Blue hair...help...how can I shift this before Wednesday?

[Acacia123]

Against my better judgement I allowed daughter to dye her hair blue at beginning of hols with the proviso that she stopped dying it mid August so her hair would be back to normal for school start. She usually has blond fine hair.

Bottle says 6-10 washes to remove. We must have washed it 20 times plus used colour remover twice (Colour B4 and Colour B4 Extra). The dye is Colour Freedom. It is much lighter but still blue/green.

Tomorrow we are going to try Head & Shoulders mixed with washing up liquid, bicarbonate of soda and vitamin C tablets.

Anyone have any tips to help me shift this before Wednesday. School are very strict and she'll be looking at exclusion. I'm having sleepless nights over it...

(Also previously posted in Teenagers but now discovered this board).

I think if it doesn't shift tomorrow you will need to see a hairdresser - would a dark brunette cover it?

Johnsons baby shampoo is good for stripping hair dye but if she had blond hair before the blue the likely hood is that its never going to be 100% gone, the green tinge will remain.

You may have to dye over it with a shade close to her natural colour.

If all else fails, a professional hairdresser should be able to impose a school-acceptable mid-brown on it. She won't like it but she may have to suck it up.
Many hairdressers do training on Mondays or Tuesdays when salons are quieter and, as she presents an interesting challenge, there's a chance that they may take her as a training model and you would get colour corrected for free or at a very discounted price. Could be worth ringing around?

It's probably stained her hair, she'll most likely need it to be dyed over. Not with anything ashy though as that'll turn it a seaweed colour. It'll need to be a warmer colour, something with reddish tones to cancel it out.

Oh God, I am going through something similar with my daughter but with purple!

Last night we did the vitamin C mixed with Head & Shoulders trick and it lifted it loads. We've done it again tonight and again, it looks better still but her hair was still damp when she went to bed so won't know for sure until the morning.

She has an appointment for a hair cut tomorrow; her hair is waist length and she wanted some layers cut in to it so I'm hopeful that some more purple bits might disappear tomorrow (we dip dyed it, but from just under her chin). Otherwise, maybe the hairdresser will have a suggestion (other than dying it). Failing that, I am going to wash it with Fairy Liquid on Friday and hope that makes a difference.

Sounds like your daughter's hair is blonder than my daughter's though; hers is gold/auburn/blonde naturally so the purple isn't as obvious as it would be on straight out blonde hair.

Google also told me today that having a bath full of Epsom salts and soaking the hair in it can be very successful, so you might want to try that too?

Good luck! My daughter starts Year 7 on Tuesday and they are very strict about this sort of thing so we're praying this works!

Take her swimming,hair down.

Swimming turns it green!

Actually could you send a note saying weeks of swimming in chlorine has tinged it greenish and just bun the majority?

The H&S wash with a few extra things added will strip as much as can be stripped.

Half a cup of Head and Shoulders to a quarter cup of washing up liquid, then add 1 tbsp honey, 1 tbsp coconut oil, 1 tbsp olive oil, 10-12 finely crushed Vit C tablets, 1 teaspoon lemon juice, 1 teaspoon liquid peroxide. Mix together well and add 1/2 tbsp bicarbonate of soda. Mix again, it'll get hot and start expanding. Splodge it on and wrap hair up in a carrier bag. It'll itch like a bitch unfortunately! Leave it as long as possible, I leave it for an hour. Rinse well and use lots of conditioner.

Unfortunately blue is almost impossible to remove. My DD is going reddish brown next week as she's fed up with the last few bits of blue in hers.

Blue is the most difficult colour to remove as it stains hair - you'll need to have it colour corrected.

Also none of those colour removers will work as they're not made for the fashion colour type of dye.

I did this last summer- thought it would be fine but the blue turned green and wouldn't shift- I was in a total state as was starting at a new school (teacher). I bleached it a couple of times but that didn't shift it so I ended up covering it up with a dark blonde dye.
Will never put blue in my hair again- I just stick to pink now:)

Okay - so we have had some progress but we are not at the point where exclusion from school is a strong possibility.

We've gone from picture one to a little darker than picture two (these are random pictures from the internet, not my daughter! - also not sure if the images will work but basically a vibrant turquoise to a strong grey/green tinge).

I have an appointment at the hairdresser for Tuesday afternoon (their earliest available, and cutting it rather fine) and they'll have a go if I need but no guarantees.

However we still have Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday and by my calculations that will be another eight washes minimum.

The Colour B4 product made a fair amount of difference but is v expensive. We are continuing with Head & Shoulders, Bicarb of Soda, Washing up liquid, honey and olive oil. In bulk. Repeatedly.

She now has a sore scalp but agrees that this is the sacrifice that has to be made.

I've literally been dreaming about this. Never again!

I had blue and purple hair for a while and got bored. I wanted to go brown.

I put a brown dye on and it went green.
Then I bleached it and it went SO bad.
Another brown dye, didn't take.
So I shoved purple directions on it which covered it.

But I was told (after all that) that a reddy brown would've worked. I killed my hair trying to get rid of it and had to cut loads off!

I did find it hard to get rid of blue and my cousin did too, she still had a streak for ages!

This happened to DD last year, we only dyed it once. The blue was supposed to wash out after six ish washes and chlorine was supposed to hasten the fade- ha ha! The dye gets into and attached to the tiny broken pieces of hair down the hair shaft and chlorine seemed to 'set' the colour. Different solutions will probably work for different people depending on the base colour and the condition of the hair. In the end the only thing that really worked for us was three full bottles of tomato ketchup (one per day) applied and rubbed into the hair followed by a normal wash. It was faded enough that, along with plaiting her hair for a week or two, no one could tell. Lesson learnt!.

Could you write to school/ tie it up? Her poor hair might not be happy being coloured again after all the stripping
My friend's little girl was in bother for pink hair but after a bit of a ticking off it was ok

It's completely ridiculous of the school to disrupt your daughter's education because her hair isn't the right colour. It won't affect her ability to study or behave well! I wouldn't waste another penny on it, but would send her with a note saying it was an accident and will have to grow out, and if they have a problem to talk to you about it. Then if they did I'd kick up a massive fuss.

Mary- school are perfectly within their rights to set uniform standards and exclude students who don't comply with it.

It's the principle- if students are allowed to ignore uniform rules which other rules can they ignore? Ones about fighting? Bullying? Bringing weapons into school? Rules are rules and they have to be followed.

In the work place you would lose your job if you didn't follow the rules set.

How on earth can blue hair be an accident

I found (by accident - it was a dare) that covering my hair in shaving cream removed pretty much all of the purple fudge I had in my hair.

As others have said dying it out really is the only way to get rid of blue :(

Ursula, I never said it was an accident. I judged that 3 weeks would be sufficient to remove this dye that says it comes out in six washes. A judgement that was wrong but just human error.

School will exclude. A note will not cut it.

Oh god, it wasn't that L'Oréal stuff, was it?! There's a blogger on you tube who documented her ordeal with it- even tried professionally bleaching it and in the end had to cut it off.

From bitter experience I know that dying naturally very blonde hair will result in the hair being stained for a very long time. I hope the hairdresser can help!

I found it ... m.youtube.com/watch?v=qqAWZm6ow9Y. I was thinking about doing a rainbow look for a party but worried about blue colours on my hair, so googled if anyone had issues getting it out and found hers.

Sounds like that dye should not be allowed to call itself 'wash out'. And come with a health warning.

DD had a dip dye last year on condition that she accepted that the ends would be chopped off at the end of August.

I remember a friend's blonde hair going greenish on holiday from swimming and tomato ketchup helped neutralise it. Might be worth a try.

Yes, her hair goes green naturally after swimming and we have used ketchup in the past, but I don't know if it will work on dye. I believe ketchup removes the copper oxide (?) That chlorine leaves behind. But hey, anything is worth a shot.

Her hair is only shoulder length and the stain is all the way to the roots so it would have to be a military Buzz cut to make any difference :-)

I;m informed that shampoo bubbles are blue this morning so that gives me hope!

Not L'oreal, I think Colour Freedom.

I was going to suggest ketchup. Got to be worth a try!