Purple toners are the best for brassy blonde hair! As a blonde, if you're seeing brass you're likely seeing unwanted yellow - and purple counteracts this.
Comments452 If your hair after bleaching is an orange tone, you use wella T14 (blue base). If your hair is more of a yellow tone after bleaching, use wella T18 (purple/violet base). If you put T14 on yellow hair, it will turn slightly green.
To cancel out brassy orange hair, you should use a blue toner or hair dye. In color theory, blue is opposite orange on the color wheel, which means it can neutralize the unwanted brassy tones.
Brassy hair can be fixed with purple shampoo, blue shampoo, or a color neutralizing toner. You can also try these methods to prevent brassy hair: Use a water softener or color-protecting shampoo Minimize washes with dry shampoo Wash hair with cool water Avoid excessive sun exposure.
Blue Toner: Look for a blue toner or a blue shampoo/conditioner that can help tone down the orange. Brands like Wella, Pravana, and Matrix offer blue toners specifically designed for this purpose. Blue-Violet Toner: If your hair has a more brassy, golden tone, a blue-violet toner can also be effective.
Blue shampoo
For lightened brunettes and dark blondes, a blue toner for orange hair—namely, blue shampoo—will be your best friend. As you can probably imagine, blue shampoo contains cobalt-colored pigments that help offset orange and other copper-leaning tones.
Purple cancels out yellow and blue cancels out orange, for example, so if you have orange in your hair, you will want a Wella toner with blue tones.
Purple toners are the best for brassy blonde hair! As a blonde, if you're seeing brass you're likely seeing unwanted yellow - and purple counteracts this.
At-home toners are super helpful and can maintain your salon colour between salon visits. They work on a more gentle, but more regular basis. That said, overuse can dry hair out, so make sure you choose one that nourishes as it tones, or ensure you rotate it with moisturising products.
Toning Mistakes
When you get your hair lightened, the stylist uses bleach to lift your natural color and then "tone" the highlight with a darker shade. Some people have warmer undertones than others, and those warm undertones can look brassy if not toned with a neutral or cooler shade.
If you think of the color wheel, blue and purple are located directly opposite yellow and orange, which is why blue and purple-pigmented shampoo helps to correct color and remove brassy tones from the hair.
The Wella Color Charm T28 Natural Blonde Hair Toner mimics a perfect sunkissed shade, looks completely natural and reduces brassy yellow and orange tones.
For creating the most ashy blonde.
Wella T14 has a blue-violet base, which means it will counteract (or reduce) gold / yellow orange tones. This is a super cool toned toner that works best on pale yellow hair.
The Wella T15 is really designed for hair that's lighter than the orange, so you won't get the full effect of the toner. However, you will see that it's reduced some of the brassiness while keeping the hair a warm tone.
Even though ash blonde might seem like a light and delicate color, it will indeed cancel out brassy tones and orange hues commonly left behind by hair lightener and other hair color.
Purple formulas help cancel unwanted yellow or brassy tones, as purple and yellow are opposite on the color wheel and neutralize each other. Blue formulas are best for orange undertones and brassiness, and perform that same function.
TRY AN ANTI-BRASS PURPLE HAIR MASK
In addition to purple shampoo and conditioner for daily care, integrating an ultra-pigmented purple hair mask like Redken's Blondage Express Anti-Brass hair mask can help transform your blonde from brassy to cool and bright in just 5 minutes.
Neutralizes orange yellow tones and achieve a cool neutral blonde hair.
Neutralizes yellow tones to achieve a neutral beige blonde. Neutralizes red and yellow tones for gold hair, maintains warmth but brass free.