Will the red hair dye work?

I previously had black hair and yesterday I bleached it. It came out orange/ginger with blonde roots where regrowth was visible. This looked awful so I attempted to dye it auburn/brown today and it instead dyed the roots ginger.

I'm thinking about...

dying in red later on, but I'm worried about whether it will show up on my hair or just dye the roots a different colour again.

What do you think?

I've talked to a hairdresser at a hair salon and she said it's best if I get it coloured at the hair salon but I can't afford it at the moment.
It seriously looks bad and I need some advice quick!

Also, how do I dye my hair blonde without it going ginger?

Thanks!

It went ginger because your hair is black. It's hard to go from such a dark color to such a light color.

In the future, you may want to perhaps gets a stronger/specialty bleach designed for black hair, also perhaps let it sit for a while longer.

Another thing is, bleach alone doesn't give a natural blond color. Your best bet would be to get something neutralizing, for example, I actually use a very small bit of a very light PURPLE dye/rinse over mine, and it gets rid of all brassiness caused by bleaching alone. It helps me achieve natural-looking platinum hair.

However, if you don't feel comfortable with attempting something like this, you can buy one of the blonde dyes in the store. The reason those are these is to make blonde look REAL over pre-bleached hair, not to just do the same thing as a regular bleach.

Sometimes when I need a quick fix, there's also a pantene shampoo that's supposed to be for greying or silver hair. But what it does is get rid of overly yellow/orange tones.

I really don't know if the dye will work, because ALREADY chemically treated hair doesn't act the same as natural hair. Your best bet WOULD be to wait until you can have it professionally done, because bleach already does chemically alter your hair, and if those chemicals have a bad reaction to chemicals in the NEW dye, you might end up with green hair instead. . That could already possibly be why the roots turned ginger from the brown dye. Unless you know things about pigment replacers and which volume peroxides, your best bet would be to leave it to a professional and then perhaps read up/do some research on it for the next time...

I'm a hairstylist and let me say here...you have a real problem. At this point you're dealing with multicolored hair, bleached regrowth, and dark patches where the black didn't lift as much as the hair near the scalp. Do everything absolutely necessary to go see a stylist so she can fix it for you. Borrow money, whatever. This is a big job and it can take a whole day and many processes to lift and correct black. If there is no way possible on earth that you can go to a stylist, go and buy a medium brown hair tone with a green base to it at Sally's. NOT the stuff out of a box at the store! I recommend Clairol. Your buy the little 2.5 oz bottle of color and mix it with a equal parts 20 volume cream peroxide. Buy vinyl gloves, an applicator bottle and a good hair conditioning treatment. I recomment Last Call Hair Masque. It's all at Sallly's. It's hard to advise when I can't see your hair, but I seriously do not recommend you continue trying to lighten this on your own. Just get it covered evenly with a medium brown and leave it at that until you can afford a stylist.

depends how red u want it! I go for bright blood red as it looks best with dark hair... ut hairs a beautiful dark colour so would suit some very red bits. thing is...dont dye it...ull ahve to do it every 2 weeks, even more. red washed out so wuickly...so what i do is get extentions in, only 8 bits on each side, wont destoy ur hair... ur hair will look amaizng with red underneath...go for it! red extentions, if u hate iut u can take it out. unlike hair dye. ur at risk at breaking ur haircoz uve messed with it so much, giuve it a break and just do extentuions I had to cut 6 inches off mine recently : ( coz i dyed it red so much before i put the red bits in. u dont want to lose ur hair xx look at the pic of the red extentions in my hair