Colour b4 hair colour remover - with pics

[Candleglow7475]

I bought a box of this over the weekend as the bottom of my hair has become over dyed and darker than the roots. I’ve been doing a black cherry type shade, my hair is fairly dark anyway but I’ve got some greys.
I did the patch test last night -all fine, and did the stand test on the a part for the recommended hour and rinsed and nothing - nada!
Does this make it more likely that this won’t work on me? I was expecting it to go paler.
Has anyone done this who can advise please I bought the remover for stubborn colours.

This happened to me. I used to use Nice 'n' Easy medium mahogany brown and over time my hair went jet black on the ends. Colour B4 didn't touch it, all that happened was I had orange roots and black ends. Sorry, I know this isn't what you want to hear, but the only thing that rescued my hair was going to the salon and having a bleach bath followed by having five inches cut off.

I've used colour b4 on a few occasions. Most of the time, I've had to do it twice to remove dark hair dye (and that was only semi permanents, but my hair is very porous and a semi permanent seems to dye my hair permanently!).

It does work for me, though the stuff STINKS, but you may find your hair is a bit more coppery than before? It got all the dark stained bits out though, my ends ended up lighter than my roots as they;d been dyed more times so the peroxide in the dye had actually lightened them more underneath, iyswim. I would rinse for a lot longer than it says to as well, first time I used it I did what it said on the box and my hair gradually went darker again as it dried out.

Yes ReginaGeorgeous that’s what’s happened - jet black on the ends. I want a consistent brown colour all the way down. I don’t want a bleach bath either ☹️
Yes it smelled very eggy Roomba

Fingers crossed - it’s on now 🤞

Good luck, let us know how it turns out

I’m actually over the moon with it! Despite thinking it wasn’t working it’s lightened it quite a lot (considering there was years of dark dye in it)!
It is very coppery, and there was no visible dye washed out of it.

Good luck x

I used Colour B4 twice at the beginning of this year - initially it worked both times, however, both times my hair darkened a few days later, a week later I was back to dark brown, my hair re-oxidised. Apparently this can happen when you don't rinse for long enough - I rinsed both times for at least 20mins!

About a month ago I bit the bullet and got that Shwarzkopf Colour Expert Blonding Kit, the lightening one. I applied it to my hair, saturated it, apart from the roots, combed it through & left it for I think 45 mins. When I rinsed it off my hair was an unsavoury yellowy/coppery/light browny colour, so luckily I had a med ash blonde semi in the cupboard & I applied that straight away on dry hair. It toned it down to a kind of honey light browny chestnut colour. This was a better result than the colour b4. I wouldn't bother with that in future but I've no plans to go dark again!

Hmmm I didn’t time it but I reckon I rinsed for 15 mins in total using the buffer shampoo twice in that time. I really hope it doesn’t go darker - I’d be very disappointed if it did. I don’t want to go really light, just be able to have a consistent mid brown all over - and stay rid of the jet black ends!

I have no idea what they put in Nice'n'Easy dyes but it does not budge. I had the same thing a couple of years ago. Grabbed a Nice'n'Easy dye in brown as my usual brand was OOS. Ended up with jet black hair. Tried all remedies including Vit C/Vosene/Head'n'Shoulders/Colour B4 and nothing worked apart from bleaching.

Colour B4 gave me hot roots and dark tips. I re-dyed 2 shades lighter and balayaged to blend the dark ends. I have below shoulder length hair and I still have about 5-10 cm of darker stained hair. I can still see it but my hairdresser says it's 'tonal' and blended now. I think if it's oxidised then bleach is the way to go.