So I am one of those girls who gets bored very easily with my hair and loves to change it up a bit. However my hair got really damaged so I had it dyed back to my natural colour and left it. For about 12 months. Than I decided I wanted caramel foils. I only went with half head instead of a full like I normally would. They turned out blonde. I think the lady missed the final step. Two days later I went to a different hair dresser who just toned them and than I had caramel. This lasted about two-three weeks. I didn't like the foils or my hair quite that caramelly colour. So off I went again to a different hair dressers for a darker brown, more like my natural colour again which is a medium brown. She dyed my hair so dark it looked black. A week of this and it didn't fade at all with washing.
I turned to the Vitamin C method where you crush vitamin c tablets into a powder, mix with head and shoulders shampoo and leave on your head for an hour before washing off. This had previous worked for me when I had blonde hair and had dyed brown than wanted the colour lifted. It did nothing. So I did my research and read a lot of positive reviews for hair colour removers.
Below is how dark my hair was before I started. I set about following the instructions exactly. The smell everyone talks about is real people! But it didn't linger much into the next day and wasn't totally overpowering so I'll live.
Before I used the colour remover
After I had washed it out, I could tell my hair had a kinda ginger touch to it even before I dried it. That is because black hair dye leaves you with red/gingerish colouring instead of your natural hair colour. Once dried it was a strawberry blondish colour and you could slightly see the foils still. Yuk lol. But it definitely had lightened a lot.
After one use of colour remover
Now I had read that you should wait a week before colouring your hair with a semi permanent hair dye as because your hair is now porous, the colour will be darker than you want. But I have a shoot coming up and couldn't wait that long. Also, the colour was just ugly. So I was up early the next morning getting hair dye. I couldn't find any semis light enough at the local Coles and I knew I couldn't get a light brown because it would end up too dark again. So I went with a dark cool blonde in a permanent dye. I probably should have got light cool blonde because it is definitely nowhere near a blonde colour at all now. But I had achieved what I wanted too and it is back to my natural colour.
After I put a cool dark blonde over it
I highly recommend this product. I would definitely use again but next time I would do it when I could afford to wait a week to redye. My hair is not damaged and is only slightly dry.
