Help yes I'm an idiot but my hair is orange

[fuckyouSaul]

Bright orange hair......now used fanola no yellow and the rest of my hair is bright purple
How can I rectify at home please?
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Can you post a picture for the rest of us to assess the state of the disaster?

As a general rule, several rounds of anti-dandruff shampoo, followed by a "no yellow" type silver/blue toning one - but it sounds as though you've already gone the extra mile on that one and may have made it worse rather than better.

Given your description, I'd strongly advise to hold out for a professional if that's an option at all. If you're dealing with multiple tones, you may need selective colour correction, and that's virtually impossible to do without it getting patchy unless you know what you're doing.

Your other option might be to simply go darker. But this might not be a committment you're willing to make and - even if colour stripped by a professional later on - risks leaving you with a permanently dodgy colour that would require regular toning for it to look halfway decent.

Having done the latter - also over bright orange (deliberately so when chosen), I can categorically say that very dark hair with a fair complexion is kind of a harsh look. Wouldn't recommend.

It really is this bad

Gosh, that is a disaster!

I'd just try a semi permanent colourant in a dark ash blond shade. I think you need to leave it for a week or two though.

I like it.

I can't leave it a week I've got work

The non purple bits don't look too bad? I had a similar situation a few weeks ago (but following a toner as opposed to purple shampoo) Anyway about 3 rounds of shampooing and leaving it on my hair for 15 minutes really toned it down, head and shoulders or similar is preferable.

If you have just bleached or lightened your hair the purple really grabs.

How long did you leave the purple shampoo on for? Purple shampoo takes out yellow tones not orange. What did you use to get to orange?

You can shampoo the purple out. Will take a bit of time but...

Okay, yes, this is really sort of bad.

On the upside, in the picture at least, this is not bright orange - it's at worst a copper-ish shade of blond - not a perfectly toned ashy tone but nothing you couldn't meet with your boss wearing either. Your issue isn't the orange, it's the purple/lilac/[whatever, I've never been good with colours]!

Have you got highlights/bleached strands? From your picture it looks as though some strands seem to have taken to the no yellow much better than others, suggesting they may have been bleached before and be more porous to begin with?

Try several rounds of an abrasive anti-dandruff shampoo to tone the purple. I've successfully used Head&Shoulders Classic for this before. Also, washing up liquid as a shampoo. Leave the rest to a professional.

If all else fails and a pro isn't an option at all within a useful time frame, go for an ashy toner/temporary colour. Make sure it's temporary and no darker than you're happy to go. Your hair is really light and appears to be taking to colour exceptionally easily. Do not, under any circumstances, even think of anything permanent or even semi-permanent. If you've gone this purple, you'll go virtually black as easily but with a much harder removal process.

I'd strongly recommend against any DIY beyond the H&S/Fairy treatment given how well the purple seems to have taken. And I'm saying this as the person who used to spend 300/mth to keep my own "fix" under control until it had finally grown out enough for a cut to address the situation.

@demented bleach to go orange

Haha I like it to. It's fun. Something you dont see every day. I think your work colleagues will think its funky.

Unless you're a solicitor or something I don't see the problem.

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Probably need some sort of toner. If it was still orange then the bleach wasnt strong enough or on long enough to take out the red tones.

1. How long did you leave the purple shampoo on for?

2. How long did you wait between bleaching and using purple shampoo?

3. When do you have to go to work? (How urgently does this need fixing?)

Do you have any more bleach?
Dare you risk a bleach bath? Might even it out, then purple shampoo, but mixed with lots of conditioner.

Unless you're a solicitor or something I don't see the problem.

To be fair, that's not really an option for everyone.

I'm not a solicitor, for example, but do have a stipulation in my employment contract that stipulates that I'm to maintain a professional/groomed appearance and explicitly forbids "unnatural" hair colours. Now, they evidently wouldn't fire me for a bit of incompetence in terms of DIY colouring jobs (though all of my bald male colleagues would laugh their arses off and think it was a fair comeuppance), but I would be expected to address the situation ASAP. I'm a senior executive in a professional services firm and generally expected to look, ideally, what I like to call "generically attractive without the slightest hint of sex appeal". Lots of professional jobs are the same ...

It happened to me once, I used purple shampoo, head and shoulders etc. The thing that worked best was squeezing the juice of around 6 lemons onto it and leaving it for an hour or so under a plastic bag!

Grey toner? I use it on my hair when it's just been bleached and is a bit yellow and it basically dyes the whole lot greyish for a few weeks then as it washes out the blonde is ashy. Bleach London do one for about £7

Bleach bath is a potentially very effective but also risky move.

My concern would be: given how extremely well your hair has taken to the purple, I suspect it's very fragile and prone to breaking already. The effect of purple shampoo is barely visible on my own, professionally bleached hair. It removes some brassy tones (though imperfectly) and leaves no trace of the actual colour at all.

Is it frizzy/looking "fried" when dry?

Friend has her hair professionally dyed exactly like that. Matching eyeshadow and brazen it out - most don't look at her twice.

Tea tree shampoo strips colour. As does baby shampoo.

I’ve learned this in the last 2 weeks. I dyed my hair neon pink (deliberately) loved it and then ran out of shampoo. Used the tea tree one we had - stropped some colour. Next shampoo used the baby shampoo. Also strips colour...

Posted too soon. My hair is now a candy floss pink. Still looks ok. But not the neon.

Wash it 15 times tonight in washing up liquid, then a quick once over with fanola (do not leaving it on fgs, just wash and rinse), plenty of conditioner and then leave it alone until hairdressers reopen!

I’m just going to be honest

The fact that purple shampoo took that well means that your hair is very compromised and porous. That isn’t normal, that only happens with damaged and over processed hair. It might not look or feel damaged right now, but it’s on the road to being in a seriously fucked up condition.

Therefore you need to now look after your hair. The condition should be your first priority instead of the colour.

Whilst I’m sure washing your hair with washing up liquid may help to remove the colour, it’s a ridiculous idea because you will wreck the condition of your hair further.

How many days have you realistically got before you need it fixed