Color doesn't lift color, so what you need to do first of all is to get Colorfix and try to get rid of the old dye. And then dye/tone the hair with the right color.

If you have natural black hair, you can go two way. One is to get a brown highlift dye, or lighten the hair to orange with bleach, then tone with a neutral base brown dye or toner.

good luck

frizzylizzy wrote: Hola! I have long happy black curly hair, and I really want to color it brown. I tried Natural Instints in Ash brown but it ended up looking like midnight black. The color is gone now, thank you lord! What can you suggest? thanks!

Semi-Permanent Hair Color is Deposit Only. It will not lift levels of hair color to a lighter color. Only Permanent hair color will lift the hair color to a lighter level. Semi and Demi Permanent colors only deposit color on the hair shaft where Permanent hair color raises the cuticle layer of the hair strand and allows the bleach to go into the hair shaft and lighten the color in the cortex of the hair follicle. If you want lighter hair color you need to use permanent hair color to lift the color level to the desired color you are striving for. Permanent hair color is best left up to salon professionals and as a professional stylist I don't recommend doing it yourself. That boxed stuff in retail stores is junk! Also if you don't know what your doing or leave it on too long you can overprocess and fry your hair.