Best Ash Blonde Hair Dye and How to Get Natural Ash Blonde Hair Color

Have you tried ash blonde hair dye? If not, you are missing out on good hair color ideas that can warm up your looks. You can choose from different shades such as medium, light and dark blonde color shades as well as from out list of the best ash blonde hair dyes we have listed. Now, did you know Marylyn Monroe was not a natural blonde? Well, now you know and what’s more is that I am going to teach you how to get ash blonde hair dye at home and black hair, red hair and even brown hair.

In ancient Rome, women dyed their hair to blonde using pigeon dung! Yes, that’s right. Thank goodness we do not live in that age. With the many brands of hair extensions and dye brands on the market, you can get any hair color shade easily. You can get these inexpensively from Walmart or Walgreens. But what is the best blonde hair dye to buy? Here’s my list of the top 5 quality picks for you.

Best Ash Blonde Hair Dye

What is the best ash blonde hair dye kit? We have seen celebrities wear ash blonde hair extensions or color their hair to get different shades of blonde they think suits them. Julianne Hough’s hair color idea of light ash blonde is great. The question is, which product are these models and actresses using to change dark brown hair to their preferred shades of blonde? Here are some of the industry’s top quality products.

Dark ash blonde inspired by smokey eye makeup
Dark ash blonde inspired by smokey eye makeup
  • L’Oreal Superior Preference Dream Blonde Hair Color, 7A Dark Ash Blonde
  • Revlon Colorsilk Beautiful Color, Dark Ash Blonde 60 1
  • Garnier Nutrisse Radiant Blondes (7.31 Dark Golden Ash Blonde)
  • Revlon Colorsilk Beautiful Color Permanent Hair Color, 60 Dark Ash Blonde
  • Herbatint Permanent Herbal Haircolour Gel 6C Darker shade
  • Clairol Natural Instincts Non-Permanent Hair Color, 10 Sandalwood

According to user reviews and testimonials, these are highly rated for specific reasons that users thought suit them. For example, the L’Oreal Superior Preference product kit comes not only as a dye but also with a shampoo and conditioner. Great instructions on how to get ash blonde hair with this product are also attached, making it easy for just about anyone to get their dream hair at home. Be careful, however, when choosing a product that will suit you. Make sure you go for the ammonia-free ones. Now, which shade will look good on you? Light, dark or medium?

Light Ash Blonde Hair Color

Does your hair look light or medium blonde? Does it have grey strands and natural grey highlights? Do you see red and orange undertones in your hair? Well, you can easily fix all these problems if you go with ash blonde hair dyes.

“Light ash blonde hair color is a whiter shade of blonde that has an ashy, or gray, tint. It could be described as cool platinum, and looks best on lighter complexions with lighter eye colors. Lady Gaga has sported this hue, which can be achieved on lighter natural hair colors through balayage, or all-over color on those with darker natural hair colors.”

With the right choice of the best light ash blonde hair color, you will need just a single application that will last long. All you will need is to do root-retouch to cover your natural hair color as it grows.

Carrie Underwood light ash blonde hair color
Carrie Underwood with a lighter shade

Be careful not to choose blindly because you need to know how the shade will look on your skin tone. For example, will light ash blonde hair color on brown hair look good? What is the lightest ash blonde color shade you can wear? We have answered these questions in other guides for choosing hair colors for olive skin, fair skin, and dark skin, and also eye colors. You can see pictures for more illustrations on the choices. So, what brands are the best that you should choose from? Here are the top rated ones according to reviews on durability and color intensity.

  • Excellence Crème Hair Dye, Light Ash Blonde 9.1
  • L’Oreal Paris Excellence Pro-Keratin light ash blonde color
  • Clairol Nice ‘n Easy Root Touch-Up Hair Color, Light Ash Blonde 9A
  • Revlon Luxurious Colorsilk Buttercream Hair Color, 03G Ultra Light Sun
  • Revlon Colorsilk Beautiful Color Permanent Hair Color, 05 Ultra Light Ashy blonde

If you have problems choosing, a color chart can always come in handy. Most of these manufacturers of hair tints provide charts for selecting hues that will suit your natural hair. And remember, a good kit should not only be ammonia free but also condition your hair nicely, give it the natural glow or shine, and keep it well moisturized.

Dark Ash Blonde Hair Color and Best Brands

The main reason for choosing dark ash blonde hair dye or just about any ash hair color is that you do not like the golden colors such as orange and yellow. Basically, you do not want warm tones in your hair maybe because they clash with your eye color or skin tone. You can actually wear dark ash blonde hair dye on black hair, on brown hair and even dark brown. There are many brands to choose from out there, if you do not want to go with extensions or toners, so here is a list of the best dark ashy blonde hair color.

  • Revlon Dark Ash Blonde
  • Revlon Colorsilk Dark Ash Blonde 60
  • LO’real Dark Ash Blonde Preference 7A
  • Garnier Belle Color Ease 7.1 Natural Dark Ash Blonde
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Darker shades

The biggest brands with high quality reviews are Revlon and LO’real Paris and Revlon. According to HairInterest, frosty blonde hair colors can be very flattering for women with cool skin tones or pale complexions. You can try this on with some richly pink lipstick and metallic eyeshadows.

Note that brands such as LO’real Preference 7A will work well for women with cool skin tones. So, if you find that you have a warm toned skin, avoid this shade. I particularly found this useful for girls with too many red tones in their hair. It is just the perfect product to neutralize red undertones in hair.

LO'real Dark Ash Blonde Preference 7A
LO’real Dark Ash Blonde Preference 7A

Now, if you want to know how to get natural dark ash blonde hair, then Garnier Belle Color Ease 7.1 Natural Dark Ash Blonde is your product. It is highly rated quick permanent ash blonde hair dye. It also covers grey hair with a 100 percent result, plus you will get a radiant, natural looking blonde hair. Most reviews were positive about this product and most users actually credited it for its hair care conditioning power that is enriched with argan oil.

Medium Ash Blonde Hair Dye

Medium ash blonde
Medium ash blonde

Medium ash hair color looks good on women with cool skin tones and complexions. This will be good for complementing your eye colors, especially if they are hazel colored, brown eyes and even blue eyes. With this shade, you can have some highlights or lowlights if you want to create some streaks of contrast. Here are the best brands of medium ash blonde dyes to buy.

  • Revlon ColorSilk Beautiful Color Hair Color, 70 Medium Ash
  • L’Oreal Paris Excellence Creme Triple Protection Hair Color, 7-1/2A Cooler Medium Ash

The LO’real one has a superior gray hair coverage and is known to protect fragile hair while producing a perfectly medium ash blonde color that is rich and even. It also “deep-treats your hair after and in-between coloring. Protects your hair until the next coloring.” According to reviews, it works well on dark hair and also on brown and yellow hair.

How to Get Ash Blonde Hair (from Black, Orange, Yellow, Brown Hair)

How do you get ash blonde hair from orange, yellow, from black, brown or red hair? Can you get light ash blonde after bleaching hair? Is it possible to get super ashy blonde without bleach at home? Well, these are all the kind of questions I have been getting lately. As I had said earlier, one of the primary purposes of going ashy blonde, or sometimes dirty blonde is to get rid of the brassy tones in your hair. Therefore, with the right procedure and a good product, you can easily get it at home without green.

Some people simply bleach dark hair and also brown hair to get some white or simply make their hair blonde. Well, if you bleach your hair, you will definitely get the best results. Bleached hair will leave your dye looking vibrant, natural and shiny since there will be no base colors interfering with it. In addition to this, you won’t have problems of fading or pigment interfering with your new outlook. However, the only problem with this is that color-retouching on the newly grown roots will not work so perfectly to the shade you want unless you bleach them too. That said, here’s a quick procedure on how to get ash blonde hair at home for people with medium to dark brown hair.

Hayden Panettiere dark ash blonde hair
Hayden Panettiere
  1. Start off with a level 20 peroxide and then use a regular bleaching color
  2. Mix one part of bleaching powder and one part the peroxide
  3. Mix thoroughly to ensure you get rid of all the lumps in the mixture
  4. When the mixture becomes a semi-thick consistency, use your applicator brush to apply the mixture to the roots
  5. Ensure you just do the roots only and maintain consistency
  6. Tie up your hair nicely to prevent the mixture from bleaching the tips
  7. Wear a cap and allow to sit for an hour in order to get the desired level of blonde without damaging your hair
  8. Wash your hair and dry it up
  9. Go ahead and use a level 10 with dyes in order to place the color. You can use a light ash blonde
  10. Mix the dye in one part and the second part the peroxide
  11. Whip to get a semi-thick consistency
  12. Repeat the steps 3-8 above with this mixture
  13. Do the last steps in the shower
  14. Use a purple semi-permanent dye (this acts as a toning dye). This will help you get the extra ashy blonde color to your hair
  15. Mix it with a conditioner because you don’t want to get a purple tint to your hair. After applying, you will get the perfect ash blonde hair color that is suitable for you.

Here’s a video to help you with the steps (courtesy of BiiBiiBeauty on YouTube – from which the procedure above was adapted). Note: There are many methods of doing this, and this is just one of them.

Ash Blonde Hair Dye on Black Hair and Brown Hair

How would light ash blonde look on dark hair and brown hair? Can you go from black to blonde or from dark brown hair to ashy blonde? Well you can and the best way to go blonde for people with black and brown hair is by choosing to settle on either medium or dark ash blonde. This is more of a gradual and managed shift that will work well for brunettes.

  • If you have black hair or brown hair, consider bleaching your hair first before dyeing it ash blonde
  • The process of changing your hair color will be best managed at the salon than at home even though you can buy cheap drugstore blonde hair dyes.

Ash Blonde Hair Dye on Red Hair

If you are a fan of DIY hair dyeing at home, then you might be familiar with ash blonde hair dye on red hair, or turning hair red. The main reason for using such a dye is to remove the brassy look that your hair might be coming with naturally, or if you have used too much warm colors for a long time. If you keep having this problem, go to the salon to have it fixed without damaging your hair. That said, you can use this ash blonde on red hair (if you are a redhead) too and turn it to the blonde you like.

Something worth noting with ash hair color is that you are likely to get a greenish tinge that you might not like at all. This is common with girls who swim a lot especially in swimming pools that are chemically treated. Your hair will oxidize from the absorption of the chemical treatments and you will end up with the green tinge. So, how do you fix this?

Bella Capelli Hairstyles recommends that you get rid of the green tinge using a “color shampoo with a gold (warm color tone) and not an ash color.” As a precaution, Chlorine is something you should avoid when you color your hair blonde.

More Photos for Ash Blonde Hair Ideas

Here are more photos to help you with ash blonde hair color ideas if you want to look flattering.

Dark ash blonde on pale skin
Dark ash blonde on pale skin
Ideas of wearing ash blonde on pink undertones
Ideas of wearing ash blonde on pink undertones
Ash blonde hair ideas
Ash blonde hair ideas
Anna Lynne Mccord Ash Blonde Hair Color
Anna Lynne Mccord

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23 Comments

  1. I’m a african american 58yrs. old my original hair color is dark brown, my skin is medium brown more like Kerry Washington will a strawberry blonde color look good on me ?

  2. I’ve been trying to get a cool toned ash light blonde colour for years now. My colourist hasn’t found it yet. Her salon uses Goldwell, and we use the Ash toned colour with just a little tad of the N, and my hair still comes out gold. Level 9. She said it always will do that because of the natural colour of my ashy light brown hair. It pulls red for some reason. We tone it so its okay for a while, but then the gold comes back. She ordered in Schwarzkopf just for me, but it turned out kinda muddy and slightly red. Even worse than Goldwell. What’s the best line to use to get light ashy blonde cool toned hair?

    Thanks
    Barb

    1. If she uses goldwell and you want to be more ashy, tell her to use the SB series in topchic. 15mls of 8SB and 15mls of 9N you will find it comes out ashier.

  3. I have green hazel eyes and my skin tends to look yellow peach during the winter and red or tan during summer. My natural hair is medium brown with gold and red undertones. I need a change because recently my skin looks very red and so does my hair so I’ve been thinking about a cool tone to counteract the red of the skin and brighten my eyes. What is the right shade for me?

  4. To get a true ash blonde you will need to lift your hair up to a level 9 or 10. Otherwise the cool will come out too warm. Then tone with a color such as 10a.

  5. My natural hair is dark brown. I coloured it with Solfine brand neutral dark blonde 7N with 30% peroxide, which turned it red orange. A week later I went to Sally’s and was advised to use One n Only light ash blonde 8A with 20% peroxide, and my hair turned more brassy! It’s been three weeks since I last coloured. Yesterday I used a purple blue shampoo I bought from Shoppers and it cut the brassiness slightly but my hair is nowhere near an ash blonde color, it’s more of a light brown with a red/auburn tone. Can you please offer me some advice of what to do to get to a medium ash brown with good grey coverage? Thanks a million!
    P.S. I have dry fine hair so I’m too scared to bleach,

    1. Hello Nawida, it looks as your main issue is brassiness and if you fail to correct it, it will still show through no matter what type of hair dye you choose. Have you tried using any toner? Wella’s Pale Ash blonde T-14 should work for you and it’s not too harsh on the hair and scalp, if you are worrying about any possible damage. Use one part of the toner and two parts of 20 vol. developer and leave on your hair for 15-20 minutes. If you wash it off with a purple based shampoo that will help correct any remaining brassiness further, but this time make sure you leave the purple shampoo on your hair for at least two minutes before washing out. This process should neutralize any brassiness and get you a nice light brown/dark ash blonde shade. Now, if you want to a lighter blonde shade, dye your hair again using a 30 vol. developer this time so it lifts better and then do the toner step as directed. Currently, this is the only alternative method to getting an ash blonde shade gradually without using any strong bleach.

  6. Surprisingly, Revlon Colosilk dark ash blonde has been able to color my medium brown hair without bleaching, much more accurately than other brands. However, to avoid any dark spots or unwanted red areas, bleach just past red/orange (not a trace left).Dark yellow is ok. Then, you can pretty much use Medium or Dark Ash blonde. In fact, as long as your hair is lightened to yellow with NO orange left, L’Oreal Excellence 8 1/2 A, Champagne Blonde, actually comes out looking almost platinum. I find all L’Oreal blonde brands are very accurate when used on hair bleached to yellow. If you leave a few too many brassy tones, Preference 8A is a WONDER fix. Excellence doesn’t drip & has the best gray coverage, where as preference has more color selection. But, don’t try L’oreal on any shade of brown, regardless of what the box says, without bleaching to at least a bright yellow. Colorsilk dark ash should actually be pretty accurate on light, and sometime medium brown hair even without bleaching. But, like must brunettes, very few of us don’t have multi-tonal hair, so while your mostly light brown hair will come out perfect, that dark brown underneath in the back will not so much!

  7. I have found the Nice n’ Easy Natural Light Ash Blonde 102 is the perfect shade for me. I have gold/red tones to my dark blonde hair and the Nice n Easy gets rid of them completely. It also really conditions my hair better than it was before. It is a very consisent color, and always comes out the same on me, unlike some other brands I have tried. It is a believable ash, too, not too gray or drab-looking.

    1. Hi Poetzsch. Thanks for sharing your review with us and others. Yes that is really a great hair dye for home use and it works for most people with no issues. If anyone is looking for a natural looking and glossy ash blonde shade, this is the shade to go.

    2. I used Revlon dark blonde hair color but my hair looked too orange. A month later I applied Nice and Easy light ash blonde and it worked great to find down the orange.

  8. Hi so I need help, I bleached my hair leaving some of the roots my natural hair color dark brown . I toned my bleached hair and it came out orange but I was able to correct after toning like 4 times. The only thing is that my roots have now have red tones because of the toner. I like dark roots and light ends but it’s been very difficult to get to that. I have lines of demarcation which looks horrible. I am looking to fix my roots backs to dark brown or an ash dark brown so they can blend in slowly with my with my ends .please help I need recommendations .

  9. Hi, so my natural color is medium ash blonde. I dyed my hair brown and want to dye it back to my natural. Can you let me know what bleach and what shade to use?

  10. I’m Egyptian my skin tone is neutral warm and original hair color is black , will ash dark brown fit me and how to do it at home ?

  11. Hi I’ve dyes my hair and it’s gone a white blonde but roots have a yellow tinge what colour can I use to get rid of yellow tinge and not make my hair so white hope somebody can help

  12. HELLO – I HAVE NATURAL MEDIUM BROWN HAIR WITH GOLD UNDERTONES. I HAVE ALWAYS WORN HEAVY HIGHLIGHTS IN A LIGHT BEIGE BLONDE. RECENTLY IVE HAD SOME GREY AT MY TEMPLES, ETC SO AFTER A HAIRCUT THAT REMOVED MOST OF MY HIGH LIGHTS I PERFORMED A DYE BACK TO MY NATURAL TO COVER THE GREY THEN RE-HIGHLIGHT. I USED A DARK NEUTRAL BLONDE 6N,( I DIDNT WANT TO GO TOO DARK SINCE I STILL HAD A FEW HIGHLIGHTS) BUT MY HAIR TURNED OUT A MEDIUM REDDISH BROWN. I TRIED TO REMOVE THE RED WITH UNRED/SHAMPOO/20VOL. DEVELOPER, NO LUCK, I TRIED USING A LIGHT ASH BROWN WITH NO LUCK STILL LOTS OF REDDISH/COPPERY COLOR, I HAVE USED RED/GOLD CORRECTOR IN THE COLOR BUT I AM STILL LEFT WITH SO MUCH COPPERY RED TONES. WHAT COULD I USE TO REMOVE THE COPPERY/RED TONES. I DONT MIND THE LEVEL OF COLOR JUST THE TONE. COULD I USE A DARK ASH BLOND TO TONE IT DOWN? I DID USE WELLA T35 TONER WITH ZERO RESULTS. CAN YOU OFFER ANY ADVICE? THANK YOU!

  13. Hi. I am normally a level 7 and was coloring a Redken 6NA. I removed the hair color and bleached twice and toned with T14 and T18 combined. It is pretty light but still has some slight brass on the ends since I tried to spare my ends the second bleach. I have decided it is too solid of a color and would like more dimension without being too white/silver and definitely not gold. If I put a filler on my hair can I color it to a light or medium ash? Can I mix two colors together? Will my hair go green and if so what should I do if it does? If the color has brass in it after I am done can I still use a toner and which is better and ash toner or beige? Also what level is Reid Witherspoons color in the photo in this article? The colors I have been looking at are newer pictures of Dana Perino on Fox news and Monica Crowley. I am unsure what color and levels they would be and how to get that color. Thanks for your help.

  14. Hello, what will happen if i put L’oreal 9.1 on my auburn-red hair? I have removed built up black using Colour remover, and its just not lifting anymore so i’m wondering if i have to bleach or strip it to go lighter first, if i want to make it a light ash brown, or will 9.1 remove the red at least?

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