Coloring natural blonde hair darker?

I've been light blonde all my life and I love my color, but I'd like to see how I look with darker hair. I don't know anything about coloring hair, what would be the best way to go about this? Will I ruin my natural color if I dye it? Should I just try a wig? lol

Coloring natural blonde hair darker?

Being a hairdresser I strongly recommend that you go to a salon to achieve this look. It will not wreck your hair provided that the right products are used. A semi-permanent colour is best as it is actually conditioning to the hair.

The best way to go about it depends on the colour that you want to achieve. If you want to be brunette you will have to use a filler first. This basically means that you have to have a double application of the colour by colouring your hair red first and then colouring it again with a brown colour.

Its quite complicated to explain but basically you have to use a filler because brunettes have an underlying pigment of red in their hair that blondes do not have. So if a blonde put a brunette colour straight over the hair, her hair would suck up the red colour it's missing leaving the hair quite green.

Red is the hardest colour to get out of hair so if you want to go back to blonde it will be more difficult with this colour.

I have alot of clients that alternate their hair colour between seasons - blonde for summer, brunette for winter etc, and it looks gorgeous so dont be afraid but make sure you get it done professionally as there is more to colouring hair than people think.

I also recommend using a colour saving shampoo and conditioner. If you are going to go brunette i recommend Love Brown by Goldwell or Stay Red by Goldwell if your going red. These products are amazing for prolonging your colour.

Hope this helps! :-)

Coloring natural blonde hair darker?

Be careful with doing at home coloring, because I had hair that almost reached my butt and I dyed it, and the dye was past its shelf life or something, it turned my hair green. I had to pay hundreds of dollars to have my hair stripped, then had to have it dyed jet black and cut up to my chin!!!

Coloring natural blonde hair darker?

Well if you dye it a dark colour its very hard to get back to your natural colour/

Coloring natural blonde hair darker?

you will ruin your natural hair color if you dye it and yeah just use a wig to see how your hair looks

Coloring natural blonde hair darker?

If you love your hair and just want to test, do not dye it. What if you don't like it? You'll be stuck with that hair for months. Try a wig, for sure or upload a picture and edit your hair to look the color you'd like it to be. If you look good in that color, dye it. ^_^

Coloring natural blonde hair darker?

Go to a experienced hair dresser and tell her you want low lights. Low lights are like highlights except your adding dark tones to your hair. It really turns out looking pretty if you go to the right hairdresser. Costs usually $50-$100

Coloring natural blonde hair darker?

if you just want to see what its like you can get a temporary hair dye (it fades out in 8-10 shampoos) and if you like it, just get a dye and do it permanently, but be sure to put something on your forehead %26amp; stuff around your hair so your skin wont be stained =]

Coloring natural blonde hair darker?

try a wig or a temporary color first, to see if you like it. If it looks good on you and you think you can commit to it, then you can dye it. But once you go darker, the only ways to get your natural color back are to grow the haircolor out (which can take forever) or bleach it back to blonde. So if you do decide to change it, make sure it's what you really want and go to a salon, so you could be sure it'll come out the way you want it.