Hair-raising!

i'm confused, So the lady at the salon wouldn't strip it and redye it for you??? What did she think of highlights??

I have heard good things about what ever they sell that takes the color out but have never tried it. It does sound like the easiest is to dye it all black maybe with a temporary dye what one is that clariol basic instict maybe, but it is supposed to only last a few months, I would keep doing that until the realy dye was gone then just let it all fade out and start over.

So you've learned the hard way. (Join the club!) :)

I colored my own hair a bunch during college and ended up with black hair (naturally a medium brown). I was hired to teach at my first school and realized I would like to look a little more professional than the poor college student. I found a wonderful sylist that highlighted most of my head with two colors. She picked a dark blonde and a medium brown and would pull a set of hair (by interweaving her comb tip through so it wasn't so stripy) and would do one color, the next, and then leave the black. She did this over and over all over my head. My overall affect was pretty cool. The next time she colored it, she did the same thing and over time we went a little lighter and the black disappeared.

I'd tried to have it all stripped before and recolored and that was HORRIBLE. It really ruined my hair. I highly recommend going somewhere reasonable and having them try the highlight approach.

I now do highlights to hide my "natural" highlights. :)

It really pays to find a good stylist at a budget place. I see the manager at the Fantastic Sams here in town and am very pleased with her work. Not as good as the gal I saw when I lived in Vegas, but I'll never find another one of her in my budget. GOOD LUCK! DON'T DO IT YOURSELF!

Oh my goodness, do NOT bleach your hair on your own. You are conducting a science experiment on your head. See a stylist, or you'll ruin your hair.

Have a lot of brown highlights done by a professional. This will lighten portions of your hair without having to strip and redye it again. Kim Kardashian has highlights now and her hair was black and it looks great. This will allow you to grow it out and not have it as drastic. Go to a professional and have it done. Google pictures of Kim Kardashian highlights it's really pretty. It will also give dimensions to your hair and hopefully have it look natural. For future to get light brown hair I use a dark blonde, light brown combo and my hair is a warm brown. Good luck!!

There are two ways to handle this. Let it grow out for about an inch and get a VERY short haircut. Bleach it. Go to a really good salon and have them strip your hair.

I used to do my hair. About five years ago I chose method one and although many people say I should color my hair, I have a full head of very curly hair that looks great and it is long. So I chose length over coloring it. My own color isn't bad either just boring.

I once colored my hair bright red and I hated it. I then dyed it blonde on top of that to cover it up and wound up with pumpkin orange hair. I wound up buy a color stripper at walmart. Its like hair dye that stripes your hair of color. I then waited a day and they redyed it for the last time with dark blonde. Worked for me.

There is some stuff called Color Oops or something that takes color out. It won't restore your hair to your natural color because hair dye bleaches your hair a bit when the color is applied. It should take enough of the dark out, though, and then you can re-dye. I found it at Walgreens.

Your best bet is to go to the Salon and they will take the black out........That jet black color is difficult to work with...

You should have a salon handle this and not a discount salon unfortunately. They can either strip the color out of your hair and redye it which is very hard on your hair and will take several hours or they can start highlighting it. If it were me I'd see if they could strip out some highlights in the black and dye them to match the light brown/reddish stripe. Over a period of several months you should be able to get the highlights evened out enough to make your hair look decent again.

Good luck.

Bleach and re-dye. I would agree you should have a professional do it or you could end up with straw.

Go to your stylist. She should be able to strip the color. I would have a professional do it. I color my own hair, light auburn, L'Oreal (because I'm worth it)! I have had some real blunders, once I ended up with purple hair! Like eggplant purple! Yuck. I went and put a brown on it. But with that dark a color, I would have someone strip it professionally or go have them put the highlights in professional. That will lighten up the hair.

Do not bleach your hair! You should try some hair color remover that you can get from the store and hopefully it will help. Bleaching will only cause further damage to your hair.

Good luck.

You cannot lighten hair color with another hair color - it just doesn't work - you would have to bleach it (which would turn it orange) to get the dye that you already put in there out of there, and then re-deposit color over it taking into account that you need to pick a color that will counter-act the orange, so something with a blue base because blue is the opposite color of orange. I would suggest that you go to a salon and have it fixed. It will cost you a pretty penny, but be sure that you go to someone with experience in corrective color. Otherwise you may end up worse then when you started.

Good Luck ~