So I no longer have black hair, and after being several medium/dark shades for a while I decided it was time to return to my natural hair color. I LOVED my black hair, but it was slowly becoming a hassle due to me having to dye my roots every 3-4 weeks. Also, I want to grow out my hair and I knew that if I wanted to grow it out, I would have to get my hair healthy, and dying it all the time wouldn't help that situation. So, I conquered getting the black out of my hair, and my hair back to my natural color (well close), and this is how I did it:
1. I first had to bleach out the black hair dye that was in my hair. (note: I had only been using black hair dye for about 3 months, some semi-permanent, so it wasn't built up in my hair over years or anything, which helped with the removal process. the longer black permanent dye has been in your hair, meaning you've dyed black over black over black, the harder it is going to be to get out).
2. I did so by bleaching out the black using Clairol Born Blonde Maxi from the drugstore. I bought 2 boxes to ensure I had enough to cover my hair, put it on, and left it on for up to 90 min. as listed on the box. My hair was a neon orange, which is what I wanted it.
3. After the first bleaching, I still had dark splotches around my root area from where the bleach didn't take. So I had to go back over with another box of bleach (same kind) and just put it on the dark ares, left it on for about 40 min. this time.
4. Between each bleaching, and even before I made sure to DEEP condition! I used Dove Intense Repair conditioner.
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5. After my 2nd bleaching I was ready to dye over it. I used Revlon Colorsilk dye (2 boxes), number 56- which is one of their newest shades. The name itself I don't remember, but it was along the lines of "natural auburn" or something like that. I tried finding a picture of the box but couldn't.
After all of this my hair turned out the color I wanted it. It has since faded a bit, but I plan on doing a semi-permanent over it in a couple of months. But for now I am going to focus on repairing it. This process did of course dry out my hair majorly, but with conditioners and serums I am getting it hydrated again. It didn't break off my hair at all, and I thank that to the kind of bleach I used. The Clairol bleach is by far the most gentle bleach I've used from the drugstore, so I recommend using it for lifting color and dying over.
My hair now:
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