Lightening my Hair without Damage (Part 2)

Hello again. As I spoke about in my last post I did dye my hair with the l'oreal preference extra light ash brown. My mom is an old pro at dying roots so I got her to do it. I bought 2 boxes because my hair is thick and long. we mixed the first bottle of dye and applied it to the roots first, the covered the rest of the hair with the second bottle. I was very worried when the dye went into my hair because the formula was very dark black liquid. I kept saying, "This better lighten my hair!! I am gonna be so mad if it turns it back to a darker shade after everything I went through." It did not go dark, the shade is now a light warm brown, it is still a bit red toned which I don't mind so much, I am just happy my roots were lightened without bleach and the Wella Color blended so nicely with this new shade. The ash dye has a bit of a dirty blonde tinge to it which helped to cover the red a lot! I think I will just stick to using this shade for the next time my roots come in.

^^Finished Hair Color^^

Lightening my Hair without Damaging It (Part 1)

I really want my hair sandy almost blonde, this is really hard for me to do because I am naturally raven haired. The process of dying my hair so far without damaging it has almost made me quit.
I started out with a box hair dye from L'oreal preference that said it would dye dark hair, it did, but only my roots because I had used box black to get out my blonde chunks in my hair from when I had pink hair. So I went on a YouTube research mission to find out the best products to use to get out box black. I decided I was going to use Color oops. I went on a trip to Sally's beauty supply to get Color oops, explained my situation to the workers there an was advised to go with a bleach to strip the colour instead because there is no guarantee with the color oops. Not wanting to waste anymore time or money I went ahead an I bought 30 volume developer and 2 packets of blue flash bleach powder and Wella colour charm gel in Nutmeg for after I bleached. I went home to start the process of lightening again. The bleach did a good job of lightening the black parts of my hair to and orangey colour. It didn't cause too much damage, just made my hair a little rough feeling so after dying it with the Wella, I used a deep conditioner to get it back to its healthy softness. I did use the Wella colour charm right after I bleached to tone everything down and was quite pleased with the results. The only thing I did not like was the shade nutmeg was more of a red dye, rather then a sandy beige brown. I did some more research online, this time about getting rid of red tones in hair. I found out I could use ash brown or blonde depending on the lightness I am trying to go.
All of this was about a month ago. Fast forward to today..... I am dying it again. I bought L'oreal Preference in LC61 extra light ash brown, also a product made for dark hair considering my roots are out about 3 inches. I will do this and show you the finished color in my next post.

^^My Hair Before and After^^