Stripping your hair?

[-Katie]

I'm really sick of dying my hair and I was going to get it stripped so I could go back to my natural colour, does anyone know how damaging it is? I've been hearing horror stories about peoples hair falling out or breaking after getting it stripped and more people are saying their hair was fine after it! I have quite long hair and it'd kill me if I had to cut it off! I've probably dyed it about 5 or 6 times over the last year and its a dark brown/red colour so I don't know how effective it'd even be.

[Liam]

Using any hair dye or any hair products infact slowly kills your hair anyway so I wouldn't worry about it.

[buttons]

Using any hair dye or any hair products infact slowly kills your hair anyway so I wouldn't worry about it.

hair is dead once it's out your scalp!

colour stripper only takes your hair to red/orange stages as that's the underlying pigment, you'd have to cover it up with another dye. what's your natural colour? if you're going lighter you'll have to strip the brown then bleach for blonde or for darker you'll have to find the right base colour (ie a blue/violet base colour which is an ashy brown which cancels out the red/orange) sorry if it makes no sense. your best bet is to go to your hairdresser. bleaching/stripping is more damaging than adding more colour though.

[-Katie]

Using any hair dye or any hair products infact slowly kills your hair anyway so I wouldn't worry about it.

Yeah thats why I want to stop dying it :L But some of my friends are saying stripping your hair is wayyy worse than dying it so I'm not sure about it yet!

---------- Post added 27-07-2011 at 01:35 AM ----------

hair is dead once it's out your scalp!

colour stripper only takes your hair to red/orange stages as that's the underlying pigment, you'd have to cover it up with another dye. what's your natural colour? if you're going lighter you'll have to strip the brown then bleach for blonde or for darker you'll have to find the right base colour (ie a blue/violet base colour which is an ashy brown which cancels out the red/orange) sorry if it makes no sense. your best bet is to go to your hairdresser. bleaching/stripping is more damaging than adding more colour though.

Thanks! That did make sense My natural colour is kind of a light brown with some blonde bits in it so I'm not sure if stripping it would get it light enough to go back to my natural colour without bleaching, I'm not sure if my hair can handle being both bleached and stripped without me having to cut most of it off, and that'd really annoy me because its taken me two years to get it to the length I wanted it!

[beth]

i've stripped my hair from black (using colour b4 extra strength you can get from boots) and it went like so:

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my natural hair colour is ginger anyway, so it came out pretty sweet and it DIDN'T damage my hair noticably. obviously it does damage yr hair, but yr not gonna be walking round with like straw hair.

since then however, i've bleached over it time and time again. and the more and more you bleach it the less and less stripper will be able to take it back to yr normal colour. the colourb4 website and reviews online are really interesting

[-Katie]

i've stripped my hair from black (using colour b4 extra strength you can get from boots) and it went like so:

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my natural hair colour is ginger anyway, so it came out pretty sweet and it DIDN'T damage my hair noticably. obviously it does damage yr hair, but yr not gonna be walking round with like straw hair.

since then however, i've bleached over it time and time again. and the more and more you bleach it the less and less stripper will be able to take it back to yr normal colour. the colourb4 website and reviews online are really interesting

Thanks, god the reviews are really good for that so I might try doing it myself first cuz it'll cost me at least 150-200 euro to get it stripped and dyed in a salon.

[Hollie.]

You should just let the dye come out naturaly.

[Metric1]

i stripped mine with dishsoap (sunlight) worked a treat

[Hayleigh]

I stripped mine with some superdrug stuff and it was fine except my hair was very orange this was atleast 6 months ago btw

[beth]

You should just let the dye come out naturaly.

no permenant dye is gonna come out naturally without you growing it out which is just gonna look pikey.