Brassy hair

David1968 My DD has used that Lush shampoo for a while now and her hair has never looked so good.

Over the last 18 months I've let my hair return to its natural colour (mostly silver-grey), after having blonde highlights for years. Lush "Daddy-O" shampoo (purple) has been wonderful for both the colour and condition during this process & I continue to use it. Recommended!

I don’t have much grey hair (yet) and am mid brown with brown eyes. I used to have your problem Butweam and as we spend a lot of time out here in Malaga it wasn’t a good look - yellow hair and a red face!

I totally agree with MawBroon and Anja - change your highlights to ash like I did. Bleach with foils. Wow the difference! Plus no need for the purple shampoo for the first 6 weeks either. I wish I’d done it years ago.

Oh - and ask your hairdresser to put a toner on after the dye and that also helps to cool the colour ?

I have this problem too - doesn’t matter how cool the dye the colour always has more reddish tone in it than I’d like unless I use a purple shampoo. My hairdresser recommended Fenola (think that’s how you spell it -or Finola maybe?) and I bought a huge bottle on Amazon for around £12. It really does help to keep the colour looking cool, but be warned - you need to wear gloves or was your hands immediately after you apply it or you’ll have purple hands!

You need to change your hairdresser. Why pay for a colour you don’t like?.

If you have underlying red tones in your hair then they oight to neutralise these when highlighting by adding an Ash tone to the colour product. I had this problem until I said ‘I didn’t like the colour last time it was too brassy’.

So out came the colour charts and hair samples and together we selected 3 shades (highlights should not just be one colour) and that was much better. Very natural.

I agree use the silver/purple shampoos tones in the meantime but get your colours right at the salon next time.

Be firm!

Buy a bottle of organic (no parabens) purple shampoo or conditioner – you don't need both – and use it once or twice a week. (You need to use very little, so although it is quite expensive, it lasts a long time.) It won't turn your hair into that strange blue-lavender colour that we saw so often on the heads of older ladies during the 1960s and 1970s, but will counteract that brassy look as if you smoke two packs of cigarettes a day.

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Using ketchup to tone down hair colour is really a thing. I have just watched one of several you tube videos. Wasted 5.50 minutes of my life but it did seem to work! The young girl comments at the end that it was amazing and didn’t cost her anything. They obviously don’t charge for ketchup in the U.S.!

Posted too soon ? when I tried one of the purple shampoo bought in Tesco it did irritate my scalp, but I do wash my very short hair daily

I don’t have an all over colour just highlights and these seem to blend in better with my grey hair

Purple shampoo and conditioner or lemon juice final rinse. Hair that has 'a touch of the red in the hair genes' is always resistant and tends to go brassy. Looks like you have a Celtic ancestor in there somewhere

Use purple shampoo and conditioner. It stops the brassiness.

Thank you all. I will give the touch of purple a try ?.

Purple shampoo & conditioner, like any shampoo just have to find one that suits your hair. I have found some are really quite drying on my hair. You don't need to use for every hair wash, probably one in three should keep the brassiness at bay.

Plus...what MawBroon says for next time.

Superdrug do a small shampoo bottle £1.99 called Colour effects, there a a pale blonde shade, and this does give a pale pearly look and takes away any yellow.

I had read about the Tom ketchup remedy as well.

Tomato ketchup can be used for cleaning brass (and copper- I think it’s the citric acid) but for heaven’s sake don’t put it on your hair!
Apart from using something like Touch of Silver, I would recommend you get your hairdresser to change the mix of shades she puts on your hair - more ash and less honey/gold!

I second that, you can buy it at the hair salon, or the chemist. I have the same problem, and I hate it!

You can buy shampoo and conditioner with a purple or blue tint , it worked for me

Try ‘A Touch of Silver’ shampoo and conditioner - easily available and tones down the brass ?

Did read somewhere that tomato ketchup removes brassiness but no idea how or why. Perhaps you tube will have the answer!