STYLETHREAD -- LET'S TALK SHOP!

Metric · Gucci

dye job gone horribly awry

Kitty · Hermes

You could lighten them with a peroxide or bleach.

Cricket · Gucci

I read somewhere a long time ago to wash w/ dishwashing liquid right after a bad home dye job and it should take some dye out. Don't know if that works for sure, but it can't hurt to try it!

jrhampt · Kenneth Cole

I've heard that Prell shampoo can remove color - I'd be careful about using it around the eye area, though.

NCshopper · Hermes

Kitty wrote:

You could lighten them with a peroxide or bleach.

I'd be really nervous about 1) getting bleach in his eyes and 2) bleaching his eyebrows orange.

I'd try washing it out a few times with dish detergent and shampoo. If it's permanent, I doubt that will help much, but it's worth a shot. If that doesn't lighten it a little, I'd call a salon and see what they'd do or see if they could fix it.

ETA: By the way, the whole thing is rather funny.

-- Edited by NCshopper at 14:10, 2006-12-08

blubirde · Chanel

I'd also try the harshers shampoos and dishwasher detergent before anything else. What about some eyebrow maintenance? Would thinning them out a little bit help the problem?

ayo · Coach

I have no help to offer..

I'm just the jerk that came to laugh *LOL*

although the peroxide sounds like a good idea..

ooh come to think about it. I do have something to offer

He could use facial hair bleaching cream, I know some people use this to lighten their eyebrows. He should not let it stay long though because then he's eyebrows will go completely blonde.

Jahni · Dooney & Bourke

try a clarifying shampoo and if that doesn't work take his groucho butt to a salon before he makes it worse with peroxide or bleach or overplucking...

Kelly · Hermes

I would try dish soap, clarifying shampoo, and also when I dyed my hair a little too dark, my hair dresser told me to put lemon juice on it every day. I'd get my hair soaked with lemon juice, sit there for 20 minutes, and rinse out. I did it for a couple days and if I remember correctly it did help somewhat.

Aren't there dye-remover kits available in drug stores?

Grace · Dooney & Bourke

I was also going to suggest dish soap. It's an easy thing to try. Boys....

Kari · Dooney & Bourke

It seems like once my stylist said to use dish soap or some other harsher detergent...but I swear i remember her saying to mix it with water so it wouldn't destroy the hair...but since it is his eyebrows, I would say those are tougher hairs.

DO NOT BLEACH OR PEROXIDE...I have seen people try to do this and it can turn them orange or even make them fall out!

Call a salon...perhaps your styists will suggest something.

Rica · Kenneth Cole

So, the last time I dyed my hair, I decided not to wear the gloves and wound up with purple people eater hands. I called my stylist - in tears, of course - and she suggested getting a L'Oreal Hair Color Removal kit at Wal-Mart. The puroxide liquid is a little scary, especially around the eyes, so skip it and mix the powder with some warm water. Shampoo should remove any remaining color. Good luck!

-- Edited by Rica at 17:51, 2006-12-08

erin · Chanel

i agree with what ayo suggested about the facial bleaching kit. (which is a lot gentler
than reg bleach, imo!) i would just leave it on long enough to lighten it just a touch. do one eyebrow at a time so that you can watch the color well so one doesn't lighten a lot more than the other.

eyebrow tinting isn't permanent, if that's any consolation, but black dye is REALLY hard to get out...so i'd be wary of turning the eyebrows orange with regular bleach.