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Nov 15, 2012
Dawn L.
I put Ion Color Brilliance's teal on my hair about 3 weeks ago now. It wasn't fading as much/as quickly as I'd hoped, so, I decided to try to cover it up with some medium brown. Bad idea, as I have found out...as I now have hunter green hair. :(
What is going to be my best bet to either strip the color and start over (Color Oops, maybe?) or dye color/brand to cover it up? I'm open to any and all suggestions? Thanks!
Nov 15, 2012
Izzy R.
This will damage your hair so much if you do it but strip it then dye it back to the color it was. Your hair will probably dry out a lot and might get a lot of breakage too.
Nov 15, 2012
Natalie T.
I used the same dye and I hated it. I had the worst time trying to remove that Ion junk of a turquoise dye. I tried Color Oops... No help. Color Oops and hair strippers only remove hair dyes and unnatural colors are vegetable stains. Since you did dye over it, I am not sure how that would work... I did make a little headway with a color stripper with bleach in it, which was One N Only's Color Fix. But its last step turned my hair much darker than it began... so I ended up with a darker forest green, sewer water color.
I read about home remedies for fading dyes and there were some methods that called for washing your hair with dawn dish soap (but I found it too drying after one rinse) so I just kept washing my hair over and over (with deep conditioning treatments in between) with Ion's Clarifying Shampoo. That worked enough for me to dye over it with a red. My hair was so damaged after all of that, my hair could no longer hold any color so I just bleached everything....
So my suggestion is to try washing it with a clarifying shampoo a couple of times and looking at how much headway you make. I wouldn't try dying it any darker without fading the color first, but I wouldn't take the more extreme measures of fading the color until you do a little more research or maybe try some strand tests. Just be gentle and don't push your hair, and buy some deep conditioning treatments to try and keep your hair from becoming as dry as it will. My "go to" is the Hask Henna n' Placenta packets you can buy at Sally's or CVS.
Good Luck =)
Nov 15, 2012
Dawn L.
I'm afraid of that, too. :( A friend of mine who is a cosmetologist (altho she's not actually SEEN my hair since all of this...lol), said that if I put a red dye on it, it'd help counter the green, but I am afraid it won't work. She said otherwise, the stripper's gonna be the best option, too.
Nov 15, 2012
Dawn L.
Thanks, Natalie! I will be making a trip to Sally's tomorrow! ;) I am gonna try to get as much of it faded out as I can and then try putting red over it I think...I'm just petrified to put bleach or a stripper on it right now.
Nov 15, 2012
Natalie T.
I did have red hair before and after my turquoise disaster. It looked a little murky and darker than it was before the teal, but it worked well enough until I decided to lift it to blonde! But, if you go for red, that may be your best bet!
Nov 15, 2012
Jordan W.
Ah gosh I had a similar problem too once! I made the mistake of stripping my hair though, and its taken me almost three and a half years to get my hair back to being healthy. So damaging! ): I hope the red dye works out! Good luck pretty lady!
Nov 15, 2012
Sarah B.
Can't take that color out.. You have to cut it out of lift it enough to deposit color.. But not enough to where your hair has no natural undertones... Also, gold toned dyes will neutralize the blue
Nov 15, 2012
Sarah B.
Or a gold copper
Nov 15, 2012
Dawn L.
Jordan, thanks! :) Thanks, Sarah...I'm going to try to fade it as much as possible and then try maybe a gold-copper tone, something to try to combat this hot mess...lol
Nov 15, 2012
Laura S.
I've done it too.. That's why I'm a redhead now :) but anyways.. tomatojuice and lemons removes the worst green.. it'll take a lot of tomato juice though.. but completely non-damaging :)
Nov 16, 2012
Kimberly H.
Yes do the dawn dish detergent to strip it. Deep condition it as much as possible and your friend is right about adding red to cancel green. It doesn't have to be super red. Can be a red brown. However I wouldn't do any permanent color until your hair is more stable. That way you can work with it as it changes.
Nov 16, 2012
Sophie L.
Just wanted to second Kimberly H's comment about not using permanent. Semi permanents are much gentler on your hair. If you want to be really careful, you could try a red wash-in/wash-out toner first, just to see if there is going to be any change.
Nov 16, 2012
Natalie T.
Roux has temporary toning rinses you could try if you take Sophie's advice!
http://www.sallybeauty.com/color-rinse/SBS-700332,default,pd.html
Nov 16, 2012
Niki C.
You don't need a red dye, just get the same level (whatever number on the box) with a red in it. For example 6(level)rb or something (rb standing for red brown). It's so hard to explain, sorry for rambling lol
Nov 17, 2012
Crystal G.
have you tried loreals hair color remover? That took off the same ion dye as you and got me back to a nice platinum blonde!
Nov 17, 2012
Caitlin J.
One of my favorite ways to get a color to fade that's far less damaging to the hair is a soap cap... In cosmo school we did them when clients needed color correcting.... You just mix running alcohol with some sort of oil (I preferred olive), apply to the hair, put a shower cap on over it and use some light great like with a blue dryer while you've got the cap on.... The alcohol lifts the hair shaft, while the oil deludes the color inside the hair shaft.... Hope this is helpful....