Fix my hair colour fail?

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I had bleached hair that I wanted natural brown. I can't afford a hairdresser.

I put on a semi perm to turn it orange (to stop it going green). Then I put a semi perm chocolate brown on it.

It has gone a burgundy brown. It isn't green or patchy. It looks like I intended it to be this colour.

However I really, really don't like it. What can I do to bring it back to a natural brown rather than brown burgundy? I don't mind a natural reddy brown.

Pics of my hair attached.

I'd probably let that fade out, did you use box dye? Was it permanent? Red colours fade quite quickly, if you use some anti dandruff shampoo on it it will probably dry quicker. The only other way would be for it to be lightened but you've already got bleach compromised hair under there so go to a hairdresser and give them the full run down of what's on your hair.

Sorry I've just seen that you put a semi on it, do the Head and Shoulders and it'll probably fade a bit quicker and may end up a more natural colour.

Coconut oil strips hair colour

Put another colour on it? I used Garnier light brown when I went from blonde to dark and a lovely shade of khaki in between.

I would just keep washing to fade it but it is notoriously hard to remove warm, red tones from hair. Personally I would just put up with ir for a bit, you’re not green or orange.

Cover it with a permanent dye? Look for a cool brown with no red tones.

Id dye it again with permanent brown in a shade lighter than you want (as box dye always goes really dark in my experience)

Would something like this make it more brown?
I just need it to look more natural than purple. 🤣
www.boots.com/clairol-nicen-easy-no-ammonia-non-permanent-hair-dye-75-light-ash-brown-10170588

Yes. Ash is good to get rid of red tones.

It’s not the colour, it’s the warmth created by the developer etc. I use L’Oréal purple shampoo, conditioner and deep conditioner. Takes a few goes and it’s messy but it does help. Any brown you use from now on has to be cool ash etc but even then, the developers in box dyes, even semi ones are often stronger than required so that ‘one size fits all’ and they actually lift your colour a little bit even as there’s colour being deposited, that’s what causes the red tones. Even a Nice and Easy 24 wash strong ASH brown should knock out a lot of the red and then get to work the the purple shampoo and conditioner. It’s a job and a half but it can be done!

Let it fade, red is notorious for fading fast.

Do two shampoos each tie you wash, any dandruff shampoo.

You might like the resulting colour!

I thought purple shampoo was to cancel out yellows/oranges? I do have some from when my hair was bleached. I didn't know if the purple (being red and blue, like burgundy) would make the problem worse?

You should have just put the brown straight on the bleached hair. I've done this without problem several times. Never had green hair as a result, I think that's an urban myth.
If you put orange on your hair it's now full of warm tones. The only thing that strips warm tones is....bleach. You won't be able to get cool toned hair without it. You could try ColourB4 I guess.

And yes purple shampoo removes brassy tones from bleached hair. There is also blue shampoo which I've heard of but not tried which is for brunette. That might be worth a go.

I recently died my hair far too dark and I used a product by revolution called hair colour remover. It cost about a tenner and beautifully took the dye out of my hair. It's now back to a nice mid brown colour. Not the same situation as yours exactly but I found the product to be amazing!

Dyed

Blue shampoo was mentioned but blue will not cancel out red. You would need to have complementary colour which for red is green.

There is actually a few green based shampoos (Matrix Dark Envy and Fanola No Red) but as all shade correcting shampoos they are not able to fully cover as much red as seen in the pictures, just helping to tone more subtle red hues.

I had this used "Revolution" hair dye remover. DON'T, it was Christmas eve,I followed the instructions to the letter. The smell was terrible, like rotten eggs. Luckily there was a hairdresser in the village,and a girl who cut my hair. It just went like a steel wool pad, couldn't get a comb through it. Whipped round, she said it was chemically burnt. Had to cut the lot off, they took pictures. I sent to manufactures. They sent me stupid forms to fill in, after a year, offered me the price of the product. I had done the patch test, woke up Christmas day with red, burning, swollen eyes.

It was called Colour Before