Adventures in hair dye

Somehow, I never posted this here... Got put up on Tumblr and Twitter but not LJ. I've been neglecting you haven't I? ;-)

So, I've been dying my hair myself for years. Never had any problems with it. It's been great and easy and much less expensive than getting it done at a salon. However, my hair was getting a little fried from bleaching it blonde and stuff, so I decided to go dark to get some color and moisture back in it. So, why not go all the way and go black? Awesome, right? So, I get the Feria color that's black with some blue undertones to it. I think you can see where this is going:


Yup. My hair went blue. Oddly enough, it's really not that bad and everyone seemed to like it. Even my mom! :-P But still, not what I was going for, so I've been using my husband's Head & Shoulders to strip as much out as I can. It's been a week and my hair now looks like this:


It's not the best pic, but it's actually fading to a sort of grayish silver color. Which, at least it's not going green like blue tends to do when it fades. So, now I just gotta figure out how long to let this go and if I should try and fix it before the con in two weeks.

A coworker who used to be a hairdresser gave me some things to try that should be very gentle on my hair. To try and get more of the color out, a solution of equal part Johnson's Baby Shampoo and hydrogen peroxide should help. She said that swimmers use it to help get the green out of their hair from all the chlorine. Then to get some regular color back in it, boil black walnut shells in some water, let that cool down and then just let it soak into the hair. If I can find black walnut shells I might try that, but I'm not even sure where to get that stuff.

Um, so yeah. That's what's going on with my hair. :-D