To say she has brought this on herself?

[GreenHairDontCare]

Dd is 13. A couple of months ago at great expense I let her have the bottom half of her hair bleached blonde. It looked lovely.

Last week she phoned me from her friend's and said she was putting a wash out green dye on it. I told her not to as it would stain the blonde.

She did it anyway. She has spent the last week washing it with dandruff shampoo, baby shampoo, washing up liquid and today as a last try we did a vitamin c powder twice.

Somewhat predictably she still has bright green hair.

She goes back to school tomorrow. They are VERY strict. Natural hair colours only. She will likely be sent home. She is now (at nearly ten pm) having a screaming fit about it. I've told her that if they send her home I'll be marching her straight to the hairdressers to get it cut short. This is the worst thing that's ever happened to her apparently.

I'm leaving dh to deal with her. As far as I'm concerned this is her problem to sort out, I told her not to do it and told her it wouldn't wash out.

AIBU?

And does anyone have any suggestions, other than bleach which I'm trying to avoid?

[Pentapus]

There is no chance in hell I'm paying for a hairdresser to sort it out.

So, it was worth £80 for a 13 year old to have bleached hair, but it's not worth paying comparable money to avoid issues with school / distressed child?

I think your priorities are wrong.

But you are where you are, so maybe just get off the sofa and the internet, and down to Asda for a hair dye. School's back tomorrow, no?

[ChishandFips33]

I'd use it as a lesson and let her suffer the consequences

If she's old enough to feel she can go against you she has to live with what comes with it

Better to learn this now than a few years down the line on something more serious

[Glittter]

Or alternativley put a blonde dye back on it-that will cost you about £6.

[Cantusethatname]

What about that ColourB4 stuff from Superdrug?

[ZilphasHatpin]

Buy either a brown box dye or a brown bun cover.

[Goldfishjane]

Wow, what a waste of time and now you're posting here on Sunday night.

Semi colour for £5. Job done.

[khajiit13]

It's hard being 13 but I see your point. It's a hard lesson for her to learn

[GreenHairDontCare]

I can't do anything tonight. Shops are all shut and I'm in bed now anyway.

She'll have to face the music tomorrow and I'll get some stuff during the day.

[Astro55]

Asda open?

[user1487175389]

Mumsnet haircut time, methinks.

[MargaretCavendish]

But you are where you are, so maybe just get off the sofa and the internet, and down to Asda for a hair dye.

If she's in England or Wales she's not going to have a lot of luck finding a shop that sells hair dye open at 10pm on a Sunday.

[SleepingWithTheTelevisionOn]

lorelai haircut, copy of Anne of Green Gables.

[AtrociousCircumstance]

Why wouldn't you pay to have this sorted out for her properly? She is........your kid, right?

She's thirteen, fucked up a bit but only because she assumed a temporary dye would be exactly what it claimed - temporary - and you're furious with her?

Poor girl. Help her out. Be a nice mum.

[321zerobaby]

I would try adding some 20 vol peroxide to some shampoo, lather up the green bit and see if it will lift it out.

[sparechange]

Pentapus
It's Sunday. Asda and everywhere else will be closed, unless you have a 24 hour chemist near by

Ketchup or tomato purée asap. It won't cure it but it might tone it down enough to get her through tomorrow

[TyneTeas]

Shops will be open in most urban areas well before school.

Another one suggesting:

A bun with a bun cover or scarf wrapped around it for tomorrow

Dye it a natural colour tomorrow night

[VladmirsPoutine]

It's all relative. When I was 13 one of my school friends' mother thought nothing of shelling out £200 for a hair/nails session for her .

Anyway, let her face the consequences. When I was that age I experimented with my hair too with disastrous results. My mother had told me not to but did I listen? Did I fuck. Lesson learned.

[Guitargirl]

Oh God, am so not looking forward to the teen years. I really wouldn't have the patience to listen to someone scream about her hair when she is the one who has fucked it up.

[Astro55]

Be a nice mum

It's hard to be nice when they are stamping about having a hissy fit

It's something they need to do before you can even slightly offer a solution

[ZilphasHatpin]

Even a brown or black sock would do as a bun cover until you could get some dye.

[MrsOs]

Why havent you gone and got a hair dye before now? She could have had it all sorted this weekend?

[GreenHairDontCare]

Zilpha that is genius. That's the plan for tomorrow sorted.

[WanderingTrolley1]

I wouldn't be spending more on it, I'd chop it.

[ToffeeCaramel]

Wouldn't a £3 semi permanent brown dye from superdrug have dyed over it?