COLOR TOO DARK!!
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Forum Name: Hair Color
Forum Description: The tricks and tribulations of changing your hair color
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Printed Date: July 30 2025 at 10:58pm
Topic: COLOR TOO DARK!!
Posted By: doxygirl
Subject: COLOR TOO DARK!!
Date Posted: June 20 2008 at 10:43am
I just colored my hair which is med. mousey brown with some gray with Clairol Nice and Esay Med. Ash Brown adn now I look like a goth wannabe---I called Clairol and they said I couldn't so anything for 4-6 weeks. I looked on line and found Prell and Baking Soda as possibilities--anyone try either--something else? I can't afford to go to a professional. Am I just stuck? I am afraid that if I do too much I'll just turn my hair red. ------------- doxygirl |
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Posted By: karen s
Date Posted: June 20 2008 at 11:13am
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Simply by using washing up liquid will help fade your colour a little. You can use baking soda, but can really make your hair dry.
Karen  ------------- karen sanderson |
Posted By: doxygirl
Date Posted: June 20 2008 at 11:30am
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Thanks!
------------- doxygirl |
Posted By: asiabo
Date Posted: June 20 2008 at 3:19pm
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also clarifying shampoo works well to fade color, but make sure you condition really well after especially if you go the dish soap route! ------------- Before/After toning with Wella 
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Posted By: Slipknothartgir
Date Posted: June 21 2008 at 12:50pm
| U could try colorfix,but that can make it turn dark again if u color with a dark color afterwards.I'd try color fix & then buy a light ass color, so that way it won't turn dark.I had to do that.I worked.I wish u had pics. |
Posted By: shortcake
Date Posted: June 27 2008 at 5:51pm
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The same thing happened to me yesterday. That's how I found this forum... trying to fix my way too dark color. I used Nice n Easy Light Ash Brown and instead I got dark brown hair with coppery-red. Clairol is refunding me my money for the two boxes I used and told me to go to a salon to "have them fix it". I told her "Gee, if I could of afforded salon color, don'tcha think I would of done that?" I have been coloring my hair at home for years using L'oreal and never had this problem. I'm going to try several of the lightening suggestions... I pray they work. |
Posted By: doxygirl
Date Posted: June 28 2008 at 10:19am
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I found this forum that suggested 3 parst lemon juice (I used fresh but some people used RealLemon) and 1 part conditioner leave it on a long time--then dry it and then rinse with more plain lemon juice--some pople shampooed and conditioned again--I just rinsed--I had to do this 2 x but it took the color out better than Prell or clarifying shampoo--but it took me back to a coppery color (which s probably what the N&E did when it lifted some of my original color). I then waited 24 hours and used UNRED in conditioner and left that on for about 2 hours then washed out. I put it on dry hair. Then the next day used 10 drops UNRED with my shampoo and the color is almost normal. A lot of work but it looks so much better than it did before. Good luck--website is www.tipking.co.uk Try this before you spend a lot of money. I also got my hair cut shrther tahn usual with lots of layers--and that helped too. ------------- doxygirl |
Posted By: xonikkiox
Date Posted: July 03 2008 at 6:10pm
| wash it with cheap shampoo, it should help fade the dye really quickly. i also used a medium ash brown a few weeks ago on top of pre lighterned hair, and it is now a light brown with undertones of auburn, i think most box dyes absorb lots of the dye then tend to fade very fast. if worse comes to worse, you could always pre lightern and then get a very light ash brown to cancel out the orange. good luck! |