There are various reasons why one wants to tone hair. Could be because of color change, or maybe a color correction, or probably just for the fun of having a color tinge in your hair. Whatever the reason is one shall never keep back from toning their hair. We say this because toners are never permanent and you can have as much fun as you want with them. Yes, most of the toners will probably stain your hair. Staining hair is most common on blonde hair. We will briefly give you ideas of how the hair stains.
- Red hair fades to orange and sometimes pink
- Purple hair fades to blue and sometimes even grey
- Blue hair fades to green
- Lilac hair fades to grey
- Black hair fades to brown
- Copper hair fades to brown sometimes even yellow color
- Blonde hair changes to orange and sometimes even green
Now we said that blonde hair changes and does not fade. Well, blonde hair if used with peroxide will fade into a brassy color sometimes yes. However, bleached blonde hair will change into orange/yellow tones. This is because bleach is highly permanent and therefore there is no way that bleach fades, ever.
Toning on dark hair.
Let’s say someone wants to dye their hair but they don’t want to use a high percentage of peroxide. Now we usually use a 20 volume (6%)peroxide or a 30 volume (9%)peroxide for hair colors. These peroxides help to lift the color you desire to achieve. Now if one doesn’t want to use a high peroxide one can use a 10 volume (3%) but the color will not lift much it will just blend. Let’s say you have a pitch black and you want to go dark brown and you have no grey hair you can do this with a 1.9% peroxide. But if you have white /grey hair you have to do this with a 10 volume.
Toning bleached hair.
Having bleached hair can have its disadvantages. Our hair is made out of pigments, of course. So when bleaching to lighten the hair red pigments can appear easily. If of course, you have dark hair. Having lighter hair you will have to deal with yellow pigments instead of red ones.
For example, let’s say you want to achieve a light blonde but you have red patchy pigments. You can mix the standard light blonde with an ash blonde toner to even out the hair color. We chose ash because ash has tones of green in it. If you bleach your hair and you have an orange pigment but you want a wild color like blue, pink purple, and so on. You can just tone it with the desired color. This will be achieved as long as the toners are vibrant. When wanting to achieve pastel colors the hair has to be extremely light. Nevertheless one may need to bleach with no other option to achieve pastel colors.
As to achieve a pastel color you first have to get it very light blonde. This is because an orange pigment would be hard. You have to dye a tone on tone but only to color correct. When you do a tone-on-tone to lighten, one will never manage to lighten the color because color can never lighten the same color.
A color can lighten a color only when you are planning to dye a lighter color. However in this case it is not the case. Blonde can be only lightened up to shade 10. Then the next step would be high lifters which will lighten up to 2 shades more (12) if possible. If one wants lighter than that it has to be bleach no doubt.
We must also add that after bleaching hair it is a priority to a toner afterward to give some color to your hair. As what bleach does is straps out unwanted pigments. If one decides to bleach without a toner their hair will look very fake, and dull. Nevertheless, take our advice and always tone after bleaching.
Color wheel
According to this color chart, you can color the hair according to your pigment. For example, if you have a yellow pigment, opposite the yellow in this chart is purple therefore use a purple toner to tone down your pigment. This color wheel shall be very helpful to tone hair according to your situation.
Sometimes before toning immediately try using a color shampoo such as purple shampoo or blue shampoo according to your needs. Follow the instruction on the back of the bottle and proceed. Later on, if you still need color correction using a toner. However, we always suggest trying a shampoo and conditioner first before the toner. Especially if you are doing this alone at home without any professional help.
Dying Eyebrows
When dying eyebrows there is no need to use bleach, ever. This is because the eyebrows change the hair which makes them frequent. Nevertheless, the hairs on the eyebrows are always virgin. Therefore when using a normal hair dye with peroxide it will be enough to lift your color. This information also counts for people who want to dye their eyebrows blonde. 10 Volume peroxide will be enough to lift.