What can be done to rescue hair that has been bleached far too blonde with peroxide?

Question

My husband has had very subtle blonde highlights in his mid-brown shortish hair for a few years. Yesterday he went to a new hairdresser and came home with huge clumps of bright yellow hair in patches all over his head. We immediately complained and he returned to the salon where they put more peroxide on it to turn the shade from brassy yellow to peroxide blonde. It's better than the yellow but still hideous, and to make it worse we go on holiday in 4 days. His roots look black now against the bright blonde, and the contrast is awful.

Can a brown dye be put over the top of it to try to get it back to the original colour, or at least tone it down a bit? (The hairdresser has agreed to do this is if he still isn't happy, but I don't know if they are to be trusted). Please, please help as he looks such a state and he's worried about spoiling all the holiday snaps!!

Answer 1

Definitely, put in a brown dye, that'll make the blonder streaks still lighter than the rest but it'll blend in better. Be careful to just stick with a natural base (ie: medium natural brown, or light natural brown). Stay away from any ash or beige bases period.

Good Luck! I was a colorist, and I am sorry to hear that happened, hopefully they gave your money back.

Answer 2

I randomly decided a few summers ago to go to a salon and have my naturally dark hair dyed blonde (what was I thinking??) and it turned out bleach blonde. My advice to you, as much as you'll probably hate hearing it, is DON'T DYE IT. My first instinct was to immediately put a brown dye over the blonde, but the color that resulted was horrendous. You could still sort of see the blonde through the dye, resulting in a hideous brown, almost dark grey combination. The only hair dye I've ever seen work on anyone to cover up hair that has been bleached to such a light color is black, which most people aren't willing to dye their hair. Even then, any color applied over the bleached one will fade quickly. You also have to be extremely careful to not apply too much hair dye to hair in such a short period. The hair will become damaged, and in some cases will break off or fall out completely. My best suggestion would be to get the hair cut short, short enough to cut off all the blonde.

Answer 3

Just put a brown color two shades darker that is natural hair color on the streaks only, with a tinting brush. because his hair was emptied of ot pigment the two shades darker should make it
uniform and definitely change salons...If oyur beau has a short cut it will be cut out before the hair start showing any sings of damage...

Answer 4

We've all done it once in our life!
Yes put a brown dye or semi over it as long as there is not more peroxide in it as this would over process it and it could either turn green or fall out.
Put regular good conditioner on it as it will be dry as hell.

Answer 5

I wouldn't go straight to brown as it may go an orangey color.If i were you i would put a darker blonde dye on the hair and use an intensive hair mask to put nutrients back in.

Answer 6

Please go see a different hair stylist. This one obviously is not very good at their job. Someone else should be able to safely cover the blonde with a darker dye.

Answer 7

Go back to his natural color. Use a semi permanent hair color. Permanent hair color may do more damage because peroxide is used in mixing with the color.

Answer 8

Be careful you will turn the color orange!
My daughter had the same thing happen to her and had to go to another hair dresser to 'fix' it!
The only way to 'fix' it yourself would be cut off and start all over!

Answer 9

I think your husband should refrain from coloring his hair. For now, maybe he should shave it all off and wear a good toupee.