To think I've essentially paid almost £7 just to wash my own hair (dye)

[Mollie85]

Bought a well known brand of colourant.

Have dark brown hair with some bits I had highlighted back in April. Hair has red tones so blonde was lovely shade of orange.

Can't afford at the moment to have hair dyed professionally (will have to wait til January) but because the orange bits are bothering me (Orange against v dark hair) I decided to buy a home dye.

Colour is plum - meant to last 24 washes.

Came to rinsing- was standing in the shower for about 20 mins before it ran clear. Strange - it's never usually that long (used to use home dye in twenties). Conditioner on.
Rinse. Stood in shower for another ten minutes- strong jet set on head, still rinsing pink.

Got bored of waiting.
Now sat with towel on head and hair looking no susceptible shade of plum but dripping pale pink into shoulders

Anyone in the know have any advice (ie - does hair change in terms of taking a colourant when a bit older) or should I just give it a blow dry and see what's what?

Not really after a slating, this is fairly lighthearted

I occasionally use those 24 wash dyes too. Never spent more than 5 to 10 mins rinsing though. I do find the colour deepens the following day however. They never last 24 washes... more like 10 in my experience.

Just blow dryed and the orange is gone, there is a slight hint of red and it's super shiny so maybe all is not lost

But what colour is the skin on your shoulders?

I've just used L'Oréal castings and I was very impressed, it comes with a pre conditioner to go on the ends to stop them drying out. Just thought I'd let you all know how good it was!

Haha still "so white I'm almost blue" (Irish heritage, pale skin, dark hair and blue eyes down the lineage)

Buster - same. In plum. It's definitely not plum but it's got rid of the orange

I like it I think it looks pretty.

My hairdresser said never to wash until it runs clear, but yours looks like it's gone a lovely shade anyway

Thank you Loving how soft it is. It's only an "in between" anyway

It looks lovely op! You have really great hair, regardless of whether the colour has changed or not

thank you

From experience with using dark red home dye, you rinse the worst of it out and then dry off our hair. Red/plummy tones will keep leaching from your hair the more you rinse it (those shades find it much harder to grab on to the hair than brown or blonde) so what you saw going down the plughole after 20mins was the colour that should have been in your hair, not the excesss if that makes sense.
For future, rinse until the worst of it is out and then just dry your hair. You will get dye on the towel but it comes out in the laundry.

Ah brilliant! Thanks very much - this makes sense as in my twenties I used to dye it dark brown - almost black - it stuck right into hair and rinsed clear in no time.

This dye job won't last very long at all - I wash my hair every day as it's so fine it gets greasy within about 16 hours of a wash...

Chalk it up to experience ...