Ok, i have light brown hair and i dyed it dark brown. it looks almost black and i want to go back to my light brown hair and put blonde highlights in it. i bought something called color oops but i want to know if it's still going to work on my hair even though i've been dying my hair this color for almost a year now? please help!!!!!!! i want to get rid of this dark hair!!!!!!!!!

I had the exact same situation that you do. Dark hair that I've been coloring dark for a few years. I bought some color oops and put it on my hair tonight. Like you, I only wanted to go back to my natural light brown shade. Well, that is not what happened. My hair is now a brassy orange shade from the root to about 3 inches down, then a nasty mix of orange and brown from there down to the ends of my hair. Don't use it!!! It doesn't do what the box says it does. Spare your hair, I wish I had. Looks like tomorrow will be a hat day.......good luck.

Hair color removal products will make your hair orange or brassy. If you want to remove the permanent dark hair dye from your hair and go lighter, you will need to lighten your with bleach and then apply a the desired color. I recommend that you go to the salon and get them to do a corrective color.

I actually used Color Oops tonight with great success. When trying to color my hair a medium brown, it turned almost black. I was skeptical and afraid, but it worked like a charm for me. My hair often will turn orange when coloring it or applying highlights, so I was sure I'd get that brassy look. I guess I was lucky though, because my hair looks better than ever. My husband has made me say (about 50 times) that I will always have my hair colored professionally from now on. And I should add that I'm no expert, so really can't recommend this product. But it did work for me ... this time.

I had the exact same thing happen to me. I had dark brown hair and i dyed it black (Never EVER do that by the way) and i just used color opps and it made it a pretty kind of auburn color. Its not my natural color but It definatly looks better then the black. The bottom does have some black still left in it but i have ALOT of hair. I have long thick curly hair so i probably should have done it twice. But I would recomend it. Good luck :)

Color Oops, Color Zap, ColorFix are *color removers*. That doesn't mean that they will return your hair to a nice color. They remove ARTIFICIAL pigment from the hair. You can't dye the artificial pigment lighter, but you can remove it and then lighten the natural pigment that is left.

When you dyed your hair the first time, the natural pigment was lightened. This is true even if you dyed your hair black. The color you're seeing (orange, or auburn) is the remaining natural pigment. You have to RE-DYE the hair to the desired color!

I had the exact same thing happen to me. I had dark brown hair and i dyed it black (Never EVER do that by the way) and i just used color opps and it made it a pretty kind of auburn color. Its not my natural color but It definatly looks better then the black. The bottom does have some black still left in it but i have ALOT of hair. I have long thick curly hair so i probably should have done it twice. But I would recomend it. Good luck :)

Kinda same thing with me. alot of black is gone. but i want to get more out so should i go ahead and use the 2nd box tomorrow? it worked great the first time but still scared might turn orange.. or fall out or go back to black.