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Home hair disaster...what can i do?

I have been dying my hair at home for years now and everything had been fine. Then I (stupidly) tried a new colour which turned my hair orange. I then dyed it again to a dark brown and was left with some hair black and the rest orange.

I didn't want to make it any worse so I went to the hair dressers who said stripper would be too harsh and to dye it again using a brown and hopefully it will even it out.

I did this and now the top of my hair is a brown colour and the rest is black (even though i didn't use a black hair dye). I don't know what to do, I keep washing my hair using head and shoulders as I heard this fades it. I don't want to dye my hair again as I have dyed it 3 times in 48 hours!

I am giving my hair a break from it all but will the dark brown and brown hair dye fade after a week or so?? Or will it stay black? Just to point out again I haven't used a black dye!

It was permanent colour although all of the other permanent colours never last long on me!

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Are they all permanent? After about a week the intensity of the colour will fade but you'll still be left with one part of your hair being slightly darker as whilst the black will fade, the brown is likely to as well. Two things you can do really - You could use semi's until it has faded enough to dye it all one colour again, semi's are actually very good for your hair so won't be doing it any lasting damage. You could just keep that topped up whilst the permanent colour is fading. You could always just try and dye the lighter part of your hair and miss out the darker part to even it out that way. If you put a colour stripper on your hair then as you know it'll become really fragile. Another thing you can do is ask your hairdresser about the colour wheel thing because using a dye which is heavy on one colour cancels out any excess of any other. Green/ash based dyes for example cancel out any red if your hair goes red quite easily when dyed.

Don't know how helpful that is but hope you get it sorted! I did something similar to my hair once but it was with a semi, washed it about 10-11 times in a row and after a few days it faded to quite a nice colour. Don't panic too much though, it'll be a lot less dramatic in a week or two :)

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• Ones niece did something similar. It cost one a hundred quid at the bally old hairdressers to sort the dashed thing out!