Hair too dark! Help!!

Hi,

I've been using Wella Color Charm to color my hair for about 10 yrs and love it!  I have been using 5NW and had a nice medium brown.  My husband wanted to go a tad darker, won’t listen to him again LOL,  so I used 3NW and now it is almost black.  It is WAY too dark now and I'm want to go back to the color it was. 

The formula I was using was 4oz Developer, 1.75oz of 5NW and .25oz of 336.  I tried to use that and there was no difference in the color.  I then tried the same formulation but instead of the 5NW color I used 740 1/2.  It lightened up slight bit but not enough.  Can anyone suggest what color I need to use to be able to get back to more light/med brown, please, I’m desperate !! ?????

Thank you for your time,
Heidi


Edited by hhalliburton - January 25 2010 at 7:47pm

I've had the same problem, a lot of dyes come out way too dark on me due to porous hair. I once used a light brown that came out black!

Don't worry, it will fade a bit. However, you can use a color stripper to get most of the color out, if you don't want to wait. Drug stores sell something called Color Oops and Sally's has a few products to choose from.

It'll leave you with kind of an orangy mess of hair, so you have to dye over it. I would suggest using a level 5 with an ash or a neutral base with no warm in it to neutralize the orange.

If by some chance you are lucky enough not to get any orange after stripping it, then I'd just try your usual 5NW , but maybe in a demi to avoid damage. You're hair might be kind of fried and frizzy for a while because the color stripper is strong stuff.