HELP!! Tried to hide the grey and it turned out a fake red color! (shampoo, dye)

[Weekend Traveler]

From Jerry the occasional male poster who is weekend traveler:

My wife Jane gave me a hard time after I got my hair cut to short that now I was all grey, so I returned to the local haircuttery for a temporary hair color job. I told them my natural color (and the color of my eye brows) is brown so please dye my hair brown. Once I got home and looked in the mirror I was shocked to see the color of my hair is a fake looking red! Great, brown eye lashes and reddish hair. I look foolish and am afraid to go back to work tomorrow.

It is a temporary dye, but I do not want to wash my hair 20 times to go back to grey.

Could a professional color expert at a real salon help me get my hair back to a natural looking brown? I am starting to see why so many men just let their hair go grey but I am looking for a new job and do not want to look 60 years old.

[Nea1]

I have done this before, I fixed it myself. I washed my hair with a shampoo that removes residue) Pantene has one), and re dyed it the normal color. You are lucky it is not a permanent color. but yea a professional can take care of it.

[*Danielle*]

You can color over it as long as it is a darker shade. Which it should be if you want to go brown. Brown is darker then red. I don't know how dark you want to go but you should be able to do it yourself. Just be sure you use a neutral based color. Do not use a warm shade because it has red undertones. Use a perm color. Semi perm color does not cover grey well.

[pitt_transplant]

Originally Posted by Weekend Traveler

From Jerry the occasional male poster who is weekend traveler:

My wife Jane gave me a hard time after I got my hair cut to short that now I was all grey, so I returned to the local haircuttery for a temporary hair color job. I told them my natural color (and the color of my eye brows) is brown so please dye my hair brown. Once I got home and looked in the mirror I was shocked to see the color of my hair is a fake looking red! Great, brown eye lashes and reddish hair. I look foolish and am afraid to go back to work tomorrow.

It is a temporary dye, but I do not want to wash my hair 20 times to go back to grey.

Could a professional color expert at a real salon help me get my hair back to a natural looking brown? I am starting to see why so many men just let their hair go grey but I am looking for a new job and do not want to look 60 years old.

Wash your hair with dawn dish detergent. It will take a lot of the color out. After the dawn do a VO5 hot oil treatment. It will pull even more color out and repair the drying effect of the dawn.
To tone it down even further shampoo it with shampoo made for silver/white hair (Jhirmack). It tones out the brassy yellow red in any hair color.

For next time:
Touch Of Gray® : Shades

or

Just For Men - Products - Haircolor (http://www.justformen.com/products/haircolor/haircolor5.shtml - broken link)
(the ash brown would be best to mute the red)

I think JUSTFORMEN shades are much more neutral colored than the women's lines. Easier to sort through thats for sure!


There is also a product called "color oops" That takes out any hair color.
But you will have to see if you can use it over whatever product you dyed with. The dawn and hot oil should really get it out mostly anyway. I would try that first.

[hothulamaui]

dying your hair is a commitment, a monthly commitment as it regrows so fast but that sould not stop you. I would avoid doing it myself unless you just can't afford it. go to a decent salon and pay the price for a good hair dresser to do it for you. the color is always natural looking as opposed to the color in the box. they can also get rid of the red color too. I would never add more box dye on top of a bad dye job. go to the good salon. look for a color correction speacialist in the phone book