Do Hair Color Correction
Whoops. Did your hair color turn out a little brighter, darker or more off-color than you had planned? Need hair color correction at home without going to a salon and admitting your mistake and paying a high price for it? This eHow article covers several at-home methods for hair color correction, from removing and fading hair dye to softening reds to naturally darkening over-done bleachings. Some of which you can probably try immediately with ingredients you may have at home right now.
Instructions
1. Wash hair with baking soda for a first at home hair color correction treatment for hair that turned out too bright or too dark. Mix equal amounts of baking soda (not baking powder) with your shampoo, washing with this mixture two or three times, leaving it in for ten minutes each time, then rinsing with one part baking soda and two parts water as hot as you can safely tolerate. Notice if dye seems to be coming out as you rinse. This is a popular remedy that even salons suggest using to fade hair dye.
2. Wash with original Prell dandruff shampoo or Head & Shoulders dandruff shampoo. Yep, you'll have to go out in public with your hair under a hat to buy this if you don't have it already, but it's just a grocery or drugstore item you can quickly get home with to use. As above, wash more than once and leave it in your hair for ten minutes between rinsings.
3. If the above two don't give you enough hair color correction, you can purchase a kit to remove hair dye from drugstores and follow its instructions.
4. Soften red with light ash blonde. Red can be difficult to remove. If hair color came out too red, after removing as much dye as possible with steps one and steps two, some people find that redoing it with a light ash blonde helps tremendously, or using a hair mousse meant to remove brassy red tones helps greatly with hair color correction until it fades even more over time.
5. Darken over-bleached hair with a homemade hair color correction recipe. Darkness and dyed-in brightness can be faded or removed, but bleached hair has nothing to be removed, so if it turns out too light or brassy, you need to add rather than subtract. You can deepen the color quickly at home and even tone away some brassiness with natural hair glazes made from coffee, black tea or unsweetened cocoa. For cocoa, mix a half cup of cocoa with enough plain yogurt to make a thick paste. Apply evenly to hair in shower after shampooing, wait about five minutes then rinse out. Skin and towels can stain from this darkening hair mask, so be careful. You may see darkening after one application, one hair professional suggests using it three times for maximum results.
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