Most colour removers you pore part 1 into the 2 bottle and it has an applicator nozzle included - the easier way is to squirt it into your hair directly from the nozzle bottle :) then blend in like you would hair dye with your fingers. Or I squirt some into my gloved hand then grab a section and coat it that way with my hands :) in sections. You could try ColourB4 - you leave that one longer up to around 45mins for harder to budge colours. The colour removers work So well for permanent dyes due to how those dyes work where as semi permanents like manic panic stain hair - but I still find they fade them a lot! :) The smell is due to the sulfur I think. Oh for anyone new to colour removers the rinsing phase is most important (with permanent dyes the shrunken dye molecules are washed out from you running warm water through your hair for enough time - if they don’t get mostly rinsed out, the conclude balm stage will put colour ‘back’ as the molecules that weren’t rinsed out unshrink and are stuck again - so rinse under water well for enough time! :) You don’t need to wash usual colour removers (ColourB4, Scott Cornwall) 8 times in between the steps 😮 it’s more the length of time - HOW LONG you rinse that is important. You are wanting the dye molecules to be rinsed out of the hair. I’d personally only use the components that come with the specific kit as it’s specific to the hair removal stage - colour removers change the pH then change it back again at the conclude stage. I feel a different brand colour remover will remove more green if you follow the specific instructions (no adding 8 non-kit shampoo washes in between) and leave on per instructions for their longest time. Tip: wash your hair PRIOR to colour removal with a clarifying shampoo one time without conditioning (not during process unless the specific kit includes a specific step with its own included product in the instructions). Then when your hair is fully dry, do the colour removal. This helps it penetrate the shaft better (conditioning silicones etc in the hair get in the way). Give it another go :) they are so useful! And way less damaging than bleach (colour removers just make the hair feel dry as they get out a lot of dye/conditioner etc build up - so a nice olaplex no 3 treatment after finishing the complete process can do wonders to rebuild the bonds.. I have a feeling clarifying your hair 8 times with your process would have dried it out way more than a different colour remover would). If you want a remover that doesn’t smell as strong the Scott Cornwall one is mild. Oh dear, this is a really odd way 😮 I’m not sure who told you this way.. sigh. The wash out step included is specific to the pH of the mixture which you’ve washed out for some reason with a non-kit product 8 times :( which likely altered the pH and using other things in between would be the reason your scalp felt burning :/ (that doesn’t happen at all with other colour removers and I’ve used many). I really hope you try a good colour remover properly as per its own instructions as your hair/scalp would be a lot less dried out from so many unnecessary clarifying washes added in :( Leaving on 15 mins with other ones usually is not enough processing to lift semi permanents. The running your hair under warm shower water is the next key stage! I’m in the shower for at-least 20 mins. Yes green/blue is the hardest to remove, but you can usually take a deep blue to at-least seafoam pale green. I really think you need a better colour remover product and to follow its own process (without adding in steps that may hinder your results). You could do an Olaplex no3 (leave on Damp hair overnight then rinse out next morning) first to rebuild your hair to feeling better. Then leave it alone (after clarifying so much your hair and scalp will thank you from giving it a break) maybe a week. Then tackle again with a good colour remover on freshly washed and dried hair (only wash once! And no conditioner). With no adding to the process, just what the instructions include. A second go with ColourB4 or Scott Cornwall or a similar remover to them, could really make a difference 😊
