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Can I get red out of my hair at home?

April Ferri
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April Ferri is a Professional Hair Stylist and the Co-Owner of Widows Peak Salon, a hair salon based in Los Angeles, California. With over ten years of experience, April specializes in hair coloring and enhancing and transforming natural tones into vibrant shades for beautiful and low maintenance hair. Her work has been featured in Voyage LA Magazine, and she has worked as a stylist for LA Fashion Week.

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You may be able to remove some of it, but honestly, this is kind of a tall order for a DIY job. You really want to see a professional for something like this.

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Is red dye bad for your hair?

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April Ferri is a Professional Hair Stylist and the Co-Owner of Widows Peak Salon, a hair salon based in Los Angeles, California. With over ten years of experience, April specializes in hair coloring and enhancing and transforming natural tones into vibrant shades for beautiful and low maintenance hair. Her work has been featured in Voyage LA Magazine, and she has worked as a stylist for LA Fashion Week.

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It's not going to flat out destroy your hair, but yes, it's not particularly good for it. As a general rule, the lighter the dye is, the harder it will be to get it out.

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What should I do if my stylist dyes my hair too dark?

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April Ferri is a Professional Hair Stylist and the Co-Owner of Widows Peak Salon, a hair salon based in Los Angeles, California. With over ten years of experience, April specializes in hair coloring and enhancing and transforming natural tones into vibrant shades for beautiful and low maintenance hair. Her work has been featured in Voyage LA Magazine, and she has worked as a stylist for LA Fashion Week.

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Go back and have them fix it! There are a lot of ways for stylists and colorists to correct their mistakes. From clarifying washes to toners, they should be able to adjust it the way that you want.

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How can I remove red hair dye from my hair?

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First of all, don't throw another color on top of the red. Generally, color cannot lift color. Some people strip the color from the hair with bleach and shampoo. However, the result is often uneven. A professional can remove the color from your hair by safely breaking the chemical bonds, then help you recolor your hair the color you actually want. This can be done with highlights, lowlights, and glazes.

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My granddaughter had beautiful copper red hair, she has put a bright strawberry red color on her hair. What can we do to put it back to a color closer to natural color. She's in school supension.

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The best thing to do in this situation is go back to a hairdresser and show them a picture of her natural hair color so they can try and dye it back to her natural hair color.

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Can you use chewable vitamin C?

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Yes, you can use chewable vitamin C. Make sure to break up or mash up the chewable vitamin C tablet(s) to form a powder consistency. Once you have done that, you can also mix the powder with a bit of water to form a paste consistency.

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I got my hair colored dark 3 months ago. The sun has made it lighter and a with a red shine. I went to the salon to get the red out, but color-removing, bleach and toner didn't work. What do I do?

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It sounds like your hair absorbed the coloring really well! If you do much more to your hair, it will fry it. The best thing you can do is wait for your hair to heal from the bleach and try again. Salons and beauty shops should have some products to help repair bleached hair if it gets too bad.

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My hair is naturally black and I dyed it red at the salon, if I strip the red dye, then what color would my hair be?

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It depends on whether you bleached your hair before dying it red. If you did, then your hair would be sort of blonde. If not, then it would go to black again.

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How can I remove paint lacquer from my hair?

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Acetone is probably the best bet, although it might damage hair because it is very drying. If you do use it, do deep conditioning treatments for several weeks after.

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