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    Just out of curiosity I bought honey blonde hair dye for African Americans. Will It work on me? I'm sitting here looking at the box. I don't want to fry my hair. Help!!!
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    Default Re: Should I use this hairdye to lighten my hair

    NO. You have too many layers of black dye. You're going end up looking like a tortoise shell cat.

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    Default Re: Should I use this hairdye to lighten my hair

    What Mediocrity said.





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    Default Re: Should I use this hairdye to lighten my hair

    I agree... I've tried to go lighter from a box over hair that had several layers of dye, and it's turned out splotchy every time. A series of soap caps/bleach baths might be a good experiment to get rid of some of the existing dye prior to lightening. The hair dye forum (hairdyeforum.com) has an amazing thread about bleach bathing, and I've done it myself a few times with great results. As for lightening from a box, surprisingly, the best results for me have come from that cheapo Revlon Colorsilk brand.

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    Default Re: Should I use this hairdye to lighten my hair

    I have successfully bleached black hair dye out before, *but* I had very short hair, and it did get slightly fried. I would definitely not use a box dye, as you have much less control and they are often lower quality then just going to sallys and buying the powder, developer and toner.
    I personally have never had a problem with spottiness, just getting super brittle dry hair, and having it be brassy.
    Buut, getting a pro to do it is always a good idea if you care about your hair.

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    Default Re: Should I use this hairdye to lighten my hair

    That hair dye is suppose to be used on virgin hair, it actually won't do anything to your hair but kind of fry the ends. You would need actually bleach to lighten your hair. I had several layers of black and just wanted to be a light brown with honey highlights and used some salon grade bleach to raise it too a level 6 (orange gold) and then dyed it the color I wanted. It's turned out great and I just had to trim my ends a bit after.

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    Default Re: Should I use this hairdye to lighten my hair

    Most of those sorts of dyes are used with 30 or 40 developer, so that they allegedly lift your old color while depositing new. But with several layers of black dye, you will end up just getting to a coppery-orange color, at best. Like everyone else said, you're definitely going to have to bleach it one or two times to lift enough color to get a good shade of blonde. I just used L'Oreal Quick Blue Bleach on my dyed black hair twice with 30 and 40 developer and was able to lift it to a very light blonde. I'm aiming for white blonde so I need to lift a little more, but if you're going for a darker honey blonde, you should be able to achieve it.

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