How to Get Black Hair Dye Off of Skin?

Before you pick up the brush, protect your skin from a slipup.

Dying your own hair can be a good way to save money and get the results you want if you know what you're doing. However, doing it yourself can sometimes prove a little messy. Even though you should be wearing gloves when dying your hair, you might accidentally touch your skin with dye that's on the gloves, a bit might drip onto your neck or ears or you might get dye on your forehead and temples. However, you can easily prevent dying your skin or remove any dye that happens to get on your skin.

Things You'll Need

• Petroleum jelly
• Shampoo
• Professional hair-dye remover

Instructions

1. Start by preventing hair dye from getting on your skin. Use the petroleum jelly and coat the hairline across your forehead and down your temples, the tips of your ears and a little on the sides and back of your neck. This protects the dye from being absorbed into your skin and can be wiped off with a washcloth.

2. Remove any dye that drips onto an unprotected area of skin by immediately rinsing it off and then rubbing shampoo over the area. Rinse it off after a minute.

3. Buy a color-stain remover. Use this product only if the shampoo was unable to remove all the dye. Stores such as Sally's Beauty Supply sell color-stain removers meant for hair dressers to professionally remove hair dye from their clients' skin. They come in either a spray or cream. You can also put the product on a washcloth and apply it to the area you are treating.

References

• The Complete Book of Beauty by Helena Sunnydale

Resources

• Sally's color-stain remover