If you love your Ashy brunette tones, and you have very porous hair, you too may have experienced, or be at risk of the dreaded green ends. Let it soak in for five minutes before rinsing and washing with shampoo and conditioner as usual. Pick and squeeze, or squirt it out of a bottle, and apply to the green zones in your hair. Let it absorb for a few minutes and then rinse and wash out as normal with shampoo and conditioner. Baking soda: Mix some baking soda with water to make a paste and then rub that past into the affected areas of your hair, where the unwanted green tones are.
We’re happy to report that there is a couple of cheap and cheerful solutions (our favourite kind) which can sort this out for you in the comfort of your home. Pools, spas, showers or other water sources often have elements within the water which can react with coloured hair, which can ultimately affect your colour and result in a greenish tinge in your blonde hair. If you are blonde and you enjoy swimming, or if you are a person who likes a little cleanliness and you take showers or baths, then you are in the danger zone for swimmers hair. Select a warm based colour or toner to add the red tones which will counter-act and eliminate green tones. Talk to our colourists for personalised help with your colour selection and Duo colour recommendations. If you want or need just a bit of cool tones, consider blending a neutral and an Ash colour with a Duo Colour blend, which will give you half-strength neutral and cool tones, which may just be enough cool tones to reduce some unwanted warmth without adding too much. To stop it happening, think of the colour wheel theory and remember that red and green are opposites and they neutralise each other, so you need to introduce some warmth into your colour or toner selections to minimise the green. Unfortunately, using a cool based colour and a cool toner can result in a subtle, or not so subtle greenish colour outcome.Īsh tones are very popular now, but aiming for ash and getting green happens. They can also lock in shine and help blend regrowth or transition in greys.Īll good things often have a downside and toners can help or hinder your colour goals. The right toner can be a beautiful thing that finishes and sets your colour to the exact tone that you are looking to achieve. Many natural blondes use toners to achieve the exact tone they are looking for in their colour. Here’s a few hair situations which can lead to visible green. A lack of red or warmth in your hair colour can allow green tones to appear, and this is often the root cause of visible green tones. Green tones are seen where there is a lack of red or warmth in the hair. Blondes who swim or shower (so, all blondes) or who use cool colours or toners are also in the green hair danger zone. Green tones are usually seen in the damaged ends of darker colours such as brunette shades which have been coloured with cooler, Ash tones. On trees, plants, my sweet little indoor succulent garden by the window.