How do I make red hair lighter?

I died my hair last night and I wanted a rich in your face POW red but it came out more burgandy. What can I do to make it more red and less purple?

How do I make red hair lighter?

I have dyed my hair every freaking color imaginable.

The thing about red is, it fades. So, take a bit of laundry detergent or dish soap (something concentrated) and wash it a few times with that. Make sure you condition it as that soap will dry your hair out. After doing that for a few days, the purple will probably be almost if not completely gone. The color you are left with might be a bit dull, but it should get rid of the purple.

Do NOT bleach it! You will look like carrot top. If you want to use bleach - go to a salon and get highlights. That will make your hair look lighter over all if the stylist knows what they are doing.

Feel free to email me any time - I have literally done everything to my hair that is possible to do. Plus, I used to work in a salon.

Good luck :)

EDIT: DON'T use lemon juice!!!

How do I make red hair lighter?

What color did you start with? Try bleaching it a bit.

How do I make red hair lighter?

A color a bit lighter than yours, than a couple of highlights. Why would you want to I LOVE RED HAIR lol.

How do I make red hair lighter?

Since you JUST got it dyed, you can wash the color out (gradually) with a shampoo and conditioner that is not for "color treated hair".

If you wanted your hair really red, it possibly came out darker because you had dyed hair before you dyed it Red.

That's what happened to me, I had brown hair (dyed) and I wanted a different color brown, so when I used the dye..it came out BLACK since my hair was more absorbant.

As I kept washing it every day and night, the color faded into a nice brown color.

Try this and your red might lighten up a bit.

I highly recommend that you do not bleach it, it will probably come out orange because color does not Lift color and you just got your hair done.

If it doesn't come out as light as you want it within a couple of weeks, then just wait about a month and get it dyed again with a Lighter red than the red that you actually want, so it will come out the right color

How do I make red hair lighter?

natural colour is good for, some chemicals might harm ur skin, some times it leads to cancer

How do I make red hair lighter?

to make hair lighter, u could use chamomille hair gel. Its called "manzanilla" and u can get it at kmart

How do I make red hair lighter?

Put some lemon juice in it and sit in the sun. It'll bring some cool highlights out if you have lighter colored hair. I dunno how it'll react with your hair dye, but if it's weird you can just dye it again.

How do I make red hair lighter?

If you've never done red before, be warned, all red hair color fades, and rather quickly compared to other colors. Red pigment does not stick like other hair colors. I would wait a couple of weeks at least, wash it every day, and see how it looks before you do anything else to it. It might fade down closer to what you wanted. But if not, then it's probably a tone thing, and I would enlist a pro to make sure you get it how you want - or at least talk to a manager at a beauty supply store if there's one near you.

If you were a natural redhead, I would have said use a blonde color. A good friend of mine who has a medium shade of natural red hair does that in the summer, and it comes out this really pretty golden kind of red.

How do I make red hair lighter?

well my sister dyed her hair bright red but she bleached her hair before and then used the die. my friend also did his hair and he used slept with hydrogen peroxide it his hair to make it lighter and more vibrant.

do some research though first, i'd hate to be the one to give advice that ruins your hair.

How do I make red hair lighter?

Dye it brown!

How do I make red hair lighter?

Like Nea, I've had my hair pretty much every color imaginable. In your case it really depends on the kind of dye you used. If you used a permanent hair color, you won't be able to fade it easily by washing it with detergent, etc. Believe me I know, in college I dyed my hair black with permanent color and I did everything imaginable to lighten it, but in the end I had to bleach streaks into it and then dye it a lighter color to even it out. I ended up cutting it short a year ago to get rid of the residual black, which was STILL in my hair at the tips where it hadn't yet grown out.

If you used a semi-permanent (if you had it dyed in a salon this is most likely the case, but if you bought a box at a store I'm suspecting it's permanent but you never know) you'll be able to fade it somewhat with the methods listed. After that, dye over it with a lighter shade of red, one more like what you want. Dying it twice so close together will NOT matter if you haven't dyed your hair in so long. If it's a permanent color it will still fade a bit over time, but if you really don't like it buy a chemical lightener and then dye over it with a lighter color. If you used a permanent and you want to avoid bleach/chemicals, you're just going to have to wait it out.