Dyeing your hair is always a risk. You might end up with the wrong shade or a completely different color. For example, while dark brown is not much different from medium brown, it’s far from green. Unfortunately, green is the color many women see when trying to turn their locks from blonde to brown.

The Annoying Pigment Treatments

All our hair colors have remaining natural pigments. For example, blonds have a pigment, which is yellow. So when they try to turn brown, their color becomes orange. That’s why many blonde women are looking for ways to counter the brassy color.

Brown hair also has an orange pigment; however, it’s redder than in the case with orange. So when you dye your hair, you need to remember the opposite colors of the spectrum.

• Red-green
• Orange – blue
• Yellow – purple

Girls with brown hair have orange pigments that can be neutralized by blue. Blondes need some purple. But if you give the blondes some blue, you end up with green. The pigment math might be tough to grasp. However, the annoying results are easy to fix if you know what you are doing.

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Ways To Get Green Out of Your Hair

Many have faced the problem of hair turning to green after dying it brown. It is because of the natural pigments of human hair that behave differently with brown color dye. Whatever the reason is, it is pretty annoying for many of us. However, we’ve got some easiest and quickest solutions for this headache; read on.

1. Fast Food Maniac

You’ll be amazed at the easiest, the cheapest, and the quickest way to neutralize the annoying green color. Did you guess? Find a red shade somewhere. One of the sources is ketchup!

Here is what to do:

• Buy a big bottle of ketchup and get ready for a fairly unpleasant experience
• Squirt the ketchup on your head and massage it into the hair
• Cover the head with a shower cap
• Leave it on for 20 to 30 minutes (the longer, the better)
• Take the cap off and take a long shower

This quick fix method is suitable for situations where you don’t have access to professional hairstylists and hair products. It won’t make your hair get the perfect shiny brown color you’ve dreamed about, but it can neutralize the green effectively until you get to the professional’s chair. The copper color attaches itself to the hair shaft, and by oxidizing it while dying, you get green hair.