BellaOnline Forums Beauty and Self Hair Warning! Before coloring your hair.

Be very careful before taking the leap to a trendy black hair color!
One of the more common problems I hear of is:
"I colored my hair black and now I'm tired of it. But when I tried to get rid of it:(Take your pick)
It turned orange.
It turned out all spotty. Orange at the roots. red-brown in the middle, still black on the ends.
I put a brown color over it and nothing happened (or it got darker)
etc.
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The darker the hair color, the more color pigment that is in the bottle. - So.. the more difficult it will be to change.
Often, more porous areas of your hair will soak up more pigment and be harder to remove. -- OR that color will slide right out because it is over porous and will leave brittle odd gray or green colored hair.
It almost always will take a hairdresser to bring it back to a natural or believable color.-- and back to good condition.

What if you were one of those people who took the plunge into dyeing your hair black? And you've tried bleaching it out? And you experience the orangy/reddish splotches? Do you re-bleach? Apply color back on? What if I can't afford to go to the salon? seriously? HELP!

You can reapply the bleach to lighten it further.
Then condition.
Then apply a light to medium brown.
Then condition and don't go out in the sun without a hat.

The texture of your hair will be affected. Keep conditioning until it grows out all the way.

It would not be wise to try to color it again (after you get it to the color you want) until it grows out all the way. Even if it looks natural and healthy, the bleached hair is under there.