Home highlights kit - hair gone orange!!!

[lucyabc]

Can anyone help ... I used a home highlights kit last night and must have left it on too long/not long enough as where the highlights are are bright orange!! Apart from going to the hairdressers to get it corrected is there anything I can do? My hair is darkisih brown and Ive read mixed views as to whether dyeing over the top will just make them worse or change the colour to green......

[Dill]

Hi

If you've got dark hair perhaps the highlighting stuff wasn't left on quite long enough. You could try doing a strand test on a little bit of the hair that's gone orange, leave the solution on for a bit longer and see if it goes the lighter colour you were wanting it to go?

[lucyabc]

Thanks Dill, Yes In Certain Areas It Is Lovely And Natural, But I Wasnt Sure Whether To Try And Fix It Or Cut My Losses And Get To The Hairdressers! I Didnt Think My Hair Was That Dark And Checked The Expected Results On The Box And It Looked Great. Followed The Instructions To The Letter Too.

[Mrs pbradley936]

It sounds as if you had dark hair to start with and did not use a high enough developer. Some tips here that I put on another thread:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1113729