Hot Roots in Dark Hair: How do you fix them if the rest of your hair is fine?

rest of the hair looks good

Did you dye your hair and your roots ended up a different color than the rest of your hair?

Did your roots turn out orange or red?

We call that “hot roots.”

Do you know why it happens?

Because you used a dark dye with a higher volume developer than what your hair needed.

If you use a dark-colored dye, you should use a 10 or 20 volume developer.

30 volume developer actually lightens hair all on its own, so for that reason, when you use dark dye with 30 volume developer, your roots with lighten, leaving them “hot.”

Believe it or not, this is one of the most common hair dye mistakes I see in my beauty salon.

I’ll tell you about Jennifer’s story, who came to my salon so I could fix her hot roots.

It was Friday afternoon and I was getting ready to close up the salon when Jennifer came.

Jennifer is a client that always comes n ito get a trim. She keeps up perfectly with the maintenance for her bob every single month.

At first, I thought it was strange to see her, until I noticed her hot roots. Her roots were a reddish color while the rest of her hair was dark brown.

I was shocked.

Jennifer told me that she saw some white hair in the mirror and wanted to hide it with dark brown dye, but her roots ended up red.

I told her to be calm, because the solution to the problem was going to be easy.

All we had to do was use the same dark dye on her hair, but this time with a 10 volume developer.

Jennifer was relieved.

While we did that, I explained to her that her mistake was using the dark dye with a 30 volume developer.

You can use colors like dark brown and black with just 10 or 20 volume developers.

So, I mixed the dark brown dye with a 10 volume developer and used it on her roots.

40 minutes later, all of Jennifer’s hair was even and her red roots were gone.

Did the same thing happen to you as what happened to Jennifer?
Do you want to know what color dyes you should use with 10 or 20 volume developer?
Do you want to fix your hot roots?

I’ll tell you all about it here.

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Hot roots in dark hair: What volume developer should you use based on your hair color?

on dark hair

If you have hot roots, then you already know that something went wrong.

Like I said at the beginning, the problem was in what volume developer you used with your dye.

You should mix dark and very dark colors with a 10 or 20 volume developer.

Do you know why?

10 and 20 volume developers don’t lighten your hair, they just open your hair cuticles so your hair fiber will absorb the pigment.

On the other hand, 30 and 40 volume developers do lighten your hair during the dye process, which is why you should only use those kinds of developer with very light blonde dyes.

Which color dyes can you use with 10 or 20 volume developer?

10 volume developer: