hair dye job gone wrong....

Does he hate it? I don't think it looks terrible unless he wants it very obviously light blonde. Maybe on my screen it's not as bad as in real life.

He can bleach it again and use a toner to remove the brass to get a true blonde, or you can try a warm brown at home. Just don't try anything ash toned.

My son's baseball team dyed their hair blonde and they used a very strong bleach. He is very fair-skinned and was very skinny so he looked like an alien and his head looked like a tennis ball.

My first choice would be go back to the salon.

I did successfully fix my DD's hair with an at home color. She had a lot of really long hair and tried to home color it from medium brown to bright red, like color crayon red. It looked similar to your DS's hair. My friend, the stylist, advised me to do it again with 2 more boxes of color, so we had enough to really cover all the hair.

Good luck!

A salon did that? Please go to a better salon to get it fixed. No reputable colorist would let a client walk out like that and blame it on what "he picked." Sorry. I hope he didn't pay for it.

I have dark brown hair and went to a salon for highlights once. They pulled brassy orange just like his!

I went and got a box color that was close to my hair color, and dyed it back. It worked. Lesson learned, lol.

I don’t think it looks awful, but if he hates it and wants it brown again, I would join the other previous peas who said take him to a salon and be sure to take the box from whatever he used.  My reasoning is that I have heard of major disasters where the hair became too damaged from products that should never be combined over each other.  It dried the hair out to where it broke off, leaving a fuzzy stubble at the scalp.  And this was on a female, so it wasn’t like you could just shave the head and regrow the hair.  In the end, she did shave it because it kept falling out in chunks all over, and not evenly, and it looked like s he stuck her head in a mixer.  

She ended up having to buy a wig.  So much for trying to avoid the expense of a salon color in the first place.  The wig cost her mother a big chunk of money and she had to get a part time job to pay it back.  Her mom was mad because she had told her not to do it at home herself and to wait until the end of the month and her mom would take her to have it done.  

Trying to take dark hair blonde in a single process is what usually does it.

Ok I know I’m probably too late but I’m a hairdresser.

If he wants to go back brown, look for something that days semi-permanent or fades in xx amount of washes. Look for something that starts with a number 6. It will probably say light brown or dark blond but trust me you don’t want to go darker than that.

If he wants to go lighter, get a lightener and do that first to get it lighter. Then you will need a toner, look for something cool or ash toned.

If you have a Sally’s nearby they are great to help with which things to buy.

Two of my kids have tried to bleach their hair for baseball and it basically turned out like this. Luckily they only wanted the tips dyed. My oldest went to the cosmetology school and that was the lightest they could get it (per him and the student that worked on it). We tried an at-home kit as well but that didn't do much. The younger one tried to do it at home and got about the same results as the older one did.