What to do when your hair colour goes wrong. Doesn’t matter if you are blonde, trying to go blonder and it goes purple or worse still green, brunette trying to go lighter and it goes orange, dark trying to blend balayage and it just doesn’t match or covering grey and it goes wrong, especially too dark is usually impossible to shift without a professional bleaching two process strip and re colour which depending on who’s doing it can be risky too.

My friend and I had two similar hair disasters at the same time, she’s blonde I am brunette and had a go at rectifying the problem with detox or clarifying shampoo.

My friend opted for Ouai shampoo she purchased in boots and paid about £30 steep yes but cheaper than a stylist. It did exactly what she needed it to do. Lifted and blended too much ash in her blonde tresses from a toner applied at home and returned them back to the more natural sunkissed streaky extra light blonde she loves.

She was delighted and grateful for the recommendation. If you are in the same situation this Quai detox shampoo works on blondes.

I on the other hand had a colour disaster at the salon. My natural brunette hair with a few grey streaks ended up Adams family too dark and as it wasn’t my regular stylist, I decided I would try and correct it myself.

I opted for a cheaper detox shampoo Detox Dynamo by Noughty. On the directions it says to use it once a week, not every wash as it can dry out your hair.

I paid about £7.00.

The results weren’t immediate like the Ouai shampoo. I had to use it once a week for about six weeks before I started to see the colour lighten and blend a little better with the other hair.

And then it was time to return to the salon. The stylist did end up correcting the colour completely which was expensive, around £200 (maybe if I’d tried the more expensive detox shampoo I’d have got a better result) but I could have tolerated the colour after 6 weeks, it was lighter, the stylist was able to get it back looking pre mistake.

The conclusion:

If you are blonde the Ouai shampoo delivered a detox colour result in one wash. It may be expensive but worth it and worked.

If you are a coloured brunette with a colour mistake, too dark, the cheaper detox shampoo by Noughty did smell lovely and pepperminty but the results were slow. Nothing happened quickly. And to get it sorted and back to pre mistake it took a professionals help. Although if going to a professional is not an option it did help and after about 6 washes the hair was definitely better.

If it happened again, I’d definitely invest in the Quai shampoo myself before heading back to the stylist for an expensive hair rescue.

https://theouai.co.uk/products/detox-shampoo?