Bad hair job, help!

I just got my hair dyed 20 minutes ago to dark brown and it came black! How can I naturally enlighten it? I tried washing it loads of times and steam. An other ideas? The salon as***les don't want to fix it because it's too early to dye. I need this fixed in 48 hours.

HELP!!!

P.S. Is lemon any help? I'm willing to try. Any other ideas?

I can't vouch for it myself, but a quick Google search gave me the suggestion to use Original Prell shampoo with hot water.  Quite a few people have said that this worked for them.

Here's a link to some other forum with lots of suggestions. Hope something helps!

You can use a color remover (within 48 hours I believe).  

 Walgreens and probably other places carry "Color Oops!"

http://www.walgreens.com/beauty/product.jsp?C ATID=304384&navAction=jump&navCount=0 &skuid=sku2179941&id=prod2180463

Believe it or not, Johnson's baby shampoo is known to strip hair color.

If you're really desperate... when I had lice in middle school, the shampoo to kill the bugs turned my medium brown hair very close to blonde.

Is it a permanent colour or a semi-permanent dye? Last year, I experimented with semi-permanent and made the same mistake as you - it turned out gothic black! Because I knew my mother would kill me if she knew I tried to dye my hair, I tried a number of things, and by the time they came home from work, nobody noticed anything. These are the remedies I found and I tried them all:

• I shampooed my hair using washing up liquid. (Make sure to condition well after that!)
• I shampooed over and over again using a clarifying shampoo, to which I added baking soda (you can just add the soda to a regular shampoo too!)
• I covered my hair with warm olive oil, wrapped in cling film and blew with hot air from a hair dryer, and then washed out well (apparently it enlarges the hair cuticle, allowing some colour to escape)

My hair returned to pretty much its original colour, however I'm not sure if it was a combination of these steps which worked, or just one of them which worked.

I'm not sure what colour your hair is naturally either, as I dyed mine just a little darker, from dark brown to black (it looked very dark brown on the box!)

Good luck!

Original Post by dawniecampbell:

Believe it or not, Johnson's baby shampoo is known to strip hair color.

I have heard this as well.

I just posted the two colours in my journal.

Here's the link:

http://caloriecount.about.com/users/babyboo-k ate/216527.html

I can't say that I don't like it because that's the colour of my hair HA ha! But I would go to another hairdresser and just don't tell them.

The trouble with that colour is it's hard to lift because it's so dark, you need a developer to a minimum of 30% for any other colour to take and hold. So unless you have a salon supply shop where ordinary folk can shop really your only hope is a different hairdresser because standard home kits don't usually do that %.

edit to add: oh I forgot, if that was not the colour you asked for, then the salon is responsible, I wouldn't ask them to fix it I would demand that they do and it should be done for nothing because they botched it up. A one off will not cause damage to your hair.

Make sure the salon fixes the mistake free of charge, but I would advise listening to any recommendation they provide, as far as timing.

Original Post by death_rocket:

Make sure the salon fixes the mistake free of charge, but I would advise listening to any recommendation they provide, as far as timing.

f**king Romanian people, death_rocket. they still think they're in the communists' era where I live right now, since I am at my grandma's home town.

Original Post by babyboo-kate:

Original Post by death_rocket:

Make sure the salon fixes the mistake free of charge, but I would advise listening to any recommendation they provide, as far as timing.

f**king Romanian people, death_rocket. they still think they're in the communists' era where I live right now, since I am at my grandma's home town.

 I wouldn't cross a Romanian.  They may be gypsies or even worse... VAMPIRES

Original Post by babyboo-kate:

Original Post by death_rocket:

 

f**king Romanian people, death_rocket. they still think they're in the communists' era where I live right now, since I am at my grandma's home town.

 Don't know what that has to do with your hair?!

I know you posted this a few days ago... Aside from a professional color removal and correction, the best and least damaging way to remove color is Prell shampoo. It will remove more color than any other clarifying shampoo. Lemon is not strong enough to make an impact on color once it has bonded to your hair and it will dry out your hair as well. Using any type of steam or heat will lock the color into your hair, especially if you use them within a few days of the chemical process.

Also, I have my hair professionally dyed dark brown and it always looks black for a few days after. Color takes 24-48 hours to fully penetrate and oxidize once it has been rinsed out. Give it some time before you freak out too much...it will relax  

Hope that helps..good luck!

Original Post by anndjoe:

Original Post by babyboo-kate:

Original Post by death_rocket:

f**king Romanian people, death_rocket. they still think they're in the communists' era where I live right now, since I am at my grandma's home town.

Don't know what that has to do with your hair?!

It's a pretty small town..with a lot of old, communist dudes at the hair salon :)

OK..

So I bought a dye that both bleaches and colours hair...and nothing happened. This is my hair in this journal entry I have now:

http://caloriecount.about.com/users/babyboo-k ate/217160.html

I don't know how I feel about it :|.