Your hair will mainly be exposed to your tap water due to hair washing. This water is actually filled with metals and minerals, and since blonde hair is very porous, these will be absorbed, causing a slight yellow tint. You may also have heard that blonde hair turns green in swimming pools.
Using tap water for washing your hair can turn your blonde hair yellow as it has higher amounts of metals and minerals. By that, you can install a filtering system to the water supply in your home to remove contaminants from tap water. Installing or revamping the system, however, is a bit high-maintenance.
What causes the yellow tinge in blonde hair? A yellow tinge in bleached blonde hair may be due to an application error or due to an unsuitable product choice. The yellow tinge often shows up because the bleach is rinsed out too early. Many women will watch the color changing while the bleach does its work.
Use a Color-Correcting Purple Shampoo
Yellow and violet are opposites on the color wheel, so purple is used to cancel out overly warm, brassy tones. Purple shampoo is a toning hair product that can be used at home. Invest in a purple shampoo to help crush brassy tones for a cooler, brighter blonde.
Blonde hair goes through a lot (especially if you've recently bleached your hair!) and it can sometimes look yellow, dull or even brassy. Purple shampoo, or sometimes even silver shampoo, cools down the tone of your hair and neutralises the brassiness, keeping your blonde stronger for longer.
Simply put, whichever colors sit opposite one another on this wheel can cancel each other out. For example, blue neutralizes orange, green balances red, and purple tones down yellow hues. That means, in order to target yellow, you need a touch of violet in your formula.
Toning to balance out the warm tones
You can also use toners to correct the color and balance out the warm tones. By looking at color theory and choosing the opposite color of your hair in the color wheel, such as purple or blue shades, you can neutralize the yellow and orange.
HIGH LIFT CREAM TONERS - INTENSE TONERS
Use these when the hair is very very yellow, bordering on orange. These toners are excellent at kicking out yellow and pushing hair up by one extra level. If the hair is very very brassy, even after bleaching, we suggest that you use Ugly Duckling's Intense toners.
Your hair will mainly be exposed to your tap water due to hair washing. This water is actually filled with metals and minerals, and since blonde hair is very porous, these will be absorbed, causing a slight yellow tint. You may also have heard that blonde hair turns green in swimming pools.
Wella T14 and Wella T18 are Both Ash Toners
Ash toners are best if you want platinum blonde hair or if you are going for a pastel color after lightening.
Toners for hair can take bright yellow or golden hues to a more natural-looking dusty, ashy, or platinum blonde, such as with purple shampoo. You can also use toner for brunette hair, like blue shampoo, to get rid of brassy orange tones.
The first step is bleaching out pigment and the next step is to tone and color, all of which takes a few hours, depending on the condition of your hair and its natural color. This writer can personally attest that going from black to platinum took a whopping nine hours (teachable moment: bring snacks).
It must first be pre-lightened with a bleach, then toned to achieve that pure platinum reflect. Speak to your colourist and see whether your hair is in a good enough state to be bleached. Remember it is a big process and it means you must take your hair care routine very seriously.
There's two reasons why your hair is still brassy after toning or colouring. Either the undertone of the toner/colour is wrong, or the product is too light for you.
The best way to take yellow tones out of white hair is to use a purple shampoo (or a silver shampoo). These products have violet-colored pigments that cancel out brassy, yellow tones on your hair. The Aveda Blue Malva Shampoo is among the best shampoos for white hair if you want to remove yellow tones.
Purple shampoos and masks - Anti-yellow blonde maintenance
The last type of toners are purple-based shampoos and masks - Ugly Duckling Brilliant Blonde. They will only act on the surface of the hair and so they do not lift. But they have intense purple pigments and they do a great job color correcting for yellow hair.
Demi-permanent toners are ammonia-free and are more suitable for refreshing blonde hair and for getting rid of yellow once hair is bleached. They typically work with lower strength developer and the development time is typically very fast. Ugly Duckling's demi-permanent range is called Blondify.
Silver Shampoo, which can also be called purple shampoo, is a shampoo with violet pigments. The violet pigments neutralize the yellow tones in your hair. By using a silver shampoo, you will get rid of brassy, yellow, and golden tones.
1. Tone With Blue Or Purple Shampoo. The Bottom Line: Use purple shampoo to tone yellow, usually blonde hair, and blue shampoo to tone orange, usually brunette hair.
Mix one tablespoon of apple cider vinegar with one gallon of water. After shampooing your hair, rinse your hair using the vinegar and apple cider mixture. Work it through your hair and rinse well with clean water. Condition with a conditioner that is white and style as usual.
Use a purple shampoo weekly to help tone your hair.
Purple shampoo adds tiny deposits of color to your hair to counteract yellow and orange shades. If you use it once a week in place of your normal shampoo, it may keep the yellow out of your hair.
PURPLE/VIOLET PRODUCTS
Purple is the exact opposite colour to yellow on the colour wheel, so when mixed together they essentially cancel eachother out. Purple/Violet Shampoos are super popular with blondes, and for good reason.
Yes you can do that. But you need to make sure that you have bleached very well and that you have got rid of as much excess yellow as possible. The ideal bleached hair is minimal yellow, level 10. If you apply ash blonde color on top of that, you should get excellent results.
Platinum Ash
In order to get an ashy blonde, your colorist must lift your hair past any orange/yellow tones, as much as possible. Ideally, lifting to at least pale yellow is best. Here, we get a beautiful platinum/ash look, with roots as bright as the rest of her color.