Hey.. im planning on dying my hair a deep blood red kind of colour, and seeing as i have mainly dark hair at the moment, i need to prelighten it. My problem is however, that i have been chemically dying it black for many years. Luckily the black has started to fade to more of a dark brown, so i figure this will be easier to lighten, and i know from the past that i am able to get my hair to a golden blonde colour from a few bleaching sessions. The only problem is that it leaves my hair very over processed, obviously. Ive heard brilliant things from products such as color zap, and color oops etc, and i was wondering if this would help prelighten my hair at all, so not so much bleaching would be necessary. Any ideas?
Thankyouu =]

A good colour remover should be able to take the edge off that black and make it easier to bleach. For a dark red shade you'll only need to lighten it to a copper colour so it should be achievable. I'd be interested to see how it turns out.

What colour is your hair naturally? Colour stripper only lifts out the dye in your hair, so if you're naturally a blonde or light brown, one or two applications of One 'N Only Colour Fix [personally my favourite stripper, especially for getting black out] will get you plenty light to get a gorgeous blood red. If you're naturally a darker brown, you might need to colour strip, then do a bleaching in order to get the best result. Though, as Jude said, you only really need to get to a copper colour to get a good red, so you could probably get away with a 20/30 volume bleach left on for maybe twenty to thirty minutes, if that much.