Hair colour

I like having my hair coloured professionally after some years of doing it at home.
My hairdresser advised me never to use Head n Shoulders as it dulls and strips hair colour so now I use L'Oréal Serie Expert which is tailored to suit your particular hair type.
I use their hot towel masque treatment too.

I tend to think harsh stripping (take that any way you like) can only be damaging to the hair.

My normally white hair is currently in a pastel shade of green and it will wash out in 10 or 12 showers.

And I'm a pretty old and decrepit 72

I'd shell out and get it done professionally.

I had a friend who allowed hers to simply grow out, I’d say go to a hairdresser! She had a grey pudding on top of her head which grew very slowly!

I went from dark red to grey, took 4 hours in the salon, but was worth it.

I think the best advice I can give you is Do not try this at home!

Seriously, leave it to a professional.

My hairdresser over-highlighted my hair last time. She stripped the colour out successfully so I suggest having it done professionally.

you can either wait till all the colour grows out and get regular trims or go to a reputable hair dresser and get it professionally stripped out, I've successfully coloured my own hair at home for several years, but this is something I wouldn't attempt myself

Why not just let it grow out and adjust your hair style to suit while it is doing so. You could use non-permanent colour that washes out after so many washes to ease the pain.

Better that than using all those harsh chemicals on your hair.

I'm 60, and like you, colour my hair (it's dark). Last year I tried the colour stripper stuff, but I had to use 2 boxes of it, over a weekend (my hair was like straw at the end), and it did get rid of all the dark dye. I then put a mid-brown colour on, decided I didn't like it, so am back to being dark again.

The best thing would be to get a decent hairdresser to do it. It takes a few hours and isn't cheap (I had mine stripped and done blonde about 12 years ago).

Hazeld my DD tried this years ago, stripping the colour, the best thing was Head And Shoulders shampoo.
Before that she tried stripping dark hair colour off the normal way and it turned it bright ginger!

Hi Hazeld . Despite having the most gorgeous long blonde curly hair my DD always had her hair dyed in crazy colours such as blue, green, pink etc.

last year when she was pregnant she decided that she should grow up (aged 33) and go back to her natural colour. What carry on we had trying to strip the dye. In fact she ended up getting it all cut out as nothing worked. I think there are certain intense colours that do not react to the stripper so you may have to either try and dye again over the top going gradually lighter or else do what my DD did and have the colour cut out.

I was gifted shampoo bars and while they left my hair incredibly soft and shiny they also removed all the colour in just two weeks...washing hair every day...
I have gone back to my bottles!!