Purple dye over green hair?!!

Maureen43

About four weeks ago dd had her hair dyed purple. It was a semi dye.

She's naturally a brunette so it was bleached first.

Over the weeks it has faded to pink, grey, then a soft green.

However she's been in the pool on holiday and the chlorine has now made it a vivid green!

Is she safe to apply another purple dye over this or will her hair fall out, or go even greener, or orange, or who knows what!

Advice needed please!

asajj

It could be but not everyone's hair is the same - what is the condition of her hair currently? It is difficult to keep up such bright colors and it is certainly damaging to the hair. To what extent is hard to know though.

jenniewb

IME colour correction is best left to the salon. If you want to get a result that you've not tried before, if there are complications or if you have had a bad result from something else/another chemical, it's not as straight forward as you think.


It could be the chlorine hasn't all rinsed out, or the reaction (which caused the green) has weakened her hair or has changed the current dye on her hair...or it could all be fine, but there is a risk and although it's one thing to just see what happens and hair grows and will grow out eventually, what is left is damaged each time you colour or strip it and if you end up needing to re-do the colour again it is only going to cause more damage.


Having said that I've read reports in the past that using tomato ketchup as a treatment (ie applying and leaving on for a while) can help bring green tinged hair back to a more normal shade. Not tried this myself though.

Fluff15

It's the hard metals in the water that cause it to go green.

Baking soda or lemon juice applied to the green areas and left for 15 minutes, or ketchup for 30, wrapped in clingfilm/foil. Wash and condition as normal (baking soda/ketchup is less drying imo, lemon juice will turn it more blonde). May take a couple of times, then she can redye purple if needed.

Next time she does swimming, apply coconut oil or soak hair thoroughly under the showers. Hair is porous and if it's already wet/oiled it is unlikely to reabsorb the metals.