How do you fix too light highlights?
Darken Your Highlights at Home
Choose semi-permanent dyes so you won't damage your hair, and pick a color that's two shades darker than your highlights. You can also darken highlights with toner to tone down brassy and yellow warm tones. Another thing you can do is darken your highlights using shampoo.
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Use A Toning or Gloss Shampoo
For blondes, you will need purple shampoo in order to neutralize those nasty yellows. Silver shampoos can be used for blonde hair on silver/white hair , or bleach blonde tones similar to platinum.
To change the tone of your highlights, colorists can apply a glaze to eliminate brassiness or deposit semi-permanent color on top of them. If your hair is too dark, they can add some highlights or use something stronger to soften the color.
Applying a toner and developer on your highlights will help take away the brightness while darkening the highlights a bit. If you don't want to use a toner, try spraying a colored dry shampoo over your hair to even out the tone.
Purple shampoo is the perfect product for anyone looking to maintain their vibrant, fresh from the salon, lightened hair for weeks. That said, purple shampoo on its own, isn't a lightener or hair dye. So it can't darken your hair or make it any lighter.
However, toner is a great option if you find yourself in this predicament. While it may not literally darken the color of your hair, it can neutralize or reduce the appearance of the brighter, brassier tones in your hair, making it appear a bit darker in the process.
Hair toners can fix this brassy and warm color. Depending on your choice of toner, you can turn those yellow highlights into a more attractive ash blonde, pure white blonde or platinum blonde.
Because it does not contain an ingredient that will chemically change the color of your hair, purple shampoo cannot truly lighten hair. If anything, purple shampoo may make your hair temporarily slightly darker.
Hair highlights can fade over time. It's a slow process that you might overlook between hair consultations. Your highlights start fading when the color oxidizes over time—not because you washed your hair. That's why you should protect your hair from oxidation and keep it from the harsh environment.
Can you put a darker color over highlights?
So, can you home colour highlighted hair? To put it simply, yes, you can colour highlighted hair at home.
Use dish soap as a shampoo for extra color-stripping power.
Use 2 to 3 drops in your hair to remove some of the dark color and fade your highlights a little bit. Since the dish soap will dry out your hair, put on conditioner afterwards and let it sit for 5 to 10 minutes.
If you are tempted to try out highlights, then you'll like the reverse version. Reverse Highlights are done by a process which consists of lightening the bottom section of hair, for a subtle and discreet result.
