Anyone ever gone Black - then gone back?

Please help!

I went black about 3 years ago. (Im talking about my hair)
I was told it was pretty much unreversible, and I had to grow it out. Ive been putting dark brown hair dye in since then, and now I want to go lighter.

Anyhoo, have been to 3 hairdressers, one quoted me $250, the other $230, and the other $80 (But they didnt speak much english and said something about it going Ginger!)
Argh... anyone ever gone back from black without the $250 price tag? I tried a lightening rinse treatment a month ago and had a disastrous result - light brown roots and the rest was dark brown.

It will go a ginger colour probably, sorry. best to spend the money and get it done professionally. (Used to be a hairdresser)

I did by accident. To go lighter I had to have it stripped (which went ginger) and then they put in a colour over top of that. That cost me about $200 a couple of years ago

I didn't go black but almost. Im blonde and it was 10 shades darker than I was wearing my hair then. When I changed back my hairdresser did it slowly by adding highlights and dying the base colour with a lighter tint. Took months before I was blonde again. Have to say that my hair colour has never quite been right since though. Cost heaps too but not as much as keeping the dark colour which was costing almost $300 each time.

I did, my hairdresser took a wee sample of my hair and applied the stripper to see the result and it completely disolvd my hair!!!!!

Needless to say, I did not have stripped and had to wait for it to grow out. I was about 18 and decided if I was going to have 2 tone hair I was gonna be bold so I bleached the regrowth...

A few months later it seemed I had inadvertently started a trend cos I started seeing women with it everywhere.

Good luck and perhaps have them test your hair first.

note to self - don't dye hair black anytime soon.

I was black for years as a teenager ( naturally dirty blonde) and I was told I had to have my hair stripped. I did it and it wrecked my hair! Its fine now but for a long time it was so dry and damaged. Plus it took about 6 hours to get it done Can't remember the cost but luckily it didn't go orange.

I called my aunt today and she told me NOT to strip my hair, and that it would ruin it. So shes going to put some caramel highlights through the top and said we can gradually lighten it. What a bloomin nightmare!

It will depend also about how much colour build up you have. Just make sure you get it done properly or your hair will end up like chewing gum(not a good look). If you have been using permanent colour a lot it will take a lot longer to bleach out. Just be careful. I'm naturally dark and had hardly any colour build up and good condition hair and I had blonde highlights put in my hair and It went all stringy and like chewing gum I had to chop it off shorter. I'm still paying for it now 12 months later its still dry and stuffed and Ive been using treatments every second day.
taje it slowly, don't do it in one go. It will cost a lot to do it properly