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Question Posted Wednesday June 22 2005, 2:14 am

Usually I get my hair dyed and highlighted blonde professionally. But now I want to dye my hair a medium brown and I was wondering if the hair dye boxes at the store did a fairly good job at it? Is it even that possible to screw up on brown? If you have used anything in particular that you've tried and it works, could you please tell me the brand and price, etc? I've use hair dye kits PLENTY of times before, but i always used blonde (which looked horrible) and was just wondering if brown worked. Thanks.

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DeeplySetting answered Wednesday April 7 2010, 7:06 pm:
Dear Dying my hair at home,

There are two things that will create a problem when you dye your hair at home. 1) not knowing what you are doing and 2) going from dark to light. In these cases, a person should definitely go to a professional.

However, you have both things covered because you've dyed your own hair at home before. It's obvious that you know how to protect your skin, how long to leave it on, etc. Also, being that your hair is currently blonde, you have no worries because dark color covers a light shade easily.

Any shade that you find and like in the store should work. As you already know, just follow the instructions well.

Therefore, it sounds like you are just worried because you've never tried a dark color before. Don't worry. Since you know what to do, the worse that can happen is that you don't like the color and decide to get it lightened again. In this case, you'll have to cough up the doe and just got to the professional. So kudos for being daring! I think you're set.

Take care,
DeeplySetting

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xxurockxx answered Thursday June 23 2005, 3:13 pm:
you cant be positive with store bought hair color kits...those usually contain metallic dyes in them which are very bad for your hair. also when you go to a salon to get it done in the future, a lot of their hair color reacts badly to metallic dyes and if your hair is still growing out and its still in there, there might be a bad chemical reaction. i suggest getting it done professionally.

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kittygurl90 answered Wednesday June 22 2005, 11:17 am:
Yeah it will look good...cuz brown doesnt change colors like blonde, cuz my sister just dyed her hair a blonde and it turned more of a strawberry blonde. I dyed my hair brown and it turned out really well! I used Garnier 100%, it's a red box and it costs about 7 or 8 dollars. the first time i dyed it brown i did a medium brown and it was really pretty! the second time i did a really dark brown and it turned out REALLY Pretty too!! hope this helped a little and please rate me!

-kittygurl90

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TRiSHx0xL0VE answered Wednesday June 22 2005, 10:10 am:
Yeah brown worked for me..it didnt work too bad at all either! well all i can say for a brand of coloring..most of them usually work..well the natural instincts didnt work too well on me..it said it'd come out within like 30 washes and it came out in 2 for me. So I wouldnt go with that lol..good luck!

<3 ya

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lilaquidas18 answered Wednesday June 22 2005, 10:09 am:
I always dye my hair just the other day i dyed it carmel.. It is rea;;y pretty. It only cost me 6.00. and its easy to do.Make sure you dont wash your hair before you dye it. you just mix the stuff together and squeeze the bottle in your hair and rub it in make sure you get all of your hair. In the directions it will tell you how long to leave it in for.Good luck.. Rate me

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smartgirl321 answered Wednesday June 22 2005, 10:07 am:
i used garnier fructisse. it was about 10-13 dollarz i think. brown works very well. i wanted to get rid of my highlights and i got their brown and it matched my original color naturally. hope i helped.

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calii_l0ve answered Wednesday June 22 2005, 10:06 am:
alright. It depends what hair color you get. A medium brown would work fine and would not screw up. If you go to CVS or Sally Beauty, anything there would work in medium brown. and i know this because i had the same problem. I hope i helped <3

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x0xbabygrl answered Wednesday June 22 2005, 9:05 am:
i also got it done blone but it damages hair to get it re colored. IIm letting myne grow out but if you rele cant wait dont do brown your self, never do anything yourself if its a drastic change, get it done, bc if you mess up its the end.

good luck!
please rate kindly

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jodyfresh answered Wednesday June 22 2005, 8:16 am:
i like to experiment and dye my hair all the time, so i can find out what really works. I have really dark brown hair and i put blonde highlights in it. i didnt like it so i dyed it back to my natural color and used REVLON COLORSILK it worked great it took all the blonde out and made my hair super soft.im pretty sure if you use it it will work great and if you like it you can do touch ups every other month because its fairly cheap to me.
hope this helps. if you do use my advice i would love to see how it turns out.
please rate good or bad
*jodyfresh*

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kim___xXx answered Wednesday June 22 2005, 6:45 am:
Heyy yes they work really good i always use them to die my hair.I use lorel cant spell it!yes i think it will work!
Good luck
love kim

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AnonymousAdviceGiver answered Wednesday June 22 2005, 4:01 am:
Feria! I don't dye my hair brown so I'm not sure what your shade would be, but it works well. Get 2 boxes just to be safe if you are horrible at dying hair, like I am. Feria is about 9 dollars but it actually works.

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spacebar answered Wednesday June 22 2005, 3:20 am:
Brown is the easiest to screw up. I tried to dye my hair brown once. I accidentally died my pubes pink.

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ComplexMind answered Wednesday June 22 2005, 2:53 am:
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bAhAmAmA0250 answered Wednesday June 22 2005, 2:18 am:
well use Nutrisse, lory-el (spelling i know :D) or Herbal essense and it has like trillions of different colors you can get them at walgreens,walmart, target, osco.. any of those stores. anyways they vary at like 10-20 bucks! and they turn out nicely. if you screw up you can go in and get it fixed and im sure that wont happan. good luck.-trix

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