hair dye trauma!

[Nightshade]

Try an alkaline shampoo like baby shampoo. Mix it half and half with honey, apply to wet hair and let it sit for a few minutes and rinse. This works pretty reliably for my mom when her hair picks up too much dye

[Patrycja]

I have no suggestions just a "I am so sorry" comment.Good luck and I cringed when I read this

[heidi w.]

How is it that a makeup/costume person hasn't heard of a black wig???? I mean, I've done plenty of theater, and we used wigs, even situations of the hat attached to the wig, or hair ornaments (such as floral arrangements) attached to the wig.

Could you share what the brand of spray in coloring is, and any info on ingredients? I am reluctant to suggest a clarify shampoo, but it might work. Depends, though, if it's laying on the cuticle or absorbed into the cortex. The latter may be a possibility.

One thought, go see a professional colorist to inquire about removal.

heidi w.

[spidermom]

I think if you keep deep conditioning it and doing clarifying washes, the color will gradually fade away. Give it a couple of weeks before you do anything else, o.k?

[chamogirl]

Try using this product - it can be found at a Salley's.

[snowbear]

Party store spray hair color! Been there, done that!

I sprayed my dark blonde/light brown hair bright fire-engine red for a Harry Potter release, and washing was difficult. I ended up rinsing like crazy, shampooing about seven times, conditioning once, rinsing like crazy, shampooing again, and then conditioning again.
Basically, rinse like crazy. Mine came out just fine, but I must have spent at least an hour in the shower.

[Anje]

I wonder how you'd do with just a couple good, long mermaid soaks? Along the lines of Snowbear's post, water's supposed to do as much or more than detergents for taking out dye, according to this Beauty Brains article.

[shellblue1]

What if you try clarifying? I know you said you washed to death but maybe the baking soda will really strip it all off and then you can just do a deep conditioning. p.s nightshade reccomended to me baby shampoo to lighten my dyed black hair. She said the alkaline strips it. I haven't tried this yet; so it just an idea to try.

Baking soda definitely strips the black out of my hair! I've mixed with a clarifying shampoo before and you can actually SMELL the hair dye coming out of my hair.

[bella77]

I would try a deep oil treatment, from personal experience, oil always lifts my color out very quickly. Good luck.

[SaveTheTapirs]

Oh sweet! I was going to suggest tea tree oil, just as a hunch, because it has solvent properties. But I'm glad you got that stuff out. It's weird, I was just thinking about how I could never be an actress because of all the stuff I'd probably be asked to do to my hair, haha.