My hair has been going white/gray for a long time and of course I've been dying it to hide it. Recently, I did a silly thing and went black - and now after two applications of Color Oops (to very little effect, it looks like extremely dark brown/black) I'm at a loss...I'd honestly like to get all the color out of my hair so I can rethink letting it be natural, but I'm afraid it's going to break the bank or my hair. Help!?
Hello! Best thing is to pop along to a salon. Grey hair is very course and dry and works differently to ‘normal’ hair, especially when it comes to dye. Oddly, the problem is usually that grey hair won’t hang onto colour. If you’ve tried colour oops I don’t know what to suggest. Did you use the dark one? Did you rinse very well? If so your hair is probably stained, and to get the black out you’d need to bleach, or use a series of box dyes in stages to get back to near your natural colour. You won’t be able to get the colour all out of your hair and back to natural as underneath the dye, your natural colour probably no longer exists as most box dyes have lighteners to make the colour deposit even. Sorry I can’t really help further on this one as any progress from black will be damaging, especially if the removers aren’t working. Please do pop to a salon if you can, they can give you advice for free, then its up to you if you can afford it, or have to let your colour grow out.
