Hair help!! Removing black dye, color oops?

Jan 29, 2016

Thanya J.

Okay, so I'm tired of my black hair.
I have really short hair like Peter Pan lol.

Like 6 months ago I had a crazy idea of going platinum blonde so I could dye my hair baby blue. My hair was like shoulder length. Through the process of bleaching my hair basically fell out to a pixie cut. Then I realized I could never get the look I wanted, so I dyed it black again, and got black hair extensions.

So now here I am, still have a pixie cut.
My hair is black I died it soft black like 2 months ago, and now I wanna change it again.

Since my hair is basically still blonde under this black, will color oops remove most of the black to at least light brown?

Please help!! I'm like stressing. Thanks!

Jan 29, 2016

Justine S.

Black dye tends the stain the hair shaft making it incredibly hard to remove and since you bleached your hair 6 or so months ago and damaged it to the point that it fell out I wouldn't suggest doing it. If you do decide to do it, I highly suggest doing to a professional for it.

Jan 29, 2016

Dorothea S.

Like Justine said I do recommend going to a salon. However, Color Oops or Color Fix are both very good for stripping hair of the black dye if your hair is in good enough condition. It'll take maybe two attempts to get it as light you'd like it to be, but it's worth it. When I dyed my hair dark brown/black I did it on top of each other for literally months and Color Fix did a good job seeing as I have red hair now

Jan 30, 2016

Thanya J.

Okay thanks, so I shouldn't do it myself? I don't really wanna go blonde again, I just want like my natural color.

I wanna grow out my hair as virgin as possible from now on. So I just wanna get this black out and leave it like that, hopefully it could even be ombré ( since I have regrowth, and hopefully the color remover gets my hair light brown)

Idk what to do tho::

Jan 30, 2016

Hannah K.

Hate to say this, but as your hair is so damaged already your best bet is probably to chop it all off and start again. That's if you want truly virgin hair and it means that bleaching your hair won't be so bad as it'll be virgin :)

Jan 30, 2016

Sarah W.

I've uses a hair color remover before and it worked for me. It brought my black dyed hair back to a light brown color. But I wouldn't do it again. It felt like it wasn't really safe for my hair. The smell was too overpowering of harsh chemicals.

Jan 30, 2016

Kylee H.

Please please please see a professional please!

Jan 30, 2016

Thanya J.

I have dark brown hair, my hair is super short, so maybe the color oops would work, or should I just leave it alone altogether? Like just let it grow out, and let the black wash out eventually in years?

Jan 30, 2016

Thanya J.

Like my natural hair is dark brown.

Jan 30, 2016

Ivanna O.

Lts very hard do remove black permanent box dye from the hair which is why I would get it done professionally. You see what happens when you use a box dye is that it has metallic salts and is an oxidative dye. Which means the color molecules start off really really tiny when you initially apply the color, making it easy for the color to make its way past the cuticle and into the cortex and as the developer's time mixed in with the color dye passes by, the molecules grow exponententially like 1000? its size while its inside the hair shaft making the color stay inside. and the metallic salts are what make it really difficult to remove color or even to apply a new color after you remove the the color with a color balance. what could potentially happen if you use a color remover at home and later on decide to color it again is that those metallic salts from the black dye will still be there even if you can't see it and it will basically change the color you wanted into something else but it won't be even. So your I'd say your best bet is to go to a salon so they can get the color out as thoroughly as possible. Or better yet, let your hair rest. :)

Jan 30, 2016

Thanya J.

I think I'm just going to leave it :) thanks.

Jan 30, 2016

Laura V.

I would leave it and let it grow out.