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i have long shoulder length hair naturally brown but ive dyed it permanent black. is there any products that can wash out black dye and return it to its natural colour?
Sorry, no.
Not entirely true... You "can" dye it back to it's natural color. It will however be more or less damaging, depending on the color. But it CAN be done... Just make sure to do it in a hair saloon...
It'll be especially damaging if natural blonde. But since he has brown it shouldn't cause too much damage.
Sorry to have to tell you...but that was a big mistake! Black is one of the most difficult colours to remove. It usually involves bleaching out as much as the black as possible and redying it brown. You can also try one of the permanent hair-colour removers found in professional beauty supply stores. Modulat by Schwarzkopf is a product that is especially formulated to remove any haircolour that you have applied and are not happy with. Like I mentioned, black is one of the most difficult colours to remove, usually resulting in some kind of damage. These methods are rather hit and miss when you are dealing with drug-store bought, rather than professional products.
I would usually recommend leaving this to professionals, but it falls into the category of 'colour-correction' and can be very expensive.
A method you could try at home to lighten the colour a little might be a bleach shampoo. Mix some (maybe 2-3 tablespoons) powdered hair bleach and 30 volume peroxide until you have the consistancy of thin cake frosting. Mix this with a generous dollop of shampoo and apply to your wet hair just as you would normal shampoo, except don't concentrate on the root area too much. This is something that should be done in front of a mirror because you need to watch the process and rinse when it has lightened back to brown (fingers crossed). This takes a little longer than a regular shampoo, but don't leave it on too long or it might go a strange brassy colour. After all this don't forget to CONDITION!!! I hope this information helps a little. (if you get rid of most of the black, but don't like the colour you are left with, you can recolour it a medium brown after a few days, but don't leave the colour on the ends too long) Good luck!
Been there done that. And yes it can be colored over. I agree with going to a salon and having it done thought. I was trying for dark brown and came up with Elvis jet black and wound up missing a day of work over it. : i have long shoulder length hair naturally brown but ive dyed it permanent black. is there any products that can wash out black dye and return it to its natural colour?