Dying over a semi permanent colour

[Tiggytico]

Looking for some help! My daughter dyed her hair blue at the start of the school holidays, using manic panic. Unfortunately, it has not washed out, and although no longer bright blue, it has a strong green tinge to it. We’ve tried head and shoulders (daily for the last two weeks), bicarbonate of soda and a couple of colour strippers, but without success. I’ve contacted the school to explain the dilemma (she goes back tomorrow) and they’ve confirmed that she will go into isolation for the breach of hair colour. Fair enough; we understand these are the rules. They’ve also suggested dying over the top of her hair with a brown or dark blonde (she’s mid blonde).

I’m not keen on taking advice from teachers, who I guess aren’t qualified or experienced hairdressers! Has anyone done this successfully? She’s 14; lovely long hair and I’m not keen on causing further damage to it!

if we do dye it - should we use a semi permanent or a permanent? Any chance of her hair turning a worse colour?

Thanks for any advice.

I'd try and get into a hairdressers if colour stripping isn't working

Hide it under a headscarf/turban

You need to go to a hairdresser. Semi-permanent colours don't wash out like temporary colours do- they change the hair permanently.

We have also got exactly the same issue with our 14 year old daughter. I popped a black semi over the top and it is now even more blue but a dark blue.
I have no idea what to do next.

I think you should try and get into a hairdresser, if there is one near you that specilaises in colour even better.

Thank you. Will try to find a hairdresser that can help. I did ask my hairdresser to colour it if the first place, but wouldn’t as she is under 16.
Thank you!

I would put a dark choc brown over it. My son went through a stage of bleaching and then colouring his hair blue/green etc, I just put a dark choc brown over it and it’s covered it up both times.

As a blonde that did a manic panic deep blue many, many years ago and ended up with a blue rinse for a very long time I feel your pain.
No good advice, but good luck!

Both manic panic and blue colour are notoriously difficult to get out, ( and i speak from experience) . Don't pt any more chemicals on her hair, colour remover can be as harsh as bleach. Take her to a hair dresser, or use a temporary hair dye until you can get to see one

Hairdresser, let the professionals sort it out as I’ve heard (and seen!) too many horror stories. Maybe next time, she might be a bit more careful as blue or green manic panic rarely ends well!

I used semi permanent pink on my daughters hair, she went swimming and in less than an hour it had all gone😂 maybe try going to the pool!

That's strange! It's only an issue if there is no parental permission usually. Find another hairdresser as plenty will do younger than 16.

Yes PP chicolait brown is a good shout you need orange/ red undertones to cancel out the blue.

You need to neutralise it using a colour on the opposite side of the colour wheel. When my hair develops a green tinge from the swimming pool, tomato Ketchup works. Might be worth a try in the first instance.

my daughter had a blue section at the nape of her neck and it was a nightmare to get out and frazzled her hair. We went to a hairdresser and she stripped it, but it stayed a bit blue. You might need to strip it and get a pixie cut….

If she tied her hair up a bun and a fairly large scrunchie would the blue still show so much that she would be sent to isolation?

Do you not stop and think to yourself “how bloody ridiculous”? And then question how such a school sets one’s children up for life? I know I do. Why acquiesce to such ludicrousness?

How blue is it? I'm not sure how hair colour impacts learning. Do you have a copy of the schools uniform policy and does it state that the kids cannot dye their hair? I had this when my daughter had purple hair in year 6 the head teacher went mad about it. Other staff liked it and it didn't look shockingly brightly coloured. Head teacher told me read the uniform policy saying it specifically stated that the kids couldn't dye their hair he said strip it out otherwise she misses her break times. The uniform policy or any other policy said nothing of the sort. I spoke to another member of staff and even she looked at school policies and also didn't find anything in there about hair colour so pointed out to the head teacher that he couldn't make her miss her break times as there was no rules breached. She's now in year 7 and has dyed her hair blue and her high school loves it. Her older brother has also had lots of different hair colours including bright pink which school didn't mind. Some of the teachers dye their hair "unnatural" colours so don't see the problem with students doing so

Take her to a decent hairdresser and they’ll sort it.

Do you have a pic of the colour? Maybe a toner will do the job.

As a temporary measure for tomorrow you could try brown dry shampoo

Hair in a tight bun and with multiple large plain scrunchies around it and a bun cover if you can get one in time - or in fact any piece of fabric in a plain colour school won't object to. Then spray any visible blue/green hair with Loreal Paris Touch Up in dark brown. Then get her to a hairdresser without fail on Saturday.

I absolutely detest things like this, blue hair isn’t allowed, you’ve accidentally found yourselves with leftover blue temporary dye in your daughter’s hair (blue is a nightmare to get rid of btw) which absolutely isn’t allowed as students can’t dye their hair…
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… only solution they can offer is to dye it, permanently, to a “normal” colour.

Honestly amazes me that they never see the irony or double standards here, and that they actually see this as a sensible reasonable solution.

I earn £50k a year so I’m not rich but it’s a well paying corporate job and I’ve had to at times work damn hard to justify the fact that I can be professional and be good at my job and still have unnatural coloured hair and visible tattoos, I dress modestly but tattoos now extend to my face/hands/neck and I keep my hair neat but the colours resemble a pack of sweets. You don’t have to have mousy hair and wear a beige blazer to be successful anymore Sir/Miss.

My daughter did this with her hair (different brand). She coloured it with a semi permanent chocolate brown, which only lasted a few weeks before it faded agin. The second “cover” took much better, and 7 months later you wouldn’t know.

I'd try putting a fairly bright red over the top to make a brown.
Or a very dark brown to go black?