Q&A for How to Fix Brassy Hair Color

Brassy hair is hair that has excessive warm tones, like gold, orange, and/or red. It is usually created by lightening the hair.

You can use toner on dark hair, but it may not be strong enough to cover brassiness. Toner is very translucent and designed to work on light hair.

Red is the complementary color to green, but you don't want to apply bright red to green hair. Instead, use a warm copper brown to counteract green tones.

Purple shampoo is designed to neutralize brassiness on light hair colors. It is great for minimizing gold tones in gray hair too.

Use a mixture of lemon juice, chamomile tea, warm coconut milk, argan oil and morocco, and warm water.

if it's brassiness from bleaching it, you probably need to use a toner. This will only work if your hair color is as light as the inside of a banana. If it's too dark, you'll probably need to lighten it again. Maybe try Color Oops or a Wella toner product. Even purple shampoo may help. Amazon has a lot of products that will explain in depth how they will work with your specific situation.

Changing hair color can be a tricky thing, especially if you're going lighter. One color needs to be removed so that another can be applied. You should check with a professional hair dresser for the best way to make this color change.

Return to your hairdresser and explain what you did and show the hair coloring as it currently is. Ask them to fix it at no cost to you, since the dyes they used should not have turned out like this.

If your hairdresser made a mistake, it is her responsibility to fix it with professional knowledge and skills. Do not try and fix your hair at home, but make sure you go back to the hairdresser and request her help. You can try to help the process with purple shampoo; however, the brighter parts of your hair may turn purple in the process.

Use a toner. Then, try a purple shampoo, it is great and it removes brassiness. Use at least once a week.

Use a toner. Try using a purple shampoo, it works well to reduce brassiness. Use at least once a week. Box dyes are normally semi permanent and last 2-6 months.

Reducing brassiness is the easiest, try a special shampoo and/or conditioner for blonde, bleached or gray hair with blue pigments. Wavy hair, if cared for properly, looks good on its own, you can even enhance it with styling products meant to make your curls bouncy. Thin, flyaway hair is a bit more problematic because taming hair care products can be too much for thin hair and products created for thin hair can worsen flyaways, so try a not too heavy shampoo for frizzy hair and drying your hair with an ionic blowdryer afterwards. Dry hair benefits from oil rich shampoos and conditioners, just make sure to thoroughly rinse them out or try hair masks and pre-shampoo treatments.

Yes. Just make sure you take proper care of it after dying it to stop it from becoming brassy.

You can try using purple shampoo to try to get rid of the orange undertones. If this does not work, you should go back to your hairdresser and ask them to help you. Usually after dye, your hair needs lots of after-care to ensure that your dye doesn't change to a weird color. Dye eventually reacts with oxygen to change the color of your hair and will especially happen if you had to bleach your hair from a dark color.

Try toning with a blue or purple shampoo to return your hair color to white/silver. Use once or twice a week.

Try a home remedy. A baking-soda/shampoo mixture works well. Use it every day until the hair color goes away. See Remove Blonde Hair Dye . Make sure to use conditioner as well!