How To Fix Red Tones In Hair Piece?

guy9102

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Hello everyone. I got a new hair piece installed and was very happy with the results, back home i noticed the color doesn't match very well, i have dark brown hair with ash tones but the hair piece has red tones and im freaking out.
Is there a way to fix this? If so, would the system get damaged?
Also, is there a reason why the piece looks reddish, does this means it is of bad quality?
 

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Noah

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Hey Guy9102

First, congrats on the new hairpiece.

It is common for black hairpieces to develop a reddish tinge after a while. This is usually caused by the sun degrading the dye used to colour the hair (nearly all hair system hair is bleached white during the manufacturing process and then re-dyed to the required tone). It is easy enough to fix. You just need a colour-correcting shampoo or conditioner. These are products with (in the case of black hairpieces) a green tint, which cancels out the reddish tinge and returns the hair to the correct black colour. It doesn't harm the system in any way. You can find colour-correcting products in supermarkets and pharmacies (women who dye their hair have the same problem), or you can get them from specialist hairpiece suppliers like Hair Direct, or from Amazon.

Assuming you haven't spent a lot of time in the sun since you got your piece, the problem you have is slightly different - simply a bad initial colour match. You could go back to the salon where you got it and get them to correct it (which is what I would recommend), or you could correct it yourself using the colour correcting products. The neon lighting in most salons can be deceiving, and does not always give an accurate impression of what the hairpiece will look like in natural sunlight. It is worth going outside with a mirror to check that you have got a good match.

This problem does not necessarily mean your piece is bad quality - it could just be that the stylist made a poor call on the colour match. But if you find as you are wearing that it frequently develops that reddish tinge, that is a sign that the manufacturer has used lower quality over-processed hair. Hopefully that will not turn out to be the case.

Noah
 

guy9102

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Thanks for your reply Noah
By going back to the salon and get them to correct it you mean to tell them to dye my hairpiece to a better match?
Do you think using color correcting products would really help and how long would they take to work?
Thanks again
 

Noah

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Yes, I think that is what they would do.

I think the colour correcting products would work too, but it’s a less satisfactory solution, because the underlying colour of the hair would still be off. It would be better if it were corrected by using a permanent dye, which is what the salon should be able to do. After all, you have paid for a perfect match - that is an implied term of the contract. No one wants to buy a hairpiece which doesn’t match their biohair.
 

Mystery411

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Noah is spot on. I dye each unit every 3 or 4 months, just because I’m a*** about color/cut blending.
 

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I found that, after testing 3-4 products, the one that seemed to do the best job was the eSalon tint rinse red neutralizer. Bonus is that it absolutely does not stain the base or knots so you can be liberal with it.
 

guy9102

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Thanks guys for your replies! It was definitely a bad color match, I went back to the salon and got it dyed to 1B and looks perfect now.
 
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