AAAAAACK!!! My hair is PURPLE!!!

[Cirrus]

I knew it was a bad idea!!! Why or why did I do it????

*deep breath*

Okay, so I color my hair. I admit it. It's naturally a medium cool goldenish blonde, but it tends to get washed out looking. So I color it so it's lighter and golder.

Well, I got sick of it, and decided to go back to my "roots". I got the closest shade to what I remember my natural color being, Loreal Open in "Osiris", cool medium blonde. When it was on my head, it turned like a dark burgundy, but I didn't freak out because that stuff always turns a funky color when it's on your head, then when your rinse it out, it's the color it was supposed to be.

Not this time. I guess my hair was essentially pre-lightened, so now it looks light brown with a purple tinge to it. Now what the hell am I supposed to do? I have class on Tuesday, and I'm not going to my first day of class looking like this!!! I'm afraid to re-dye it the other color because a) it might fry my hair and b) it might end up a worse color than what I've got now.

HELP!!! But please don't tell me I'm stupid...I already know that.

 

[Merelan]

You aren't stupid, just a victim of the search for perfection.
Nothing you can do dear. Take a deep breath and make up a story how someone bet you $50 to dye your hair. I don't know, sounds good to me. Not the hair color but the story.
Sorry dear. I had an eggplant rinse once. H, the hairdresser was doing my hair and offered it. I thought it was something good for me. When he gave me my glasses back it was eggplant colored. He was so proud! I freaked, but had purple hair for awhile and never got the urge to dye it. This was before it was a cool color to dye your hair.

Don't miss class just cause of your hair.

 

[Cirrus]

Oh, I won't miss class, I'm just going to feel VERY stupid. What do you think would happen if I tried to lighten it back to blonde in a few days?

 

[ohiobbw]

Well I was going to dye my hair tonight....

Now I'm rethinking it!

 

[Dhalgren]

wow..

Color always has a base..

Cool means blue....so essentially you added blue/purple to your light hair.


But the way you described the color looking..it may have been oxidized before you even added the peroxide. Color does indeed go bad.

If I were you..I'd get a filler. A warm light brown..you need to get some yellow in there to cut the purple.

Or...an easier solution is maybe use Prel(sp?)...the shampoo. It actually strips color out of hair. Then I'd get a really heavy conditioner and leave it in ALL DAY. Put plastic on your head and sit in the sun or use a blowdryer.


Have you ever heard of semi permanent hair color..like Celophane or Jazzing? Might lend a temperary solution...plus it really makes the hair super shiny...
Again you need to add warmth.

Good luck to you...I really feel for you. =(

 

[Cheyenne]

Funny, I just had this discussion with someone this morning. My hair is naturally blonde, although it has gotten closer to dishwater blonde over the years than the light blonde it was in my youth.

I used to put in temporary spray hair color for Halloween. Until the year I used bright pink, and some of it wouldn't wash out! The parts of my hair that were naturally lighter around my face, and and odd spot in the back of my head near my neck, kept a pink tinge! It took an emergency visit to my hairdresser and a pair of scissors to cut out the pink.

I've never put any kind of dye on my hair since then.

I'd stick with Merelan's idea- you either did it on a dare, or you lost a bet and had to dye your hair. And I certainly wouldn't try any more "at home" fixing of any kind. Go to a professional who knows what they are doing to help you if you really can't stand the purple tinge.

 

[Dhalgren]

..Cheyenne is right..

I was just thinking you won't find a hairdresser working tomorrow.


Yeah..make an appointment with a *colorist* and maybe a cute hat for tuesday would suffice.

 

[Cirrus]

I don't think anything was wrong with the color itself. The basic color is pretty close to what it was on the box, there's just a weird greyish purple cast to it. I went out and bought some Casting, a semi-permanent tint thing probably similar to Jazzing and I'm doing a strand test right now...there's a little snippet of my hair soaking in a shotglass with the stuff in it as I type. Just to make sure I don't end up with something worse (god forbid).

I'll keep you posted. I am NEVER dying my hair again once I get it to some assemblance of normal.

 

[Cheyenne]

Okee dokee, but don't say we didn't warn ya!

The lady who does my hair teaches hairdressing at the technical school in town. She always has great entertaining stories about things that go wrong and how people try to fix them on their own. By the time they get in for help, the scissors gets used most often.

p.s. Remember, the hair dye I couldn't get out of my hair at Halloween wasn't even semi-permanent. It was supposed to wash out! Damaged hair soaks stuff in easier.

 

[PacificBlue]

I'm not an incredibly vain person but I do have a thing for my hair and have always babied it. I was blessed with thick brown/auburn wavy hair. Until late in my twenties I had "virgin" hair, meaning I never had a perm or colored it. Then came the year of being heavily medicated due to an illness and my thick brown wavy hair started to thin and it lost its waviness. It was during this episode that I decide to have a perm. Everything was going fine until it was time to rinse out the solution and we were shocked to find out the city had to shut off the water due to an emergency. So, into a car I went...curlers and all to drive quickly to another shop so the solution could be rinsed out. My poor hairdresser still talks about that as it took her weeks to talk me into even trying the perm. I was terrified my already thinning hair would just fall out all together. It didn't, I survived but I always get a little nervous when applying chemicals to my hair. Since that episode I've had one more perm and have colored it several times. As a side note...I've since recovered from my illness, no more meds and my hair is thickening back up! YAH!!!!!

Best of luck on returning to your natural color...I feel for you...

{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{HUGS}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}

 

[Kasha]

I color my hair constantly...

And thank the heavens it has never fallen out, turned green, purple, or any odd color. If it is an odd color I usually do it on purpose. If you can get to the store and find a bottle of Prell. It is green and it should say Shampoo concentrate. This stuff will strip that color right out. You could dye the hair or give it a rinse with a shade that might tone down the purple. I know that there is a new dye called Lumia and it works well. Just be sure to condition, condition, condition. Dying doesn't seem to be as bad as bleaching, highlighting...etc. Hope all goes well... if not buy a great hat and then you will look really "mysterious" and "stylish" to all the new people you meet....

 

[Dhalgren]

Kasha...

I'm thinking we are on the same wavelength..
You posted almost everything I had said..


And yeah...Prell will strip paint off a car..

 

[Kasha]

sorry Dhalgren..

oops, I kinda just responded with out really reading all the replies...my bad. I was just trying to help.....

 

[Cirrus]

WOOHOO!!! It seems the fates are with me today. It's mostly fixed. It came out kind of strawberry blonde, but it's a HUGE improvement from greyish purple. I'm expecting it to end up more blonde within a few days, my experience with hair color is it kind of tones down after a few washings.

I can still see a hint of the blueness in the back where my hair is longer and thicker - I have short hair in a semi-"mushroom" type cut, kinda like a bowl, but more blended in so the line isn't really visible - but hopefully that'll wash out too in a while. For now, I'm leaving well enough alone.

Thanks for the moral support as I pay the price for vanity. My hair is toasted from being dyed twice in 3 hours, so I'm just gonna go sit with some deep conditioner in for a while.

 

[Desert Amazon]

 

[Dhalgren]

Kasha...

I actually thought it was cool...=}


I meant it..I liked how we were obviously on the same page..(so to speak)

*smiles*

 

[Cirrus]

Desert, nope, not permed. Too short. I'm in the field alot (I'm a grad student studying biology and secondary ed, I'm going to teach science when I get out of school) so long hair is a HUGE hassle. Ever had burrs in your hair? Ticks? Seeds? Bugs?

But it looks pretty good now. A little darker than I wanted, but definitely NOT purple. That's all I was really aiming for. I'm going to leave it alone for a few months, most probably forever after this. Or stick with ONE shade that looks good on me and NO other.

 

[Dhalgren]

Excellent to hear..Cirrus!



Amazing the things we all do the sake of beauty..=}




Btw..a clear jazzing may help the bit of damage your hair suffered. It locks the shaft flat to lesson porosity, which is usually why it takes on different colors throughout the hair.



haha..I said "shaft"
*grins*