Slight Case of Insanity

All of us have used a colour in our hair that has not come out as intended. Some of us perhaps more than once *cough*.

So these are some tips on removing your hair dye faster, without damaging your hair (this will help speed up the fading process, but won’t remove it completely).

REMOVING HAIR DYE:

• Wash hair with hot water (cold water helps maintain colour, whereas hot/warm will wash it out faster).
• Wash hair with Johnson’s Baby Shampoo. Yes, you read correctly; baby shampoo. I have just tried this and it works better than ANY other shampoo or shampoo/peroxide mix I have used before.
• Wash hair with anti-dandruff shampoo (removes hair dye much faster than regular shampoo).
• Shampoo twice each hair wash.
• Wash hair with a shampoo and peroxide mix. (To do this mix up your peroxide just as if you were bleaching your hair. use this to make a mixture of half shampoo and half peroxide mix. I use a very basic neutral pH shampoo for this so it doesn’t react with the peroxide.) Shampoo with the mixture as normal. I try and leave it on for 5 minutes at a time, constantly massaging through my hair to ensure it is even. Condition. And always follow this with a protein treatment to recondition your hair.

Apart from this, you can buy products specially designed to remove hair dye, I have not tried these before. Or, if all else fails, go to your hairdresser.