Wash Out Hair Dye
It's Possible To Wash Out Hair Dye
Whether you want to wash out hair dye or want to avoid washing it out, it's nice to know what will do the task. Then you can either follow a recommended approach for removing the dye, or avoid doing precisely that if you don't want the color to disappear.
Permanent Or Wash Out? - For starters, there are two basic types of hair coloring dye, permanent and wash out. As you might expect, if you want to wash out hair dye, the permanent stuff is going to be most difficult to work with. Wash out hair dye won't wash away by with a simple shampooing, though some of it might. The wash out formulas are a little easier to get rid of though than are the permanent dyes.
Women, and men, can use either washout or permanent dyes if they wish to make their hair darker. If one is going from some lighter shade, to black or a very dark shade, a permanent dye is usually chosen. After a few weeks, the natural color of the hair will begin to show at the roots. With a permanent hair dye, touching up the roots with the new coloring is a fairly simple and straightforward. Women who are starting to go grey will often choose a washout dye which closely resembles their natural coloring. This will tend cover up the grey hairs and keep them covered up with an occasional touch up with the wash out dye.
Wash out dye is of no value if one is attempting to go lighter, especially if one want so go from dark to blond. It best, one might go through several stages of hair color changes, some of them unattractive, in getting to blond, or a true blond color may never be attained in any event. To go blond, one needs a permanent dye.
Frequent Shampooing - The best way to wash out hair dye if you've chosen a wash out dye, is through frequent shampooing, using plenty of lather. A wash out dye is normally only good for about a month to 6 weeks in any event. After that amount of time, your hair reverts to its normal color. Frequent shampooing simply speeds the return to normalcy up. If you're in more of a hurry, shampooing with a strong soap will hasten the process even more. You'll be going from dark to light, and your hair should be a bit lighter in shade after each shampoo. You won't end up being blond, unless you started out that way, you'll simply end up with your natural hair color. Just remember to use a conditioner after each shampoo to keep your hair from becoming overly stressed or brittle. The conditioner won't do anything to "set in" the remaining dye, so don't worry about that aspect of it.
Bleaching The Color Out - Bleaching you hair isn't recommended, or if you want to go that route for quicker results, let a hair stylist do it for you. The stylist will know how to go about it without destroying your hair in the process. Bleach will stress the hair a great deal, and the stylist will know how to apply it properly to keep the stress to a minimum and give you the look you want when all is said and done. One thing you can try however, especially with a wash out dye, is to add a small amount of peroxide to the shampoo you're using. That will speed up the process of dye removal more than the shampoo alone can do.
Black Is Toughest - If black hair dye was your color of choice you have the biggest battle to fight, but with some patience you can get rid of the black, and revert to another color of your choice. Black is one color, a very dark brown would be another, where using bleach would be tempting. Again, let a professional hair stylist handle this one. There are a couple of commercial products on the market you can use to wash out hair dye. On is called Color Fix. It is apparently quite effective, but you don't want to have it in your hair (15 minutes or so) in a social setting. The smell is supposedly terrible. Once washed out however, you'll smell decent again. The other product is Color Zap. This product has a reputation for leaving your hair with somewhat of a brassy look, once color removal is completed, but that should be of little or no concern if you're planning on dyeing your hair right away. A dandruff shampoo works as well, but may take longer than you wish and again, you find yourself going through a few intermediate shades of color you don't particularly like.