Talk to me about your hair color oopsies!!

[disneychick0412]

I always color my hair at home, never any problems! I have medium brown hair naturally, but am approaching 30 and have quite a bit of gray's shining through. I usually dye my hair a shade either lighter or darker than my natural color.

For some reason, this time I decided to go for dark brown! I KNEW BETTER!! I should have known it would go darker, so now my hair looks BLACK!! I hate it!

I have looked up home "remedies" and have tried a few of those to try and fade it. (Prell, Dawn dish liquid) Nothing has worked so far. Hopefully repeated shampoos will help. I called the place where I normally get my hair cut, and explained the situation. She said that she would have to see it, but didn't really give me much hope.

Now I don't know how long I should wait until I try to recolor and if I should try a much lighter color to try and get it headed back in a lighter direction.

Now I want to hear your hair color oopsies. (if nothing else than to make me feel better! ) Let me know what you did to "fix" your hair.

 

[disneychick0412]

Nobody has a story or any tips?

 

[princess.chell]

Oh I have many many stories about this.
I have jet black hair. Being in 5th grade I hated it because everyone else's hair was pretty because it wasn't black. So I went through a 4 year phase of highlighting it really bad "light browns"/ reds and other colors that I look back and say "*** was I thinking?!?!". End of freshman year I dyed it back to natural black but couldn't get the color to go away completely.
and...
Last October I decided I wanted something radically different from my school. I had a family friend come over and put blue streaks in my hair. Think Tina from Glee but darker because hers are fake extensions. We had to bleach it first. It was semi-perminate so it would fade after 2-3 weeks and I could just re-do. Guess what I haven't had time to do yet being a senior? Re-dye my hair. It faded to green, to light green, to now close to bleach blonde! Thankfully, its underneith so you cant really see it. But the blue will be redone this weekend!

 

[melanie18]

I've colored my hair myself since I was 21. I'm 41 now. Once while dying it an auburn color years ago, it came out jet black. I called the customer service # on the box & they told me to do multiple hot oil treatments on it and then re-color.

It did lighten it, but not as much as I would've liked.

 

[PolyndianPrincessJes]

Color won't lift color, so the more color you pile on, the darker it will get. Wash with clarifying/cleansing/purifying shampoo (or anything along those buzz words). That's what I tell clients NOT to use to avoid fading. They treat color like dirt and it fades quicker. Paul Mitchell Shampoo 3 is a great one for this purpose. Unless you have oily hair, over-shampooing can really dry you out, so don't go too crazy with it.

If you used a drug store color (L'Oreal, Feria, etc.), it's most likely a demi-permanent color and will fade on its own in about six weeks. Other than that, once you go dark, color removal and lightener are the only surefire ways to go light again (without just growing it out). Both are equally damaging, but if it's really bugging you, definitely go to your stylist to do those processes. For instant gratification, throwing in some highlights will lighten you up with the least amount of damage.

Or chalk it up to the new vampire trend and say you're going goth.

 

[Bluestars]

My only advice would be to go to a hair salon and have them lighten it, but maybe someone here knows how to do it at home. That someone is not me. I do, however, have a hair story.

Many years ago, I decided I wanted to lighten my medium brown hair. I used a color that made my hair have an orange tint. This was not good.

So....I went to the store and bought something that was supposed to undo the hair dye, or something like that. After I used that, my hair nightmare began. Part of my hair was brown and part of it was white. Not only that, it felt like straw. I started freaking out big time.

I had a family member run to the store and get a very dark brown color. I used that and it worked perfectly. But I never again tried to color my own hair. I go to a hair salon and get it highlighted. It always looks great.

I hope you are able to get the color to fade. I think it usually fades a little in the first week or so, but you probably don't want to wait that long.

Good luck. I know how stressful this can be.

 

[Kae]

along with deep cleaning shampoos or dawn use cheap deep condtiner like kolestoral go to a place like Sally beauty supply it wiil help push the color out.

Let's see my biggest mistake I turned my hair Fushia(not apretty fushia either) once, I was a stylist at the time & it was my 30th bday. So the radio station does birthday call prank style & they said they were Dennis rodman looking for a new Colorist

Any way I fixed it & it was the color I have ever had but had to go thru a few extra steps to get it there so it wont be happening anytime soon.
kae

 

[cheermom1]

I dyed my hair purple once...it was supposed to be something else I can't remember it was so long ago...that was a job for a professional!!!!

 

[Soarin08]

I'm a dark blonde, and I wanted to go light blonde one time. My mother decided to color my hair, used TWO KITS, and turned my hair snow white!!!! Needless to say, we went to the salon the next day and fixed it! I now have banned my mother from touching my hair.

 

[LindaR]

Oh, YES! I have 2 stories! They both happened in the same weekend and just days before a trip to WDW.

Can't remember how old my daughter was (middle school, I think 7th grade) but she has blond hair and liked to have highlights (lightly) done. She had been to a salon several times for this. At that time, I was coloring my brown hair (auburn). We decided to try coloring at home......by OURSELVES! I would highlight her hair and she would color mine. Big mistake.

I used this "paint-on" highlighting stuff, didn't know what I was doing and basically gave her a skunk stripe down the center of her head that was almost platinum (she has light golden blond hair) and REALLY stood out.

My hair ended up a purple shade????

I laughed. She cried. Fortunately, I got us both in (emergency appointments) to a stylist who specializes in color (and she has been our stylist since that day!). I even took her out of school! She had to go to school with her hair slicked back into a ponytail to "hide" the white streak down the center!

NEVER tried coloring at home again. There is a reason they are professionals. They went to school to do this. I did not. I am trained in something else.

We laugh our rears off about it NOW.......

 

[apirateslifeforme]

A few years ago, while my hairdresser was on maternity leave, I decided to see what I'd look like with gothic black hair. At the time, I had burgundy (yes, burgundy...like a dark red with purplish undertones) hair with gold stripes in the top only. I picked out a home dye called "midnight ruby." On the package, it it looked black with red undertones. It did come out VERY black...but those gold stripes on the top of my head turned out pinkish-purple! It was interesting, to say the least