Has anyone ever dye with blueberries?

[Blueglass]

My hair is too yellow. I need to tone it down because I feel I can't take another day of it. Has any ever used blueberries as a toner? How did you do it? and was it permanent?

[Oskimosa]

I haven't heard anything about using blueberries to dye hair, but I do know that if you want more of an ash, brownish color that isn't too dark, H4H has buxus dioica and it's supposed to do just that for hair.
HTH

[Islandgrrl]

I don't have blonde hair, but I would think that yellow + purple could be very, very bad. I recommend that you strand test on some shed hairs just to see what color it goes.

[thankyousir74]

I don't have blonde hair, but I would think that yellow + purple could be very, very bad.

Seconded.... on the color wheel that doesn't make much sense for they are contrast colors. Where did you hear about dying with blueberries? I don't think they would stain that well considering I once tried dying a white t-shirt with blueberry tea and though it was a very nice purple, it did not stain at all. But I digress...where did you hear about using blueberries? I'm intrigued...

[Arctic]

Maybe you could buy some silver shampoo meant to tone down the yellow shades in blonde hair?

[spidermom]

I've spent quite a bit of time using natural dyes on angora, and most of them require a mordant to hold the color. I'm not sure you want to be putting things like alum on your hair. However, blackberries do not require a mordant, and they stain a plum-gray color. As a matter of fact, I've been contemplating staining a single strand of my hair with it just for the thrill of it. Maybe I'll do it today; if so, I'll get pictures.

[thankyousir74]

Mordants haha... Yeah I needed mordants for the blueberry tea to work...still didn't work though. I had forgotten all about my use of mordants...

ANYWAYS...

That blackberry use is new information to me spidermom, I hope you do take pictures, I'm quite curious... wait hair would have to be very light wouldn't it? Drats.

[ktani]

Blueberries contain anthocyanins.

That is found in cranberries and many fruits. They change colour in different pH solutions and makes natural dyes with them unreliable.

[Blueglass]

I want to neutralize the yellow. Cooked blueberries are red violet, so I hoped it could help.

[wintersun99]

How did your hair get too yellow (sorry, I missed it if you've mentioned it before) I'm wondering if doing a honey/liquid treatment would help? Have you tried it? Sorry, I know nothing about berry stains (other than I try to keep them off my teeth) :)

[spidermom]

I meant to add to my post above that your hair color looks very pretty on your avatar and in your photo album. Has it changed? I did a senna tea (called Smooth Move) & conditioner treatment on my hair earlier this year, and the color appeared more ash afterward.

[spidermom]

OMG; I'm so sorry! I had no idea those pictures were so big!

[Blueglass]

wintersun I'm sure you could find out. Spidermom, my avatar was prehenna, alum was afterwards loved henna, except for henna gold on my highlights. I had them bleached out professionally, but it's still too yellow, maybe it was the best he could do but, it's very yellow indoors.. To me it looks very fake. I decided I can't live with yellow anymore. I just want to go back to natural color maybe with better highlights and elumen.

[2TortyCats]

In theory you are right, a violet based dye is what you need to counter yellow, but this rule is for chemical dyes. I have no idea what blueberries would do. If you've still got hennad hair on your head though, chemicals won't do much over that.

[Blueglass]

I said I have already had highlights over henna 2tortycats so it can be done. It works with blueberries, but the hair runs the risk of over purple.

[ruby_tuesday]

I meant to add to my post above that your hair color looks very pretty on your avatar and in your photo album. Has it changed? I did a senna tea (called Smooth Move) & conditioner treatment on my hair earlier this year, and the color appeared more ash afterward.

I'm curious about the treatment, how much did you use of every ingredient? I want my ashy hair back.

I also wonder if blueberry tea would tone down my golden tones without adding the purple? :hmm:

[spidermom]

I'm curious about the treatment, how much did you use of every ingredient? I want my ashy hair back.

I also wonder if blueberry tea would tone down my golden tones without adding the purple? :hmm:

I opened 3 teabags of the Smooth Move senna tea and mixed it with about 3/4 cup of Nature's Gate conditioner, packed it onto my hair, put a shower cap over it, put a wool hat over that, and left it for at least 1-2 hours, then massaged my scalp as I rinsed (as one does with CO). I was so surprised that the color looked more ash, less golden after that treatment.

[ruby_tuesday]

I opened 3 teabags of the Smooth Move senna tea and mixed it with about 3/4 cup of Nature's Gate conditioner, packed it onto my hair, put a shower cap over it, put a wool hat over that, and left it for at least 1-2 hours, then massaged my scalp as I rinsed (as one does with CO). I was so surprised that the color looked more ash, less golden after that treatment.

Thank you spidermom for explaining that to me! :flower: My hair is naturally ash blond but I've been dying it brown and now I got some golden/warm tones which I dont like. Now I'll just have to find senna tea in Sweden. ps your hair looks fabulous- love the colour!

[Blueglass]

I mixed the blueberries with conditioner, a little sea salt and tea. I left it on for just a few seconds and washed it out. I think it helped, and my parents agree with me.