How Can You Dye Your Blonde Hair to Brown without Turning Green?

Blonde hair looks gorgeous and charming on everyone, but people like to keep experimenting with their looks; hence they keep changing their hair colors.

So, if you are a blonde and are thinking of dying your hair color to brown or any darker shade, then there are a lot of things that you need to consider before dying your hair.

You might feel that coloring blonde hair into brown color is just as simple as any other color. You just have to apply the color to your hair and wait for it do its work.

But let us tell you that it is a little more difficult than that. Coloring your hair with a darker color when your previous hair color is of a lighter shade doesn’t work very well.

Depending on which shade of blonde you are, your hair color can turn green due to the coloring mistakes you can make.

But, don’t worry, we are here to tell you all about those mistakes, and we will also show you how you can avoid those mistakes.

Why does hair go green when you dye blonde hair brown?

Below are the primary reasons why hair goes green when you try to apply brown dye on blonde hair.

1. The contrast between blonde and brown hair

Brown and blonde colors have different pigments in them. Pigments are simply colors that your hair has.

They can be natural and artificial. Natural pigment is the color of your hair that you are born with, also called melanin and artificial pigments are the colors that are added to change your hair color.

When we dye blonde hair to brown, the problem that occurs is that the brown color has a red or orange base but the blonde color has a yellow base. And the hair color doesn’t have warm tones in itself which can help with the problem.

Hence when dark colors are applied on light colors, in this case, brown over blonde, the primary tones of the light colors will emerge intensely.

So we need warm tones to balance those primary colors so that when brown color is applied then brown only emerges and not any other unwanted color.

2. Bleaching

So when you bleach your hair, the bleach removes the melanin from the hair to lighten the hair color.

Bleaching causes a great deal of damage to the hair, and the hair loses its original absorbability and color which is why the new color doesn’t get absorbed properly.

Also, when you bleach your hair, the hair becomes so porous that it creates small holes in your hair, allowing air and water to pass through them.

Porosity affects the hair color as due to the holes water and moisturizing products can get absorbed more easily in the hair than the unbleached hair.

The moisture doesn’t hold long enough in the hair to nourish them and so the hair lacks nutrients which provokes the green tint to emerge on the blonde hair when they are dyed brown.

These are the reasons that when the brown dye is applied to that hair, it can give a green tint instead.

How can you dye your blonde hair brown without it turning green – Step by Step Process

Using a suitable dye is very important while transitioning from blonde to brown. You have to be very careful if you dont want to end up with an undesired shade of color.

You need to be cautious in choosing which dye you’re using and the toner and base that is suitable for your hair and skin tone. Some things that you can do to prevent your hair from turning green are:

1. Use a warm brown tone and prepare your blonde hair

Use a warm brown shade if you don’t want your hair color to turn green. However, this method won’t give you the exact results.

The other way that you can try is to prepare your blonde hair through the color filling. In this method, you can fill the tone of the base color with golden or red so that the brown color can hold to it.

This is because it brings in the pigments of red color that your hair must have so that the brown color can hold better and doesn’t turn green.

2. Fill Blonde Hair

Fill your blondes with gold or red tones so that your hair doesn’t turn green when you color it with brown dye. You can choose the tone to fill depending on the lightness of your blonde color shade.

You can apply a warmer tone before applying the brown color. You can use a color filler or a demi-permanent dye for this process.

3. Demi-Permanent Dyes

You can use demi-permanent dyes as fillers too. You have to choose a brown shade, which is one tone lighter than the color you want. 

4. Colored Protein Fillers

Bleaching the hair makes it very porous. Fillers are excellent products for hair that are porous as they contain protein. Proteins help with porosity because of which the hair dye colors the hair evenly. Colored protein fillers work quickly and easily.

5. Using a Warm Shade

Other than color filling, you can use a shade of brown which is warmer to color your hair. After applying a warm shade of brown color, a natural brown gives an ash brown color.

In contrast, a golden brown gives a natural brown look. If you use cool shades of brown, you can get the shade using dyes that are of a warmer tone than the actual color.

These things can help prevent you from coloring your hair any other color except brown from blonde.

How to prevent your colored hair from turning green?

It is imperative to remember that you need to wait a minimum of 3 months to color your hair again. Your hair needs this time for the old color to lessen its hold on the hair; otherwise, the color of the new dye won’t hold on to the hair because of your old dye.

This prevents your hair from turning green too. You should also keep moisturizing your hair or use deep conditioning treatments so that your hair remains nourished after transitioning from blonde hair to brown.

These are a few things that you need to remember before dying your hair brown from the blonde. 

1. Washing your hair 

• After coloring your hair, wait for at least two days to shampoo your hair. Don’t wash your hair immediately.
• Wash your hair less number of times. As water can fade your hair color quickly.
• wash your hair with a shampoo that is suitable for colored hair
• Wash the roots of your hair more gently than the ends and the middle with warm or cold water. Please don’t wash with extremely hot or cold water as it can make the color particles float.

2. Special treatment and care

• Be gentle with your colored hair when they are wet, as they are the weakest at that time.
• Dying your hair makes it extremely dry, so make sure to deep condition it once a week so that your hair regains moisture. Use a protein treatment to help with the strength of your hair.
• Don’t expose your hair to the sun when colored, as the UV rays can significantly harm your hair.
• Get your hair retouched in 4-6 weeks to prevent the fading of the color. 

How to remove Green color from hair after Dyeing your blonde hair brown

It is crucial to read the instructions mentioned on the box before coloring your blonde hair brown. Otherwise, there are a lot of chances that you might end up with that unwanted green color in your hair.

But don’t worry, we have a few ways that you can try to fix that stubborn green right out of your hair.

• Apply a neutral color: during the process of applying brown color to your blonde hair, if you see green color appearing on your blonde hair, then stop coloring immediately. Wash your hair instantly and color your hair with neutral color with the same volume to neutralize the color green.

• Use the right shampoo: after you dye your hair from blonde to brown, wash your hair very nicely to turn your hair green. You can create your own shampoo by using tomato paste, aspirin, white vinegar, fresh water, and powdered lemon mix so that your hair color can be corrected.

You can also apply baking soda and shampoo mixture on the parts of your hair that have turned green. Leave the mixture for 5 minutes and wash it with cold water to remove your hair’s green color.

Conclusion:

Coloring your hair is always an interesting experience as it instantly changes your whole look. But while coloring your blonde hair brown, greenish tones are hard to avoid.

You need to be extremely careful and keep in mind everything that we have mentioned above to prevent your hair from going green.

If you remember the things that are mentioned then you can definitely avoid the trouble and even if some unwanted green color hair appears, you can just fix them right away. Everyone deserves a good hair color experience!