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hakusa
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Location: Norway
Current Hair: Mixed atomic pink&virgin rose
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago

My hair is atomic pink and has been for a few months. It's dyed over bleached hair and hardly fades.

Anyways, I was thinking of going cruella deville-ish, not black and white but light blonde and coffee-black/brownish.
I know I can just put a dark brown dye on one side to achieve that color but how do I get the pink out on the other side, to go blonde? I know atomic pink is almost impossible to get rid off and I've bleached it a few times and it hardly lifts the color. I use the strongest bleach I get over here. (Schwartskopf extreme blonde 5-7 shades lighter or something)

So...how? Is it stripper - bleach - toner? Is it even possible or will I have to grow the hair out before I'm able to go blonde?


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Location: Houston,Texas
Current Hair: Almost Platinum
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago

you might try l'oreal color zap. dont know how useful it is on un-natrual colors but it took me from black to blonde in 2 hrs


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Current Hair: Varied green
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago

You could also try toning it with the complementary color. For atomic pink, which I think is red with a touch of blue, you'd probably have to put in turquoise with a touch of green. You can probably get a dimmer, but more neutral shade this way.

Note though that if you use a toner that doesn't have lasting power, you'll fade back to a muddy pink.

Definitely stop bleaching your hair, though. One time, I turned mine into broken shards of straw and only got half of atomic pink out.


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Location: Los Angeles, CA
Current Hair: Ruby red
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Loreal Color Zap works great on faded atomic pink. It faded almost all of the color out when I used it, but not completely.
However, at that point it's pretty much so light that another color will cover it with no problem. I would just stay away from a light green, since the little bit of pink that's left might turn that muddyish.


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hakusa
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Location: Norway
Current Hair: Mixed atomic pink&virgin rose
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Ok, thanks everyone :) How light blonde will I be able to go, you think?
Aiken, do you mean that I should dye it first, and then bleach it? Or bleach then dye?


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Aiken
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Current Hair: Varied green
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago

hakusa--

I meant that if you've bleached it as far as possible and it's still not blonde, that's when you should consider toning with a complementary color. So yes, bleach first. If you tone first, the bleach will just take the tone back out.


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hakusa
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Current Hair: Mixed atomic pink&virgin rose
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Won't that just make it light purple? :P


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Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Nope. Toner is only purple when you're toning yellow/gold. To neutralize/tone atomic pink, you'd use the opposite color on the wheel, which I think would be sort of a greenish turquoise.

It's not necessarily the best way to hide color, but it's a better last resort than utterly destroying your hair with tons of bleach.


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hakusa
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Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago

What I meant was won't dying your hair with turquoise just kindof make the hair another color and not necessarily lighter? 8)


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Current Hair: Depressingly pink
Posted 1 month ago

I have a question closely related to this one. I have been dying my hair w/ Special Effects Electric Blue for over a year now. Until recently, I've just kept it short, so what little remained of the previous round's dye didn't matter. I've now begun to grow it out, but this means I have about 8 inches of stubbornly pink hair. Last time I bleached my roots and added blue all over, the roots were gorgeous, as usual, but the length was immediately purple. Very sad. Would a greenish-turquoise be appropriate to balance the pink here, too?
I last dyed it in early July, and yes, if you wait long enough, Electric Blue will be pink.


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