colour-tinted

colour-tinted
   dyed
   Describing hair, where it is more than circumlocution because the process is more drastic than the variation of a shade. Also, as a verb, to colour correct:
    For dry, bleached or colour-tinted hair (instruction on bottle, 1980)
    She 'mutates' or 'colour-corrects' her hair. (Jennings, 1965)

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