Bleaching Permanent Hair Dye WITHOUT Damage (Color Correction)

Added: 2026-04-29

[00:00:04]It's time. I need to bleach out this permanent hair color. My roots have thankfully evened out quite a bit after my last color correction, and I'm still pretty happy with how the colors faded.

[00:00:13]Now, at a point where I really do want to get rid of this very faded, residual permanent hair color that has now turned into some fusion between brown and purple. It's got to go. Today, I'm going to see what techniques I can use to try to get it as even as possible. In my earlier video, color correcting the bleach stripe out of my hair, I said that one of my goals for this year was to try to get my hair that is currently saturated with old faded permanent color is to try to get it blonde, but also to not to incur or inflict more damage. At the moment, my hair is probably the softest it's been in a tremendously long time, and I kind of want to maintain that. So, we're going to be starting with a very thorough hair care prevention of damage application.

[00:00:59]Starting with peptide prep by K18. I have no idea if this is available for general users, but if you are a salon owner or if you can get your hands on it, get it. This is a chilating complex, which literally just means it's going to break down any heavy metals that is stuck in your hair. The reason why this is important is that it can inhibit other products from doing their best.

[00:01:20]Basically how to use. Shake well before use. Turn the trigger to on position.

[00:01:25]Spray on to dry hair saturating all strands. Comb through. Allow key later to process for 4 minutes. Continue with K18 mist followed by the chemical process and then wash the hair. Low key about to brag, but I am still so impressed at this color correction that I did. I had a stripe of bleach right here that I then used permanent color to fill it with. And then this is my natural color. I'm impressed with myself. So, this was the peptide prep.

[00:01:51]Now, it's actually time to prevent the active damage. And I'm going to be doing that with the Keen Repair Mist, which is the second product that this thing recommends that you put on it. I lowkey forget this pretty much in every single one of my transformations. We're learning from our mistakes is what we're doing. So, yeah. Mist hair with water.

[00:02:10]Section hair. Apply two to six sprays of Kine Mist per section. Work into hair.

[00:02:16]Let sit for 4 minutes to activate where it's set to saturate the hair. I recently been feeling pain in my hand and I wonder if I'm getting the dreaded carpal tunnel which affects so many hairdressers just because we're doing a lot of repeat moments with our hands and I'm brushing my hair and I'm feeling pain in my hand which is not great for me cuz I still hand prepare every single one of my wigs and I'm a hair stylist.

[00:02:42]So, is my light flickering? Ew. better.

[00:02:44]Now, for the moment that literally every single one of you clicked on this video, the bleach in question, it's not actually bleach. I don't know if I'm going to be calling this video color removing my hair or bleaching my hair, but the point still stands. Somehow, this hair is going to turn orange. But because I am so diligent in trying to prevent active damage, I'm not going in with bleach today. I'm going to go in with my favorite color remover. This has not let me down in the past. In fact, it's delivered probably some of my favorite hair transformations ever. So, we're going to go at it again. This is the Schwarzoff Bond Forcing Color Remover. It comes in two parts like this, which I loathe it. Not because it's a two-parter, but because this is not going to be enough for my hair. It's not. Except there's only five of these in a box, and it's a crazy expensive box. So, I have my fights with Schwarzkov, but that's an argument for later. I do have a spare box with me, which I'm probably gonna have to open.

[00:03:46]Mix packet A and then packet B and then a developer of my choice. Leave it to develop for up to 20 minutes. Keep visual eye control. Let's go. This is going to cover half my hair. So, I'm going to start with two packs each, part A and part B, and 120 g of 10 volume developer.

[00:04:09]Ow, that hurts. Oo, 120 g. 124. White go. Mix, mix, mix. Mix up two batches of dye. And I still don't know if it's going to be enough. Color remover, gloves, clips, brush, ear cover. Now we apply and see what happens. This stuff works pretty fast, and I know this from experience. So, I'm literally just going to slap it on, aim to cover it all, then move on. The key is to get it super saturated and ensure that every single strand is covered. The second key for my particular routine, making sure I'm bringing it slightly past where the dye naturally ended. Next section. Okay, I'm now realizing maybe it's a bad idea to not clean your hair in between your gloves because whilst this isn't bleach, it does include peroxide and peroxide is still going to lift the hair. So, I kind of want to clean this off. Okay, we keep going. I remember the very first time that I used this product, I was lifting a faded blue color out of my hair and no other solution actually worked on it.

[00:05:05]So, I applied this and it turned into one of the softest baby pinks ever, which to this day, I don't know how it happened, but I suspect I had some residual pink underneath that blue that contributed. But the results turned out so good and I did not make any note of a toner in the video that I actually had my ex hairdressing teacher reach out to me accusing me that I left out the part where I retoned my hair afterwards because she could not believe that this product lifted the color so well and so evenly that it just turned into a very gentle baby pink. But I was like I don't know what to tell you. That's that's how the color turned out. like I whiff. But it was kind of funny to me in multiple ways because A, my ex hairdresser was watching my videos and B, she was accusing me with such ferocity that I kind of was like, okay. The only time that I ever wish that my hair was thinner is at this point in my hair career because it genuinely takes so long just to make sure that the color is well saturated throughout. But I'm also conscious that this works crazy fast.

[00:06:03]like it's already hot to the touch, but I want to make sure it's applied well, but I also can't really take my time with it because it processes and works so damn quickly. I also really want to make sure I'm dragging it up enough to make sure that all of the dye is covered. You can already see the color lifting there. It's probably I ran out.

[00:06:22]Do you see what I mean? Like, they really could make these packets a bit bigger cuz most people have more hair than me or at least it's longer because so much time has passed already. I'm going to be actually mixing 30 g 10 volume developer. Did I say 10 g? 30 g and 30 g 20 volume. We got to turn up the heat. Oh, baby. Okay.

[00:06:53]Okay.

[00:06:57]Way too much time later. All the remover is applied. I can already see that the color is turning lighter and it's exciting me beyond belief. It is also going to turn way warmer than I care for, but that's going to be dealt with later on. I know this is unfortunately going to be a blonde scenario that I'm going to have to deal with. This is the old bleach stripe that is now reappearing and I'm really hoping that this is all going to somehow even out.

[00:07:27]But now I'm going to let this all sit and mingle together for minutes. And I want to keep an eye on it. I'm gonna let this sit for 20 minutes. And then I'll be back in 20 minutes to see how far we've gotten before we then go and rinse it off.

[00:07:44]First impressions. So the orange is here. We're not doubting it. We're not arguing it. It is so visibly orange. We can straight up forget blonde for this part of the transformation. Here's what I am seeing, though. So, all of the red did seem to mostly come out. There are some darker patches closer to the root, which makes sense because this would have been the part that would have been the darkest, and this would have been the most stubborn dye. That being said, I'm still pretty happy with the lift that I got. The ends are also a really cute rose gold color, and I've had this color before because of this result. and on its own or even with a copper root, it looks really good. Here's where my dilemma comes in. I really like my natural roots at the moment. My natural roots, however, are more of a dark, super ashy, golden blonde. They do not feature any sort of redness. This right here is kind of the same level. This is a level eight at best, but they don't really blend. It's either super super super warm or much much much colder. So, right now I've got three different options as to how to correct this.

[00:08:58]Option one, go in with a second round of color remover to try to get even more of the pigment out and hope that I get somewhere more of a blonde. Option two, color my existing roots a darker copper that will eventually blend with the rest of it, thereby giving me a really good copper makeover. an interesting option because a I really love copper and b it would be a less damaging option than option one and option three find a way to make this color blend down into this color or else dye all of this one uniform dark blonde. I'm personally really into the idea of trying to make the copper work except when I pull my hair up. I do genuinely like my natural color. This on the other hand looks seriously dyed. There's also the fact that over here, more towards the bottom of my hair, there's also a chunk of blonde that needs to be tackled. Either turning it into a matching copper or else into a matching dark blonde. The point is, I cannot be color correcting three colors. There's a bit of blonde further up my hair, but it genuinely didn't overlap as badly as down here at the bottom. I think I decided my hair is already looking a tiny bit tired. So, I'm actually going to mix up a copper formula and I'm going to apply it all over my roots and hope that I can get an even enough result that is going to cover all of this up in one singular color application. All right, let's formulate. So, currently my own hair is a level seven, specifically a 7.4.

[00:10:29]Great. Really don't want to go darker than that. However, this copper is also a level seven. I'm really hoping it's not this dark. This is six. I could literally just go over everything with a 777. However, if I were to break down the color, 764 is actually just 777, but the last seven isn't there, and it's instead mixed with a chocolate. So, these two colors together gives us this. Was this what I was hoping for at the beginning of this video? No. This is the best outcome that I'm going to get today. Yes. I also think it'll be pretty cute. 777 copper 765 blonde. But you already have blonde, Stella. Yes, you're right. So, we're going to go in with very little amount of 65, but I'm adding it in because I don't want to overpower the copper and volume because I literally do not feel like stressing my hair out even more.

[00:11:23]And I really don't want to have this be bright. Probably an entire tube. Maybe 40 g. Okay. 53 gram of 777 10 g 765 more 15 and 53 is 68 70 g 10 volume let's go baby lip gloves but we need an even base this is the best I get it at this point I'm basically really hoping that the same formula that is applied on my level seven very ashy golden root is also going to end up exactly the same as the bleach Ed blonde stripe that I have between that and the copper. Past experience tells me that's not going to happen. Delusion is going to be like, okay, maybe it will work. Maybe I just need to have faith. Oh, and also the fact that I'm blending it down into the rest of the copper. You're probably seeing me being a tiny bit loose with how I'm applying the dye because I'm not really saturating it all the way up into my roots. And that's intentional because I do kind of want to have just a hint of my natural root in existence. So I'm hoping that by just kind of sporadically applying it onto my root, I can still maintain some of the natural tones that I so desperately want at some point this year.

[00:12:50]And now we just repeat this on all parts of the hair. It's going to be definitely interesting at the back of my head.

[00:13:00]The dye is on. So far, it's looking okay. It looks like everything's covered. So, now I'm going to leave it on for 30 minutes, and then I'm going to wash it, let it dry, and then hope to God that I have an even base that is not red, not patchy, and not terribly copper. It sounds simple enough. I We'll see. What do we think? I did let it completely air dry. So, this is the first time I'm kind of seeing it fully dry. And obviously, it's absolutely not styled. So, that is what I'm going to be tackling next. First impressions is it's okay. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love a copper moment. And I think this time of year is the perfect time to do it because it's signifying the warmth and the change in the weather, but the sun is not going to be that strong yet that it's going to fade the entire color out of our hair.

[00:13:46]However, a couple of things that I am picking up and I haven't even styled my hair or maybe that's why I'm picking it up. The root color did take and it is looking considerably more copper obviously than it was. Does it blend?

[00:14:00]Not really. In fact, the entire hair is basically dark, slightly lighter, a bit lighter, and a bit lighter and pinker.

[00:14:07]So, it's not necessarily that the whole thing is blending in general, and it's definitely not an even color application. Am I going to attempt to change it, fix it, or even it out in this video or this particular day? No.

[00:14:20]The singular thing that I can still say is despite the fact that the color remover was on my hair for around 40 to 45 minutes, my hair feels incredible and this is it air dried. Like this has not gone through anything that nourishing once the color was washed off and it is still in relatively good condition despite it all. With that said, with all of my calculations done today, I'm just going to come up with a cute style for it. Do my makeup, do my hair, everything like that, and then I want to see what I'm left with, and then I'll tackle the color correction of part three in another video. Let's style our hair. I kind of really want to pull it up in a bit of a French French twist pullup way cuz I feel like this looks really cute and leave the front like this. But I feel like it would hold a lot better if there is some texture. So, I'm going to go in with my absolute favorite way to get beach waves. You know, if a color transformation is bad is if you part it and that's where you start seeing a lot of lines. I was expecting to see this blonde part to pop through a lot more, but it genuinely doesn't look that bad.

[00:15:27]Obviously, my root color is still it's kind of there because I definitely wanted to keep a bit of that blondness.

[00:15:34]However, I'm not fussing. Do I keep knocking this? Absolutely. On the floor.

[00:15:38]Why not? Grab. Quick twist. Snap through. That's it. That's how the style works. And then the rest is mostly straight. Flatten. Twist. Pull through.

[00:15:48]If you guys need proof that K18 and repair products actually work, my hair literally feels identical to how I did a video. like identity. Normally after a traditional bleaching, it's very normal to feel your hair get a lot coarser and drier. Right now, I am still feeling aok. Okay. A few years ago, I did this color transformation where I went from pitch black to a copper in a singular setting. This is kind of reminding me of that. Although, I'll be honest, that day I was very surprised that it actually did turn out well. Like very surprised.

[00:16:16]I'm definitely curious how this hair color will fade out. It's still very much my goal to get it somewhere blonde.

[00:16:22]And with my root color being my natural, I'm just going to finish up the rest of my hair and then follow up with some makeup to finish off the look. Yeah, good transformation. It's definitely a vibe. It's definitely so much cuter than it was. Feel like I'm getting a lot of flashbacks to the exact style in 2021, except that was 5 years ago. I want to say I've grown since then. So, I could just leave it in a bit of a ponytail.

[00:16:46]That could also be a vibe, except I kind of do want to see what it would look like in just this French twist claw clip vibe with a little pineapple on my head.

[00:16:58]If you're wondering what I'm doing, I'm literally just taking pins and just sliding them into the hair. Part two of my transition from an outdated, very faded, permanent hair color to a ballay summery blonde is now complete. We're definitely nowhere near the end goal.

[00:17:14]This is the furthest I can get from blonde. However, it is lighter and it is not damaged yet. Even though I'm making a fuss, I am genuinely very happy with this color. This is definitely a comfort color for me, especially during the months of April and May. I tend to religiously go for a copper specifically because every single winter I go dark and the transition to light happens to always contain copper. If you're also transitioning from dark and you're currently stuck in the orange brassy shade, rest assured you can salvage it with a touch of very elegant almost cowboyesque copper. I am aware that as it fades, this discrepancy is going to become way more visible. So, that is something that I'm preparing myself for.

[00:17:57]It's the best we're going to get without zero damage and without too much time spent on maintenance. If you want to watch this journey right from the start, there is this video that I did where I covered over a bleach strip of my hair to color match it to my own natural hair, which I do feel I did very accurately. Obviously, this transformation is nowhere near complete, so stick around if you want to see just how we get to our desired end goal. If you haven't already, subscribe to this channel and join the stutter. Let's learn a thing or two together. I'm definitely coming to a point in my life where I am toning away from the vivids, but I feel like I'm really leaning into playing around natural tones in a fun and flirty way. Check out all of my other playlists if you want to see all my other videos or follow stellar.com if you want to purchase any of the wigs that I produce or any other product to get your hair exactly where you want that.