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    Default Help! Copper hair dye over henna?

    First of all, hi! And sorry for the long post.
    So, I used the khadi henna (which I believe is pure henna) on my hair a few times, and I noticed a bit too late that it has gotten much darker than I like.
    I have medium ash blonde hair, and for a couple of years I dyed with chemical dyes, until I made the terrible, terrible mistake of using a box dye that fried my fine hair beyond repair. I grew it all out and now my hair is the healthiest it has ever been, but the henna over the virgin hair is too dark and I really want the coppery orange back. I also have around 5 cm of virgin roots.
    I was wondering if I could just dye it my desired color over the henna (which would be an igora 7.77), if I should try using colorb4 to remove a bit of henna before dying it, if someone has a better solution or if I should just sit my ass down and wait for it to grow out. I know I am expecting too much, but I want to keep my hair as healthy as possible. I'm not trying to divorce henna, I just want an open relationship

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    Default Re: Help! Copper hair dye over henna?

    You can't lighten henna with a box dye, all it would do is damage your hair.
    There is a long post on here somewhere about using sun in to lighten henna. Its really the least damaging way

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    Default Re: Help! Copper hair dye over henna?

    Here is Nightblooming's article on Sun-In. She was in much the same situation a number of years ago, apparently.

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