Help. Dd's botched dye job.

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Dd was around a friends house and decided it would be fun to bleach her hair. She has very thick, long brunnete hair. 3 boxes of bleach later and she has a head of hair that is all sorts of colours. Her roots at the front are blond/straw colour. She has some sections of hair that are very light brown, some copper parts and some that are bright red! Needless to say it looks terrible.

My first reaction is that I'm not paying a fortune to get it fixed as she has heard my story of trying to bleach my hair as a kid. I ended up with copper hair and when it was growing out I earned the nick name Duracell!! Does anyone know what colour dye she can use to get back to a brown colour? I'm worried if it has too much red then the blonde will go orange but if it is more of a black colour, it will go green. Or am I going to have to back track and take her to the hairdressers?

Hairdressers.

I think I’d be asking her to pay towards it though. How old is she?

Not nice to let her be teased at school for the mess she has made of her hair. Take her to the hairdressers but she should pay half at least. Otherwise she will learn nothing.

I had to take my DD to the hairdressers. When it's patchy like that it's almost impossible to fix at home unless you really know what you are doing. There's a science to it.

This needs professional colour correction I'm afraid. Any more home treatments and she could really damage her hair. As the PP has said though she should be paying for this herself.

Rite of passage!
2 teen DDs and they’ve both had home dye disasters. Despite my repeated pleas to NOT do it
I think blue shampoo is meant to strip bleach? Maybe try that in the first instance before contacting a hairdresser.
Agree she should contribute to cost

Watch Hair Buddha on YouTube. I'm sure he says a red dye first to 'fill' the hair, then you can outgrown during top. But it may still be different shades of brown!

Ah this is a right of passage, who hasn’t messed their hair up

I think after three boxes of bleach she needs to go to a hairdresser and she will need to wait at least a week or two or she will habe no hair left.

I agree, my dd did the same, rite of passage!
She died it a loreal mid brown, two years later, she cant see the roots. No harm done really.

I think you need to take her to the hairdresser, it's going to be in really bad condition after that much bleach.

Hairdressers and she might need a treatment mask as her hair will be so damaged.

You could do a reddish brown box dye on top but personally I wouldn't risk it. I'd be going to the hairdresser to do a colour correction because of the condition it could well be in after that much bleach.
Purple shampoo will do naff all in this situation.

Also she should be prepared she might have to lose some of the length

My DD did a disastrous hair dye job at that age. I took her to the hairdressers to get it sorted.

Dd did this a few years back. She was so upset I just couldn’t not help. A hairdresser sorted it out. I wouldn’t even think about doing a diy repair job as that much bleach was used.

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Rite of passage! 2 teen DDs and they’ve both had home dye disasters. Despite my repeated pleas to NOT do it I think blue shampoo is meant to strip bleach? Maybe try that in the first instance before contacting a hairdresser. Agree she should contribute to cost

Nothing strips bleach as bleach removes colour Blue shampoo neutralises orange tones in hair. Think her dds hair is not at a stage where that will help

I did this as a teenager. Luckily my mum took pity on me and booked a colour correction. 3 hours it took. They had to dye it red first and then due it brown after. Something to do with not been able to put brown on top on bleach because it wouldn't hold the brown pigment. This was circa 1999.

Thanks for all the replies. You've all confirmed what I thought...leave it to the professionals!! Think she will need a patch test before they will touch her though, so she may have to live with it for a few days. She had such beautiful hair before. 😪

Has she got a hat?

If funds are an issue or the hairdresser's quote is too expensive, I'd start by making her use a good moisture and protein based hair mask (I love trepadora's quinoa hair mask- quite expensive but it lasts so long, or a shea moisture protein mask); I'd switch her to a shea moisture shampoo and conditioner for her hair type and then use a reddish brown shade of casting creme gloss to 'fill the hair' before dying it a permanent mid-brown. The hair will probably fill at different rates/ colours so I'd top it up until it's even enough and then use something like garnier olia as a permanent dye as it doesnt have amonia or get a bottle of 20% developer and a professional loreal inoa dye. It can be done at home but does need to be done in stages, and with care in between each step. Does she need to go to school this week? If so, I'd start with a patch test and a reddy-brown semi permanent dye at home to try and even the colour before she has to go in

Also, I forgot to add this, but Brad Mondo's blonde to brown hair video may help with some advice! He's quite clear that you need to fill but don't need to use a permanent dye to fill if using a permanent on top