Dyeing bleached hair darker

If you want to dye your bleached hair or highlights darker, pay attention to a few things to ensure you achieve the right colour. Care for your hair well eight days prior to dyeing to close your hair cuticles as much as possible. Choose a lighter and warmer colour than the one you aim to achieve.

Porous

Bleached hair is often porous. Porous hair absorbs the colour pigments from hair dye too quickly and too strongly. This is because the hair cuticles are damaged; the dye pigments penetrate faster and more effectively into the cortex of your hair. As a result, a new colour turns out much darker. This is usually also the case if you have fine hair or curls.

Letting your hair recover

It's generally better to give your hair a few weeks to recover from a dyeing, bleaching, or other chemical treatment before dyeing it again. Curious about which treatments this applies to? In our hair colour advice tool, after a few steps, you can see which treatments fall under this category. WECOLOUR hair dye, by the way, is much milder than other brands; hair dyed with WECOLOUR can be dyed again immediately with WECOLOUR hair dye if necessary.

Extra care eight days before dyeing

To ensure that a new colour doesn't turn out much too dark, take extra good care of your bleached hair before you dye it. It will then be less porous. Start eight days before you plan to dye; pamper your hair for five days with a restorative conditioner or mask every day. Let it sit for at least five minutes. You don't need to wash it each time before applying the conditioner or mask. The mask or conditioner can also be applied to unwashed, dry hair. Also, avoid all products that contain ammonia, sulfates, and resorcinol. These substances dry out the hair and damage its structure.

Last wash three days before dyeing

Wash your hair for the last time three days before you plan to dye it. After this last wash, it's better to avoid using a mask or conditioner, or other hair care and styling products that are not water-soluble. The dye might not penetrate well into your hair. Products based on wax or oil are usually not water-soluble. However, WECOLOUR wax is water-based!

WECOLOUR Colour Mask restores hair structure

If you want to quickly improve the condition of your hair, choose Colour Mask. Colour Mask is developed for damaged and bleached hair. It is a deep-acting reconstructive hair mask. You can also add Colour Mask to the hair dye when you dye your hair.

The mixing ratio of colour cream and activator together with Colour Mask is 6:1. So, six parts of colour cream and activator mixed and one part Colour Mask. If you use a whole tube of colour cream and a whole bottle of activator to dye your hair? That's 120 grams of colour cream. Then you add twenty grams of Colour Mask.

Dyeing darker to level 7: choose a warmer shade

Are you dyeing your hair to a light blonde hair colour? Then, in principle, you don't have to consider the level of colour and can dye with the level you have in mind. Just choose a warm colour, as a cool colour will turn too dull. Warm colours are the colour numbers that have a 3, 4, 6, 7, or 8 as the second digit, the number after the dot. At WECOLOUR, .7 is quite warm in colour, contrary to sometimes other dye brands.

Choosing a warm colour doesn't mean your bleached hair will have a warm colour afterward, but it prevents your hair from having a green tint after darkening. Darker colours always need some warm pigment as a base, which is permanently removed from your hair by bleaching.

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