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Hi! I had dyed my hair with a semi-permanent dark brown dye but it ended up black and wouldn't fade out. So recently I went to a hairdressers to get it stripped, but it didn't work. I wanted to go back to a light/medium brown with blonde highlights. What a disaster!!! I now have long hair with about 3 bands of colour ranging from light brown at the top to black at the bottom and the highlights are blonde at the top and get more like copper at the bottom. All I want is to go back to a nice brown colour. PLEASE HELP!!!!

Ouch. I would consult at least a couple of different hair dressers, but be careful: they won't be happy to fix somebodies disasters.

From the start, you should have just washed it dozen of times until it fades back enough to a color that you like. But with the "fix" from the hairdresser, you could get all sorts of crazy colors. (like you have now...)

I'm not the specialist, but I advice this: if it's a semi-permanent that the hairdresser used, wash it until the colors dissapear. You'll spend a lot of time in the bathroom, but it will hopefully get all the color out of your hair. After that: condition it well and DONT color it for a period of time.

After all the things that happened, the hair will be at least a bit damaged. Applying a new color then will be dangerous and could start the proces all over again.

Don't worry, but stop adding new colors now. Wait, relax, laugh at the mistake and learn from it.

Sometimes I feel like I always give the same answer, but in cases like this. Go to a hairdresser. I know, you said that you did that already but find one who is experienced in color and who will work on it until its right.

When I'm in the salon, I'm always happy to fix other people's haircolor mistakes but I charge for my time as all hairdressers should. Unfortunately, sometimes it takes a while to fix a haircolor disaster.

Firt off wash a couple of times until it fades good idea. Then I would suggest that you use a 10 volume peroxide this will deposit color only use your color that you want. I won't guanentee that this will hold long, but long enough until the next time keep doing this until it grows out. I am a master colorist this is probably the only thing you can do short of cutting it off.

Hello Robin,
From what Lara said, her hair color ranges from light brown to black with blonde and copper hightlights. She wants light brown with highlights. Even without the highlights, a tint with 10 volume developer is not going to give her the color she wants. -- Unless she decides that she wants black.
The formula you suggest will only deposit color not lift it.

check out ur water~ u could have hard water (minerals) that could make ur blonde highlights copper and ur light brown even black~ try and get a de-mineralizing treatment at a shop... its not harsh on the hair and its cheap... what that will do is take anything thats just sittin on the hair out~ hopefully more even??? ..what color did u use? semi-permanent is rough... at my shop the color remover (strip) can be done up to 3 tiems and ive hardly ever had an issue... u might get light brown for now~ give it a rest and put in highlights later~ keep using deep conditioners or even a protein treatment (goldwell color and highlights serums work AWESOME!)