I dyed my hair dark purple and now its faded to reddy-purple and was wondering how to take it all out to go back to brown? I tried to dye my hair to red but it just remained the same purple. Ant ideas? I would like to do it at home . :confused:

Try using an "ash brown" hair. This will neutralize red/purple tones in your hair and make more brown.

I have dyed it ash brown,still has a strong tinge of purple. I was wondering because I wanted to go brown so I could start over and go back to blonde, could I just simply dye over it now to a platinum blonde? I always use LIVE hair colours in platinum blonde and it sends it light blonde if I use 2 boxes, would it work?

A green-based ash brown or regular brown hair color will cover reddish purple tones in the hair. But since your hair is more purple than red, you will need to use a yellow-based color to control the purple cast. Please do not use another at-home hair color on your hair, you will end with unpleasant shades. I recommend that you visit a salon and have them do corrective color. A professional may be able to mix a formula and correct the problem for you.

Going to a hairdressers tomorrow and theyr just going to dye my hair with a semi permanent dark brown, like black, just to cover it. The test pieces they took of my hair were coloured with only the faintest tinge of purple visble in light.but if its only covered and the purple is still there under neath I don't understand how they will be able to get it blonde later on.

If you have your heart set on being blonde, then you should go for it. In salons, they many different shades of blonde, I'm sure they can find a shade that suits you. In order to go blonde, you will have to bleach your hair to remove the pigments and then apply a blonde toner. This is known has double process hair coloring. Let the stylist know that you would like to go blond rather than dark, and he or will try to achieve your desired color.

I don't know what to do to get the purple out (I actually have the same problem - my hair is brown with some purple tinting left over from when it was all purple and blue), but I can tell you from experience that if you have any purple in your hair at all, even the kind where you only notice it in the sun or bright lighting, and you dye over it with blonde with an at home kit, the purple parts will turn bright pink.

I hate to break it to you but once you go red or purple you CANNOT go back blonde. I have had red hair and tried and tried and tried to bleach it out but there is ALWAYS some red tones left over. I am going through a similar predicament at the moment and I am forced to go dark brown from red. Sorry to burst your blonde bubble but the red just isn't going to come out enough for it to look even decent.

I think you should ask for a hair dressers advice.. I am the same, and I'm going to ask tonnes of hair dressing shops and get their opinion on what they think I should do :)

Okay so I've had dyed auburn-red hair FOREVER and decided I wanted platinum... it took way too many bleaches and dyes before I got it a nice shade because no one told me in the first place I should use a special "blue bleach" to neutralize the orange copper tones and make it less brassy. However, before I used the blue bleach, I did do normal bleach a few days before to get a lot of the red out (be prepared for sherbet-colored hair... though surprisingly I got compliments on it), so I'd recommend doing that first. If it still leaves copper shades over the blonde (probably will be some), you can buy a blue-based toner instead of dying it again. If there's more yellow shades in your hair, use a violet-based toner but don't leave either of these on too long or else your hair may look silvery. The ladies at Sally's told me all this, so I'd try to find one of those near you for further advice and tell them what you already know! Hope it helps

There's a new product specifically for people with this kind of problem.
Colour before by scott cornwall. They sell it in boots for 12.50
Its amazing, I used it to dye my hair from dark purple and it went like a golden ginger and it was a lovely colour, but unfortunately I put a red dye on hoping to go red but am back to the purple I tried to get rid of.
So if you want to go blonde, I recommend using this product, and then after using it put a semi permanent ash blonde hair dye on it. And then you can dye it whatever colour you like :D

I used epielle dark auburn on my gray hair and it turned purple. Wedding is at 2:30 pm on the 29 how can I get my hair to dark brown?

OK, you can get the purple out and go blonde straight away if you like, you will need a hair stripper though first (colour before should be fine), and then get a blonde dye, the best one I find to use is an ash blonde co lour, although all hair types are different so you may get away with using a different kind, it also depends on what colour you hair was to begin with though.

Another way is to use a bleach powder and crème peroxide, this will turn your hair slightly orange but the blue bleach will also remove your purple. I have always had strange and bright colours in my hair but can always go back blonde or brown when I want to doing this.

If you get a damm good hairdresser then maybe, I was bright red when it was the in fashion color and my hairdresser got me from that to a damm decent blonde! Just saying!