Help! Blue hair...

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I had highights then (stupidly) thought I would try a wash in pastel colour. Now my hair is smurf blue:((
I have tried lemon juice mixed with conditioner - turned it even greener, and have now just finished one box of colour b4 which has faded it but according to my partner has now made it neon!
Please help me I cant keep wearing a bobble hat on the school run....

What colour do you want it?

Will one of the violet shampoos work? Make it a cooler colour / less green.

Am jealous by the way - I want blue hair but it won't go blue

Oh dear.. do you look like DanTDM?

Could you put a different colour on top?

I want it silver and have silver dye ready to use when this is out, I don't think there is much point putting it on top?? Really don't be jealous, I'm 37 and I look like a 15 yr old has had a go on me

I think that touch of silver shampoo might help?

I'm 44 and want blue hair!

Fairy liquid usually strips colour pretty well

It does depend on what colour you’re aiming for ideally? Don’t use violet shampoo, it’s a toner with violet pigment to enhance ashy tones in hair (remove the warmth in blonde and leave it more Icey) so if you use it you’ll be enhancing the cool tones on the green and blue. As it’s only a temp colour it will come out eventually but it does take time. Colour B 4 won’t help that’s for perminant colour reversals not temporary.

You’ll need to just keep washing it there’s not a quicker fix unfortunately :/ try using head and shoulders, due to its use for lifting dry skin it’s good at getting colour out quicker and try not to condition as this is adding moisture and strength back into the colour.

Or go back to the salon and have them lift the colour professionally :) hope you get it back the way you want it OP! Good luck

Okay don’t put the toning shampoo on, don’t put the box dye on you’ll embed he colour into your hair if you use a perminant oxidising colour.

My best suggestion if you’re desperate is a bleach bath. Bleach bathing is a way of stripping hair without a full head of bleach and it should be strong enough to remove the temp colour.

You bleach bath by mixing your home bleaching kit with 2parts shampoo. This will weaken the strength of the bleach meaning it won’t give you much if any ‘lift’ to your original colour BUT it will remove the temporary colour as that’s the job bleach does. Leave it on for 10/15 minutes wash it out and check results once hair is dry.

Bleach bath.

Blue eyes have a base colour of green which is why it has faded to green and they are pretty staining. Bleach is the only way you'll get it out and I'd suggest picking another deep colour to try cover up what's left.

Go to a salon or wait for it to fade (eventually will get lighter) and wash using head & shoulders or dandruff shampoos

There isn’t a quick fix unfortunately aside from bleaching your hair again. If you do so, go to a salon to maintain the integrity of your hair

If it’s not permanent, L’Oréal do a fade wash product that you can get in Asda, it’s just shampoo that removes the colour. Or Head & Shoulders classic clean does a good job stripping colour. Just make sure you have a really good conditioner 😊

Lush I Love Juicy , or in fact anything Lush (I find the shampoo bars work well) , leave it on warm wet hair for a few minutes. It works TONS better than Head & Shoulders (wouldnt even give that stuff a second look now!)

Bleach can have the tendancy to push the colour IN and stain even further believe it or not. Also if you used the colour b4 stripper and not the decolour - you've practically bleached it again anyway.

Coconut oil is another good fader, and you're going to need some reconditioning through this anyway - so not a bad choice. keep it warm and on for as long as you can

How did you get on OP?

This happened to me this week, too! I had purple hair, faded as much as possible before using colour remover - it removed the red pigments but not the strange blue colour. I ended up putting a semi permanent mahogany brown over the top to help with the blue - it's done the trick but my hair is not how I wanted it to be!