How to Remove Green Hair Dye

It's always unfortunate when you dye your hair the wrong color, especially if the color is too bright and bold. If you try dying a different color right on top of freshly dyed hair, you run the risk of damaging and ruining your hair. Instead, the hair has to be stripped of the pigment. Doing this will take all color (including your natural color) out of the hair. When finished, the hair can be safely dye the color of your choice.

Things You'll Need

• L'Oreal Colorzap
• Old clothes
• Plastic gloves

Instructions

1. Buy Colorzap from a beauty supply store. Colorzap will strip the hair of the pigment, which needs to be done to get the permanent dye out of the hair.

2. Mix the activator liquid into the remover powder bottle that comes in the Colorzap box.

3. Pour the stripping liquid over all of your hair. Rub the pigment stripper into your hair until the hair is well saturated.

4. Leave the solution on for the amount of time specified on the instructions.

5. Wash out the pigment stripper. Once the pigment is gone, the hair will be an orange color. Your hair is now safe to dye any color of your choice.

Tips & Warnings

• If you have trouble finding your perfect shade, visit the Ladies' Home Journal website at www.lhj.com.

• Wear old clothes to protect your skin and plastic/latex gloves to protect your hands.

References

• Ladies' Home Journal
• L'Oreal Technique-Colorzap