Help please. How soon can I put on another box dye?

[Havalona]

Has anyone used a colour that just looks awful and needs to change it fast? I tried to tone down a lightish blonde and it has turned out caramel which is so ageing for me and does me no favours at all! This was earlier this morning. I did check the colour on the box but it just went too dark. Oh dear.

I use Clairol Nice n Easy and have been for donkey's years. I just look dreadful (to me) and feel a bit low now, since I thought the new colour would look good. No it doesn't. My fault I suppose but there we go.

How soon do you think I could go back to my original colour (lighter). Today? LOL 😊

Is that a semi permanent one? I use L'Oreal semi permanent ones. I once came out a disturbingly bright orange/red colour - somehow got that wrong. I used another rbox, in a darker (more brown!) colour, the next day. The main issue of course is that you have to choose the new colour based on the current colour rather than on your base colour, if that makes sense? So in my case, I had to go quite a bit darker to cover the weird orange/redness whereas usually, because my natural hair colour is a sort of of light brown, I would choose a less dark colour as I don't need as much coverage.

Thanks @JadziaD I am between bursting out laughing and crying. Laughter is winning because I am not sick or dying!

It is the Permanent tone on tone version which works great for me. I usually use gold blonde but it was turning a yellowy colour and I decided to try a more muted shade, cool blonde. Yuck!

So do you think I could re do it within a day or so, or at best before the weekend? I'll wear a hat in the meantime. 😂

I once dyed my hair reddish, or so I thought. It came out like a pillar box.
Once my friend in the flat downstairs and her kid had finished laughing at me, she went to the chemist, got a dark brown one, and re did it for me there and then, so a gap of about 2 hours. I was very grateful and it didn't seem to do any damage.

I suppose I'm afraid all those chemicals within 24 hours (maybe?) will make my hair fall out or injure my scalp! I have (knock on wood) never had a problem with any sort of reaction at all so far.

BTW I'm no spring chicken either and I should have known better than to mess around with a tried and trusted colour. But we all have mad days.

Good to hear @murasaki that you survived a repeat colouring on the same day! I'm very tempted but might leave it till tomorrow.

No hair fell out (I sort of wished it would as it is so thick every hairdresser remarks on it). But I'm sure tomorrow would be fine for you.

I just did it that day as I had to go to work the next day, i was in my twenties, and knew everyone would piss themselves laughing. So it needed a quick fix for vanity reasons!

It was SO red.

You can use a colour remover but it's drastic.

I have used a home made remover of dandruff shampoo and vitamin c. It did work but god my hair was like straw.
If you look on you tube there are lots of similar recipes.

I would use dandruff shampoo intensively for the next few days and some deep conditioner.

Maybe purple shampoo to tone out the golden tone?

Colour remover is worse than the dye and it reeks!

Could you try a toner to make it a cooler shade, purple toner maybe?

Honestly, I would just dye over it. But as I said, expect the new colour still not to be exactly what you wanted.

And no, I wouldn't be worried about it making your hair fall out. the biggest risk is that you get the wrong colour - eg if it's too red and you try to go to a mid brown it's just goign to merge and look horrendous.