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[bizzylizzy]

HI everyone,

 

Need a bit of advice.

 

I have dyed my hair for that many years i cant even remember what colour it is! I have dyed it twice recently, supposedly a chocolate brown colour, but it has come out black!

 

I really dont like it. I have been researching on the internet in to hair stripping, but Im not sure about it. I just wondered if anyone here has had it done.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

bizzylizzy

[LolaLayla]

My son decided to dye his hair blue However did not realise that the dye he had bought was permanent. A few days later we went to the chemist and bought quite an expensive product which was supposed to return his hair to its original colour (mid brown). Although we followed the instructions to the letter his hair turned orange We had to go to a hairdresser to put in a brown rinse to return it to anything that looked in anyway normal. I just wish we had gone to the hairdresser first!

[bizzylizzy]

oooh hairdressers i think it is!!!

 

Im glad he's back to normal!

 

thank you

 

bizzylizzy

[Sam Palmer]

Don't know if you are planning to do this at home, or at a salon, but I used a home kit.

I've used Scott Cornwall's B4 Hair Colour Remover twice recently. I colour my hair myself and I have a lot of grey, so I've found the bottom half is incredibly dark due to colour build up and I always have a lighter stripe at my parting where the new grey/natural colour is coloured for the first time.

Oddly, the regular strength works better than the extra strength. It took far more colour off. It's a bit smelly though, like rotten eggs, especially the extra strength.

It recommends only putting it where you need to take colour off and it's right about that. I started at the bottom and worked my way up the first time, but the ends didn't really have that much more time than the top. When it came off, the top was grey, shading to orange, to fox fur colour. That's something else they warn you about, the brassy, coppery tones you may well have, as even dark dyes have bleach in them! Other people I know who used it went a bit gingery too. The second time I put it on the bottom half for 20 mins and the top half for 5 mins, so it was a more even colour.

There's a lot of rinsing time involved too.

The second time I left it for a week before re-colouring, to give it a rest and have switched to semi-permanents, as they seem to have the same affect on my hair as permanents.

So, after all that, my hair isn't hugely different in colour, but I've been able to lighten it a few shades and don't have the lighter stripe any more.

Hope this helps.

[welovemarmite]

I have my hair purple and need to try and strip the majority of it out so that I can get it dyed brown next weekend. My hairdresser told me to wash it every day with classic head and shoulders or fairy liquid until then. It will be patchy, but will take most of it out. Only done it once so far, and its in a plait down my back, so not sure what has happened so far.

[Cinnamon]

My youngest is a serial hair dyer, & has been after stripping her hair back,then bleaching it out to dye it pillar box red.

The hairdresser did talk her out of it though,& she is just going to dye it black next,ready for her prom next week.

 

A lot of the crazy hair colours are semi permanent & fade really quickly - Cleo was advised to use baking powder or head & Shoulders to remove the colour quicker.

[hazard]

i was told to use baby shampoo to strip the colour out of my hair wash it daily it worked too

[welovemarmite]

i was told to use baby shampoo to strip the colour out of my hair wash it daily it worked too

 

mmmm wonder what id does to babies then???

[craftyhunnypie]

Someone once told me that baby shampoo had formaldehyde in it - don't know if it's true?

Baby shampoo - what does it do to babies??? Erm..makes them cry!

Emma.x

[CatieB]

I am fair haired but had jet black hair for a couple of years as a teenager . I decided I wanted it gone as you do when you are young. Anyway I spent two days in the hairdressers and I remember that at one point I had hair the colour of lucozade and at another it looked quite green (I forget in which order). My mum came in at one stage and exclaimed OMG what have you done to my daughter

 

Suffice it say I ended up with hair of straw that was chav blonde - it didnt stay like that for long and was red next I think. So I do not have good memories of hair stripping and if you are trying to strip to many shades lighter I would say visit the hairdresser

[squiffs]

I'm fair haired and from the age of 16 -21 my hair was every colour of the rainbow - and even black/red black/blue and black/purple at one point - I bought a top range hair pre-lightener, slapped it on at home, then put a medium brown over it to cover up the ginger - and a couple of weeks later put a colour on quite close to my natural colour 'natural dark blonde' - loreal excellence creme or something similar - worked perfectly and 2 months later with a lot of root regrowth everyone comments on how natural and healthy it looks in comparison to how it used to be. All in all cost me about 25 quid (but I have dyed and bleached my hair A LOT in the past 6 years, so I was confident to do drastic things to it myself, understandably some people may not feel comfortable doing this themselves).

[LolaLayla]

My son tried the baby shampoo as it had been recommended before he used the stripping lotion but it did not seem to alter the colour. Although it was supposed to be blue it was really blue/black. The hairdresser said if you go very dark that is where the problems can occur. Lucozade was the shade he got too But the brown rinse certainly fixed it and you would not know that his colour wasn't natural. I do remember that when he put the stripper on the smell was very bad and it seemed to still smell when he showered and went to school the next day with his hair still damp. Infact a teacher said he was surprised he had attended school that day looking (orange) and smelling so bad

[squiffs]

Head and Shoulders is a really good thing to use if you're unhappy with the result of a bright/drastic hair colour - but will only lighten it a certain amount. The more colour you take out of the hair before lightening it the better, as the darker the colour underneath the more vibrant and intense the salmon/lucozade colour spectrum will be and the lighter the hair the more pure white/canary yellow it will go. Also the longer the colour has been on your hair the harder it will be to fade with any product apart from pre-lightener or stripper. It works best when you've freshly dyed your hair - and in comparison those hair products should be avoided when you've dyed your hair.

 

Last time I stripped my hair the ends were a dark plum colour whilst root regrowth and less coloured hair nearer the top was closer to mahogany. The ends went fluorescent orange, the roots white and the bit in between was a peroxide blonde/yellowy colour. Washing it a few times with conditioner to put moisture back into it and then waiting til the next day to put a muted colour on it (temporary or semi permanent with no peroxide or ammonia!) will help you achieve a more even colour when you dye it properly after a couple of weeks.