Garnier Nutrise 76 Rich Auburn Brown Nouishing Color Crème with Fruit Oil Concentrates + ColorSpa Moisture Actif 30 Medium Auburn No Amonia Non-Permanent Colorant Fix

Fix Hair Color Example. A Garnier Nutrisse Auburn Color initially comes out way too bright orange. The mistake is toned down with Loreal ColorSpa Moisture Actif. Within a few weeks, the Garnier color settles in nicely and acturally matches the color swatch and model shown on the Garnier Nutrisse hair dye box

Sometimes when dyeing your hair at home, you get an unwanted result that is too bright, garish and synthetic looking. If you messed up and did not try a test streak on your hair before permanently dyeing it, you may be in for a similar hair color disaster result like the one demonstrated here. In this blog post I will give you a great beauty tip. The tip is that you can use temporary color to tone down botched or too bright permanent dye results allowing the bad permanent color to fade in over a few weeks of shampooing naturally rather than trying to process the hair further and potentially damage it. Sometimes too bright colors just need time to settle down.

Since I’ve played around with every color, I have discovered this good corrective trick. Sometimes, you apply a color to your hair and it really doesn’t turn out looking like you thought. I’m talking about orange, brassy, purple-ish or green results that you sometimes get when you really wanted was something different. Orange hair can often happen when you try to take dark hair to blond and it doesn’t make it all the way up (and gets stuck in orange). Green hair can happen when you take blonde hair and try to get it to a different shade of blonde like champagne blond or ash blonde. It can also happen when you put an auburn shade on and you end up with an unwanted purple hair color in the case of dark auburn or brassy bozo orange in the case of a light auburn color attempt.

At home color mistakes are common and try not to panic. Know that even the permanent at home colors really fade out after some hair washings and given a few weeks time. Instead of trying to strip out a wrong color using harsh chemicals, sometimes you can tone it down by putting a temporary wash over it to mute it down. For example, if your hair comes out too bright orange or purple using an auburn dye, you can tone it down with a temporary wash in a less bright auburn tone. If you get a blond to green disaster, you can tone that down with a light brown temporary wash. Temporary dyes can definitely tone down mistakes and give them a chance to fade out on their own. You’d be surprised that sometimes colors that looked initially bad are not so bad after a few weeks of natural fading.

I will tell you that home die such as Garnier Nutrisse brand are really really bright initially. In this before and after hair color example photo, I tried a strawberry blond color that turned out nearly pure orange (It was Garnier Nutrise 76 Rich Auburn Brown Nouishing Color Crème with Fruit Oil Concentrates). I had to tone it down with temporary non-permanent ColorSpa color in medium auburn (Loreal ColorSpa Moisture Actif 30 Chestnut Reddish Brown Auburn Warmer No Amonia Moisturizing Non-Permanent Colorant). Within few weeks, the Garnier had a chance to fade down and the color looked fine by that point. It actually looked near to what was shown on the hair color box cover. You can look at the before and after photo results shown in the picture, along with the pictures showing the exact colors on the dye box that were used.

You need a certain amount of experimentation, patience, and test streak trial and error to get your hair right at home. But once you do figure out what works, your pockets will be overflowing with money as you can now opt out of the expensive hair salon visits. All you need is to that find that perfect color combination and you are salon free! It’s a bit nerve wracking but let’s face it … no pain no gain. I have to say you should minimize the hair color pain by doing test streaks first. But sometimes you can’t really envision how that test streak is going to look covering your entire head. If you do get an unexpectedly garish result, hopefully this beauty tip will help if you need to conceal or tone down a hair color botch. Better to use non-permanent color for a quick fix than to wreck your hair with strong color stripping chemicals in a panic.