Article: Once the allotted time is up, grab the old towels you put to the side earlier and squeeze the ends of your hair with them. Keep squeezing until all of the excess moisture is removed from your hair. Your hair should be damp and not dripping at all at this point. Grab a paddle brush and your hair dryer and blow-dry your hair until it’s completely dry. The heat from the blow dryer will set the color, so don’t skip this step. It’s also important to dry your hair completely. Whenever your hair is damp, it will bleed color onto the clothes you’re wearing and your pillows. You don’t have to do this, but it will definitely help you lock in the color a little more. Work in small sections and pull the straight iron through your hair quickly. Then, you can go ahead and style your hair as you normally would.  If you have curly hair, you can definitely skip this part. Be sure to wipe off the straight iron’s plates with a thick towel or oven mitt to get rid of any dye residue. Kool-Aid is a temporary dye. Depending on your hair color and texture, your color could last anywhere from a few days to a few weeks. The color will naturally fade a little more every time you shampoo it, so limit how often you wash your hair to prolong your results.  You can use a shower cap to protect your hair from water when you’re in the shower or bath. Swimming will also cause the color to fade faster. Any time you wet your hair, the color will fade a little more. Washing your hair several times with a clarifying shampoo should fade it. Depending on how bright your results are, you may need to take more extreme measures. Boil a pot of water on the stove and stir in 2 tablespoons (30 grams) of baking soda. Then, just dip your hair into the water for 30 seconds. The color will start coming off immediately! You may need to dip it a few times to remove the color completely.  Shampoo your hair as you normally would once the color is gone to rinse out the baking soda. Be sure to deep condition your hair thoroughly, since stripping the color will dry out the ends.
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Pull your ends out of the water and squeeze the excess dye out with towels. Blow-dry your hair as your normally would. Run a straight iron over your locks to set the color even more. Limit how often you shampoo your hair to extend the results. Use clarifying shampoo or baking soda to remove the color.