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Blue hair.....what have I agreed to?!!!

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Acacia123 · 24/08/2017 08:58

(Sorry if post duplicated - original seems to have evaporated).

Daughter (14) desperate for blue hair over summer. I allowed (although I think it looks awful, but that's beside the point) on proviso that she stopped dying it mid August to allow a few weeks for it to wash out before school. She used non-permanent 6-10 wash-out (brand is Colour Freedom).

It's still looking rather blue :-0 with not long before school starts.

Have I made a terrible mistake?...her hair is naturally very blond...Will it be permanently stained?....she looks like a surf at the moment.

Google's come up with a product called Colour B4 which I might invest in (£10!!!)...

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AnnMeredithPerkins · 24/08/2017 08:59

Take her swimming, the chlorine should take it out?

Plummer88 · 24/08/2017 21:00

Don't go swimming - it will go green!

Use a colour stripper on it. Problem with blue is it stains.

AnnMeredithPerkins · 24/08/2017 21:04

Which dye did you use?

Swimming ripped out joico magenta from my hair

LegArmpits · 24/08/2017 21:06

My son had this, same colour and brand. A few swimming sessions have faded it almost completely.

gingerbeerd · 25/08/2017 08:03

You can use a colour dye stripper but they can be expensive depending on the brand. You can DIY a colour stripper (vitamin c tablets can work but can also dry out the hair a little, doing a couple coconut or olive oil masks will bring it back up to manageable).

You can dye over it (if she wants to of course, but it would have to be a colour darker than what it is currently, probably brown, and then there's the maintenance of keeping up the brown dye).

You can bleach it out slowly with a low-level peroxide (wouldn't recommend).You can mix a very small amount of orange hair dye into conditioner to counteract the blue (wouldn't recommend, if you don't have experience with hair it's easy to mess up).

Given that her hair was originally blonde chlorine might not cut it but worth a shot.
Depending on how vibrant it still is, shampooing it frequently might be able to get rid of it but as a PP said, blue dye is unfortunately great at staining and leaving discolouration.

Overall easiest would be to either make or buy a colour stripper imo, and they're quite good with difficult staining.

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Acacia123 · 25/08/2017 08:55

Thanks so much for taking the time to reply....I'm going to get some Colour B4 at the weekend and go for it...Will let you know the result.

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MrsJayy · 25/08/2017 08:58

Fairy liquid will strip it out hairdresser reccomended but tbh it should just fade over time

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Acacia123 · 30/08/2017 22:21

Oh dear. We've used one box of ColourB4 and a box of ColourB4 Extra and although it has helped we still have pale blue/green hair. In addition she's been washing it twice a day. At this rate I think she'll be excluded from school, they are v strict :-0

Plan for tomorrow is a hair mask.of head & shoulders, bicarbonate of soda and vitamin C tablets.

Not going to try swimming because the chlorine usually turns her hair green!

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MrsJayy · 31/08/2017 08:15

Ach no if the new potions don't work I really think a trip to the hairdressers will sort it out. Dds blue hair was an arseache to get out she ended up redying it because it went green it was just dip dyed so no full head thankfully, oh vosene is meant to be better than head & shoulders

UrsulaPandress · 31/08/2017 08:21

Dd has washed her festival purple hair in Fairy Liquid and it has more or less done the trick.

Having said that I am fully expecting her to be sent home from school as they are very strict.

MrsJayy · 31/08/2017 08:23

Yeah dd used fairy liquid but was left with a greenish residue

Mum2OneTeen · 31/08/2017 08:33

Gosh, I feel your pain. My DD did that same thing when she was 14. Naturally blonde and she used a cheap supermarket product that was supposed to wash out with three or four washes...only it didn't!

We tried some expensive hair colour remover that worked a bit, but it did react and turn it greenish as a PP said. The green fortunately didn't last and it reverted back to a slightly lighter shade of the purple. I think we may have used the colour remover a couple of times. The purple lasted for months and we now have an official school portrait photo as well as the official school ID card for that year with purple ends. I think it eventually faded and was finally cut off (thankfully she had only done the ends).

The only good thing to come out of the whole exercise was that she was rather embarrassed and it turned her off ever having strange colours again. I have found that the Fudge products are great for washing out fairly quickly, but even so, I'd avoid using it on bleached damaged hair.

Hopefully a hairdresser will come along soon with some suggestions.

Fauxtatoes · 31/08/2017 08:36

I've got a blue/green smurf that I sent off to school this morning with a letter to say that we'll get it fixed next week.

I'm going to pay for the hairdresser because DD had to have it bleached blond before they put in the blue dye.

Now she just looks like the joker

MothershipG · 31/08/2017 09:58

Similar issue here although we had bleached the bottom third of DD's hair to take the colours, red, purples and pink, it looked fab!

But didn't really wash out so then we tried remover which just turned it blue, then over dying with a honey blond made it green.

DD now has a fetching shoulder length bob

I honestly don't know why schools get so uptight about hair colour.

TinyRick · 31/08/2017 10:10

Vosene is known to be effective at helping getting rid of dye over a few washes.

And also Head and Shoulders but apparently the former is slightly better at it.

RubyRR · 31/08/2017 12:29

Vosene shampoo is known to strip colour from hair, my hairdresser told me to stop using it when I said my colour wasn't lasting.

Alexandra87 · 31/08/2017 12:40

Washing gel (the type you use on your clothes) will get it out. Just be really careful not to get it in her eyes.

dobby2001 · 31/08/2017 22:55

As and ex hairdresser and the Mum of a teen who used Colour freedom, I can say that Blues/Blue green colours are the hardest to remove,and colour freedom as a particularly hard one to remove - sorry.
We tried all the tricks abouve and eventually DD had her hair cut short- it just would not budge.
Go to a hairdressers, see what they can do, but consider a new haircut or overdying.

kittybiscuits · 31/08/2017 22:58

My erm...friend is having an identical issues and is trying head and shoulders. But it's not having much effect.

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Acacia123 · 01/09/2017 07:27

Okay - so we have had some progress but we are not at the point where exclusion from school is a strong possibility.

We've gone from picture one to a little darker than picture two (these are random pictures from the internet, not my daughter! - also not sure if the images will work but basically a vibrant turquoise to a strong grey/green tinge).

I have an appointment at the hairdresser for Tuesday afternoon (their earliest available, and cutting it rather fine) and they'll have a go if I need but no guarantees.

However we still have Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday and by my calculations that will be another eight washes minimum.

The Colour B4 product made a fair amount of difference but is v expensive. We are continuing with Head & Shoulders, Bicarb of Soda, Washing up liquid, honey and olive oil. In bulk. Repeatedly.

She now has a sore scalp but agrees that this is the sacrifice that has to be made.

I've literally been dreaming about this. Never again!

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saoirse31 · 01/09/2017 12:29

Really don't get schools concern about hair colour

MrsJayy · 01/09/2017 16:48

I don't understand what the hoha about hair is either I don't think blue hair distracts from education. Op be careful of her scalp if it is hurting

lljkk · 01/09/2017 16:58

Could you dye it a darker blonde, instead?
Ours are allowed any "natural" colour.

lljkk · 01/09/2017 16:59

ps: I love how it looks now, shame that isn't ok with school.

prettywhiteguitar · 01/09/2017 17:14

The only thing that will get it out is peroxide, bleaching it.
You could try a semi permanent ash blonde over the top if it's very blonde or the bleach London peroxide to bleach it out of her hair and then put a semi over the top.

Blue and green are the worst to get out. Next time use the bleach London colour, they wash out easily

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