Oops I did it again

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Despite knowing every single time I box dye my hair it goes wrong, I apparently forgot this and box dyed my hair and shocker it's gone wrong.

What should be a light ashy brown has turned almost black with a reddish hue.

Lesson learnt and I will go to the hairdressers, am using blue shampoo to dull it and have also used a box dye stripping kit thingie but it only helped a bit - is there anything I can do to lighten it in the meantime please???

Could you post a photo?

So my hair appointment isn't until mid Nov - earliest they can get me in

I've posted a pic and it doesn't really show how bad it is. Especially as I'm SO pale and am used to brown/dark blonde balayage

Looks lovely to me.

There's a nice colour!

@leli oh Thankyou so much, I've taken a photo in every room of the house to show how bad it is and it doesn't! It's just so red on top and black at the ends

I see no black. It looks a lot lighter than I expected and it's a lovely colour.

I can see the redness in your fringe and the black on the ends, and I know what you mean, but your hair is beautiful and so is what I can see of your face. So I say style it out until your next appointment - if anyone can carry this off, you can!

Looks lovely and I like your haircut also.

Oh you lot 🥰 Thankyou! I know it's only hair but I was in tears earlier and it took a lot to post so Thankyou from the bottom of my heart for the kind comments.

Maybe I'll just style it out until my hair appointment 😊

It's a lovely colour! I like it

It looks nice to me!

Just adding to the positive voices. It looks lovely.

I think it looks perfectly nice and not remotely black.

Oh it looks good. What did you use?

I think it looks lovely! But if you're jot happy, then a clarifying shampoo should help to get some of the colour out quicker

I've seen head and shoulders recommended here before for reducing darkness.

But I wouldn't mess about too much as the condition looks good.

I find mine fades a little after a couple of washes anyway so I'd give it a few washes before you do anything. Or just get a trim if it's the ends that are darker.

Sometimes you just need to get used to it. I can't keep mine as dark as it was naturally. I swim and it always turns reddish. Yet when I dye it closer to the colour it should be I spend the first couple of days thinking I look like a ghost!

I'd also be delighted if it looked as good as yours. There's really nothing to worry about

Another saying leave it, it looks in amazing condition, so shiny and you wouldn't want to jeopardise that with more stripping etc.

I was going to say, I like this colour. Your hair is lovely and shiny 🙂

I would willingly swap my mane for yours OP.

Honestly Thankyou all for such kind comments. I think it's just a flattering picture (for a change! Ha) but you've made a VERY self conscious woman VERY happy tonight.

I think I'll embrace the dark until my hair appointment and carry on using the blue shampoo to rid the red.

Ps I cut it myself! I really need to stop thinking I can do for free what I used to pay £130 for I won't even get started on the tanning drops and eyebrow dye I've done......

Looks lovely !

Looks great! I’d be more than happy with that result…especially in autumn.
anyone else having a dodgy box dye…head & shoulders, vosene or a bicarbonate of soda paste is supposedly used to strip colour.

@Gall10 I have Vosene! Off to the shower, Thankyou!