[jenny13]

Hi, I recently dyed my hair, and recently means three days ago, and I don't like my hair color. My natural hair color is light brown and I just wanted to darken it a little, well it turned out black. I wanted to know if there are any tips on how to get it to lighten or to get the color away without bleaching it. Please help school starts in 5 days! Thanks in advance

[trilobitian]

Hair dye enters your hair shaft through the lifting of your hair cuticles, so this is also how you need to remove the color. This is actually how volumizing shampoo works, so using a volumizing shampoo would probably help lighten that color for you. You can also use a clarifying shampoo to start getting that color to fade. For faster color removal, you can mix a little bit (like a teaspoon or less) of baking soda into your shampoo as well, this acts as a clarifier, and I'm sure if you coupled it with a volumizing shampoo you could get that color lifting pretty fast. You can also use a little bit of lemon juice to ligthen up your hair naturally.

I've also heard you can use tide, but I would be really really careful about that because it is a very strong detergent, isn't meant to be used on hair and would probably seriously fry your hair. So I'm a little wary of that advice (though I did try it when my hair turned green from hard water- needless to say, it didn't work and when I went to a professional to try and get it out- that also didn't work, we ended up neutralizing it with an orange stain and then dying over the orange with my natural hair color) Anyway, the professional stylist was horrified that I tried tide in my hair.

Hope that helps a little bit!

[Mrz.Lane90]

You go to the salon or wal-mart, whichever get this stuff that strips your hair.. It'll turn out a orange-ish color at first but then you dye it the hair color you would like and everything should be fine

[hayyleyyyyy]

If you dont want to wait for the black to fade out, You should Try Color Oops or Loreal Color Zap! Color Zap has bleach in it and Color Oops doesnt so reasearch them and decide for yourself :)