How to get rid of blue-green from DD's hair - HELP!

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In a moment of madness, at the start of the summer and prior to a music festival, I used a blue semi-permanent hair dye on 8 year old DD.

Well obviously her naturally light brown hair is now left with a horrid blue-green tinge and she's back to school next week. School is very strict on uniform/hair/nails etc. Lesson learnt - I don't need telling I'm an idiot!

But can anyone suggest anything that might get it out? Do I need to put a natural looking colour over it, or am I just going to make things worse?

Thanks!

Uhoh! Funnily enough I did the same with my almost 8 year old DD’s hair this summer but only on the tips which I plan on cutting before she returns to school next week.

I’ve had blue hair before and it is the hardest colour to remove unfortunately! The only thing that removed most of the colour so that you may be able to dye over it was L’Oreal Paris Effasor which you will need to mix with a developer. It’s quite damaging though :(

Hmm… ketchup or tomato is supposed to be good to correct green… might be worth a try? Blue is trickier though.

red on green makes brown. yellow on blue makes green

I've used something that strips colour out of dyed hair. I got mine from Superdrug although, to be fair, my hair wasn't blue green.

Try head and shoulders.I got full on bright blue crazy colour out of teen DDs peroxide blonde hair in time for school last year.Ended up at a trusted hairdresser after using at home :Head and shoulders, ketchup and finally a bleach bath (look it up if desperate) which got it down to very pale green. Thr head and shoulders worked the best .The hairdresser used a red toner I believe which got it just about back to blonde.

Well I use a blue hair mask to neutralise orange tones in my hair, so I suggest doing the opposite! Try a strawberry blonde colour rinse?

Oh wow I did the same with my hair, what product did you use? Wondering if it’s the same one!

to be honest I ended up going to my hairdresser to sort it, after a month of daily washing to no avail. I was booked in for a colour refresh anyway. She applied a treatment on it, which lifted the majority out. She then put my highlights in as normal and toned it. My hair is still a bit green in areas but I’m much more confident now that the remaining will wash out. I think my next session of highlights would definitely sort it regardless.

if I wanted to, I could have had a bleach bath to remove it but I didn’t want to damage my hair any more than needed. That’s probably the best thing to do for urgent results.

I'd just put a box dye of her natural colour over the top. Anything else will be really faffy and not entirely effective.

We had this last summer - I ended up getting DD's hair cut.

She put head and shoulders on this year after doing pink and that took a lot of it out. But it was still there faint so may not work.

They have also been in an over chlorinated swimming pool with coloured hair and that stripped it out!

personally I’d avoid this, especially as she’s 8. I doubt box dye manufacturers support children using their products!

It’s also likely to ruin her natural hair. Box dye is poor quality, every box dye bleaches your natural hair because the dye requires a developer to work and get consistent results on different base hair colours. Therefore you’ll find that the colour will begin to fade and likely look warm/brassy or the green might show through again - regardless of it looking like her natural hair colour on the box. It’s a road I wouldn’t want my 8 year old going down.

i think there’s no rush to sort this, just convince her to tie her hair back/put it in a bun to hide the colour, or use those hair spray cans (eg L’Oreal root spray) to cover it temporarily until you decide what to do long term. That will sort her for next week. In the meantime contact the product’s manufacturer for advice or see a hairdresser.

Blue is the hardest colour to remove. I would keep at it with Head and Shoulders. I don't think you can use hair dye stripper on blue dye. I'm not sure you'll get it out totally, but hopefully fade enough until it grows out?

Fairy liquid is pretty good at stripping out product from hair. Be very careful about avoiding eyes and be ready to apply a ton of conditioner afterwards because it's very drying.

Have you tried vosene? Or head and shoulders?

Cut the hair as short as possible as it will regrow anyway & then continue with Head & Shoulders. Make sure you moisturise and condition the hair well.

You can buy colour removers to strip it out.

Don't box dye an 8 year olds hair please.

What have you tried so far?

I did one of my kids hair purple last year. It all came out when we went swimming, so must have been the chlorine. You could try swimming with her hair down. If nothing works and she has long hair, would a tight bun minimise the evidence?

What you need here is colour theory! Have a look at the same range of hair colour you used initially, and see if there is one that matches the opposite colour on a colour wheel. If her hair blue-green as you say, you're likely to want orange-red (so like a copper colour). This should neutralise much of the blue green. Be very careful applying it in small sections only applying to the previously coloured parts.

Permanent colour and colour strippers will be harsh on the hair and you'd then have to contend with that growing out.

Don’t use a die stripper they are brutal to hair and take hours.
DD had this years ago before a big dance competition and she needed rid of it. I used a semi perm red (not pillar box more natural) colour to neutralise it. It worked quite well. You can get wash in wash out orange/peach colours in Superdrug maybe start with one of those to see if it works first.

Sorry I forgot to update. Thanks so much for the suggestions. She's washing it with head and shoulders, that's fading it considerably, and then we're using the Superdrug Strawberry Blonde wash in wash out to cover the last remnants. That gives a really nice colour actually, just a slightly more golden version of her natural colour.