Light brown orangeish hair, hate the orange

Try a color remover. You can use them up to three times in a row and it's not damaging. It will dry your hair but you can fix that with a good deep conditioner.
This should remove all the color you have deposited into your hair. Since you had peroxide products put on your hair, there is a possibility that your hair will be lighter than your natural color.
Since you cant use peroxide products for at least a week after the remover, id you want to recolor or tone your hair, you will need to use direct dyes such as the ones sold on beeunique.

Thanks so much for the feedback! My biggest concern is that I'm going to end up with super orange hair after I use the color remover, but as long as I have what I need to deal with that, I should be ok hopefully. Is there a specific toner that would work best for orange hair that is a direct dye?

These are the best pictures I can get. The lighting obviously changes it, sometimes it looks oranger than others.

Some blue dye mixed with conditioner will work as a toner. I cant suggest any as i have only used purple toner myself.
Hopefully, after 3 color removers, you shouldnt have any orange left. Just make sure to rinse longer than the instructions say. I managed to get 5 year buildup of black hair dye with 3 boxes of color b4 extra strength without going through an orange phase. I did rinse for about 30 minutes each time.

If there is orange left then it is probably staining which is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to remove without bleach.

I don't see orange tones at all. You can try purple conditioner to make it less golden and more ash toned.

Just looks brown to me ... ?

It definitely has at least a golden tint, but I swear it has some red in there too. My husband's commented on how orange it is and my stylist has too. It's just hard to get the right lighting, it looks the worst in the sun and the stark lighting we have at work.

And by the way, I'm extremely sensitive about any amount of gold/red in it because I specifically asked for a color close to my natural color, which is dishwater blonde. And I haven't been able to get anywhere close.

And thanks puerkz and wicked pixie. 🙂 If I tried the purple or blue conditioner and I still don't like it, would I be able to use the color remover? Or should I try the color remover first?

I wouldn't use blue on that base, it is likely to go greenish. It is up to you whether to remove all the dyes or try and tone what you have. i think adding some purple to that base will give you a nice light ash brown. If you want it lighter you can go the colour remover route, but it will take more effort to get it back from the orange tones the remover is likely to reveal.

Thanks Wicked Pixie. I'd eventually like it to be lighter, but I'm not sure if I want to go through that right now. I do want to get highlights put in eventually, but my husband's very opposed to that because of how much money I spent on my hair earlier this year (to get it to look like complete crap, wish I'd heard about color removers then).

Hmm, I just had an idea. I generally like to go brown (sometimes with pretty burgundy streaks) for the fall and winter. If I were to dye my hair brown (which I swore to my stylist I would never do again because of how big of a pain it was to get out) for a few months, what would happen if I used color remover in the spring to remove it? A lot of the bleached stuff should have grown out by then since my hair's pretty short, right? So, the color remover might be able to get it closer to the natural color without it being orange?

Brown/burgundy dye will add more orange pigments to your hair. So it will be a gamble as to whether the colour remover will be able to get them out. Hair grows roughly half an inch per month, slightly less in the winter, so you can work out how much it will have grown by spring.
A colour remover will take you back to your base, not your natural colour. The peroxide in the dyes will have lifted your natural colour revealing the orange tones. My daughters hair is an ashy blonde/brown but still goes very orange when bleached, you have to bleach past the orange stage to yellow.

Ok, not going brown again then. 🙂 Yikes.

So, it sounds like the only way to get back to my natural color is to bleach it to yellow and then tone it or dye it to a medium ash blonde? At the darkness my hair's at, how many bleach sessions do you think it would take to get it to yellow? Or if I did the color remover first to get it to the base color, could I immediately bleach it to get it to yellow?

You would need to wait at least a week after the remover.
If done immediately, any color molecules which didnt come out of the hair could reoxidize.

Ok. Thanks for your help ladies. I'm not really sure what to do. I think I'll start with the purple conditioner since that sounds like the safest best and if that doesn't work out, try either bleaching or the color remover.

I poked around it sounds like using a semi permanent purple dye in conditioner is what I should do? Since my hair's darker, should I put a lot of dye in?

Oh, and I am still curious how much of the color you think I could get out in one bleach session. 🙂