No, it's not true. You cannot remove color from your hair with anything that is typically hanging around your house. This is a process that is better left to a professional. It is complicated and can really damage your hair if you don't do it right. If you are detrmined to do this at home, visit a beauty supply store for products that are made to remove color from hair (they typically have many different products available depending on what you need).
I'm so glad I found this! I dyed my hair black, like I always do. I'm naturally a brown/black and I dye to cover the grey. Well, this time it came out awful. It looked like I dipped my head in a bucket of black shoe polish! First I tried washing it in Dawn dish soap and that helped a little bit. The next day I went to the drug store and got some Vitamin C gel caps. I split them open (six of them at 500mg each) and mixed them with about a table spoon of baby shampoo. Now, this is the step no one has mentioned so far, I wet my hair down before mixing in the shampoo and vitamin c. Don't know if I was supposed to do it that way or not. It might have worked better without wetting it first. If I ever have to do this again, I'll definitely do it on dry hair! Either way, I left it on for about 45 minutes because I didn't want to lighten it too much, just take the terrible flatness out of the color and lighten just a little bit.
Anyway, it worked out just great. My hair is still black but it's a natural black now and I even have some highlights to it. This worked perfect for me and I'm sure that if I'd used the powder and left it on longer, I could have lightened it much much more! Thank you!!!
Fantastic result, thanks so much. this is the first time i have made a comment on anything. i have very thick long hair and my hairdresser made my dark hair Black, it looked awfull. i used 9 vitamin C crushed and mixed with shampoo on dry hair, left for 2 hours because i got waylayed then rinsed with hot water. The dye flooded out and its now a lovley warm brown colour as i wanted and good condition as well. cant thank you enough.
I have died my hair since I was 16 and I'm now 54, so I know a little bit about hair dye. I'm letting the gray come in naturally and trying to get rid of my existing hair dye. I used dish washing detergent to wash out the hair dye, which left me with this darken, dead color on the tips of my hair. I was just about to remove all the hair color and start over, when I read the suggestion for the Vitamin C mixed in to your shampoo. I took (6) 500 mg of Vitamin C tablets and crushed them to a powder, adding the powder to a quarter size of shampoo. I mixed the two together until it made a paste. I applied the mixture to my hair and let it sit for 60 minutes. When I washed the paste away, my hair looked FABULOUS!! That flat color on the ends was gone and my hair is beautiful. I can't believe this cure all hasn't been made public before. Thanks for the information!!
Thanks to all of you who wrote about crushing Vitamin C and mixing it with shampoo, that worked great without making my hair dry. I had my hair colored and it was bright red (was supposed to just have auburn highlights). Anyway, I washed it 30 times with Head and Shoulders and Pert, with no real change. I then found this site and crushed 4 (500mg) Vitamin C tabs with about a teaspoon of Pert, lathered it into my hair and left it on for 45 minutes. It came out great. Thanks to ALL who suggested this. Now I won't look like Lucille Ball for Thanksgiving.
I came on here praying someone could help me, read all the vit c & shampoo, I tried it, must have done something wrong, I crushed, added shampoo, only made a little plus was not smooth, put it on, a mess, now I'm trying the blue dawn, got to tone down this orange, thanks all
I have been coloring my hair with permanent and switched to semi permanent color about 6 months ago. The ends were very dark and I am trying to let my hair go back to its natural silver. The roots were so noticeable....ugggh
I found this site and tried the 500 mg caplets crushed but used prell since I didn't have baby shampoo. Left it on for an hour and it's much lighter and bearable now. I plan to do this 2-3 more times this weekend and maybe if I get "waylayed", LOL and leave it in longer, most of the dye will be gone and I can get the rest cut out soon as my hair is short.
I bought some vitamin c and mixed it with shampoo blah blah
and i had a shower and mixed it in when i got out
and have left it in for almost 20 minutes now, waiting very anxiously and hoping it will work
My hair is medium brownish - the faded result of dying my hair bluey black way back in march
I'm trying to grow it out to my natural light light blonde colour but am too impatient
I really hope this will work
crystal light lemonade mixed with a little water and placed on wet hair will remove yellow staining from well water.let sit for half hour and wash hair
The vitamin c-shampoo combination worked well for me. My stylist dyed my hair a horribly dark brown color. I looked so scary. I used the vitamin c three times. I have very thick medium length hair and I ended up using the entire bottle of vitamins (90 capsules!) spread over the three times. I left it on for about an hour each time. Good results! My previous highlights are showing through now and the color is much softer. I'm really glad I came across this thread!
if someone who used this thing with the vitamin C enters here, please , if i stay all night long with the paste made out of vitamin C and shampoo, it will damage my hair? my hair is dyed in medium chestnut and i want it a lot loghter to put on an intense red which I love! Is it really working?? I am totally amazed! i haven't heard about this beafore! my hair is damaged because of a decolouration an year ago and I really want to dye my hair with an intense gorgeous red. another decolouration will kill my hair for good. I am running to buy vitamin C right now. Thank you all and waiting for answers , i hope someone will enter here again
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Go know thyself is THE RED QUEEN Jun, 03 2009 at 10:25 AM
kimmey May, 27 2009 at 12:33 AM
