Can I dye over pink hair?

Question

For any cosmetologist or anyone that knows about hair dye, my hair is currently light pink. Like cotton candy pink. My natural hair is an ashy medium/dark blonde. I kind of want to do a root shadow with a medium ash blonde so my roots look better growing out but don’t know how it will go over the pink. Will this work? Or should I just wait and keeping growing my roots out

Answer

I think your idea would work great! If you’re looking to do it at home I’d recommend using a bleach bath (a mix of bleach and shampoo that you rinse off) to remove any remaining color and then dyeing with a semi-permanent dye. Since your hair is already light, semi permanent color will work great since it deposits color, and it won’t damage. I’d recommend getting a brown semi permanent dye for the shadow root and a blonde for the rest - Clairol has one on Amazon for $8. You can also dilute it with any conditioner if the color is too saturated. For the application itself, work in sections and make sure every strand is saturated. Cover your roots in the brown and continue the color down fading it into the blonde, a hair dye brush is good for this. Using a purple shampoo and/or conditioner afterwards will help keep it that ashy tone.
Hope this helps, I’m a big nerd about hair color as you can see, I’ve dyed my hair over a dozen different colors, these are some techniques that I’ve learned work well over the years. Good luck 👍