This certain customer

[wyates]

I have a customer that is naturally a 8/9 on the light scale and ash blonde.
She asks every time for a cool cold lighter cleaner blonde.
But every time it turns gold!
I have tried all different kind of shades (I even tried gold and ash but not mixed together).
Can anyone please advice me what to use to make her hair a cool cold shade and not yellowish blonde?
Thanks!

 

[spikeyfaerie]

L'Oreal Diacolor have a shade called Iced Milkshake, it's not a permanent but it does give a nice cool tone.

What are you using at the moment?

 

[Lamaur man]

You could use an ash shade for example 8-1 or 9-1 and add a tiny bit of an ash concentrate like 0-11
The trouble is with the ash or matt green concentrates is that they can make the hair go alot darker because of the strong ash and matt tones in them.

If you want her hair to remain at a base/level 8 or 9 I would probably not add the concentrate, but just stick to the 8-1 ect.

 

[wyates]

I have tried several different colors, including different ash tones.
I have tried for example 11/1, 10/1, 10/2 and I have even tried a gold tone on her to see if that worked (I tried 10/3).
But they all turn gold, and by gold I mean yellowish gold, not the nice type of gold.

Thanks for helping me out!

 

[VIVA.GLAM]

You could use an ash shade for example 8-1 or 9-1 and add a tiny bit of an ash concentrate like 0-11
The trouble is with the ash or matt green concentrates is that they can make the hair go alot darker because of the strong ash and matt tones in them.

If you want her hair to remain at a base/level 8 or 9 I would probably not add the concentrate, but just stick to the 8-1 ect.

Perhaps as Lamaur man says try an ash concentrate but monitor how long you leave it on for. You want it on long enough just to grab the tone, if that's possible??

 

[wyates]

Do you think the ash concentrate will work? I worry it would turn it even more gold as previous ash colors turned it so gold/yellowish, don't understand how this can be on virgin hair, if it was pre bleached and etc then i would understand but on virgin ash hair!

 

[lauren89]

what % peroxide have you been using? Could it be too low?

 

[wyates]

9% as I generally find 12% too harsh esp on full head.

 

[lauren89]

hi lifts are fine with 12%, they're designed for use with it, but bleach isn't.

 

[wyates]

Do you think a 12 is necessary when she's quite light in normal stage, she's a 8/9.

 

[lauren89]

Maybe not, but if nothing else is working for this client, it may be worth a go on a test cutting?

 

[wyates]

Yes, you are definitely right! I will try that next time she comes (if she does, maybe she will start questioning my education )

 

[JessieJames]

I would be tempted to try 6% and /1 (9/1 or 10/1). If she's so light and ash anyway it doesn't need much of a lift just extra tone. Using 9% might be lifting the natural pigment too much resulting in gold, I find on lighter bases the lower the peroxide the better. But this is just my experience x x