You've taken the plunge and gone with a permanent color or a strong semipermanent, but it's just not what you pictured. If you had it done at a salon, any good professional will be happy to adjust it if you're not completely satisfied. (Of course, you might want to think twice about returning to a person who botched the job in the first place.)
If you just can't live with it at all, a colorist can use a color remover to lighten your hair, but you run the risk of further damage and a brassy look and you'll probably have to dye it yet again. (There are color removers available in drugstores, but this process is best left to the pros.) If you've used a gentle semipermanent color, most of it will eventually wash out -- just keep shampooing. In any event, time and a haircut may be your best bets.
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by Julie Morvan from LaHabra CA on April 23, 2010
I put a soapcap on my clients hair to strip off a box color that was a brownish red, she wanted to be a blonde I put a matrix 508and a 9g on after the bleach sooapcap.. she has lighter roots and looks orange gold on the shaft. What color can I use to make her a darker blonde and take out thr orange tones....
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by Patty from Bristol, Tennessee on March 24, 2010
I put light ash blonde on my hair and now I'm RED. What should I do to get my blonde back? It's so ugly.
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by sylvia from pennsylvania on March 17, 2010
Just colored my hair with wella color charm(Light Auburn). Seems a little brassy. What can i tone it down with. My original hair was brown & blond highlights with some graying.
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by Paula Noto from clarks summit, pa on March 7, 2010
Natural hair color, mousy brown. Have been coloring to light blonde but always get a reddish tink. What color do I use "NOT" to pull up reds. Even my hairstylist can't seem to get it. It looks great in the shoppe but when I get home it looks reddish and is reddish in natural light. Please help. I'm not a red head person.
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by freddie Brook from COLORADO on February 15, 2010
on thursday there will be photos of black haicolor removal on COLOR EXPRESS.ORG..NO BLEACH OR AMONIA IS USED --THE PIGMENTATION OF THE HAIR IS NOT CHANGED AND THE HAIRCOLOR WILL NEVER GO DARKER
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by Lori Day from Texas on February 10, 2010
I had alot of gray and took the plunge and had my hair dyed with permanent hair color at salon. I picked med brwn. It came out pink on to and brown on ends. I returned to salon she added more color to top. Still Red on top and damaged. Can I color with a Natural Hair Color till grows out. What can I do too dark and red, and dont want to go back to salon. Please Help. I want my gray hair back it was prettier.
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by mary govea from shafter on February 2, 2010
hi i was trying to dye my hair light brown but it ended up being redish with the ends very dark what do i do
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by Marie from Texas on December 9, 2009
I used natural medium mahogany brown and it's to red what can I do????
Can I use another color of brown in a week to try and cover the red and if so which?
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by odette from cambridge on October 12, 2009
i think you should go to a hair salon and have it done correct as them home hair kits are not the best to use if you are adding pigment
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by Ashlee Kliesen on September 17, 2009
My sister colored her hair and she is a level 5 brunette and now her hair is purple what do you suggest we apply to turn it back to brown?
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by Sian from Basingstoke on September 5, 2009
MY HAIR HAS GONE BLACK!!!! WEN ITS MENT TO BE BLONDE!!! WHERE DO I GET COLOUR STRIP FROM AND HOW MUCH!!!
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by Leyanne Jones from Swindon on June 11, 2009
I am in desperate need of some advice.
I have been bleaching my hair for about 3 / 4 years now, I have a full head of bleach, however over the years, the stress this has put on my hair along with the use of GHD's has meant that my hair has snapped and in fact my long hair is now shoulder length :(
I love having really blonde hair, my natural colour is a darkish blonde and don't really want to go back to my natural colour, but I do want to stay blonde, but obviously the damage the bleach has caused has made me realise that I can't go on colouring it like this.
I also really want to be able to grow my hair long again, so I have stopped straightening it and now wear it natural, which is wavy / curly, I haven't had my hair bleached for a few months, however last time I had it coloured I asked my hairdresser to colour it with browns and blondes to try and gradually get rid of the bleach and be kinder to my hair. The problem is my hair is now so porous that the colour pretty much just washed straight back out.
I have no idea what to do now and was wondering if anyone could give me some advice as to where to go from here, I am at my wits end!
Please help!
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by Neome from ENGLAND on May 24, 2009
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ENDED UP WITH TOO RED/GINGERY LOCKS, THIS IS BECAUSE YOU HAVE A LOT OF RED PIGMENT IN YOUR HAIR. TO TONE THIS DOWN YOU NEED TO CHOOSE COOLER COLOURS - IN THE NEUTRAL/ASH/BEIGE LINE.
THE BOX SHOULD TELL YOU IF IT'S A COOL OR WARM COLOUR.
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by gemma from hertfordshire on March 13, 2009
hi there! about 2 months ago i put a home colour on my hair which stated medium brown but its BLACK its upsetting me i have around an inch of re growth of my natural dark blonde (which now looks white compared to the dark.what can i do without damaging my hair? i wont it lighter even blonde since i dyed it it has not faded one bit. HELP PLEASE!!!
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by Janet from Houston tx on March 4, 2009
The salon I went to colored my hair light brown and blonde highlights it was to way to light and blonde for me as I a have a olive color complexation so I added dark brown for 5 min and my highlights look gray. what should I do?
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by Lucy from home on February 28, 2009
I recently coloured my hair medium blonde but the ends didn't change colour just more golden and the roots have gone a yellow colour.I want to tone down the roots what can I use?
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by Judy from Hyannis on February 10, 2009
Ihave a young client who colored her own hair. The natural hair is a level 9. She has about 1"growth and the middle shaft is red level 7 the ends are alot darker. She will have the ends cut... Could I put a 7ash 10 vol on her to tone it down until it grows out???
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by Juanita Vasquez from wisconsin on February 9, 2009
My hair color ended up to red and i want to go to a medium ash brown. Can I add that color without damaging it?
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by Caoilfhinn from China on January 11, 2009
I coloured my hair last month.I ended up being disappointed with the colour.Actually the streaks look really bad.They are not the ones that i wanted.ANyways i was thinking if it's alright to recolour with a darker shade and make it all one colour.My hair now is light brown shade.What colour shoud i opt for.I just want to get rid of the streaks and make it all one colour.I don't want black.
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by jill from Ventura CA on November 15, 2008
My hair is tooo red and I need to fix it.. I used a auburn on brown hair with damaged bleached and brassy end and it is almost stop sign red HELP what can I do.. Can I dye it brown will that fix it???
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