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Is the hair dye permenant?

hrmm.. if you want your hair to go back to how it was the best thing would be just to leave it till it grows out, or you could dye it back and you might get a bad case of green hair if it works at all.
green hair can be cured though by putting tomato ketchup on your hair leaving it for a while then washing it out (this really works believe me i tried it) you may smell like tomatos for a few days though.
failing all that buy a nice hat :P

Hair dye is permanent. And you can’t get it out without ruining your hair. If you indeed wish to change it, it is smart to contact the hair dye producer. He might have some information. If not, you’ll be tough luck. What also might work, is non-permanent hair dye. this only covers the surface and therefore doesn’t **** up your hair. It is an expensive solution though. But a solution either way.

hmm an interesting fact for ya–> hair dyes can cause balding; extensive use can cause cancer.

Ur natural hair colour should look good.

Call your local hair stylist. I’ve heard that washing your hair with laundry detergent will lighten it but I wouldn’t try it without contacting a professional.

Wash it daily and the color does always fade. It just takes a week or so.

If you wait a couple of days and die it again, a dark brown, you should be ok. Just condition it alot.

go to the hairdressers&speak to a professional :)

by the way emmacaitlin, you look quite cute the way you are now. Why change it? perhaps you just need to get used to it?

emmacaitlin. wrote:
Btw its a permanant colour. Will colouring it in about a week or so affect the colour (by this i mean going green ?!).

Yes, but green is just one of the possible outcomes. It could be yellow, or purple, or even not even. It will most likely not become any lighter though. (what haircolour did you use (brand etc.)?

Have you considered getting light brown streaks ? It might just break up the harshness of the black without having to re dye the entire bulk of the hair.

by the way, what is your eye colour?

Mas 1st wrote:
They apply a solution of peroxide to restore the hair to zero colour and then re-dye it

yes, however in the proces your hairs keratine-structure will become totally ruined. If you have thick strong hair, you could salvish it, if you don’t your hair will become dry, frizzy and possibly even break to pieces. And remember that peroxide is used for removing NATURAL hair colour. So you must make sure that your chemical dye doesn’t react with the peroxide. Our your hair could become, say, pink?

yes. But most hairdressers are capable of doing it too you know. (it is the only way to make dark hair blond) And he will possible now much more about hair, then your evarage chemist.

Mas 1st wrote:
Technical college - where hairdressers go to train a few days a week

seriously? Then what do you call a college in technical courses?

You wont be able to dye it light brown. You can only go darker and darker, unless you are prepared to use a bleach of some kind to bring it back a few shades

Mas 1st wrote:
If you are serious go to your local technical college and they will ’strip’ out the black dye. They only charge for the materials so it wont cost much.

However - stripped hair is more fragile - take a picture with you of your natural colour so they can re-dye it as a match.

You will then need to take very good care of your hair until it grows out.

p.s. dont put washing powder anywhere near it - it makes black turn orange.

Good luck - Mas

Good to know, thanks Mas. I wondered if the old detergent myth was true or not.

Emma, are you sure it looks that bad? You know we are often the most critical of ourselves. I can understand though with you not liking it the effects it would have on your self esteem…

If you are that bothered see a hair stylist and have it put right. That way you aren’t taking the chance of making it worse. It will lighten as you wash it.

Tints/colours add colour to the hair.
Bleach and high lifts remove colour.

Black is the darkest colour you can go, tint on tint will not lighten a black colour, so no, adding brown will do nothing at all to your hair.

Bleach is the only thing that will lift the colour out and you will probably not get as light as you want right away.

Oh, I should add I am a hairdresser :D

In any case. I think dyeing your hair again, isn’t that good of an idea. How about getting curls?

but do you know the chemical colourant in your hair dye? Because we might be able of sloving it chemically!

Mas 1st wrote:
I’n guessing she should be able to get up to mid-brown and if Lucif ever offers to cut your hair - run

Never been much of a hairdresser no…

~LazyDaze wrote:
Oh, I should add I am a hairdresser :D

Phew! There ya go Emma :)

Mas 1st wrote:
I’n guessing she should be able to get up to mid-brown and if Lucif ever offers to cut your hair - run

Mid brown if she is lucky, bleaching black is one of the hardest to do, red being the hardest.

She will probably go quiet patchy with browny orange appearance so just bleach alone is not ideal, you need to bleach to strip as much of the black out and then add a tint after that.

Mas 1st wrote:
I’n guessing she should be able to get up to mid-brown and if Lucif ever offers to cut your hair - run

lol

Bleaching your own hair is not a wise idea though unless you are fully stocked up on bleach and all sorts of colours because it is a VERY tempremantal thing, it could go perfect or it could go bright amber, it;stouch and go :S

I would recommend NOT useing a high peroxide, 60% is a NO, Best off with 30-40% vol peroxide

emmacaitlin. wrote:
miss egnima - the black dye i put in my hair was permanent.lucif - i am really thinking about dying it to a brown or a lighter colour will this make any change to the black ?Will it be a dar brown ?

Are you reading anything I have said??

Mas 1st wrote:
I’m retiring for a lie down in a darkened room

Migrane? (sp)

LOL ok..
I am starting to feel that way too :D

emmacaitlin. wrote:
miss egnima - the black dye i put in my hair was permanent.lucif - i am really thinking about dying it to a brown or a lighter colour will this make any change to the black ?Will it be a dar brown ?

I adress the same arguments as lazydaze. It is just impossible to redye your hair and make it lighter without the use of bleaching-alike chemicals. (didn’t know about the red though) You can only paint it darker.

In the meanwhile; hairextentions? just changing your appearence all together? If you seem pale, lie in the sun, just a little bit more?

lol emma, you need to listen to lazy. She is making sense here.

I actually used hi-lift 40% in my hair for streaks, and it’s really good stuff. It actually allows you to either leave it in for a long time for blonde, or wash it out a little earlier for brown. It doesn’t seem to go that horrible orange

emmacaitlin. wrote:
lazydaze - i am listening to you.Isnt bleach different to hair dye ?

Yes bleach is different.

You can’t use hair colour to remove black, I am trying to tell you that.
A brown hair colour will do NOTHING to your hair, you need to remove colour not add it.

It sounds like you’ve dyed your hair a lot though, so be expecting to have to go into damage control.

Once you add bleach or a stripper, your hair could turn rubbery and break off.

Have you seen that happen lazy ? God that happened to my hair once when I was younger. I nearly died.

Gabz wrote:
It sounds like you’ve dyed your hair a lot though, so be expecting to have to go into damage control.Once you add bleach or a stripper, your hair could turn rubbery and break off.Have you seen that happen lazy ? God that happened to my hair once when I was younger. I nearly died.

Yeah, I have seen that happen, not usually with bleaching tints out though but more with women who constantly bleach their hair to platinum or something.
It’s horrid when wet, feels like chewing gum, all tacky and stretchy.

One woman had her hair permed a day after she bleached it, she did it all herself at home, when I looked at her hair I was shocked it had not meted and snapped it was that awful and she was insisting she wanted it bleached a little lighter…
Excuse me while I run out the back door LOL NOT touching that hahaha

lmao

emmacaitlin. wrote:
I am really scared.Im only 13 and dont want to be bald.My mum isnt supporting me and i havent got any money to have professional work done to it. I dont want black but i dont want to use bleach and spend a lot of money.

Right, I really recommend you go read some facts about over colouring the hair first and then come back and ask for opinions because you are being rather on the dense side now, sorry, not trying to be nasty but I am giveing you the answers here and you are replying with myths…

Only option ?

emmacaitlin. wrote:
So what your saying is my best option is to bleach my hair ?

OMG grr.. lol
It is not the BEST option it is the ONLY option, there is NO other way to get your har lighter from black other than bleach…

emmacaitlin. wrote:
How much will it cost ?

For what?
To bleach it yourself at home of get it done in a salon?

Emma, I am going to unsubscribe from this now.
I have given you some answers and untill you have a look and read some sites on bleaching and/or hair colour overuse then there is not much I can tell you that you will understand.

Feel free to shout me if you have any more questions that I haven’t already given the answer too.

roflmao

emmacaitlin. wrote:
Ok i have a question.
How much will it cost to bleach my hair at home ?

probably your hair. so go to the hairdressers

lucif wrote:

emmacaitlin. wrote:
Ok i have a question.
How much will it cost to bleach my hair at home ?

probably your hair. so go to the hairdressers

I think you may be right, I mean I would normally say no it won’t as most people have a little common sense.

Emma luv, go to the hairdressers, I don’t think to be honest it is a wise idea you being left alone with any haor products.

well i was going to give you some advise but i think lazydaze has already done this as I’m too are in the profession..so got to the hairdressers and don’t think you know what your doing with bleach iv had to fix a lot of mess’s people have made and their have been times where iv said sorry cant help but ill tell you why..

I seriously don’t know anything about hair dye, but, all I can say is, dye it back to normal! It’ll suit you! I can promise that, for a fact, for sure!

youtubelover99 wrote:
I seriously don’t know anything about hair dye, but, all I can say is, dye it back to normal! It’ll suit you! I can promise that, for a fact, for sure!

That is the whole argument, getting it back to normal, you can’t just slap a brown colour on black and by majic your hair is back to the way it was.

well let as know how that go’s and lets hope you don’t cry at the end of it and i think you might have been lying to us! so you need to read what you told us!! now you have just told us “you contacted your hairdresser” so you had one all along!!MMMMM..

emmacaitlin. wrote:
Well i contacted my hairdresser and she is going to dye it back to brown for me without bleaching it so i guess your wrong. I can dye it back to brown (:

emmacaitlin. wrote:
Well i contacted my hairdresser and she is going to dye it back to brown for me without bleaching it so i guess your wrong. I can dye it back to brown (:

She is going to get it from black to brown with no bleach at all?

LMAO your gonna look a mess when she is finished thats for sure..

Goodluck