hair dye disaster

[lilybeansmummy]

i have put a medium blonde dye in my naturally light brown hair, the problem is it has gone ginger!! i thought putting in another blonde dye wud have lightened it to the desired colour but it wud appear not as it is more ginger!!! what do i do to fix it?? or what will happen if i put in a brown dye which i dont want to do cos i hate being brown

Washing with head and shoulders shampoo will help strip the colour out of it and will lighten it.Otherwise I would go for the brown as it will probably look better than the colour you are now .Not much help but good luck anyway.

Whats wrong with ginger?

You'll either have to strip it or go brown.

Should add that I dyed my natural blonde hair auburn ginger by choice recently...so that was not a ginge did!

Embrace it, i love mine!

I did exactly the same thing, and then to make matters worse I used one of those colour remover things which made it very ginger warm! I could have just bought some light brown semi to cover it but I decided to be brave and went to a fairly low priced hairdresser. She matched my base colour perfectly with a permanent colour, a sort dark blonde with a hint of golden. It cost £20 and I was very relieved! It still looks great and I go back every six weeks to get my roots done (to cover emerging greys!). Thinking about it, I am spending less money on dye as I'm not buying any other products.

...apologies for typos! If you didn't want to return to your base shade, You could ask for a half head of finely woven highlights instead (more money, but more blonde).

thanks everyone, i just bit the bullet and went brown :( i dont think there is anything wrong with ginger, i have 2 very beautiful ginger nephews but its just not for me and trust me it wasnt a nice ginger! i wud have went to a professional but i just dont have the time, having a 1yr old is rather time consuming!