following the steps in How to Put Streaks in Your Hair at Home ; you'll have to bleach the sections you want to highlight first, then dye them with the color you want.

Your hair should be white when you apply the gray, so you should bleach or at least tone it before dying it.

Grey hair is on trend with young people who aren't going to look old, no matter what color their hair. It's a fun alternative to blond.

The bleaching will take about 3 attempts to have a nice plain base to dye gray, as a minimum. There are some salons where you can get it all done at once, but you would have to spend a lot of money for the treatment and spend about half a day there. If you are pushed for time and want an instant result and want to avoid the awkward in-between phases, it's definitely worth it.

No. In order for you to achieve grey or silver hair, there must be some sort of bleach treatment to lighten your hair. However, years of age will eventually get you your results!

To dye your hair gray, bleach it with a small amount, then if the color is still black, bleach it again. This is a very sensitive process, so it might be best to trust a professional.

You could, but it might first become a lightish purple color. Maybe use a medium blonde color and then dye it gray. You can wait for your roots to grow out an inch and then put they gray in, so the dye matches your natural color.

You would need to tone your hair before applying the color, but unless your hair is really orange or yellow, toning really isn't necessary, you can skip it altogether.