Tip Tuesday: Fight Fading and Keep Hair Colour Strong With This Kitchen Product

I remember one of my first dye jobs. I decided it would look supa hawt to dye chunks of my dark brunette hair a nice, light blonde. It did not look supa hawt but actually supa awful when that hideous blonde turned into a brassy shade. If only I had known this one trick that uses a common kitchen item to fight those unwanted tones and to keep your shade true to colour.
Sidenote: Well, actually it still would have looked awful. Because chunky blonde streaks on brunette hair never looked good on me. But hey - hindsight is 20/20, right?
So, what mysterious product would you find in your kitchen to help your hair colour?
Food colouring!

Add a few drops to your shampoo to neutralize tones. Here are the guidelines to follow:
-To neutralize red tone in brunettes mix shampoo with green food colouring
-To neutralize yellow in blondes mix shampoo with violet food colouring
-To neutralize orange mix shampoo with blue food colouring
-To neutralize red/orange in a brunette mix shampoo with blue/green food colouring
-To neutralize yellow/orange mix shampoo with blue/violet food colouring
Got any hair dye tips? Ever made a serious hair dye blunder like me?
(via glamour.com)
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![]() | I am so going to try this...wish me ouck |
![]() | Interesting! I would have never thought to use food colouring |
![]() | Hm that's interesting. I would definitely give it a shot if I had a current dye. |
![]() | What a surprise, but like they say u learn something new everyday. So, im going to have to tell my sister's about this they would enjoy! Thanks for the info... |
![]() | Interesting!! I don't need these, but I did not know they existed either. |
![]() | I am so going to try this... |
![]() | Has anyone actually tried this? I have to make sure any dye I use has ash in it, or my hair turns red. I wonder if this would work on this problem?? I'm really getting sick of only having one shade of brown to choose from! |
![]() | If in doubt just try a semi permanent color to start |
![]() | I used to use violet shampoo to help combat the orage/yellowness that the blonde starts to turn. I'm kind of tempted to try the violet food colouring. It will sure be so much cheaper than violet shampoo. |
![]() | Being so dark I am glad that is one hair faux pas I did not do.... if I went blonde it would look ridiculous. |