My 14 year old daughter went to sleep at a friends house and came back with her hair having been bleached!!That was about 2 weeks ago and it is now a horrid fair/dirty orange colour.
I don't have the money to take her to the hairdressers yet...is there any way to sort it at home?

what is her natural hair colour ?

mousy brown/very dark blond ...sorry not good at descriptions

Hi ,you will probably be ok to put on a dark blond /light brown permanent colour. Something like a Clairol nice an easy,as long as her hair has still got some yellow/gold/brassy tones to it.Dont be tempted to put on a brown as they can be very dark.

Thanks...will give it a go

Personally, I wouldn't mess about with any hair colours, just put plenty of conditioner on until you can get professional help because the hair has been bleached, not just coloured. Bleach can damage the hair and you could cause even more problems.

Yep bleach can be really damaging to hair so i'd use the professionals as well.  Maybe ring round your local salons and see if they do a training night.  You'll have the advantage of it being less expensive while still having the experience of the hairdressers who will be instructing the trainee's very closely.

Good luck
Paula

Would never try to rectify a hair disaster-leave it to the professionals, you could end up making it worse. In the mean time whack loads of conditioner on it. Bleach is so strong on hair it can make the hair literally break and fall out. Hope for your daughters sake you can get to the hairdressers soon! :-)  Kids hey?!!!

If you go to hair dresser then go to a well known one and ask about training dyas and the need for models - i recently had mine coloured for a fraction of the cost because i was a model for the trainee.

Dont think putting a bought colour on will do any harm as to be honest surely this is all they will do in a a salon.

You could use one of the Shaders or Toners available at most Chemists , they are in a sachet and only cost about £1. I have used them in the past and they are brilliant at toning down a colour disaster , nothing in them to harm the hair either.

I done this at her age, after this i had to go to the hairdressers to sort it out. i would not now mess about with hair dyes.

They are the best people to sort it out. If you put a light colour on it , im sure it wont work

Could luck,

I did it.  I bleached my hair with a product, that when I called and asked how long to leave it on since I have auburn hair, they told me an hour and a half@@

So I left the bleach on it that long, and by the time I rinsed it out, My hair was straw, and a horrid colour.  It was also breaking off!

Talked to a hairdresser about it, and they said, just put an ASH coloured blonde on it.  Something like Garneir Nutriese (sp?), since it doesnt have amonia in it.  If you dont use an ASH colour, to tone down any orange bits, then it will come out looking like an apricot poodle.  The ASH neutralizes the colour, and makes it sort of a dark blonde colour, instead of a apricot.

I used the hair colour, and also use a deep conditioner (for coloured persons hair - so you want to get it from a hair salon that deals with weaves and extensions).  I personally used CHOLESTEROL, which is the products name.  It worked really good, and it saved my hair.

if you cannot afford to go to the hairdresser ring up the local collage that trains young kids for hairdressing.

they love to have a problem like that to sort it out at a very low cost.

bries right, i think our local one does it for about £5

Hi Asa,
      How have you got on ?  By the way i should have said if you had phoned me at work with this problem i would have told you i must see the hair, i can't advise over the phone(or net) :D , skin and scalp tests would be done ,test strands would be taken and then coloured to the original hair colour or desired colour and we would go from 24 hours after the skin test to re-colour,i dont use chemist colours ,but i know how they work and you wont go far wrong with the colour i advised  as long as she is not skin sensitive ( a dab of the one usually in a tube behind the ear.. not hydrogen peroxide white/cream)

oh   and that would cost you about £60/70 ...

Thankyou...haven't tried anything yet..am going to try as you suggested this weekend.
Thanks
Nikki

I used to have blonde highlights - had them for a few years and my hairdresser had to use bleach to lift my colour - it looked really nice but what with the bleach and heat from straightners, my hair was in really bad condition. I decided to go back to my natural colour which is a mid brown and hairdresser only used semi permenant colour as its kinder to the hair than permenant colours and she told me that permenant wasn't necassary because the bleach makes hair porous so it grabs hold of the colour really easily. I used a semi permenant colour (chocolate brown) about every 8 weeks - had the first one done at salon but then did my own with Garnier Casting - about £4 a pack. My hair is now back in great condition. I don't think it would do any harm to try a semi permenant colour.