How do I get the red out of my brown hair?

well this is kind of a long story but ,
I wanted to dye my naturally dark brown hair light brown , simple enough isnt it ?
I went to a salon to get it done but ti didnt work , well it turned my roots like a ginger tint but the rest of my hair was the same .
I was odviously really upset and dyed the roots myself , but it still showed up ginger in sunlight and some lightings , I went to another salon because I still wanted it a few shades lighter all over , and to get rid of my roots . so they lighted it all and put a brown dye on it , but yes that started faiding especially at the roots what was now more ginger than before , so I died it again at home but because brown hadnt worked I tried a dark brown hair dye but that still had a red tint in my hair in some lightings .
my mum told the salon about my problem and they said for me to not dye my hair again and wait till I go on holiday and go in the pool a lot and then go back for a toner , I did that , and the toner seemed to have worked ubtill I got outside when most of the orange had gone but not the red , I dont think they left the bleach on long enought when they lightened it before . I realy dont know what to do , im only 15 and I think my mum has had enought . does anyone know how to help me ? I juts dont want to got ginger or black again , I dotn care about shaded of brown anymore I juts want to be able to go out again because I ahvent been able to go out all summer as I've been embarrassed . please help !

My best advice (and believe me I have been in a similar situation) would be to go to the store, purchase a dark brown permanent hair dye, depending on how light your hair is I would maybe go a shade or two darker than you would necessarily want. Dying your hair all over one color will help even your hair out and when your roots start showing they wont be noticable because you have naturally dark hair. Don't pick a dye that has the word "ash" in it which can make you look grey, or the word "golden" which will only intensify and red you have. A basic dark brown like cocoa would work best. After doing this, leave your hair alone! You can't undo hair damage but you can help it heal. Deep condition weekly and stay out of chlorine. Good luck!

um when you dye it next dont put any hair day in it with a red base or you could dye it blonde by bleaching it and then put a darker colour over that

Thank You ! =]
I dont really want to go darker as that would make my hair black and I have done that before but the red still came through in some lightings so ti was like a reddish black , I think I will go to a better salon and get the colour stripped if possible and dyed the medium brown that I wanted all along , if this is possible and wont cause even more damage to my hair .
when I do I will post the outcome on here for other people on here because I've heard that this problem hapends quite a lot ! hehe
thank you again, and any other answers will be very helpfull

I have that same prob, just started 2 days ago.. Just wondering what you ended up doing, and if it worked?

Jenna

Hey jenna
well .. long story again lol but ill try make it simple
I didnt dye over it at home , I went a salon and told them my problem , but beczuse of all the dye in it I had to wait untill I went on holiday for the dye to get out , so I did that and went a salon, it got rid of the orage but not the red, but I dealed with it and went to a better salon called john english and I had it dyed liek a shade or so darker than my natural colour with green in the dye so I wont have red in it . but also had lighter bits put throught under my layers , it looked nice but was slightly ginger so I had the lighter bits even lighter but thort it looked weird then , so I had my light bits toned to my all over colour

I would just recomend going to a good salon and gettin an all over colour no lighter bits untill all the dye us out of your hair . im not going to dye my hair again untill the summer and get it cut shorter and then start over at a good salon !
thank you for all the advise , this seems to happen a lot with brunettes.

I had the same problem as you
my friend died my hair and im 13
and my hair was a light browny blonde
and I done it a icey chocolate brown colour
and it has turned rediish in the sun
I hate I I cant bare too look at myself
because I will just end up crying
I want my old hair back
it was a beautiful colour aswelll
HELP ME.
how can I get the red out?

I'm not sure this will work for everyone, but it worked VERY well for me!

if you buy a Live XXL dye in 'Absolute Plantinum', it's a really bright blonde and will bleach all the colour out your hair, but will make your hair bright yellow, however this is a brilliant base to dye over. I would advise dying it a light natural brown at first, because it is likely to fade into a dark Blonde (a bit like Nadine Coyle from Girls Aloud) and then after 2 weeks or so of having that colour hair going on to dye it a darker shade of brown that you prefer. However the yellow XXL dye can be quite damaging espeically with all the following dye so you should probably get a hair cut after all this and made sure during the process you use deep nourishing hair conditioners like one from the Aussie range, you can get 99p sachets from superdrug or supermarkets

I'm not sure this will work for everyone, but it worked VERY well for me!

if you buy a Live XXL dye in 'Absolute Plantinum', it's a really bright blonde and will bleach all the colour out your hair, but will make your hair bright yellow, however this is a brilliant base to dye over. I would advise dying it a light natural brown at first, because it is likely to fade into a dark Blonde (a bit like Nadine Coyle from Girls Aloud) and then after 2 weeks or so of having that colour hair going on to dye it a darker shade of brown that you prefer. However the yellow XXL dye can be quite damaging espeically with all the following dye so you should probably get a hair cut after all this and made sure during the process you use deep nourishing hair conditioners like one from the Aussie range, you can get 99p sachets from superdrug or supermarkets

when you dye it again, use an ASH color. it eliminates red. I had a bad dye job also. I'm a blonde and I tried to dye my hair brown and it turned marroon. so I went to my hair dresser and she said to use an ash color. I went back to blonde by using a light ash blonde color, and no joke when I was rinsing the dye out, all the red dye literally came out!