So I thought i’d dye over it in a darker colour in loreal casting iced cocoa to eliminate the brassiness but my hair turned out gothic black! I was expecting a dark rich brown colour but the gothic black looked so unnatural. I put VO5 hot oil and shampooed my hair in pantene clarifying shampoo hoping some of the colour would come out but nothing. I even tried head and shoulders and not only did this shampoo not remove any hair dye it also made my hair like frizzy fly away hay, so i dont recommend putting this shampoo on at all.

Anyway in the end after searching the internet for ways to remove hair dye i found out about vitamin c, so i crushed up about about five1000g vitamin c tablets to a powder (the ones that fizz up in water) and mixed it up with pantene claryfying shampoo and applied it to my hair in sections with a brush. Then i wrapped up my hair in a plastic bag and left it on for about 45 minutes.

As i washed it out lots of dark hair dye was coming out aswell. I recommend leaving a deep conditioner on your hair to get some of that softness into it. In the light i notice that my hair had definitely shifted some of that deep black colour and it almost looked like a deep chocolate brownie colour with red tones. The only thing i would say is that vitamin c really smells rancid in your hair and the odour can last up to 2 days regardless of repeatedly shampooing it. It would be better to wear plastic gloves as the smell can stay on your skin for days even after thoroughly washing your hands in soap. My hair and hands smelt foul for a couple of days even after thoroughly washing them i had applied nice smelling hair products and hand wash so be prepared for that.

I think i will try this process again to see if it will lighten my hair colour anymore but this time i’ll leave it on for longer, maybe a couple of hours.

Then again, it only takes a few dollars (for the bottle of vitamins) and a few minutes and doesn’t seem to harm hair — so when in doubt, doesn’t seem to be any harm in trying it!