How To Brighten Up Blonde Hair?

[deejaybenj]

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to brighten highlighted blonde hair that has now gone flat, lost the yellow vibrancy.

I am not trying to achieve ash/white blond (which is what happens when you use a purple shampoo) this just makes it more tired and drab looking. I am actually trying to find something to inject more of a healthy natural yellow tone/hue into the hair, in between highlights. I have tried the majority of shampoos which seem to do little to bring out the yellowy blond.

The difficulty with this is that most people seem to want to strip out the yellowy hue and take blond to a more ash colour, but I am looking for the opposite, something that keeps that yellowy look without it looking cheap.

It seems to be either golden or honeyish coloured or too far the other way, faded and ashen...any suggestions for achieving brilliant bright yellowy blonde?

I suspect the salon left the foils on a little too long and it lost any hue to it which is why it looks kind of drab now.

[deejaybenj]

no, lemon juice and sun just makes it go more ashen -turning it whiter still!!

[murraymints]

I used to use sta-blonde shampoo when I had highlights it did pep it up !

[Prudie]

I have never been blonde so cannot vouch for this but I'm sure I've read covering in tomato sauce before washing helps brighten the tone.

[jennyjoan]

This is not an answer to your question. But I remember when I started to hilight my hair which was very long I bought a bottle of peroxide bleach for 1/- (5p) - dipped a toothbrush into it and streaked my hair with it. I done that for years.

[Tilly2]

A week at the seaside does it for me though that's not very practicable, I know.

[Ratty2E]

Maybe you could try something like this http://www.beeunique.co.uk/index.php?main_page=index&;cPath=137_149
It's not permanent and you can mix colours to get the right shade. You can add a little of it to your conditioner to keep the colour bright.

[Retrochic]

Get some chamomile tea bags and soak about 4 in half a pint of boiling water overnight. Squeeze out and rinse hair with the liquid in your final rinse. it will highlight golden yellow and leave your hair shiny too.