True story: I used Nice n Easy 114 so long that the daughters "inherited" it; it's exactly the color of their hair. My real hair is very dark and tends to overwhelm me; once I returned it to "my natural color" and immediately remembered why I'd always hated it.
I foolishly used a OTC "stripper" to remove the dark color, the whole thing turned carrot orange, and I ended up at the KMart near midnite searching for a bottle of Clairol to restore it. :scared:
Figuring it was about to break right off, I sought counsel from a GF expert and she told me to pour a 12 oz bottle of Pompeii Olive Oil on it, wrap it in Saran, and go to sleep. :VeryScared: I did, and when I woke in the morning had dreamed of cucumber salad all night long, but meanwhile my hair drank all 12 OZ of Pompeii and was soft and totally dry (I am not just making this up). rofllol
So if you blow it while experimenting....do the Pompeii Thing and go to bed, it will be OK in the morning.
A few years ago our kid wanted "Platte Canyon" blue hair, but his is brown, and not even that light. Well, at the hair dresser they bleached his hair, or at least started so the blue would take. He said it hurt, burned or something, so they quit a little early. Anyway, by the time everything was said and done, his "Platte Canyon" blue was more like a yellowish, greenish, weird color, not exactly what he had in mind. So, he washed it a bunch, and applied lots of peroxide. It did fade quite a bit, but his hair ended up like straw!
Maybe the Pompeii thing would have worked?
He has never asked for colored hair again. rofllol
My daughter stripped color out of her hair my hair guy used something and it worked. She is blonde and it took her red out. I don't remember the name of it though.