Before finding a solution, it’s necessary to understand why you feel your blonde hair has grown poorly.
- Do you feel your blonde hair is badly grown-out because the roots are too dark? You can fix them with lighter highlights at the roots that will blend in with your blonde mane.
- Alternatively, do you feel your blonde hair is badly grown because the roots are too blonde or gray? You could apply very light highlights to blend the roots with the rest of your hair.
- Don’t like your blonde hair grown out because it’s too orange or yellow and the roots are too dark? Then, your best option is to apply a balayage and toner to fix your badly grown-out blonde hair.
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Roughly speaking, those are three alternatives to fix badly grown-out blonde hair. But before you get your hands on your hair, wait!
Coloring trends have changed in such a way that even badly grown-out blonde hair can be trendy. Why?
Check out Instagram photos! Check out the hair of your favorite Tik Tokers!
What do you notice?
That’s right! Many celebrities wear dark roots in blonde hair or lighter roots grown into blonde hair.
However, this new trend isn’t for everyone.
So, if you’ve dyed your hair blonde and don’t like the color difference of the roots when they grow, you’ll need to fix it.
The solution will depend on what you don’t like about your blonde hair that grew out poorly.
If you feel your blonde hair has grown badly because the roots are too dark, apply highlights to hide the difference
When you dye your hair blonde, dark roots will show up after three or four weeks.
- You could apply a dye to even out the color.
- Or you could opt for a more natural and modern alternative: apply highlights. Here’s my advice.
If you apply highlights to the dark roots of your grown-out blonde hair, you’ll blend the natural color of your roots with the rest of your blonde mane.
What are the benefits?
- The highlights will give your hair a very interesting luminosity, and your hair will suffer less because the dye is applied only on some sections of your roots
- You should touch up the technique every three months instead of every month.
- You’ll spend less money and less time in the salon.
In this case, your roots should be three or four centimeters long so that the colorist can comfortably apply the paper highlights and, then, the toner.
If you feel that your blonde hair has grown bad because the roots are too light or too gray, apply some highlights
If this is your case, I think I can guess what happened. You probably have very light blonde hair and wanted to go honey or caramel blonde. So, you dyed it.
However, when your hair grows out, the roots are much lighter than the rest of your hair.
You can’t avoid it! Hair grows out with its natural color. Likewise, you can’t avoid gray hair.
So, for either case, I suggest you ask your colorist to apply highlights by bleaching small strands randomly distributed in your mane and blending both colors.
The best news is that you’ll fix your badly grown-out blonde hair in one session with pale blonde highlights without losing the darker blonde in the rest of your mane.
What are the benefits?
- You’ll disguise lighter or gray roots.
- You’ll need a touch-up every three to four months.
- Each time you go to the salon for your highlights, you can choose different toner colors for different shades of blonde.
Using a silicone cap, your colorist will divide small strands in about 70% of your hair. They’ll apply the bleach and leave it on until it reaches a pale color. They’ll rinse the bleach and apply a toner to even out the color with your roots.
When you return to the salon for maintenance, you can ask your colorist to apply a darker toner to achieve a golden blonde or ash blonde.
If you feel your blonde hair has grown out badly because it’s too yellow or too brassy, apply a balayage
Don’t despair. When blonde dyed hair grows out, it usually turns ashy after washes.
My professional advice is to apply a balayage, which is a natural fading technique, to lighten the ends.
What are the benefits?
- You’ll return to the salon for maintenance every four to five months.
- Natural hair growth is respected because you can have up to ten centimeters of root growth.
In this case, the colorist will only bleach the lengths and ends and apply bleach for a maximum of 10 minutes on the front of your mane to brighten your look. Then, rinse your hair and apply toner to neutralize any remaining yellow or brassy tones.
When your hair grows out, you won’t lose the technique and your balayage will remain flawless.
Conclusions
If you dyed your hair blonde and you don’t like the way it grew out, you know what you can do to fix it. The first step is to identify why you feel your blonde hair has grown out badly and ask your colorist to fix it with any of these techniques.
