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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, I do this. What is your base color? That will help me in advising you. The key is to not thinking of it as covering grays -- semi-perm just doesn't cover that well and gray hair generally does not take dye very well, which is why if you do permanent color you usually need something formulated for gray hair. Instead, what you are looking for is a shift in tone. My hair is dark strawberry blonde. So I do glosses and semi-permanent dye in dark golden blonde usually, sometimes I go slightly redder or browner depending on the time of year. I like the Kristin Ess and Overtone glosses, and for semi-permanent color my go-to products are L'oreal or Garnier -- I think they have the most dynamic color for at-home dye, and that's what you want. Something that is going to tone and blend your grays into your natural color. But again, it really depends on your base. I think this works really well for blonde or light brown hair. I would have no idea how to approach very dark hair with grays and would assume you'd just have to do a permanent dye, but I honestly don't know.[/quote] THANK YOU!! This is really helpful. Indeed, I am NOT thinking about covering the gray, I am thinking about "mitigating" the gray a bit and instead toning it down a bit (in other words, I don't need to look like I have no gray, I don't mind people knowing the "fact" that I have gray). I think my natural base color is around a 5-6. The problem is I have about 2/3 of my hair (the dyed part) which is much lighter, maybe a 9 (but brassy). I did one of those L'oreal glosses (shampoo for brown hair) and it made the bottom part of my hair so dark it actually UNblended and made the gray more obvious. I wonder if I were to try a semi-permanent dye for blonder hair - would it not do anything or turn some of the grays a blonde? [/quote] PP here and yes, I would try a semi-permanent hair for a "dark blonde" or "dark golden blonde". Especially since you have bleached portions of your hair. I have had great luck toning down bleached hair to blend with dark blonde dye. I actually used a permanent dye the first time (don't remember the exact formulation but it was a L'oreal product designed for gray hair) and it was great -- just darkened the bleached portions but also toned them so they blended with my roots and the grays. You don't actually have to worry as much about what the dye will do to your gray hair. Like I said, gray is resistant to dye and it's actually really hard to do much more than tone gray hair with semipermanent color. A blonde dye (even a permanent at-home one and definitely a semi-permanent one) will not make your gray hair look blonde. To do that you would have to do a dual process at the salon and it's actually tricky with gray hair. So don't worry about that. Instead, figure out what color/tone you want the rest of your hair to be so that the grays blend in a bit more. Look at your new growth and aim for something 1 to maybe 2 shades lighter. Don't go darker -- as you've learned, this will only increase the contrast with your grays as the rest of your hair absorbs the dark dye much more than the grays will. And then think about one. I always aim for warmer toning because I think neutral and cool tones wash me out as I'm getting older. Plus as I said, my true hair is reddish so warmer tones look more natural on me. But it can depend on your skin color and tone as well. Some women look great with a cooler, ashier color on their hair. For instance, if you have Nordic coloring with blue eyes but very rosy skin, this can work. The nice thing about semi-permanent is that you can experiment. Give your hair a month between attempts, then do a clarifying shampoo and try again. Once I hit on the glosses and dyes that work for me, I just buy in bulk and rotate through them.[/quote]
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