A question about hair colour remover Help!!

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Had my hair done today. I explained I was fed up of it only looking decent for a week before turning a horrible rusty colour (I use sls and parabens free shampoo and conditioner, a colour protection spf spray and wear a hat if I'll be in the sunshine for long. None of this helps).

My hair is very grey at the front and is usually quite light even when coloured. Rather than add in an ash tone she has mixed 2 level 8 colours to try to get it to last longer today.

It looked OK in the salon but at home looks way too dark and seems to age me (really don't need this as I'm aging anyway).

Could I slap some colour remover stuff just around the front bits where it seems darker or is that a bad idea?

I don't have time to go back to the salon as I'm traveling to a wedding tomorrow.

Help please!!

Bad idea!
Don't mess with colour removers. Try shampooing a few times with Head and Shoulders (original) which will bring the colour down a bit.

Thank you. Its OK everywhere really apart from around my face. Usually it's really light and hair dye resistant there but obviously not resistant to this particular one .

Don’t touch it!

Instead try the following

-soak in coconut oil. You’ll need to emulsify with shampoo after, adding water bit by bit. Otherwise it’ll be annoying to get out.

-Leave shampoo on for 5 mins or so, rinse. Repeat.

-use a lush shampoo bar, or their I Love Juicy shampoo

Grow out your hair, stop being a slave to the dye! There are fab support groups on Facebook. I know it's not for everyone but worth considering :) PS. Colour removers will only add to your problems.

I have an allergy to all things coconut guest. Would any other oil help?

Been there, tried that fizz. Looked like shit as my hair appears to be going through its own menopausal crisis with thinning on the top. Colour at least swells the shaft and makes it look better to me (or at least a bit less sob inducing after having bouncy thick wavy hair for 40odd years).

(and I stopped being a slave to Facebook yonks ago - fabulous and I recommend it to everyone to try ).

Yes, that's my next challenge! What about a silver shampoo and conditioner, they will strip some colour while toning down the brass. Good luck with it!

I tried assorted purple and blue shampoos when it kept looking brassy brownishblonde-rusty colour. It took on a lovely khaki hue which I wasn't keen on either. Thanks for the suggestions though.

I did suggest that maybe the brand used at this salon just doesn't suit me hair but it was dismissed. They use majirel I think but my previous place used matrix and it stayed the desired colour for much longer.

Those brassy tones were my main reason for going dye free. I'd often resort to putting a bit of eyebrow dye on these wispy gingery bits around my hair line... not ideal. I do think I thought it looked worse than it was because it never showed up in pics and people would look confused when I mentioned it.

I've used dye remover a few times. I think it's brilliant, hair always in fab condition after, you have to use all over
My experience has been that is goes scary ginger first then darkens over a few days but not as dark as it was, if that makes sense, smells bit but does not harm hair in the slightest

I've used it before too - it worked well but not sure it would be suitable if you weren't removing colour from the whole head.

The whole thread isn't showing for some reason so apologies if this has already been said.

You can't really spot remove hair colour. Try clarifying shampoos and oil treatments (any oil you have lying around will do the job). Both will help to fade the colour and the oil will be great for your hair generally.

Even if you dye your hair darker, the dye "bleaches" your hair so that the darker colour can take. When you remove the darker colour you are left with the "bleached" hair. This is quite often a brassy/orangy/blonde colour. So you will probably need to redye it again. Although it might oxidise and go a bit darker over time.

If you wanted go down the colour strip route though, google vitamin c as a hair remover. Much cheaper and easier (and less smelly!) than ColourB4 and the like. This was the before and after when I used it. The hair dresser made my hair almost black and gave me odd racoon stripes. I left the vitamin c on for an hour and this was the result. You can see what I mean by the brassiness when you strip a colour. My natural colour is dark brown with grey.

It left it a little dry as you can see but a couple of oilings and it's fine.

Thank you, very useful info.
I washed it last night with tgel shampoo as that was the harshest I have (I purposely buy sls free shampoo usually). I think it looks like a few of the usual lighter bits are shining through. I'll get a clarifying shampoo this morning and try that. If that doesn't help I'm just going to try and rock the darker look and fend off any comments of how washed out I look.

Next question, best clarifying shampoo?