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Regret dying hair - what are the options?

  • 25-11-2014 7:05pm
    #1
    tomhenryford
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 421 ✭✭


    I'm asking on behalf of someone I know who got their hair dyed at the weekend and they hate it.

    It was a mousy brown to begin with and they got a lot of blonde highlights, 75% of the hair coloured, no bleach.

    Is there any way of reversing this without dying over it?

    They don't want to go back to the hairdresser that did it.

    Any help would be much appreciated, the person is quite upset. It took about 2 and half hours to do it if that's any help and the hair is about shoulder blade length and quite thick.


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    If the hair is lighter than it was it means the natural colour has been lifted from it. The only way to go back darker is to dye the hair again.

    If they aren't happy they should go back to the hairdresser who did it and explain what they want to happen now. It can be a bit risky to dye over highlights at home.


  • #3
    tomhenryford
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 421 ✭✭tomhenryford


    Candie wrote: »
    If the hair is lighter than it was it means the natural colour has been lifted from it. The only way to go back darker is to dye the hair again.

    If they aren't happy they should go back to the hairdresser who did it and explain what they want to happen now. It can be a bit risky to dye over highlights at home.

    Thanks, that's what they were wondering. She wasn't going to dye over it at home, she was just going to go to a different hairdresser.

    She was just wondering if there was any way of stripping the colour out but that sounds unlikely now.


  • #4
    Dial Hard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,228 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    tomhenryford wrote: »
    She was just wondering if there was any way of stripping the colour out but that sounds unlikely now.

    The colour is already stripped out, that's how bleach works.


  • #5
    tomhenryford
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 421 ✭✭tomhenryford


    Dial Hard wrote: »
    The colour is already stripped out, that's how bleach works.

    It wasn't bleach that was used though, that's why we're wondering if there is any kind of reversal available.

    She specially said she didn't want her hair bleached.


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    tomhenryford wrote: »
    It wasn't bleach that was used though, that's why we're wondering if there is any kind of reversal available.

    She specially said she didn't want her hair bleached.

    A separate bleach wasn't used, but if her hair is lighter, it's been bleached to some extent.

    You can remove hair colour that's darker than the natural, but the colour has already been subtracted with lightened hair. You can only add more on at this stage.


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