Ginger, but not in a good way

So yesterday (in a strange mood perhaps) I decide that I'm sick of being grey and mousey and I'm going to be a glamourous "DARK BLONDE".

What would Catherine Deneuve do?

Well, I can assure you she wouldn't buy a semi-permanent color (good for 28 washes) at Target.

What the fuck was I thinking?

I carefully followed the instructions and lo and behold, not glamourous dark blonde AT ALL... More like dark ginger but not in a good way.

So being me, I think "Well, it'll fade, only 27 washes to go" and so I went to bed.

Woke up this morning, looked in the mirror and thought "What the fuck was I thinking? it's ginger" and started madly googling "semi permanent hair color removal"

The best tip I found was to wash one's hair in Dawn dish washing liquid so off to Rite-Aid I go.

I found a mysterious product called "Color Oops" obviously designed for the cheap, impulsive hair colorists like me.

It would remove the said color and restore grey and mousey. Perfect. I picked up the Dawn dishwashing liquid as well, just in case.

Applying the Color Oops, I noticed a very strong smell of ammonia, otherwise known as bleach.

The product suggested a processing time of 20 minutes but I wasn't having any of that. The smell of bleach was worrying me too much so I followed the shampoo and rinse, shampoo and rinse instructions (only 24 more washes to go including this morning) and then gave it a couple of washes in the Dawn dish washing liquid for good measure (so that's only 22 washes left anyway and I can probably manage those before I leave tomorrow night).

My hair's still wet right now but from what I can see it's grey and mousey with a hint of ginger.

I've just realised with horror that I now match my grey and ginger dog!!!!
What is it they say about pets and owners???

(Obviously I have nothing against ginger for those who are naturally or choose to be, I do have a problem with being ginger against my will, especially when DARK BLONDE sounded so sexy and mysterious!)