What causes green hair?

[waterbear]

Boy, Evan, you are a Waterbear of all trades!

When I said I put straight bleach, I did not mean hair bleach, I meant Clorox laundry bleach.

However, in reading your great info on color, I came up with the following question:

Chlorine messes with metals in your pool, causing staining of the pool, right? So could putting STRONG chlorine on your color-treated hair mess with the metals in the hair dye, causing staining of your color-treated hair?
Metallic hair dyes have not been around in many years because of their toxicity and incompatability with other chemical sercives such as perming except for some 'gradual hair color restorers' for men, which are based on lead and eyelash and eyebrow tint which is based on silver nitrate. If you put a strong oxidizer like beach on hair treated with a true metallic dye it would get very hot and the hair would literally disintegrate!


What most people do not know is that when using the BBB method PROPERLY, you probably have less chlorine in your pool than in your tap water. I think all the improperly chlorinated pools out there give us BBB'ers a bad name!

Hope this clears it up.

[CarlD]

What's wrong with green hair? Star Trek was famous for having INCREDIBLY attractive women in incredibly architectured clothing (that defied gravity) with green hair, green nails, and even green skin!

Hey! I've got a green smile!

[waterbear]

Personally, I LIKE green hair...when I was younger and owned a Salon my hair was various colors....including green, pink, blue and purple. One time I even had a drawing of a sailboat on the ocean dyed on my hair for a hair show I was doing education for! THAT job took my business partner and two of my workers to complete and was done over 2 days! (I admit that I went through a 'punk phase' The stuff we DO when we are young and foolish! I still have the tattoos and piercings. They don't go away as easily)

[Watermom]

I had the green hair thing happen to me before. On my honeymoon - long blonde ponytail. My new hubby said, as we were walking down the beach, "Your hair is green!" I didn't believe him at first, but sure enough, it was. I assumed that it was from the chlorine in the hotel pool -- now I know better. It was from copper in the pool. Spent the next day at a beauty shop having them put some bright red stuff on my hair. Whatever it was, it worked. Back to blonde. (Of course, I always tease my hubby that it was a sign that I shouldn't have married him! )

[waterbear]

I had the green hair thing happen to me before. On my honeymoon - long blonde ponytail. My new hubby said, as we were walking down the beach, "Your hair is green!" I didn't believe him at first, but sure enough, it was. I assumed that it was from the chlorine in the hotel pool -- now I know better. It was from copper in the pool. Spent the next day at a beauty shop having them put some bright red stuff on my hair. Whatever it was, it worked. Back to blonde. (Of course, I always tease my hubby that it was a sign that I shouldn't have married him! )

basic corrective color. They didn't get rid of the green but neutralized it with red. The metal was still in your hair.

[jnorris]

Wow, thanks for all the info! What do people do if they use the copper algaecides? Do they then have to put something in the water to sequester the metals? And if you do that, do you stil run the risk of green hair? Again, all hypothetical, since I'm not having an algae problem. But my PB did tell me that he always recommends the copper algaecides to his clients. He says he recommends a "special" one that doesn't cause problems; I think he called it "chelated".

[waterbear]

Wow, thanks for all the info! What do people do if they use the copper algaecides? Do they then have to put something in the water to sequester the metals? And if you do that, do you stil run the risk of green hair? Again, all hypothetical, since I'm not having an algae problem. But my PB did tell me that he always recommends the copper algaecides to his clients. He says he recommends a "special" one that doesn't cause problems; I think he called it "chelated".

Chelated copper only stays chelated for so long then it begins to stain. Sequstering agents also chelate copper to keep it from staining and they need to be reapplied on a regular basis!
I would avoid copper....you DO NOT NEED IT!

[haze_1956]

The stuff we DO when we are young and foolish! I still have the tattoos and piercings.

Well that completely changed the way I picture you !!

You just went from the Nutty Professor to Sid Vicious.

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The difference is absolutely mind boggling, don't you think ?

Hmmm, on second thought, NEVER MIND !!

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[waterbear]

ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I actually look somewhat repectable these days! (I'm in my 50's!) I have to...I work in a school with Deaf and blind kids! I did have hair to my waist just about 3 years ago. Before I moved from S. Fl. to the town I llve now I did computer work (yes, I'm a Geek also!) and how I looked was not an issue so I was able to have my long hair....I do miss it! No one ever asks me where the Harley is parked anymore.

[troykristoffer]

If you put a strong oxidizer like beach on hair treated with a true metallic dye it would get very hot and the hair would literally disintegrate!

*Runs out to store to get some "Just For Men" and Chlorox while staring mischeviously at his unpleasant roomate.*