Have you found yourself in a rut and wonder why your hair won’t bleach past orange? Unfortunately, the orange hair won’t just fade on its own because yellow and orange are natural pigments of your hair. So you will have to actually do something to get rid of orange tones.

Recommended Video What are the options? You can tone orange away from your hair, bleach your hair again, or just go darker. Here are the stylist’s tips on how these ways to fix orange actually work.

Cancel Out the Orange Tones

The first step would be to assess what level your hair lifted to in order to pick out the appropriate toner. For the toner to work correctly, you will have to use a toner that is at the same level that your hair lifted to: if it is at an 8, you tone your orange hair with an 8.

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The second part of working with a toner would be to actually choose a color that will cancel out the orange brassy tones. This is where you would want to turn to a color wheel for some help. When you find orange on the wheel, you’ll see that the color straight across, or the complementary color, is blue. So, you will need to tone your hair with a toner that is at the same level and has blue undertones to cancel the orange color of the hair.

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In addition to that, you need to determine where the orange is. If the orange is mainly at the roots and the ends are lighter, then you can do a root melt. A root melt is when you add a darker color toner at the roots and blend it into the lighter toner that is on the ends of the hair.

Another way of doing it would be to use a blue shampoo instead of a purple shampoo. The purple shampoo will cancel more yellow tones and is often misused when trying to fix orange hair. Once you get to your desired color, the blue shampoo will also be a great product to maintain your bleached hair and prevent the orange from popping back through.