Comments on How to Remove Hair Dye From Your Hair

This is excellent advice except for one thing: L'Oreal's Color Zap does NOT return your hair to it's natural color. It has a lightening effect and if you've dyed your hair a dark shade it will leave it reddish orange, ready for you to apply a new color. If you don't apply it evenly or quickly you will wind up with patches of orange and red, even yellow - just like with bleach. The shampoo suggestions are spot on though.

Ha, I need to post this somewhere visible in my house!

Thanks for this, Alicia.. I'm a very amateur hair colorist and mess up way to much

I dyed mine too red, then tried to correct it and got black. Now I am trying to correct that, what a mess.

You didn't look like Halloween..maybe a little goth..a few piecings and purple lipstick then there ya go. Been there with the too dark hair color, good to know there is hair dye remover.

Thank goodness for modern chemistry, hairdye remover saved the day, it's no longer Halloween here!

I got medium ash brown and it is mostly black.....I feel like I'm dressed up for Halloween:(

i do but i don't i don't like the shade..... i wanted the brown and this just isn't quite what i wanted..... but like a few shades darker :)

U don't like ur hair now

I was a bit lighter than a dirty blond... but I was aiming for a chocolate brown... it turned out old lady blond :/ and I am like grrrrrrr now my hair does NOT! look good at all...

i did the same thing...want this caramel out , but will either have to grow it out,,or seek help from a salon unless i dare color myself again!

i did that once,had to get loreal hair color remover..it made my hair red and dry but what else could i do ?

did it work ?

I dyed my hair dark brown but I want to put it back to my natural color is it possible I'm naturally dirty blongd with light streaks and I used hair dye from the drug store please someone help.

yeah bby

Ive gone from blonde (pic) to very dark brown/red....Ahhh I need rid lol the head and shoulders is working though after 3 washed :-)

i never bothered.. i used dawn.. it took most of the color out. i read a home remedy page that said dawn dish soap would fix it.. it isnt back to my old color but it is back to a managable blondish red that looks more natural.

Did the colour zap work ???

I used semi-permanent, ive got roots now, its faded and I just want my natural hair colour back.. any help?

You've left me wondering, as a naturalist, what the natural Katherine plumage is; lol! Jorge de la Jungla.

Don't worry luv red always wash off quickly.

I have gone from a strawberry blond to a dark red head which is much too dark, I am now trying to remove the colour by washing it out. It serves me right I should have just kept up the maintainence with colour mouse instead now I am way too dark red ( a real shock) I now realize that the colour will fade with each wash so I will have to be patient!

i have normal blonde hair.. i wanted change.. i just dyed my hair red last night and i hate it. i made a mistake and i have buyers remorse. my neighbor girl said we could strip it completely of color with some chemical and then dye it back to my real color. that may work for you.. as for me i am going to try loreals color zap first.. i did it last night and i am hoping i can just go back to normal boring old me.. i think ill tap my feet together 3 times and chant theres no place like home too.. just for good measure

I can't help you, but it's funny how women just love to change just for the sake of change. I hear ya! As soon as I get my perfect look, I am so over it! Is it better to have a perfect look and keep it forever, or do imperfect looks that suit your mood at the moment? The eternal question... Good luck! Go to a salon and all will be well (but not as much fun, I agree...)

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