How to Remove Permanent, Black Hair Dye

This article details how to remove and strip black hair dye from your hair, restore your natural hair color, and bleach dyed-black or brown hair a light, beautiful blonde. If you follow these instructions, you can easily strip permanent dye from your hair or get back to a platinum blond look, not orange or red! Also, if you follow these hair bleach and hair dye removal instructions, your hair will not be dry and frizzy after bleaching it. This article was written from personal experience in bleaching my dyed black hair a bright blonde. Whether you are Caucasian, Asian, or any other ethnicity with dark brown hair or black hair (even dyed black hair!), you can get that blond look.

Sometimes, our home hair dye jobs can go wrong. Maybe your hair dye came in too dark, or maybe it is splotchy or uneven. Or maybe you're just tired of dyed black hair. Some people think that permanent hair dye is permanent. This isn't true! In a few steps, you can remove black hair dye and strip your hair of an ugly dye job. This will leave your hair ready for a new dye job or even let you bleach the dark hair blonde!

First, you need to understand some of the basics of hair color. Black hair dye strips your natural hair color then covers it with dark dye. Naturally dark brown or black hair have an underlying red color. If you buy a box of blond hair dye and try to dye your hair blonde, it will strip the black or brown out of your hair but will leave the red tones. The result is a brassy, gross orange color. You see this a lot when people try to dye their hair blonde over their natural, dark hair color. This means they don't know what they're doing!

How to Remove Black Permanent Hair Dye

There are two ways to strip black hair dye from your hair after a bad hair dye job.