Son Has Pink Hair!!

I would not use bleach or dishwasher detergent on ANY of my boys heads. How dangerous is that?

I would go to a professional salon and have them fix it.

Pink is actually a real "in" color... and with boys. Neon pink is preferred.
I work at a school.
They have pink t-shirts, or shorts, or shoes. Even Nike pink, shoes. And yes, the dyed pink hair highlight.

Anyway, instead of trying to get it OUT, try covering it up. With dye.
Maybe even with those mascara looking hair dye wands, type thing.

Is his whole head this way?
Take him to a salon.

Just be sure to take pictures before you do anything else, lol, pink hair..what a great story to remind him of when he's graduating, getting married, etc. Sorry my weird sense of humor is coming out!

i guess if it bugs him you have to do something. my kids would have rocked it, and we would just have had him shampoo normally and let it fade away. but we did lots of wild colors.
i WOULD have a word with the camp, not for the pinkness but for its durability. the color run powder and food coloring should both have washed out pretty easily. the fact that this is so durable indicates a type of dye they probably shouldn't have used.
i would NOT use non-shampoo cleaners (tide or dawn) as they are not formulated for hair, and could damage his hair or eyes.
khairete
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Unless you have some sort of formal event that cannot be postponed (someone's wedding that he is scheduled to be part of the wedding party; formal photos for some other event like a piano recital; or some other similar one-time cannot be repeated and would ruin the event for OTHERS)... then I would just wash it normally, and let it wear out on its own. Too many other things can be damaging to the hair itself, and it really isn't necessary. It's just color.
I will say this as a warning also: I went to a music concert once several years ago and ended up with a small bit of confetti in my pocket (they dropped it from the rafters during part of the concert). I happened to be wearing a white skirt, and it got washed with the bit of confetti still down in the pocket.
It was dried with a reddish/pink spot on that pocket. I have done everything I can think of to it-- peroxide, bleach, fels-naptha, Dawn, shout, you name it-I've tried it---- and it is still there. I have washed it probably a dozen or more times, and it has faded some, and is ok to wear with shirts that cover the spot... but it isn't gone.
I don't know what they used to dye the confetti that they dropped, but getting it wet was apparently a big no-no. :(

So I wouldn't do drastic measures to your son's hair. You could really damage it. And he's a boy... he can always cut it really short in a few days, and then again in another week or so, and it'll most likely all be gone if it doesn't fade at all.
Take lots of pictures for down the road... :)

Sounds kind of cool. I would just leave it and it will fade/grow out eventually.

I, too, would suggest trying Dawn dish soap. The original blue stuff.

I'd try baby shampoo, but otherwise just let it fade. If anyone says anything he can shrug and say "karate camp".

Please don't wash your sons hair with Tide or Dawn..... Tea tree oil is safe and should remove it easily. The tea tree oil I use is gentle but depending on how it is harvested it could be very drying so use a moisturizing conditioner after you finish. If that doesn't get it out, let it stay...all kids have something they have to talk about :)

M.

If it's food coloring that was used in the confetti eggs, try Dawn dish washing soap on his hair/scalp.

No joke-try using Tide with Bleach Alternative. Not adding bleach to Tide, but the Tide that has the color-safe bleach in it. It's what my stylist recommended after a home dye job that came out WAY too dark.

I would probably not try the lemon juice unless there is a long area you could cut off if this made it worse. Or you could just snip a few hairs, drop them in lemon juice and see before you wash his head.

Blue dawn dish detergent. I had to use it after a color run. Works great.

Hydrogen peroxide, it's what all of us used in the 80s to bleach out our hair. Safer than anything else. That is, if he wants to get rid of it. Like yours, my kid would just rock the pink hair. It should take it right off the scalp, though.

just get it cut super short and it will grow out in a couple weeks then get it short again. then it will all be gone. maybe there was some dry koolaid in the eggs. kids use that to color there hair all the time.

Buzz cut after taking a load of pics.

have you tried lemon juice?

What about contacting the camp to find out what the confetti eggs were made of?

I would be hesitant to take him to a professional to have his hair dyed...only because you don't know what was in it - what it was made of...however - if the lemon juice didn't work - that's what I would do.

good luck!

Call a hairdresser -- one who works with hair dyes all the time. This isn't hair dye but any hairdresser out there probably has had experience in ridding hair of unwanted color. Hairdressers also have access to products that aren't available to you or me, but only to them as professionals, and a hairdresser might have just the thing to at least fade if not remove the color. And yeah-- it's going to cost you.

If your son has light hair, this might take a while, though.

I would not worry about the hair that much but if his scalp remains pink that would concern me -- I would worry that the skin could become really irritated since this clearly isn't a dye intended to dye skin yet it's staying on there for so long. If you just can't get the dye mostly off his scalp soon, I'd be calling the pediatrician to ask if you need to check for irritation somehow--if you can detect if under the color.

I'd be pretty peeved if I were in your shoes....I bet other kids went home with clothes that are permanently stained. Were they wearing those white karate uniforms? If my kid's got stained like that AT karate and I could not get it out, I'd be letting the camp know about it.

Oh gee...well...I don't know what to say except if koolaid was in there it may be quite some time until its gone! I am sure a salon can fix it if you want to go that route....I did the koolaid thing on purpose...and it stuck for almost a year believe it or not...at least you can cut his hair and it will be gone in no time I would imagine :)

Breast cancer awareness! Like the NFL did and many other "macho men". Real men wear pink :-)