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I don't think it'd hurt to try it. Nothing ventured, nothing gained 😉

I've bought some Scott Cornwall decolour remover to try and shift my fading directions violet. Never used a colour remover before. I'm hoping to get to a base suitable for a turquoise/blue. I'm worried about this reoxidizing thing though. How can I stop that from happening and what does it mean? Thankye

I've bought some Scott Cornwall decolour remover to try and shift my fading directions violet. Never used a colour remover before. I'm hoping to get to a base suitable for a turquoise/blue. I'm worried about this reoxidizing thing though. How can I stop that from happening and what does it mean? Thankye

Here's a good link to help explain reoxidizing and how to prevent it.  Since Decolour Remover is said to shatter colour molecules instead of shrinking them, the chances of reoxdization are less with that product.  🙂

I used this just now (just waiting for it to dry) and oh my god, it smells like someone gave a brussel sprout the ability to burp and fart... -_-

Before using ColourB4 Extra on my Directions Turquoise:

After using ColourB4 Extra (and smothering my hair in Argan oil because it made my hair CRAZY DRY!):

I left it on for 60 mins and washed it out with cold water (had to, because my boiler hates me right now). Kind of disappointed really, but it did way better than how I expected after seeing others before and after pics, plus I know Directions Turquoise is mega difficult to get out!

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I get better results from Scott Cornwall Decolour remover on turquoise. So you could probably strip a lot more out if you tried that.

You HAVE to wash it out with hot water though. Washing it out with cold water makes the cuticles clamp shut and so they stop letting the molecules of colour out. You could end up with more colour coming back unfortunately. At the moment the molecules are shrunken, but if they reoxidize then they grow again and show up as darker colour.

Just finished using decolour. It's taken me ages! Panicked slightly because it was making my head itch a little, even though my skin test patch was fine.

It's made my directions violet go blue. Bubblegum blue, oh and a few spots of purple. And my hair smells funky. Kind of wish I hadn't bothered. I can't really afford another box of the stuff. Now I don't know what to do with my blue hair. I have a pot of lagoon blue, and two pots of turquoise. Help?

^ I guess your next move depends on how you feel about your current hair colour as it is right now, and how worth it it is to you to KEEP what you have now if you want to continue the process of getting it out and back to it's base colour. What other fading methods are open to you right now that are affordable to you or that you perhaps already have about your house? You could use Head and Shoulders to help get more out maybe.

If you really, really can't stand your hair as it is and don't want to wait to fade it more, you could use either your Lagoon or your Turquoise on it.

As for the smell, my hair has just been washed freshly today after having used ColourB4 yesterday and the smell is STILL present! :S Bleuuhh.

Sorry I don't have a better before photo, my hair was a little more faded than the photo and decolour turned it to the second. Gone over with lagoon and turquoise today and it looks lovely, so happy. Worth the weird smell! Going to post my new colour in the show off forums if you want to see 🙂

That's actually an incredibly good result for one go!

I see most recommending Decolour Remover over Colour B4 for semi permanent dyes. I cannot compare the two products because I have only used Decolour Remover (once) on semi permanent colour - I used it to try and remove some of my semi red dye earlier this year and it did a pretty ok job. But now I want to try and remove some permanent dye (dark brown) from my hair. What would people recommend generally works better for permanent dyes? Decolour Remover or Colour B4? I can save £12 buying Colour B4 but wont bother if Decolour Remover is better.

In theory, decolour is better for permanent because it shatters the molecule rather than shrinking it so reoxidising is less likely.

Might be a lame question but: the "layers" of my hair is this now: Bleached -> turqoise -> Purple. Will I have to use 2 rounds of colour-remover to get the down to the bleached hair or will one round get both purple and turq out at once? Did that make sense, no? :<

It's not really as simple as that. Either one could go in one, one or other might go, or you might have staining from both which a colour remover won't get rid off. All you can do is try really 🙂

I've never fully got rid of turquoise with colour removers, but I get it down to a very pale mint with two or three.

I got 2 boxes of colorremover and 2 of bleach, so I will try the colorremover first ofc, and see where were at after that hehe 😀

Ok, I have read this entire thread today to try and clue myself in about these products.
So before I start, I *know* im unlikely to rid my hair permanently of this, but:-
My hair is high lifted with XXL max blonde, and for the last while Blonde Absolute
(The max blonde made my scalp crust)
So I have had various colours, but had Virgin Rose in for a few months. 
I tried home fades with bi-carb Vit C I love Juicy shampoo, anti dandruff, the works... It faded a bit eventually and was still bright, but some of it more salmon-ish.  I thought it seemed faded enough to stick on SFX Blood Red - and it looked good, for about 2 weeks.
Its been about 4 weeks since I put on the Blood Red and the fade is right back to screaming Pink!
Soooo... Im thinking Decolour....

As I am trying to grow my hair, I have a few questions - if you lovely ladies can help me. 😀

When you say 3 tries with the decolour is that 3 *ever* on that hair?  So If I tried a decolour 3 times trying to get this pink out, does that mean I should never use anouther decolour (or Colour B4) product on those lengths of hair again?

Would those in the know suggest De- Colour over Colour B4 for this task?
Does De Colour stink like eggs too?

I am not planning this as an immediate project... I thought I might do my roots and put on a Directions Violet.  In my experience it fades out almost altogether in 2-3 weeks, and then I could look at my options to try and strip the pink.
I am also hoping that the shop might be stocked with a better range of SFX by the time I want to do this.
Ultimately I am looking to colour with SFX Wildflower. 🙂

Any suggestions help much appreciated!