Can someone help solve this perplexing hair issue?
The difference between an extractor (what you are using) and lightener (bleach) is that an extractor robs the color molecules of oxygen and they decolorize, shrink, break apart and dissipate out of the hair. Lightener will decolorize, shrink, break apart and dissipate all color molecules out the hair. The reason extractors are able to only remove artificial color is because artificial color relies on oxygen for the color to develop (oxidize… become the color you can see). Natural color doesn’t rely on oxygen to be the color that you see. So robbing natural color of oxygen leaves it unchanged. Lightener breaks up all color, artificial or natural and makes it small enough to pass out of the hair shaft. What is happening to you is that you have artificially colored your hair so many times that your hair is highly saturated with color molecules. When you are trying to use the extractor you are not getting out all the artificial color molecules. Some color is left in the hair even if you
