I colored my hair and it's too dark

Go to a salon and let a colorist do it.

Old men who dye their hair look ridiculous. Wash it a bunch of times, or go to a salon to fix it.

Wash with a harsh or clarifying shampoo to strip it, it will get lighter with each wash. T/Sal by Neutrogena has salicylic acid, Paul Mitchell Clarifying shampoo or any clarifying shampoo. Prell is harsh if you can find it.

Or add a tablespoon of baking soda to your regular shampoo.

Or just wash it with Dawn dishwashing liquid, that will strip some color off!

Serves you right for even REMINDING us of Ernest.

What R3 said. I’d follow up with a good conditioner if you get it to the shade you want, or you’ll look like you have a Brillo pad on your head.

Godspeed OP.

Tell everyone you ordered a wig on Amazon and they sent the wrong color.

Pray on it, looser.

Just get some Trump orange makeup and no one will notice the hair.

Vance eyeliner, too. Just to be sure.

There are these people called hairdressers.

OP, I've done the same thing in the past. I did what R3 is recommending --- I washed my hair at least 10 times over the weekend with Prell. I even let the Prell stay on my head for 15 minutes or so on some of the washes. I followed up each wash with a lot of conditioner (that I also let sit for a while before rinsing off). It wasn't perfect but it did remove some of the color. It also irritated my scalp but it was the only option I could find on line.

I hope whatever you do works.

Some of you are tacky and cheap. God forbid you shell out to pay a professional to. deal with your Just for Men hair dye mishaps.

Look in the mirror and screech, "Heal!!!" with your hand out.

Some things are better left to the professionals.

Dye it red and tell people you lost a dare

Devil come OUT!!!

Wear your shame!!!

"Colorist" is a racist term and they can only get frizzy hair right in the first place. Plus them people use wigs.

tell people that your niece is studying to be a cosmetologist and you let her practice on you but after you saw what she did you were afraid to allow her to fix it.

Start over with Nair®.

please submit a picture to us before you step out to work Monday morning.

how "loosely" should he pray, r7?

Stop dying your mop. It looks ridiculous

R21, "looser" is the standard term for "loser," after an infamously unsuccessful diss, in case you didn't know.

If you're serious, though, Ernest's prayers were tight and he required his followers to be the same, as he was a closeted hypocrite who like feeling congregants' genitals after they had vasectomies as he ordered.

Ah, Xtianity in its colorful phases.

r23 "looser" - not firmly or tightly fixed in place; detached or able to be detached. ("looser fitting clothing")

"loser" - a person or thing that loses or has lost something, especially a game or contest. ("he was the loser in the race")

you are an imbecile.

Did you dye those nasty pubes too? Yuk

It will fade.

R11 You kind of sound like white trash.

R23 You’ve embarrassed yourself.

I second r2, it's always so fucking OBVIOUS.

r28, I blocked r23 years ago

R17 fuck off, trash

Did you scorch your pan recently, too? Steak mishaps happen.

put beer in and dry in the sun.

Why would you ever dye your own hair. Only let a professional do that. I use Just for men but I’m not completely gray and I don’t think it’s true dye.

Amazon has a bunch of options but you will have to call in sick until you can get one delivered.

About 15 years ago, as I was still very salt and pepper but just beginning to lean more heavily into salt, I was going out of town (to NYC) for a conference, and I thought it would be fun to use "just for men - touch of grey" hair color, which was supposed to enhance the darker hair, while still leaving some silver. Forget it. It left some hints of purple in my hair that made me self conscious all week. I was so delighted when the last of it washed out a week or so later.

Turbans are nice.

R36 wow that’s sucks. I use jet black. I’m not that gray but the thing is I have so many fucking hair follicles that when I’m in between hair cuts the gray is pronounced to me. It works like magic. The only thing that makes me look 36 is the damn gray and it just beautifully transforms me back to my 25 yr old hair. Sorry you had a bad experience. I wonder if has different results depending on texture of hair. If I had white people hair I probably would only go to a professional. I have what black people call good hair but it’s still Afro textured.

Also you know you can’t leave that shit in longer than 5 minutes.

I still have a lot of hair, but it is very very fine. (Sort of like the texture of many dozen spider webs piled up on each other). Maybe that was the problem. Anyway, it doesn't matter now. In dim light, my hair is silver, but with bright light shining down on it, it looks like Mike Pence's hair, or Steve Martin's. A shock of white! There's no going back now. Besides, I'm at least a few decades past 36....LOL No one is going to mistake me for 25, even on DL, notorious for people 85 claiming to be mistaken for teenagers.

R40 haha that’s the spirit. I think many middle aged guys look great with a full head of gray hair. As my late great aunt would say, “Just be happy you got hair, these bald head ragamuffins roaming the streets”.

Just for Men doesn’t work on Black hair.

The one that got the goofy looking young Denzel on the cover. Works just splendid for me.

The one that got the goofy looking young Denzel on the cover works just fine for me.

My original r43 wasn’t showing up so I posted twice.

I was talking about Black hair. That jet black shit is full of chemicals known to have a greater propensity to cause harm to African-Americans. There have multiple lawsuits.

Lawsuit?? Fuck. I don’t seem to be thinning or balding. I only use the shit about 3 times a year having only started last year. I thought just for men had no harsh chemicals in it. That it was more so stripping the gray that’s covering ones original brown hair and not so much dying it.

Go to Sally Beauty Supply and buy Ion crème bleach and 20 volume developer. Then do a BLEACH WASH.

Mix Ion bleach and developer according to package instructions. Then mix with equal part of shampoo. Apply to wet hair and leave on for 20 minutes. Rinse.

Voila.

r47 Are you having a good time replying back and forth to yourself?

Do not listen to r48. Don’t bleach your own hair. I would never use dyes when I have hair hair like after 2 months and I have full curls. When I have a regular black boy haircut in between barbershop appointments I sometimes use it because my hair grows so fucking fast. R49 your comment popped up as I was typing this. Please seek help.

You can also buy Color Oops at drugstores, Ulta, etc. That isn’t bleach. It opens the cuticle to allow hair dye particles to rinse out. It won’t turn weird colors.

You don’t have to buy the Ion crème bleach from Sally’s. You won’t be using enough to waste the $. Just get a single packet of Wella or L’Oréal Blue powder bleach for a couple bucks. Mix 1 part bleach + 1 part developer + 1 part shampoo. Keep it wet while it processes. Rinse after 10 or 15 minutes. You can always clip a lock and test the mix on that before your whole head.

"... deal with your Just for Men hair dye mishaps"

I used dark brown by Nutrisse. My hair is dark brown but salt ' n pepper now.

Sounds hot, R40!

Shave it off. If you're FUG, you may not like this option.

Get a weave

Op, just own it. I recently let Just For Men stay on, too long, myself. I joke about it. I'm sure your hair will lighten after a few washings, as mine did. As one mentioned above, condition it because the hair coloring does strip the strand oils, making hair dry. I'm 58 and don't give a damn what the dipshits have to say about me. I'm not going to a hair dresser who will overcharge me to further fuck up my hair, before passing me their Covid.

[quote] Hair Dressers Are For Uptight Pussies

Bottle dye is for cheap old misers

This place is a hot spot for cheap ugly misers

You’re both caught by the short hairs aspen up

* own up