How the fuck do you get rid of red hair dye??

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Recently dyed bleached hair brown. It was fine but faded at the ends so I decided to dye it black cherry. A red tint apparently. It faded to bloody orange so I dyed it back to medium brown. A week later and it's bloody red again. How? Why? What do I do to get it brown? Do I have to dye it black?

The whole point of this was to stop dying my hair and killing it!

I can't be bothered with hairdressers. They always disappoint.

I can't be bothered with hairdressers. They always disappoint.

The irony

Red undertone is very very hard to get out, in fact, it's THE hardest. You'll do less damage to your hair and have fewer hit and miss issues if you go to a hair dresser for this. Stripping colour is complicated if you don't want straw hair for years.

I did a bit of research when DD2's red dye just didn't wash out (supposedly semi-perm, but still there now!). Apparently green shampoo corrects red.

I tried everything with DD2. Vitamin C tablets, bicarbonate of soda, Fairy Liquid, vinegar, a 'colour stripper'....still red. She had the majority of it cut out and the last 2 inches is faded enough to not cause her trouble at school (but still quite noticeable in the sunlight!).

@ZolaGrey ha! Yes I did think that as I typed it! This is the first time I've box dyed my hair, mainly after throwing a strop from constant disappointment from hairdressers and mixed understandings of blonde.

I really don't want to fork out all that cash! Am I going to have to bite the bullet?

@Lougle oh. My. God.

What the fuck have I done!

Sorry to say OP but when my hair was a deep 'red wine' red it took hours and hours at the hairdresser and some seriously damaged hair to get it to blonde again, and that was without me having bleached it first. It didn't fully recover until it had entirely grown out from root to tip, and I still uphold that the structure never went back to being the same, it's much drier now than before.

I absolutely loved the colour but I will never, ever, do it again.

Try colour b4

I had this problem after dying my hair brown with a box dye for years, it always had a horrible orangey tint to it as the dye started to fade. Blue shampoo didn't work. I used colour B4 which did work and strip all the dye from my hair, but I used extra strength and I left it on too long which resulted in... you guessed it. Orange hair all over. I Decided to get it cut into a bob, i had 16 inches cut off. And i had lots of blonde highlights put in, and the colour is 100x better. I'm just letting my natural colour grow out now, although I may keep some of the blonde highlights. i will never dye my hair with a box dye again!

ColourB4 has bleach in it and will turn hair orange if you go any higher than the colour line. I'd bite the bullet and ask a hairdresser for help.

It's definitely green shampoo to neutralise red, though, and blue to neutralise orange. Amazon sell green shampoo

Dd had her hair turned orange at the hairdressers by accident last month when it was meant to be blonde. After much discussion between the hairdressers they decided to dye her hair purple because it was the opposite side of the colour spectrum to orange and would neutralise it. 🤷‍♀️

She came out with sort of light brown hair and had to go back the next week for more bleaching to get it blonde again.

YouTube Brad Mondo, he has some good tips and talks about getting rid of red in hair quite often if you can find the right videos