ahhh! orange hair! Please help!

Help, I`ve turned my medium to dark brown hair to orange! How can I dye it back? Can I use a medium or dark brown color to cover it... or what would be the best approach? Appreciate your time!

Yes, you are infiinitely better off going to a salon and having a professional fix the problem. I did the same thing as you during my sophomore year in college. What a mistake. Our hair is simply too dark to dye light brown/blond with a single-step process. You would need to first bleach it (remove the natural color) then put a toner (lighter color) on top--but DO NOT attempt this at home; you are almost guarenteed disaster. Brown hair has natural reddish highlights that become apparent when you attempt to lighten it using a single-step dye. The dye alone cannot lift your color all the way to light brown/blond and therefore stops at red.

You are FAR better off going to a salon and having a colorist match your natural color with an artificial one. Trying to do it yourself just judging by the pictures on the dye boxes is next to impossible. You will have better luck just spending the extra cash and getting it done right. Good luck!

Really?? You only have one salon in your town?

Look in the yellow pages...maybe there is stylist that is an IC or works on her/his own??

Yeah I would be pretty peeved if a hairdresser laughed at me! I would walk out without a second thought!! I pay a pretty penny to get haircoloring services done and if they DARED to laugh at me well lets just say they wouldnt have a very good reputation after I got done with them!!!!

I used Clairol Natural Instincts (level 2 haircolor) in medium ash brown--really helped to tone orange color.