VITAMIN C AS A HAIR TONER!! BRILLIANT TIP FROM JEANASINA!

Stylemama! Oh my gosh - I so can relate to your story too! When I was young and first married, the popular show on TV was Charlie’s Angels. At the time I had long auburn nice shiny hair past my shoulders! I was enamored with the angel’s hair of course and wanted to look like . So one day I brought a photo from a magazine of with her beautiful layered wavy hair and brought it to the beauty shop (they called them that in the 70’s) about a block away located between a barber shop and a gas station. Yes...What was I thinking? Anyway, even though I noticed that a lot of OLD LADIES came out of that shop, it didn’t stop me from going in with high hopes and a picture from a magazine! I talked to a beautician there who HAD hair like in my photograph and asked her if she could make ME look like that in the hair department! She assured me she could! So later that week, on a Saturday I walked up to the little shop and allowed her to destroy my head. She put in the perm rods and left them there for a very LONG LONG LONG time and she even said “Oh!” as she took them out and when she finished my hair looked like a tight afro - BONE DRY - horrid! With tears streaming down my face, I actually PAID for the hair ruination and my husband by then came walking up to meet me because I had been gone for HOURS and as soon as he saw me I just balled and he said “It’s not THAT bad!” Then I had to go to work the following Monday and for days all I heard was “WHY DID YOU DO THAT TO YOUR BEAUTIFUL HAIR?” Total travesty. Perms are killers - hair murderers - especially in the hands of old lady perm experts!

Wow Jeanasina thanks for this info! I had no idea you could do this! I'm really glad it worked for you! I had my hair stripped when I was in high school and it was the worst thing EVER. I am still suffering from that choice and it was 5 years ago. My hair has never gone back. Stylemama your story cracked me up!!! I really admire that you were able to laugh about it! I would have been in tears for the next 2 years. I went to a new stylist once because she cost half the price and she hacked and hacked and hacked and I was too timid to say anything... I ended up with one of those mushroom/bowl cuts. It was a month before senior pictures.

Hello, vicci13 here, I didn't know about this great hair rememdy, but what I do have for you is Vitamin C for your skin, take vitamin c, you can buy vitamin C crystals or crush up your own, mix it with a nice facial lotion or serum (Olay regenerist lotion and serum gets a big positive nod from consumer reports) and you have a vitamin C skin treatment. People spend upwards of $70 for this Vitamin C miracle cream. The dermatologist told my sister about this. You see expensive vit C treatments. Now you can make your own. Straight from the dermatologist, well almost, from the derm doc to my sister to me to you. :)You can use your vitamin C to strip out unwanted hair color, make your skin glow, and chase away a cold when taken internally.

That's too funny stylemama, I played Charlies Angels too (complete with bended elbow and finger gun)! What's better than a privite detective with great hair?It's nice to know I'm not the only one.

Vagabond! From the articles I read - it lifted out pretty much any color you didn’t want in! One lady had dyed her hair black and said it was like dull black shoe polish so she did this little vitamin/shampoo combo and said the bad black came out and left her with highlighted black hair that she was going for (a much lighter shade!) I read many stories of many colors coming out - so it’s not just a red thing! In the past I have stripped out an unfortunate color with heavy product I got at Sally’s beauty store but it took color out in degrees! You know there were patches of orange and patches of white and patches of whatever color I still had - bad scene. I also have had my hair chemically stripped at a beauty salon by a professional years ago but when they do that, your hair color is REALLY stripped to a vibrant light orange color and after you do THAT process, then they put on a new color which usually is what you wanted in the first place. VERY HARD ON YOUR HAIR AND DAMAGING! I wouldn’t do it again at the salon! Big $$$’s too for all that! This just was so easy and my hair was a bit drier after I did it but it was overall taken care of in a great result and the fact that your original color is still there - quite astonishing to me! I read that if you do it again and again, more and more color will come out. I DID keep my hat on a LOT after I put the red in! LOL!!!

Oh goodness...Where to start? Should I begin with the orange hair of my first hair coloring experience? My gothic stage of long black tresses? Perhaps the perm that left my hair worse than carrot top's frayed and frizzed locks? I think I'll settle with this one from my early days of school: pulling burgendy hair color out by bleaching. I to adore that fiery allure which only a red-head (alright, and a few brunettes) have, and it worked for me, but alas, my mood swings kicked in and all I saw was blonde. I suppose you could say I'm one of those types who's "colors change with the seasons." But anyway! My girlfriends helped me to do it in the bathroom and it was all I could do to keep myself from scratching my poor itchy scalp. After the deed was done and the final result was presented I didn't know whether to laugh or scream. Imagine if you will, a blonde with dark roots. Now reverse the blonde with dark red and the 'dark roots' with bright yellow. Vuala! My hair.Since that time I did even worse things but I am finally back to my natural color and have been able to fend off the urge to repeat any of my offenses.

That is a very helpful tip.  If I ever have a coloring mishap I will try this.  I have a tip.  I seriously think my mom has found the fountain of youth when it comes to hair.  My mom is in her early 50's.  She started going gray a couple of years ago.  Not super gray, but just a little bit.  She recently was watching a show where a doctor was saying that a mixture of vinegar and honey is good for your body.  Well my mom always likes to try out new home remedies.  So she started drinking a mixture of vinegar, water, and honey.  And soon after her gray hair disappeared.  Her hair actually started growing a vibrant strawberry brownish blonde again.  Keep in mind that my mother has never colored her hair her entire life.  Whenever her hair starts to grow out gray again she drinks her special drink and the gray goes away.  It is crazy, but awesome!

oh no! i hate hte mistakable die jobs. it is a scary scene to do at home. i laugh to myself when i see girls in walmart with yellow orange hair who refuse to admit they die. they walk around and flirt like they were born a hot blonde haha. that was mean, but when they would come through my line and act like they were better iw ould only tell myself..."if you are so much better why are you shopping at my place of work...WALMART" anyways, good thing there are kits to remove die and to fix the problems. :)

never heard of this tip to add to all the good things that vitamin c contributes to!

I used to think that if you pay more, you get a better job done and I found out that not the truth. I used to go to the best hairdersser in town and I'd come home always unsatisfied. Once I asked for caramel highlights on my hair and they did flourescent red ones (looks as bad as it sounds, yes) and that is only one of my hair disaster horror stories. Now I found a stylist that takes me 1/3 of the money, is two steps away from my house and does exactly what I tell her to.

A friend of mine colored my hair last night with a box of Clairol temporary dye. I have never colored my hair in my 24 years, and wanted to try temporary dye first (thank goodness I did). I am a natural blonde, a very light colored blonde at that, and the box of strawberry blonde hair color made my hair desperate housewife red!!! It was uneven in areas, orange in parts, BRIGHT vibrant red in others, and strawberry blonde in the middle back portion of my head. While the red made my blue eyes look AMAZING, it completely washed out my fair skin. I tried EVERY home remedy I could find online today to get the color out. Everything from baking soda, to lemon juice, to dishwashing soap. Nothing worked!!! I was hesitant running across this post, but tried it anyway. The first 45 min round did nothing. I was completely discouraged! I decided to try it one last time while soaking in a steamy hot bath. 45 min later, my hair was blonde again!!! I let it sit for 30 min outside the water, and 15 soaking under the hot water. I have light strawberry streaks here and there, but my overall color is back, my hair is still soft, and I didnt have to seek professional help. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!! I will forever appreciate my natural blonde hair!

Vitamins? Really? Who knew? I didn't! I should deffinately try this. I'm sure if it toned out that red it would deffinately tone out yellow. I love all things natural, I wonder if it would work the same if you just took it regularly... I think my fiancee would call me crazy if he came in seeing me crushing up vitamins with his hammer. = P

i need to get some of that stuff!

wow. really? now I'm going to have to try this.