Orange hair..help please

silverlining48 Call yourself orange lining?
I am sorry, I did not mean to be rude at all. I have one of those minds that goes off at tangents.

I am no hairdresser but I think you will be able to find someone who can help soon without making flippant remarks.

I hope so nelliemoser, I don't want to confuse the traffic. Red orange green etc! ???

I have been told that Head and Shoulders shampoo strips hair colour. Might be worth a try.

Thank you will get some when I dare leave the house and try it and report back.

If you don't want Ito throw yourself on the mercy of a strange hair dresser, which is what I would do, I believe there is a product which strips dye out of hair and should stop you looking like Vivien Westwood, but don't know the name.
Maybe a gentle ash toner once you used that as it might still look a bit brassy.
Or else get some red tartan and carry it off with panache!!

There are a couple of products which claim to remove hair colourant - think one of them's called 'Colour-B-Gone' or something similar! You can probably get advice from Boots or Superdrug.

Can you not wash it several times a day to remove the harshness of it??

I think I would let a professional sort it out. You run the risk of really damaging your hair if you try anything else on it. At least it hasn't gone green.

I had mine done deliberately that sort of colour a couple of years ago, silverlining48, because I just fancied cheering myself up a bit. I was a bit dubious even on the way home when I kept catching my glowing reflection in the windows I passed, but even more so when a colleague was gobsmacked that a professional had done it, not me in my bathroom with the rubber gloves. We all got used to it, though.

Yes, mine was a lot like that, Lara! It didn't smell like tikka masala, though.

* Badenkate* when I was in the Army in the sixties, there as a girl in our platoon who was notorious for changing her hair colour with alarming frequency - strictly on a DIY basis. Her hair did actually turn green. It did at least match her uniform (almost), but she got into hot water for it and had to keep having her hair cut very short until it grew out. She never changed it again.

Colour b4 I think it was I got in Sainsburys to remove my hair colour when going grey. Also fairy liquid/head and shoulders worth a try.

Don't do any more damage! See a professional hairdresser asap!

Thanks all, I will phone and warn my hairdresser who is coming on weds and in the meantime will keep a low profile. Trouble is my face is tanned and it all blends together in a not very attractive way.

I'd see a professional. Bleach hair is different from coloured hair and you need to get the hair looked at. Overprocessed hair can just break off.

In the 80s I used henna for the first time and ended up looking like a baked bean. Hairdressers could do nothing to help. It was in fabulous condition though!

There is a shampoo (very gentle) that reduces brassiness.....purple shampoo.....boots stock it, or buy online, its called Fudge clean blonde violet toning shampoo. Its very good, and it works. :-)

Go to a professional hairdresser or wear a hat. You could seriously damage your hair.

If the sun continues definitely wear the hat.

Colour B4 which you can get from boots strips out the colour, ready for you to apply new colour. It's a bit lengthy but apparently good. There are a lot of videos on YouTube show you what to do etc.

Good Luck

The head and shoulders should work, but any medicated or anti dandruff shampoo takes hair colour out.

Purple shampoo is for toning yellow hair not orange. You need a Blue to counteract the orange colour. (Opposites on the colour wheel)

I'm not keen on DIY colour removers like ColourB4 but if you've used an oxidising colour, it will remove it. (It's an oxidising colour if you had to mix two solutions together before applying it). The MOST important thing is to agitate the hair constantly when rinsing it and use a timer to ensure you rinse the hair for at least 5 minutes. If you don't rinse it enough, any colour left behind will re-oxidise and become orange again. Do not be tempted to re-colour it yourself afterwards though.

Also, make sure your hairdresser knows you used this product.
Hopefully, she's a decent colourist who understands how this product affects any colour she subsequently applies.

Vosene medicated shampoo will do it definitely