While most hair colour removers require that you wait several days or even weeks before you apply new colour, you can re-colour your hair immediately after using the L’OREAL ColorZap colour remover. In fact, L’OREAL advices that you plan to re-dye your hair immediately.

I used a blonde 8 with ice blonde toner, it went dark and more like an auburn colour. It was nice but started to fade and go more orangeAlso, natural white hair is quite stubborn to tone (with semi products). However, when you colourize it with a tone on tone colourant (using 10 volume developer) it softens the hair. Therefore, what you can also do is continue to use the grey (semi-permanent) toners on top of this colourized hair. This will enhance and intensify the permanent silver foundation and give your hair a ‘greyed’ edge. Again, opting to apply a light pastel blue semi to this base (your natural white hair coloured with a permanent silver tone on tone) will also produce a more sharp ‘grey’ look. So remove the brown, and you will likely find your hair appears to be a warm shade with golden/copper tones in the previous blonde areas towards the ends. It sounds an odd suggestion, but I would actually recommend you apply a pastel lavender shade to this hair (after removal). I don’t mean a purple, but a very light pastel lilac/lavender. In the UK I have a shade called Colour Restore Lilac Grey for this purpose, but I don’t believe that is on sale in Australia. But my experience was, that after removal the hair took on an uneven copper tone that was balanced out to a cool neutral tone via a Lilac/Lavender tone. Should I try a darker grey semi or will it need a permanent ? I’m loathe to do the latter as I’ve had breakage in the past and now am careful to only do the roots each with a tiny “overlap” to avoid over-processing so the idea of using permanent all over is a bit scary ! It’s free of ammonia, bleach and other harsh chemicals. So it doesn’t dry out your hair or make it brittle. This means that you can safely re-colour your hair immediately after de-colouring it.

I’ve been doing my own hair for 12 years and I’ve always done my research beforehand, I’ve just never used a permanent red dye in the past so unsure what to expect. Generally, if your hair feels strong it would take several treatments. If you apply Decolour Stripper (blue box) to wet hair and work it through, it should go lighter and redder. To get a good base to create a red shade, you want to get the hair stripped to an orange-red level. Then apply a permanent red shade to the hair immediately afterwards. Whilst you cannot recolour with a peroxide based shade immediately after Decolour Remover (red box), Decolour Stripper is designed for the purpose of immediately re-colouring. Some people found that they could leave their hair that way after de-colouring it. The remover works evenly without leaving any blotches and uneven coloured spots. But if you are not comfortable with the final colour, you can use a dye immediately after. What we like about it: What I would suggest in your situation is you initially do as you (yourself) suggested and apply a semi-permanent (no peroxide or ammonia) grey shade. What you will find is all the time you have lightened areas (as you do from your previous high lift tint) you can apply a blue based semi permanent grey and achieve a very naturalistic grey/silver shade. Strangely, even a very light pastel blue overlaid onto ‘growing out’ blonde hair with darker roots can create a realistic grey. Just keep using blue shampoos on it and keeping the tone in the previously lightened hair as metallic grey/silver as possible. For the forseeable future you will be able to create a good grey shade without the need for any kind of permanent colour intervention. As I said, the contrast between your toned (grey) previously blonde hair and the dark roots will create a very realstic grey/silver. Afterall, natural grey hair is created due to the combination of pure white and dark hairs.This time it has not really worked at all, in fact, I think it looks a bit darker than after the first time I tried it. When I was rinsing it looked lighter but once I had finished and it had dried, it was darker. I didn’t use any other products except the finisher in the box. Hi, sorry I did not see your message before. When you say you have used a semi-permanent, did you use a non peroxide based semi-permanent because this could be why you did not see any removal. Decolour Remover can only work on oxidation permanent colourant. I clarify my hair, then I strip it (as I do have brown roots with some greys), I then colour to lighten. If you choose not to color grey or white hair, use purple shampoo or a product like Aveda’sBlue Malvashampoo and conditioner which won’t turn your hair blue (!) but will make the grey or white brighter

If you have applied a neutral or ash-based colourant and are seeing warmth, it’s because your natural shade was too dark for the colourant applied, and possibly needed pre-lightening or stripping first. 6. Use Colour Remover to Remove Unwanted Tones Hi Danielle, the orange is the enigma factor here. With your natural base colour you should not be getting such issues with orange undertone. I am wondering if the Rose Gold you used featured a direct dye. This cannot be removed by a reduction agent remover. What would you find is if the hair colour is removed, you could see like a tangerine result, where the oxidation colour left and the copper direct dye remained behind. Hi There. It sounds like your hair re-oxidized. This happens when a peroxide is applied immediately after you use a remover. The peroxide is found in the developer of permanent colourants and whilst some brands say they are ‘semi-permanent’ in truth, they are what is known as a quasi or demi colour, that does feature peroxide to evoke a result. Hi Rebecca, you cannot use Reduction agent hair colours on vibrant colours,unless they were oxidation shades. Meaning, you mixed a developer up with a tube or bottle of colour and then applied. You cannot use any peroxide based products on the hair for at least 3 washes or a week after use of a hair colour remover. However, a week or so later you can go in and create the balayage base. If you are confident to do the balayage, you can just proceed this with this. I’d recommend you keep using Colour Restore Cool Ash if you want the balayage to have an cream-ash tone. Or use Colour Restore Iced Platinum if you want the blonde to be more platinum toned.

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Try using your deepest deep conditioner and leaving it in for a few hours between treatments with the anti-dandruff shampoo. On its own, it will also take multiple rounds that will gradually fade your hair bit by bit. To speed up this process, use the Vitamin C Method outlined above. Hi Lynnda, sorry for the delay in response. If your hair is naturally a white/silver grey then you shouldn’t need to use Decolour Stripper. You should be able to use Decolour Remover on it. When you apply a peroxide-based colourant to natural white/silver hair the peroxide tends to lighten the pure white (of the grey) to a light yellow. What happens here is the natural keratin colour (which is yellow) is exposed. Therefore, when anyone with natural white hair tries to remove an artificial colour, they find the hair looks more of a light brassy blonde than grey/white once removed. Some describe it as cat pee and other say it smells like rotten eggs. This could be because the colour remover is extra-powerful to ensure it works on darker hair dyes. Hair colour remover is effective, but it does smell pretty grim. You can get rid of the lingering odour by using some natural remedies: baking soda mixed with water in a spray and sprayed all over your hair is a good solution. Use moisturizing products to maintain the moisture levels of grey hair and get better results from your healthy hair

I’ve just used your decolour, hair colour remover and I am wanting to use the olaplex number 1 stand alone treatment followed by the number 2. What I am wondering is will this treatment reactivate the colour molecules? I’ve looked everywhere and I’m not able to find the answer 🤦‍♀️ I’m not unrealistic, I know it’s a constant work in progress. Even then, let’s face it, I’m sure I will get it to the desired result I want right now but as the progression happens so does my desired result being, in two weeks time I will undoubtedly desire a result a lot lighter than I am wanting today. I've used it, wasn't particularly damaging, just very drying, so make sure you do a deep conditioning treatment after. And when you actually use colour b4 make sure you rinse it all out, that's the most important bit, otherwise colour can re oxidise if you haven't washed it all out.Hi Scott – I am after some advice please? I have been dyeing my hair using a permanent dark brown, and then switched to using a non-permanent dark brown a few years ago, but only using on my roots. There are a lot of DIY hair colour remover suggestions you’ll come across when you search online. Some people will suggest baking powder and dandruff shampoo, others will say vinegar and others lemon juice. Do you think this would work? Is there any other product you would recommend either before during or after this process? Hi Tara, removing either a semi-permanent or permanent red is usually a quite simply undertaking. Generally, a permanent red will come out easily with Decolour Remover. I would also agree, don’t use a permanent blonde tint on it yet as it would go muddy. Get the permanent red removed first and then undertake the balayage. I recently decided, as I am getting older, to try to go an ashy blonde, as it will be easier to blend the greys. I have used colour stripper twice, in the hope that it would take me to a very light orange that I could dye over with a permanent medium ash blonde. Unfortunately, my hair is still quite reddish/orange after using the colour stripper twice.