Stripping black hair at home

PrettyLady · Mar 24, 2007, 11:10 AM

It's very hard to remove permanent black hair dye from your hair. Hair color removal products will not completely remove black hair dye. Your best bet is to bleach out the black hair pigments and then apply your desired color.

Bleaching or stripping can weaken or damage your hair it it's not done correctly. You may want to go to the salon to have it professionally done.

EllieLuvsYa · Mar 29, 2007, 10:30 AM

I Used to be bright blonde and stupidly decided to dye my hair brown I had this done at a salon. I then used a home kit and went over it in red , so now I have reddy brown hair.
I did this about 2 months ago
I now want to dye it back blonde , I went to a good local salon who did a strand test and results came out orange
I don't know what to do , can I get it stripped and dyed blonde ? Or do I have to wait for the colour to grow out ?
Please Hellpppp !
Thanks
Ellie

x-lil-miss-gem-x · Jan 26, 2008, 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by EllieLuvsYa

I Used to be bright blonde and stupidly decided to dye my hair brown I had this done at a salon. I then used a home kit and went over it in red , so now I have reddy brown hair.
I did this about 2 months ago
I now want to dye it back blonde , I went to a good local salon who did a strand test and results came out orange
I don't know what to do , can I get it stripped and dyed blonde ? Or do I have to wait for the colour to grow out ?
Please Hellpppp !
Thanks
Ellie

By the time you have stripped your hair and then bleached it. The chances are it will be severely damaged. This is not a very good idea if you want to keep your hair in good condition.

However I'm naturally blonde and dyed my hair to a very dark brown before.
It took several bleaching sessions at home over a period of time but I got it back blonde again. It wasn't in the best condition afterwards as it was left quite dry and brittle.

Id say it is possible to get your hair blonde again depending on the damage your willing to take on. Id suggest consulting a hairdresser to see how much the stripper will damage your hair, so you can decide whether your hair will even be able to withstand the peroxide in the bleach that will be needed to take your hair back to blonde. Besides red is always a nasty colour to get out so simply bleaching it may just lead to very light orange shades.

Hope this helps x

cc85uk · Jan 30, 2008, 02:34 AM

[quote=MsEditor]Hey everyone,

After many hours searching the net I finally found this site...

I am a natural blonde and dyed my hair red, then purple, then brown and eventually blue black. Now I want to go back up to red...

I went to the hairdresser today and they quoted me well over

confuzzled hair · Apr 3, 2009, 04:23 AM

Hiya iv just bought 2 boxes of goldwell color remover as I have got natural blonde (ash) hair andi stupidly dyed it intense dark brown iv been doing this for two years now and I added up how much I spend on dye a year and it totals

deedles · May 4, 2010, 10:18 PM

Hi I've been colouring my hair for over 10 years now and have recently just discovered hair strippers, and have found some to be quite good but also some to be quite average at the same time.

I have layers apon layer of bleach in my hair an have also had foils in that then coloured brown few more times again, recently used a stripper an found it seemed to almost lift some of the bleach out as it took it to the bleach but when I rinsed and repeated it was more a redish almost blonde colour, which was quite surprising considering this was only a cheap stripper id bought from a chemist and had used others before and all it took it back to was the bleach.

No stripper will remove black though generally depending on your natural level of hair colour, generally will only work if artificial colour is no more than 2 or 3 shades darker.

LucyxBunny · Feb 3, 2011, 08:26 AM

Hiya, I'm naturally Blonde and I liked to mess around with colours I'm 13 and after many weeks of begging my mam she allowed me to dye it permanently black. I'v had the black for about at year now but I'm missing my Blonde hair. My mam wouldn't let me bleach my full hair because she said she's kill it and that was two months ago so I asked her this morning and she said ok and bought me some colour stripper but after looking on google iv found many people say I have to get it professionally and that if me and my mam try it at home then it'll get killed. I love my hair but i'v always died my hair at home and its far to expensive at the salon.... What colour will it go if I do strip it, I thought it was ginger but I don't know....
HELP ME PLEASE
,thank you xx

JudyKayTee · Feb 3, 2011, 08:45 AM

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Stripping black hair at home

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