What should I do?

frankie88

Naturally my hair is about a medium/dark brown, but It looks better when it's dyed a soft natural black. Ever since HS I have always used a temporary dye to get it darker. However, after about two weeks it begins to fade and get lighter. I want to keep my hair dark all the time, and I dislike having a few weeks of lighter hair and then having to color my whole head again each month. I am thinking about using a permanent dye and then just touching up the roots. What do you think is best for my hair? Dying it each month with temporary or doing it with permanent and then just touching up the roots? Need ideas/advice!

Blueblood

If you dye it with permanent dye it will still fade due to you having to wash it so you will still have to go over your whole head again with temporary dye to keep it the correct shade.

The advantage of temporary dye is if you get fed up with it and it's definitely a wash out dye then you can dye it another colour. Even though most temporary dyes aren't that temporary and do stain your hair you are still able to dye over them with some colours.

If you use permanent dye even though the dye has faded due to the dark colour you would either have to strip your hair, which is damaging, or cut it off if you want to change the colour.

Firefox7275

Use a high pigment semi permanent and leave it on for as long as possible, even overnight, to get a longer lasting colour without damage.

To reduce fade use cool water only and reduce water exposure - leave in instead of rinse out conditioner, stretch washes with dry shampoo.

Permanent dye is always damaging due to the alkaline chemicals/ peroxide (yes even in dark shades), this can be reduced with hydrolysed protein (wheat or soy) and/ or coconut oil treatments.