QuoteReplyTopic: Removing Hair Color Posted: April 22 2006 at 8:34pm
Is there any way to do this inexpensively? It's been a couple of months since I colored. I thought hair color was supposed to fade after a few weeks. I lightened mine a few shades, and the hair color still remains, no fading whatsoever. I want to go back to my natural shade, but despite baking soda rinses, harsh shampoo, etc., this dishwasher blonde and brassy (yes both) color will not go away!! I colored over it last month in medium brown - about a shade darker than my natural color - and it did nothing. I used a cheapo dye - Colorsilk, so maybe that is why. I don't want to color again because my hair is so dry already and I feel the dye won't stay put (why this ugly color stays put, I don't know). What's worse is that I have about an inch of my natural color grown, so I have the two-tone effect. Argh... is there anything I can do w/o spending a lot of money? I'm going to have about an inch cut off tomorrow - I know they will want to color it or suggest some expensive product, but I'd rather not put down money for something that may not work...
Lightening is permanent. When you lighten hair, you are removing
pigment from your hair, which gives it a lighter color, and the pigment
is not going to replace itself, its gone. Its possible the dye
you tried didn't do anything because your hair is more porous now that
its been lightened, but really, it should have done something, then
maybe faded in a few weeks....I don't know why it would have done
nothing at all. Your only risk in trying to dye it darker again is, as
you said, damage, and the wrong tones appearing through your
hair. So, if you try to go brown again with a different brand,
just be careful to test strand everything to make sure that it will
both work and that you don't get any funny colors.
p.s. You have a cat named Maisey? I have a cat named Maisy.
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Susan, yeap, my kitty is also a Maisey! That's neat - two owners of Maiseys on here. I came up with the name because I had a kitty before her named Daisy. I'm not that creative with names. I had a date once tell me that "Maisey is a mouse's name, not a cat's" - he said that he read books as a child about a mouse named Maisey. To that I replied, "whatever." I think Maisey is more suited to a cat than a mouse. People always comment on the name and say my kitty looks like a Maisey.
Anyway, thanks for the info. I think another reason why the last dye job didn't do anything is because I had a leave-in conditioner in my hair. I know the hair is supposed to be free of products first, but I forgot about this the night before.
I'll admit I didn't know that about the lightening process - that it erases the pigment. I figured that all color would fade over time. Silly me, I think all this hair color is seeping into my brain! I think I'm going to play it safe for awhile and avoid coloring. I don't like the dark roots, but maybe there is a way I can lighten them to match the rest of my hair. In the summer, my hair usually lightens naturally anyway. People on another site I visit rave about honey - its conditioning properties, and also its lightening properties. I think it would be hard to target the root area though, as most honey users mix it with conditioner and rinse it out. Someone also gave me a tip about peroxide - it can be applied to the hair and rinsed out - works as a lightener and is not supposed to be very damaging. I'm not sure about that - I guess since it is applied to wounds, it can't be that bad. So, I'm going to do some more research into these remedies. Thanks again!
As for peroxide, using it straight out of a medicine cabinet to lighten
your hair really isn't the best option. I had a friend that used
it (when we were kids) to get her dark brown hair to what she called
blonde, but it really wasn't blonde, it went through orange stages,
then went a bright crayon yellow which was very split, fried and
frizzy. Dyes made for hair do use peroxide to lighten the hair,
but they also have moisturizers in them made for hair, and base
colors to help the color come out a more natural blonde
shade. So, I'd recommend sticking with dyes or highlighting
kits made for hair instead of trying the stuff in the medicine cabinet
(believe me, when I was a teen I tried all that because I wasn't
allowed to buy real dye, and none of it comes out looking very
good!).
As for honey, I've heard of people using that as a conditioner, but I
never heard of anyone using it for lightening. I wouldn't have
expected that to lighten much. I have heard of people using lemon
juice, but unless your hair starts off dark blonde or lighter, it is
more likely to come out more orange than blonde after a lot of
applications. If you want to experiment, you can always just try it on
one small strand of hair to test it.
Yeah, I like the name too. My kitty is a tortoiseshell calico, and I
always thought it suited her. I've seen the kid's book Maisy, but
frankly, that mouse looks less like a Maisy than my cat!
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I think I'm going to play it safe for awhile and avoid coloring. I don't like the dark roots, but maybe there is a way I can lighten them to match the rest of my hair. In the summer, my hair usually lightens naturally anyway. People on another site I visit rave about honey - its conditioning properties, and also its lightening properties. I think it would be hard to target the root area though, as most honey users mix it with conditioner and rinse it out. Someone also gave me a tip about peroxide - it can be applied to the hair and rinsed out - works as a lightener and is not supposed to be very damaging. I'm not sure about that - I guess since it is applied to wounds, it can't be that bad. So, I'm going to do some more research into these remedies. Thanks again! 