TONING your hair at home | STEP by STEP how to get rid of BRASSINESS in Highlights
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Maren makes it… straightforward to use toner at home.
This week we are going to talk about TONER in hair dye and hair color. This is the main way I get rid of brassiness in highlighted hair & blonde hair. I’ve tried purple shampoo ( • Does purple shampoo wo... ), but toner is wayyy more effective.
I usually do this immediately following bleaching my hair & creating highlights in my hair which I’ve made a separate video on( • Highlighting my own DA... ). Depending on your starting color and desired results, you may or may not want to do this step before you follow the advice in this video.
We are going to talk about how both semi and semi permanent dyes can be used to tone hair. I’m going to tell you what toner CAN do and what it CAN’T… because as great as I think semi permanent dye is, there are limitations. Whether you’re blonde or brunette to start though, there are lots of looks you can create DIYing your hair color.
Then I’ll take you through a step-by-step tutorial of how to actually apply Demi permanent hair color from mixing up your products to applying it to hair to rinsing it out properly… I got you covered.
This is something you can do at home for all my people that on a budget out there or trying to save money on their hair and beauty routines. That is the reason I have continued to do this myself at home even post-restrictions and lockdowns. You can do this between salon visits to tie you over or to replace them altogether.
Let me know in the comments down below if you’ve ever DIYed your hair dye and how it came out.
Thanks so much for watching !
-xoxo Maren
Products in this video:
Wella Balayage Powder Lightener (small packet)
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Wella Balayage Developer (mini size)
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Wella Color Charm Demi Permanent Hair Color (where you can pick your shade)
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Wella Color Charm Activator
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Rubber Gloves where you can pick your size!
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Precut Aluminum Squares for easy use & saving time
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Regular Aluminum Foil (you will need to cut squares yourself)
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Jaw / Claw Hair Clips
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Hair Dye Brushes for applying color
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Metal Alligator Clips
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Assorted Comb Set
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(These are Amazon affiliate links which means that if you purchase these items I get a small percent commission on your order. This does help support my channel & make it possible for me to make more content down the line. However you can of course also purchase these items without my links.)
Wella Balayage Lightener (volume size) on Sally Beauty
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Wella Balayage Developer (volume size) on Sally Beauty
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It's so nice to find a brunette who is doing this because every video I find is for blondes. I have the bronde like you and I was always like ok so what about me...what do I do? I'm not blonde! Thank you!!!
Rena, I totallyyyy feel you on that!! And the same things don’t work for bronde as blonde at all!! I tried the advice for blondes in my purple shampoo video and that didn’t work at all for me. It was so frustrating and also a waste of money haha. So happy I can share what I’ve learned here now!!! Thanks so much for taking the time to leave a comment. Honestly made my day.
Agree...
I completely agree! Wish there were more videos on bronde and even just brunette non-highlighted hair.
I spent most of my day frustrated with YT because everyone is a blonde and we brunettes need help too! *Thank you!* 💜🙏💜
So true
Finding this video just saved my hair. THANK YOU! I’ve had the same stylist for 8 years and I have been able to avoid an uncomfortable conversation. My highlights looked much more blended after she styled my hair, but maybe it was the lighting? In the natural sunlight, it did not look good at all. I don’t think she put any toner on the bleached parts at all. I’m 40, but I still haven’t worked up the nerve to speak up if I don’t like a service. Especially when it’s days later. Your video was very informative, thorough, and well paced. My 10 year old daughter was able to watch with me and help correct my hair, so this mishap got to become an unexpected bonding experience!
Ashley, YOU'RE SO WELCOME! I am so humbled and honored to get to help you so much AND to get to be a part of your bonding with your daughter on top of it... my heart is glowing reading this comment. You made my day.
That being said, ARGHHH I'm so sorryyy you had this experience to begin with. It is sooo frustrating going into the salon, paying a lot of money, and spending your time there.... and then not getting what you want. A truly horrible feeling and it really is so uncomfortable having to tell them that you don't like what they did (even though that is well within your right to do). I am right there with you.
I am proud of you for looking for a solution, fixing it yourself, and hopefully getting back to loving your hair.
YOURE SO GOOD AT EXPLAINING THINGS I LOVE YOU NEVER STOP
Thanks for your awesome compliment Kelli! Stay tuned I got more great hair videos planned ;)
This is the most intelligent explanation of toning I have ever heard. Thank you Maren. To demonstrate and teach is to Master. Thank you for bringing sound communications skills and teaching skill to sharing your Mastery of a tricky subject.
Thank you so much for this amazing compliment!! This is one of the nicest things anyone has said to me in a long time. I am almost tearing up reading it. I am so glad you found the video so instructive. Happy New Year & happy hair dying my friend! ;)
@@marenmakesit I greatly appreciate your response and am delighted that I communicated how much I appreciate precious You and your skills in both the substantive skill and the distinct but very great skill in communication and education.
Thank you Dear Maren.
@@tjsurname119 of course! I love interacting with viewers in the comments (even if it sometimes takes me a moment to respond). It’s a big part of the reason I love making videos. It’s such a great way to help others and meet people I would have never been able to reach otherwise.
Thank you so much for being so descriptive and and teaching to help me get my level correct for my hair your hair is beautiful God bless you
Best color vid I have ever seen. Tysm!
You’re so welcome! Thanks for the feedback and I’m so glad you found it helpful. I appreciate you taking the time to comment too.
You did so well! Great video!
Thanks Kat for your kind words! Glad you liked it & thanks for taking the time to watch & comment.
So pretty. And it looks shinier too!!!❤
Thanks Sandra!! Yes it does make your hair skinnier too, which I love because some hair dye is bad for your hair or really drying, but this one seems to make my hair look and feel healthier than before. Thanks for watching!!
BEST TONER VIDEO EXPLAINED EVER
Thanks so much Yas!! I’m so glad you found it so helpful.
Looks great Maren
Thank you my friend
Very nice video...brief n to the point. Thanks a lot.
Thanks so much for the feedback Nicky! So glad to hear it.
Thank you so much, found this video really useful.
Awesome to hear!! Good luck with your hair and thanks so much for taking the time to comment.
Great video. I see that you showed three shades, but I’m confused about which one you used.
I appreciate the time and effort you put into this video with such useful information. It helped me a lot! Subscribed ❤️❤️❤️
Thanks sooo much Lyrica! (Also that’s a really pretty name if that’s your name.) I’m glad you found it helpful. It was definitelyyyy time consuming to make but I’ve learned so much doing this and I felt like there hadddd to be other people trying to do this at home too and struggling. Let me know how you hair turns out!!
Awww thank you so much that is so sweet!! My hair turned out a beautiful ashy almost light brown which is exactly what I wanted. It’s very close to my natural color which is also what I was trying to get. Again thank you so much for all of your advice and help!!❤️❤️❤️
@@lyricarose that sounds like a beautiful color!! Always such a good feeling to have a DIY work out exactly like you wanted it to. 🎉 thanks for your support of the channel.
Useful video. Thank you ❤️
You’re welcome. Thanks so much for leaving this comment.
Great video, thank you ❤
Don’t know how I missed your comment earlier, but thank you so much!!!
Thank you!! This worked really well for my hair. I recently got balayage highlights on my dark brown hair and it was a few tones too light for my preference. I used 7N (skin is warm toned) and I’m so happy with the results. Now my highlights are subtle and I’m back to being brunette ☺️
Danielle, you’re so welcome!! I’ve definitely had that happen to me too at the salon before I started doing it myself and it can be sooo frustrating 🤦🏻♀️ I’m so glad to hear that this worked for you, and I really appreciate you coming back to the video to leave this comment! Enjoy your new fabulous hair! 💕
Loved your video! Your hair in this video looks almost identical to mine and I loved your results! Definitely following your tutorial! Also I loved your explanation of the color theory at the beginning! Art is a big hobby of mine, but I still feel uneasy when tackling color theory of hair! This was the perfect explanation! Happy to find a fellow brunette-DIY-toner-girl! :)
Thank you Lauren for your kind words!!! Sounds like we are similar in a lot of ways. I love arts and crafts and a good DIY, but hair color alwaysss intimidated me because it’s something on your body, there’s an overwhelming amount of products out there to choose from, anddd I really didn’t know anything about coloring hair.
I think understanding a little of the theory underlying it is so helpful in feeling more confident doing this yourself, and so I’m really glad you mentioned this in your comment. I didn’t know if people would find it helpful or more confusing to hear all that color theory. I definitely went down the rabbit hole of the internet researching this when I wanted to start doing my own hair haha- so happy to get to share some of that knowledge now!! Would love to hear how your hair turns out when you end up doing this!!! :)
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Hi Maren,
A new subscriber here. Can you please let me know if I need to use a colour fill after bleaching my hair to get to a level 7? My hair usually comes out a dark murky green Halloween colour 😬.
I am so nervous to go to the next step. I have ordered the colours you have on this video.
I am so nervous to take the brunette plunge.
I feel like I am missing something here and if I don't have to use a filler to go from blonde to level 7, that would be awesome 🎉
I know that you are not a professional hair colorist, but you are really good at explaining how things work with colouring our hair to brunette. Keep up the awesome work! 😊
@@ColdandRain202 Hi Friend, welcome to the channel & happy to have you here!
Let me clarify a few questions:
(1) so you were darker, bleached your hair , and now you would like to be at a level 7 ? so darker than your bleached hair?
(2) what product have you used in the past that got you a green color ??
(3) how dark were you trying to go when you got the green? I can totally see why you’d be nervous about this if this has happened to you in the past!!
(4) personally I’ve never used a filler. But I also haven’t dyed all of my hair at once. I am going to read up on this though so that when you let me know the answers to those other questions, I can give you me (unprofessional)opinion haha based on what you say. I’m sure if they make that product it is useful in some cases, I just am not sure yet what those cases are.
(5) I’ve always found doing a strand test to be super useful. Just picking like one strand of hair on the bottom side of my hair and seeing how the product takes following the exact instructions I would do on my whole head. I also sometimes Pick out hair from my hairbrush and use that to do a strand test (kind gross haha but it works) that way it’s even lower risk than when it’s on my head. Like the first time I ever bleached my hair I took a clump from my hairbrush first to experiment with lol.
I’m glad you found the way I explain things to be helpful! Looking forward to hearing more about your hair!! -Maren
Great video thank you ❤
Thank you Miya!!
this is exactly what i needed yayaayat
So glad to hear it Zee!! Hope your hair turns out the way you want it to look. Let me know if you have any questions.
My hair color is very similar to yours in the beginning, and I just had it highlighted a couple of weeks ago. Can you please share exactly what ratios and color numbers you used?? I love the aftermath
Madison, thanks so much for the comment & the compliment on my results :) I’m glad to hear you liked how it turned out too!!!
For the transformation I show in the thumbnail, I used Wella Color Charm 7A and 8A mixed. I left it on for 20mins. I feel like the colors all turn out slightly darker than the box says they will be personally, and found these to be perfect.
The ratio is 1:2. This means you use 1 part of the color tube to 2 parts of the activator. So for example 10grams of color from the tube needs 20grams of the activating lotion mixed with it for it to work properly.
Does this help?
Maren, thank you so much for this. I’m writing this at 2am just because I cannot sleep ( I got a balayage yesterday on my virgin hair and it looks exactly like yours did. Yellow streaks). I literally want to cry every since but I’ll try your way before spending more money at the salon.
Did u feel like your hair was cooper-ish afterwards? That is my only concern..
Thank you once again
Hi Ana, OH NO!!! I’m so sorry this has happened to you. I’ve definitelyyyy been there late night researching how to save my hair. It’s sooo disappointing when you spend all that money at the salon and aren’t happy with the result.
No, I didn’t feel like my hair was copper-ish after! It was more like light brown highlights in dark brown hair. The “ash” part of the hair dye (the A after the number on the package) means it contains cool undertones. Blue undertones (ash undertones) are the opposite of orange on the colorwheel, so it helps to neutralize any brassiness or orange-ness. That is why I specifically picked the products I used! Having the right product makes all the difference here.
Does this help?
Yes it does
Okay great. The thumb nail pics are the same time I did it as most of the pics I showed in the video too by the way. I realized I forgot to say that before. Thanks for watching the video & for the great question!
First. Thank you so much for this video for brunettes! And second this is okay to do over highlights or balayage?
Hi, thanks for your comment. Yes you can do it over highlights or balayage!
The main situation where I would recommend not doing this is if you had permanent hair color done recently. Let me know if you have any more questions.
Your hair is similar to mine but I don’t understand the formula you used and I would like to achieve it !!
Hi, thanks for your question. I understand how this could be confusing! You’re going to need 2 products to do this: the Wella Color Charm hair color (comes as a tube in a small box) and the Wella Color Charm Activating Lotion (comes as a bottle). Both are linked in the video description so you can find them easier.
Now for the math, which is what I think you are asking about. The ratio is 1:2. This means you use 1 part of the color tube to 2 parts of the activator. So for example 10grams of color from the tube needs 20grams of the activating lotion mixed with it for it to work properly. If you use 25grams of the color, you need 50g of the activating lotion. It’s always twice as much of the activating lotion as the color that you need to mix together so that the products work properly.
Does this help? Let me know if you’re still confused, and I will try to explain it a different way. Thanks for watching!!
Hello it look so Good on you❤😊😊i want to bleach my hair with highlight cap after bleaching should i apply the toner only bleached part with on cap or should i apply all of my hair even the unbleached part❤ thank you
Hi, sorry I missed your comment earlier. I would probably apply the toner to all my hair if it was me just to make sure it is even and fully blended at the roots. I think it would be hard to do that with the cap on for me personally. The toner won’t really affect how the rest of your hair looks since it is too dark for the toner to really show up on. If anything it will just make the rest of your hair shinier. Let me know if you have any other questions & happy holidays!
Your hair turned out so nice, the color is just fabulous. I’m kind of curious to know why you didn’t choose to use the Wella toner line?
Thank you Sandy for the compliment on my hair! Great question!
So I didn’t choose the Wella color charm toners (like T10, T14, T18 etc) for 2 reasons:
(1) I was worried they were going to be too light to work even on my highlights. They seem to be mainly marketed to all over blondes and very light blondes. There didn’t really seem to be a shade that corresponded to light cool brown which is the color I wanted my highlights to end up. The demi permanent ones, I felt like I had better/clearer’s options to match the end result I wanted.
(2) These toners from Wella are a type of permanent hair dye. Compare this to the demi permanent I used in the video which fades over time. This means that experimenting with the demi permanent ones at home is wayyy lower risk. Also if you want to change up your look in a few weeks or months, it is much easier to do. To remove permanent hair color, you must use bleach to lift it back out of the hair strand, which is hard to do properly yourself at home (at least based on all the TH-cam videos where I’ve seen people try to do this themselves).
Does this help?
@@marenmakesit thanks for the info, that makes total sense to me!😊
@@sandybitter4609 awesome, glad to hear it!
@maren makes it - I have been coloring my hair for years and agree with you that it is really simple and can save a lot of money as long as you're willing to put in the time. I have not built up the courage to highlight my hair though! Lol! I had highlights last year that damaged my hair so I have been nursing it back to health. I was not liking the 7 inch dark brown regrowth and 6 inches of brassy orange highlights. So I decided to do an all over color with 7NA and 5N. It resulted in a more even overall tone but a lot darker than I wanted. It was much better than the dry, brassiness! Now the color is starting to wash out and looking orangey. Any thoughts on what color to use on the 6 inch old highlighted area to get rid of orange but at the same time I want to lighten the regrowth but without bleach. I hope this makes sense. :)
Hi Liz, thanks for your comment!! This makes perfect sense. I can picture your hair - you did a great job describing it!! I commend you for your DIY hair coloring.
Okay, so the good news is that your hair is getting healthier and the Demi permanent dyes don’t do any damage to your hair and are actually good for it (can make it more shiny and hydrated).
The bad news is that there’s really no way to significantly lighten your hair without using either bleach or hydrogen peroxide (which is what is in the developer you use with permanent hair dye), both of which are drying to the hair and risk damaging it. Other than that maybe trying sunshine and lemon juice, but that personally never worked for me as a brunette.
One thing you could try is low lighting the bottom part of your hair. That won’t lighten your regrowth but that way at least it wouldn’t be all dark and you keep some dimension in your hair. I actually just made a video on this last week. th-cam.com/video/sY8NQvvcMDA/w-d-xo.html
The other option honestly is to get it lightened again, whether you do it or a salon. I think the first time I did my own highlights was super scary but now I’ve been doing them for 3 yrs and my hair is still very healthy as long as I take care of it between visits. There’s a lot of things you can do to prevent/stop dryness and nourish the hair between hair coloring and trips to the salon. Also the shampoos and conditioners you use make a big difference too in my opinion for the overall health of your hair and how long your hair color lasts. If you need recommendations, let me know. Hope this helps !! -Maren
@@marenmakesit Thanks so much for your kind words. I appreciate you taking the time to respond with some helpful tips. I thought of adding a few lowlights as well but still have some trepidation from my last horrible highlight experience. It's so difficult to find a stylist who knows how to lighten brunette hair without compromising hair health. I commend you for doing your own but I am too chicken to attempt that on my own. Lol!
Years ago, I did an all over color with 8N or 8NA with 20 developer which lifted about 2 shades but the problem was it left me with that ugly super warm copper brown/orange. I think you know what I am talking about. 😂 I thought of trying this again, now that I have overall even color. I just wish I knew how to mix my own toner to cancel out the brassy warmth. It doesn't have to be super ashy but just not so orangey. The only toners Sally Beauty carries is "permanent" which I don't want to do. I can't find any "Demi-permanent toners." If you have any tips or products that won't dry out my hair but will help tone down the warmth, I would love to hear it!
Yes, I would love to get a list of your recommended hair products (shampoo, conditioner, heat protectant, etc.). I really appreciate you and your genuine desire to help other brunette DIYers! 🤗
YES!! The communication gap between you & the stylist is often shockingly huge!!! It is so frustrating. I will say that low lights are MUCH lower risk than highlights to do yourself because you're just adding color (not doing any lightening) and with a demi perm dye, it will wash out after about 20 washes so it just sort of fades out on its own. Demi permanent dye (at least the wella one that I use) is a 10 volume developer specially formulated to go with their dye but that is basically what it is, so it does no lifting (lightening of the hair) because it's only 10 volume. The higher the volume number, the more lifting power it basically has. The demi perm dye always makes me hair feel shinier and more hydrated after. I don't feel like it does any damage at all, so doing my own lowlights is pretty low-risk to me.
I know "gloss" treatments do something similar but these last shorter and have no developer in them so they are even lower risk (like Madison Reid and dpHUE color boosting gloss if you want some brand examples). But for example if I was nervous about doing my own lowlights, I would do them with one of those because (1) there's no risk of damaging my hair (2) it will wash out within a few washes anyways if where I put the lowlights doesn't look good). It could be like a practice run to see if you want to do a demi-permanent dye or lowlight hair.
Now all of that is for lowlighting or going darker.
YESS I totallyyy understand the orange/brassy color you're talking about. SOOO FRUSTRATING!!! When you did that with the 20 vol developer was that permanent hair color?
Now for your questions about toning:
You can use a demi permanent dye to function as a toner. It's not quite as permanent at the "TONER" that Sally Beauty sells for blondes, but the way you use the demi permanent dye creates the effect of "toning" the brown hair to cancel out the orange. SO for example, the A stands for Ash (which means blue undertone) in the wella hair color. Blue is the opposite of orange on the color wheel so it will cancel that orange-ness out. So for example in the video I used 8A and 7A for exactly this reason because I knew that I wanted to cancel out orange-ness.
SO I guess it really depends where you are right now with your hair color and what they goal is what products I would use.
Does this help or did i just make it more confusing??
I will get you a list of some products too shortly.
@@marenmakesit No, not confusing at all. I have been coloring my hair for years and understand the color wheel and all that good stuff. I really appreciate your genuine desire to help others. Very very few vloggers ever respond to viewer's questions so THANK YOU!
To answer your question, I did use 20 vol developer with 7N permanent hair color. My starting color prior to color was between 5N and 6N. It resulted in a very warm Level 8 orangey brown. That was years ago. These days I only use Demi hair color because my stylists said it's easier to lift when highlighting. I have never tried using a 20V with a Demi so not sure how if it will lift. If so, and it gives me the same results as it did with the permanent, then how would I tone down the orangey brown? Currently, my hair color is what I described above (5N/6N) but want it to be at a level 7 but as cool as possible. I would be doing an all over color (root to ends). I know there won't be a lot dimension without highlights but I can add some later when the old highlights have grown out.
Do you have product recommendation for a good thermal/heat protectant product that isn't greasy or weighs down hair and actually protects hair from heat damage? I look forward to hearing back on the product recommendations!
@@lizn9324 hi Liz, sorry for not responding earlier. I understand that frustration. I have commented many times on videos too and never heard back :/ I didn’t forget about you, I’ve just been quite sick this last month. Personally I love this part of YT (talking to people in the comments) just as much as I like making the videos!! It’s such a cool way to get to connect with people that I would have never met otherwise.
Hmm if you used a 20V developer with a Demi permanent color and got something super orangey, you need something with blue tones in it to cancel out the orange. I would probably use like a 8A or 9A Demi permanent color since they seem to “run” darker than the package says in my opinion. Honestly I would personally probably do it in 2 steps and use bleach to lighten and then do a Demi permanent hair color all over after just because that’s what I’m more familiar with using and I feel like it gives me more control. I also think bleach is a more powerful lightener than hydrogen peroxide (developer) alone and I think helps you avoid the orange. Of course I’m not a hair dresser, but this is just my observations from my own hair experiments!
Have you mixed equal parts of each dye with the developer ?
Hi Emi, yes the 7A and 8A in equal parts. So if I use 5g of 7A and 5g of 8A, then I would use 20g of developer and mix it all together. Does that help?
So you used 8 all over then 5 on roots ? You didnt use 7 at all. Correct ?
What color did you use? And it’s Demi permanent? Thanks so much
Best video on TH-cam for this
Hi, yes they are Demi permanent. These are the 2 products I use mixed together! They recently changed the packaging, so that’s why they may look slightly different than what I showed in my original video.
Wella Demi Permanent Color
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Wella Demi Permanent Activator
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I used a blend of 7A and 8A in the video, however I would now probably use just the 7A or 7N (maybe even mix in some 6N) because they changed their formulations slightly, so they no longer “run darker than expected” like I said in the original video. They are more true to the color chart now. So if you look at that in the link, you can decide if you want more of a dark blonde of the 7 or more of a very light brown of the 6.
Let me know if you have any other questions!
Thanks for the compliment and for watching!
Thank you so much for the reply! So to blend the highlights at the root did you use something else after you washed the first time!? Thank you so much, you’re amazing
@@Schaefer2022 you’re welcome! I’m pretty sure in this video I just applied the dye at the roots first (to give it the most time to develop/apply there) which was enough to get it to look a little darker there.
You could also apply a shade one number darker at the roots (or mix the one that is one number darker with the one you used on the rest of your hair for a more subtle effect). You could do this after washing the first time if you feel it’s not blended well enough as a separate step or you could do it at the same time as you do it the first time on the rest of your hair with the slightly lighter shade and then just make sure to blend them well together so there’s no clear line where you switched from one to the other.
Does this make sense ?
Hi, great video! But I still have some questions tho
I've had highlights for a year and a half now, and 6 monts ago I got some more.
At first they were great, but now I want to change since they've become kinda blonde, and I'm a brunette.
So I don't know what to do to get the results you got, I'm kinda lost.
What is toner exactly? Is it what you used in the video?
Thank you
Hi Clo,
Thanks for watching the video! I know this hair color stuff can be so confusing & so frustrating when your hair color fades to be blonder than you like. Great questions!!
So “toner” in hair color is ANY product that allows you change the underlying color of your hair (without making it lighter).
It’s kind of like if you’re editing a photo and you slide the “warmth” slider and you can make the whole photo look more yellow or more blue without making it darker or lighter really. The “tint” option on iPhones does this too but for making your photo more green or red. That’s basically what “toning” your hair does.
If you don’t edit photos, then you can think about it like sunglasses. Ever notice how some make the world look more yellow-y and some might make the world look more cool toned? And sometimes the funky ones will have like a pink glass in them and make everything look kind of pink?
So in hair dying, ANY product that allows you to change the color in that way is a “hair toner.”
What is kind of confusing is that there are other products in hair dying that allow you to tone the hair. Demi permanent hair color (what I use) is just one of them. Another example is semi-permanent color. Another example is henna. But ALL of these can do the SAME JOB which is “toning” the hair.
It’s kind of like how a “hair styling product” could be a gel or hair spray or mousse or wax - ALL of those help you hair keep a certain shape and not change shape during the day but they are all different products.
So yes, what I’m using in the video is a toner!
Does this help? Hopefully this explanation didn’t confuse you more!
@@marenmakesit thank you, I think I'm starting to understand a little more.
So does that mean toner won't change my natural brown color? Because I just want to make the highlights darker and that's all. Sorry for the questions, I truly appreciate your help :)
@@clo456 yes exactlyyy you can achieve that effect with toner!! Just make sure to pick the right color and then not leave it on for longer than the recommended time.
What color did you use for the root shadow, after you did the toning?
@@rosebenet3571 thanks for your question Rose I used 5N for that. Let me know if you have any more questions!
so If I used perm wella color charm will that make my natural brown hair orange?
Hi Sarah, I don’t have a ton of experience with permanent hair color, but based on what I do know, it depends what color your hair is now and also what color you’re trying to achieve. You can get orange but not necessarily.
For example, if your hair is already dyed with permanent hair color, you need to use bleach to lift that off before you can do much else (besides going darker than you are now, it’s a lot easier to go darker).
If your hair is virgin hair and as dark as mine, I would use a 30 volume developer with my permanent hair color because it lifts the hair more and you’re more likely to end up with blonde instead of orange. If I were to use a 20 volume developer, I would probably end up with orange.
So it sounds like with natural brown hair, you’ll want the 30 volume developer + your permanent hair color.
However this is just what I can say from my own experience and research. I prefer to do it in 2 steps with the bleach step (th-cam.com/video/XM3xpDMhquM/w-d-xo.html)
and then the Toning step (this video) because the demi permanent dye is less scary to me than the permanent stuff, and I feel like I have more control over the end result. Let me know if that helps!
What color did you use on your roots?
Hi, it’s 5N that I used for my roots! Thanks for watching! Sorry for the delayed response.
I colored my light to medium brown hair with a light ash brown dye and turned it almost black. I used vitamin c and dandruff shampoo and it lightened a couple of shades but left me with orange tones throughout. What color of toner would you suggest to use to tone down the orange brassy color without going too dark? Every light color of brown that I use seems to make my hair too dark.
Hi Debbie, sorry to hear this happened! That’s so frustrating when you don’t get the results you’re looking for and can’t seem to find the right product.
Keep in mind I am not a professional, but here’s a few thoughts & questions, I have on the matter:
(1) what color was your goal? If you have light brown hair already and are using a light brown dye?
(2) are you using a permanent or demi permanent dye? Permanent dye is a different beast for sure.
(3) how long are you leaving it on for? I find that most dyes will get really dark if you leave it on for the max recommended time (or more) and keep in mind the dye starts developing once you mix it together, so it’s important to apply it quickly. It could be the product you used, but it could also be the amount of time you left it on for.
(4) Some brands do seem to run darker than their color charts so going a shade lighter seems to be helpful. Wella just recently changed their formulations to be more accurate to the color chart finally (it used to run darker than expected for sure).
(5) I would highly recommend always doing a strand test first before committing to your whole hair.
(6) Definitely choose something with Ash undertones to cancel the orange brassy color. Ash is a blue undertone and blue and orange are opposites on the color wheel, so that’s why they will cancel each other out.
(6) Blue shampoo is really good for brunettes to keep away brassiness.
My gut instinct if I was you would be to try the Wella 7A or maybe even 8A. These are more like “dark ashy blondes” than “light browns” and would hopefully cancel out some of the orange without making you significantly darker. Do a strand test and leave it on for more of the low end of time that they recommend on the package. It’s always easier to go darker than lighter, so worst case you find you need to leave it on longer by doing this. Then I would use blue shampoo to maintain it.
Sorry this turned into a longer answer! Again, I’m not a professional, but hopefully this helps a little!
My goal is a light to medium brown, I color my hair to cover grays and my hair has always been brown when I was younger. I used redken coverfusion 6na and 8na in equal parts with a 20 volume developer I left it on for the recommended time but it came out way too dark that is why I tried to lighten it a little. I think that you helped me alot with your answer and I will try the wella 7 or 8 in ash. Thank you.
@@debbiebridges6350 glad I was able to help!
can you mix an Ash with a neutral?
Yes, you could! It would create an inbetween of neutral and cool toned look (similar to if you mixed liquid foundations in makeup and mixed a neutral and cool toned one).
If you end up liking how it looks with just the bleach, is there any harm in NOT using the toner to "complete" the process?
What a great question Hannah! I mean you don’t haveeee to do anything. But bleach does leave the cuticle of the hair open and hair more dried out. Personally if I wanted to keep it looking like how it looked with just the bleach, I would use the Wella Demi Perm Clear Gloss just to seal the cuticle and make my hair more shiny, healthy, and less dry. Here is the link for that product: amzn.to/3uANnDr Hope this helps & thanks for watching!
Can I use this for black hair or what color do you recommend? TIA
Hi Mari, thanks for watching and for your question? Tell me a little more about your hair right now, and I can tell you what I would do. Do you have highlights in your black hair that you’re trying to tone?
Hello could you recommend me a wella shade! I need help asap
Hi, I’m so sorry I missed your comment earlier. Were you able to figure it out? If you still do need help, tell me a little about your hair now and what look you’re going for and I’ll try to help you out!
As a disclaimer, keep in mind I’m not a professional… just someone who’s done a lot of hair experiments at home.
how many oz of the color and developer will i need it i have long medium thickness hair? i want to darken my grown out balayage
Hi, thanks for your question! I’m not exactly sure how much total you will use, but I am guessing it would be similar to me based on how you described your hair. I would say I use about a tube of color (2 oz.) each time with 4oz. of developer. The developer comes in bigger bottles, so you won’t be using a whole container of that at a time. You want to make sure you have enough to fully saturate the hair so you don’t get splotches by accident!
I say “about” because oftentimes I start by mixing less and then apply that to my hair and then mix more as I need it.
It’s always better to have extra product on hand than to have to run out to the store in the middle of doing this because you run out (I speak from experience haha). Let me know if you have any other questions!
When applying the colour , did you apply 7 and 8 together on the hair?
Yes, I mixed 50/50 of 7 and 8 and then mix that with the developer. Sorry if that wasn’t clear in the video.
Wella recently updated their color chart though and now I think the one on their website is more accurate so I will link it here for you:
www.wella.com/professional/en-US/hair-color/color-charm/demi-permanent-color#/?_k=qq3d81
So I would look at the Color chart and see what you’re going for and then pick that shade from the chart (assuming your hair is highlighted or lightened because what I said in the video about Demi permanent dye not being able to lighten hair still applies).
Let me know if you have any more questions.
Did you shampoo product out or just rinse?
Just rinse it out until the water runs clear!! Then use conditioner! The shampoo is too harsh on the fresh color and will strip it out (and undo your hard work!)
I have a question! About a year ago I had blonde highlights on my natural darker hair. I bought my own toner after it began to get too brassy. Me wanting to save money, I researched but unfortunately didn’t seem like I researched enough and used volume 10 developer with a blonde toner. It ruined my natural dark hair and turned it to an orange, leading me to have to dye my whole head back to my natural color. In the thumbnail, what toner/developer did you use? I now have a warmer toned balayage on my hair, and would want an ashier/brown look, just like the one you achieved in your thumbnail! Is it safe toward my darker natural hair? I’m scared to ruin my hair again!😂 thank you!!
It seemed as though I used the wrong developer, as you mentioned in the video that volume 10 is used for natural blondes haha
And also how long would this toner usually last?
I apologize I keep adding on questions! I’ve read in your comments that you’ve used 7a mixed with 8a for the results in the thumbnail… is that not too strong or too “blonde” for your natural dark hair? As you can tell im petrified 😂😂
Hi Bella, to achieve the look in the thumbnail I used the 7A and 8A Wella Demi Permanent Dye and the Developer that is made to go with it!! I didn’t edit those photos at all so you can see the true colors of how it turned out.
The Demi permanent dye + developer only shows up on the blonde highlighted parts of the hair because it is too light to change the darker parts of the hair.
Does that make sense?
@@bella-pm2ye when your hair turned orange in the past from trying to tone at home was it all of your hair or just the highlighted pieces?
have you ever had a salon bleach your hair off?
Like where the bleach damages my hair so much it falls off? No I haven’t but I’ve heard many horror stories. Did this happen to you?
How long does it last?
According to the Wella website 12-24washes, so it will depend how often you wash your hair. If you wash your hair every day, I guess that would be about 3 weeks. If you wash your hair every other day, 6 weeks. If you wash your hair x2 a week, it could be 3 months.
That’s pretty much what I’ve experienced too using these products.
I think what you use to wash your hair also makes a difference. Pick a colorsafe shampoo & conditioner. I really like the Verb brand and Bumble & Bumble if you need a brand recommendation.
Let me know if you have any more questions.
You must be a kindergarten teacher because you know how to explain things so everyone can understand. 😊 I do have a question... what color do you recommend if you want to make those highlights darker not only less brassy? The hairstylist messed up last time and the worst part is that I have hard water so I want to get rid of the orangy and make them way darker without paying again. 😢
I am not, but I appreciate the compliment and am glad you found the video helpful! ☺️ I am sorry to hear you didn’t get what you were hoping for at the hair dresser… that is always frustrating. I would recommend probably 1 or 2 shades lighter than what I use in this video, so Wella 6 or maybe 5 or maybeee 4 depending on how dark you want your hair to be and if you still want to look like you have highlights at all. I would personally do a strand test first as well before you commit fully.
Last thing that might be helpful is watching my low lights video th-cam.com/video/sY8NQvvcMDA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=NcDsjxw5IHZt_NN3 Then you can see me go darker with your hair.
Let me know if you have any more questions! Hope this helps!
@@marenmakesit I am shocked because TH-camrs normally don't reply fast unless you say something bad to them 😂 Thank you for taking the time to explain how I can fix this mess and for sharing the other video. I am at the doctor's so I can't really watch the whole thing but one thing I noticed is that you use Wella most of the time which is the brand my mom used to use. Just as a reference I have my hair is dark brown and I also have issues with hot roots. Question, is it possible to make it darker but with a tint of mahogany? Would I damage my hair somehow? Thanks again for your help! If I could I would rate your channel to 10 stars
@@pebles361 I can’t speak for other TH-camrs but for me personally getting to engage with people in the comments about stuff I already like talking about is a big part of why I like making videos!
Wella is a great brand, so I can see why your mom would also choose it. This is a Demi permanent dye, so it won’t damage your hair. It will probably actually make it shinier and smoother feeling. The reason it doesn’t damage the hair is because the developer used here is only 10 volume, which is the lowest number of developer (it goes 10, 20, 30, 40). This is enough to activate the dye, but not enough to damage it.
You could definitely create mahogany. I would use one of the Wella colors with red undertones. I looked it up for you and this would be 5RR (red) and 5VV (more purple red) and 5WG (more orange red). Over dark brown hair, this should tint it towards a redder color to give it a mahogany look.
As for the hot roots, I would probably look at the Wella color chart and see what color in there matches your dark brown the best (you can also mix 2 if you’re between).
www.wella.com/professional/m/pdf/Wella_colorcharm_Demi-Permanent_User_Guide.pdf
I would apply it to the roots and then blend it down several inches at least into my hair strands to make sure it looks as natural and blended as possible.
I would probably do the covering the hot roots part first to get a more even hair color and then add in the red as a separate step after. Technically you could do them at the same time, but that starts to run the risk of splotches if you apply unevenly or too slow…I’ve had splotches…2 separate steps would be safer.
If you just wanted to go even darker than your current dark brown, I would probably go with the Wella 3N or even mix it with a 2 or 1 and leave it on for the max time. I would start applying at the roots first so the roots have it on there the longest to help give the lighter hot roots more time to absorb the color. Then I would go through and cover the rest of my hair.
Sorry that was a lot of info! Hope I didn’t overwhelm you. I just wanted to address all your questions. Does this help?
@@marenmakesit Don't be sorry! Yes, it is a lot info but very important info which I love just because I don't want to mess my hair even more. I don't know what I would do if that is the case!! I've been sick so I haven't tried anything yet but when I do I'll let you know for sure. Thanks a lot! ❤️
@@pebles361 Totally agree - if you’re going to mess with your hair at home, the more you know the better.
Definitely let me know if/when you end up trying it! Hope you’re feeling better!
What color did u actually use on your hair in this video?
For the transformation I show in the thumbnail, I used Wella Color Charm 7A and 8A mixed. I left it on for 20mins. I feel like the colors all turn out slightly darker than the box says they will be personally. Does that help?
Thanks helps a lot!
@@anitamartin2218 you’re welcome! Let me know if any other questions come up in the process. You got this!
@@marenmakesit My friends hair turned out perfect! Thanks again!!
@@anitamartin2218 thanks so much for telling me this! This makes me so happy to hear :) hope you had a great weekend !!
Confused
Sorry to hear you’re confused! I know hair color can be pretty confusing to understand. If you have a specific question I can clarify for you, please let me know and I will try to help!
Your hair looks darker than a level a level 7 or 8 wouldn’t that lift the hair
Yes you’re correct my natural hair is definitely darker than that. It’s more the highlights which I created with bleach before I tone the hair that are a level 7 or 8 and that’s what I based my color choice on.
It doesn’t lift the hair any extra because the developer that Wella makes to use with this product is only 10volume. The higher numbers of developer like 20,30,40 do lift hair color (the higher the number, the more they can lift). This was something I researched into because I was worried about the long term and doing this repeatedly.
You might also like to watch this video I made that is all about the products I chose and why I chose them. th-cam.com/video/dIn39gw5xW4/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for watching Joy and let me know if you have any more questions.
My stylist gave me highlights in my base after I told her I wanted them only a few throughout the bottom and throughout the bottom of my bangs , I’m a light brown blonde in the winter and dark blonde in the summer naturally and never dye my base only the ends and my stylist when through the top with highlights in my roots that’s yellow looking and I’m not digging it , I found a 7 A but couldn’t find a 8 at Sally’s , I was going to try the 7A alone but haven’t yet .
@@joyphoummavong3165 ughhh that’s so frustrating when you have a vision for what you wanted and it doesn’t come out that way. I’ve been there for sure.
You can order them on Amazon if you want I have them linked there if you wanted the 8. You could also see if they have a 9 and then mix 7 and 9 and create an 8 that way.
You could also probably use the 7 and just leave it on for like only 10 mins so it doesn’t get a chance to get that dark and the color has less time to develop.
Again I’m not a professional, but I’m my experience that’s what I would suggest. It’s easier to go darker than lighter at home for sure, so I would be cautious just using the straight up 7A. I wouldn’t want it to end up too dark.
Also let me know what you end up doing and how it turns out!
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