So my girlfriend helped me color my hair to hide a few gray hairs coming in. Its usually a light to med brown, thought I might go darker. We used Loreal excellence creme ( Medium Brown). It actuall turned my hair into almost a dark redish brown, looks like I have naturally dark red hair!! HELP!! I dont know if I should buy more dye and maybe try darker??(I'm afraid if I try lighter it might get more red!) or is there any way i can remove it?? ( I don't think I can since it said permanent) Help! I have a party of friday and everyone will notice! Should I dye it again? Can anything get the red out?? or can I remove the color altogether?? Just did it last night so its been 24 hours so far

PrettyLady

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When hair becomes an unwanted tone such as red or orange, ash colors can be used to help neutralize or cut down these tones. For instance, if your hair is red, a green-based hair coloring product will counter-act the red tones in your hair. Ash-base colors are great for neutralizing brassy tones. But if you use a green-based ash hair color on yellow-blonde hair, it will result in a green cast. It's best to follow the instructions carefully when using any ash-base colors.

youngandgrey

I colored my mostly gray and ash blond hair with a light brown that, according to the box, wasn't supposed to change my natural color much. The grey, which is VERY evident on the top of my head, turned reddish, strawberry blonde, and the rest of my hair a DARK brown. I tried vinegar and lemon, which did no good, then I stumbled across this site. I read the helpful hints, but don't have access to Prell shampoo or Dawn dishwashing liquid at the present time, but had to do something quick. I can't go to work looking like that tomorrow! So I tried the dishwashing liquid I have, which is Ajax with Bleach Alternative, Ruby Red Grapefruit. I washed it once with the DL, washed with a conditioning shampoo, then combed some conditioner through my hair and left it for about 20 minutes. It made a slight difference, but not much. So I washed it again with the DL, this time leaving it on for about 10 minutes before rinsing, and then followed the same process as earlier with the shampoo and conditioner. It seems to have taken some of the red out, and left my hair with a more even brown tone. It doesn't look so much like a drastic dye job anymore. I'm going to do this process one or two more times in hope of getting the color result I was originally looking for. Hope this helps!

zeynepercan

you could use semi permenent hair color and see the result depending on that you can get a maching perm color.but remember that every time you use hair color it makes real damage even if they are brown or darker shades.you can use amonia free formulas but they are pain in the since you have to dye every month. and also you can add violet base to get ride of orange color and blue base get ride of red shades if you get them from sallys you could add your hair mixture.they are really cheap like 1 dolar sth. also you should use a protein filler and before and after treatments ,also get a good conditionar and shampoo i like pantene a lot but nexxus is incredable. if you use emergencee nexxus it will restore your damaged hair .

Brendajoycepa

Help!!! colored my hair with a warm brown and it turned Dark auburn..then i put a med ash blonde on not as dark but it is red...what color can i put on to have a light brown color..TY

pinkytweak16

brown has red in it you need to dye it black

COURTfacebaby

to reply to "mfleck"
no it cant,
only if u have bleach blonde hair, would it turn green :S

COURTfacebaby

only if you have bleach blonde hair, it would turn green :S***