“My hair turned purple after dying brown!” How did this even happen? And more importantly, how can you fix it?
If you have work in the morning and your newly purple hair is not something you want your coworkers to see, there are steps you can take to fix your hair. There are also specific reasons why your hair turned purple after dying it brown.
Read our guide below to learn why your hair turned purple and the ways you can fix your hair color back into your preferred shade.
Why Did Your Hair Turn Purple
Hair dyes made of a chocolate brown color tend to have a purple base. Natural or neutral brown hair dyes also have a violet base, which is why your hair may have turned purple. You’ll often find that hair turns purple after trying to dye it brown if you have previously bleached your hair into a blonde color.
Essentially, bleached blonde hair dyed a chocolate or neutral brown color is more likely to turn purple. Bleached blonde or platinum hair may even have a blue base when you dye your hair a brown color with a purple base. This can turn your hair into a violet color or blue-violet color.
Essentially, the permanent brown color dye does not work on blonde hair. The purple base can turn your hair into a violet color.
What to Consider Before Mending Your Purple Hair
If you’re looking to mend your purple hair and change it into an extremely light color, you will need to bleach your hair. However, if you want a dark hair color, you’ll need to first fade the purple. Only after it fades can you add a new hair dye. Chestnut or mahogany brown dye colors should work better to change your purple mistake.
When changing your hair color, you may want to let it first fade and always use the color wheel to figure out which dye to use. You might want to move over to the next shades on the color wheel.
So if your hair turned purple, you may want to change it to a reddish-brown color, which is a few shades over on the color wheel. It would be much harder to move straight to brassy yellow and dark or light blonde.
These are some of the things you might want to consider before moving directly to changing the purple hair color.
How to Fix Your Purple Hair Mistake
You will see that you can use two products to fix your purple hair mistake and remove purple from your hair. You can use both toner and hair dye to remove the purple color from your mane.
If your hair turned purple after dying it brown, you can use yellow or orange dye to erase the purple. However, this will depend upon how strong and intense the purple color overtaking your hair is. If you have light purple in your hair, then choose orange dye to fix your locks.
However, for dark purple hair, you should use a yellow dye. In addition, you don’t have to use hair dye. You could use toner instead and choose the same colors.
When considering using toner, you’ll want to go with either a yellow color or an orange color. A toner with a yellow base cancels out dark purple. However, for light purple hair, you will want to choose a toner with an orange base to cancel out the light purple.
You can also choose pigmented conditioners with a brown pigmented shade if your box dye turned your hair into a very light purple color. An effective clarifying shampoo can also change your hair color if it turned into a very dark purple.
Different Options to Fix Your Purple Hair and Make It Brown
If your hair turns purple after dying brown, you can take other key steps to fix this problem and change your locks’ color. Here are some different options:
#1. Using Vinegar
- Mix equal parts of apple cider vinegar with water as well as some oil
- Put this mixture into your hair and leave it in for at least 10 minutes
- Dry your hair fully
#2. Using Baking Soda
You can also use baking soda to remove the purple from your hair. Follow the steps below.
- Mix two tablespoons of baking soda with a cup and a half of water
- Wet your hair in the shower completely
- Apply the mixture to your hair and leave it in for 10 minutes
- Rinse your hair out with water
- Repeat these steps every day for three or four days
#3. Using Tomato Sauce
If your hair turned into a blue-violet color, you might want to use tomato sauce to remove the blueish-purple shade. In this case, you only need to massage a good amount of tomato sauce into your hair to cover all of the blue-violet spots.
Cover your head with a plastic bag for half an hour or one hour. The last step is to merely wash all of the tomato sauce away in the shower with shampoo.
Final Thought
If your hair turned purple after dying brown, the problem might be that the chocolate brown hair dye has a violet base. Those with bleached blonde hair have a blue base that can turn hair purple if dyed chocolate brown.
Our guide should have taught you all the steps to take when changing your hair color and fixing the purple mistake. You can choose more toner and hair dye or go a more natural route with a pigmented conditioner or apple cider vinegar and baking soda.
Whatever steps you choose to follow, you’ll want to consider changing your hair color based on the color wheel and go a few shades past the purple color, such as reddish-brown.
Before you know it, your hair will be back to normal, and you’ll get plenty of compliments on the new color!
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