Help have dyed my hair and it is patchy and too dark...

[MrsGerrard]

Coloured it dark brown and it is more like black with patchy bits.

Is there any way I can sort it out myself or go to a hairdressers?

I'd go to the hairdressers, I wouldn't risk messing it up even more.

Johnsons Baby Shampoo might strip some of the colour out (IIRC from another MN thread)

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OOOh, yes, I have done this before too (as Yorkshirelass will recall!)

Head & Shoulders does strip the hair but you have to wash it loads and loads and loads......

You can buy a correcter from a hair dresser supply shop but they make it really dry.....

Did you use a permanent dye or a semi?

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You can also buy a colour corrector in Boots - I've used it before with a similar disaster - it's less damaging than over-shampooing IMO.

go to the hairdressers! I have had loads of similar mistakes, including, of course, khaki. Have resigned myself to only going to hairdressers now - I never end up like the lovely girlies on the box!! Pricey but sooo worth it

Thing is I am not going to get much change out of £100 am I

So it has cost me far more than if I had just gone straight to hd's in first place!

true mrs g but honestly, my hair has almost fallen out due to dye mistakes!! Start now to go to h/dressers. I turned 40 this year and it was only last year that I made this decision. It has been sooo worth it, believe me

I once spent £40 on home hair dyes in the space of a couple of days trying to sort out a bleaching disaster..
now I only trust proffesionls to do it..lol!

You could go to your local college and have it done very cheaply.