History Main / MyHairCameOutGreen

* Chilean writer IsabelAllende told in one of her memoirs that when she was young she tried to bleach her hair blond, but for some reason she ended with green hair. Rosa, one of the characters in ''TheHouseOfTheSpirits'', was inspired by that experience.

* ''AnneOfGreenGables'': Anne tries to dye her hair "a beautiful raven-black". Instead, it turns a hideous bronze-green, and Marilla is forced to cut it ''very'' short.

* A short story that was called "In 50 years who will know?" or something like that, a woman who has said this phrase to her daughter throughout her daughter's life tries to dye her hair, and ends up with it brilliant green. The daughter even likens it to "glow in the dark green"--[[IronicEcho whereupon she tells her mother these words of dubious comfort.]]

* This happens to the titular character in ''TheStoryOfTracyBeaker'' when TheRival dares her to steal blond hair dye from a member of the care home's staff and use it.

* In ''GirlTalk'', Sabrina tried to dye her hair blonde in an attempt to improve her chances of landing the part of Sandy in ''{{Grease}}'' - it came out ''Bright'' Orange and one of her friends had to do an emergency dye job. Amusingly, she ended up with the part of Frenchie (see below).
* In ''TheDogWhoWouldntBe'', Farley's father tries to get the yellow tint--caused by rolling in cow carcasses--out of Mutt's fur. He uses something called "bluing", and uses so much he does dye Mutt blue.

* Happened to Cece in ''ShakeItUp'', although Tinka had secretly switched dye bottles and made it look like Rocky did it.

* Doubly subverted in ''PepperAnn''. Her hair turned out green when she tried dyeing it ''blue''.

* One ''HouseOfMouse'' short was actually about Minnie Mouse accidentally dyeing [[PlutothePup Pluto's]] fur purple after mistaking a bottle of purple dye for shampoo. She then tries to find ways to get the purple dye off, including painting the dog with a can of "Pluto-colored Paint" (which is the same shade of orange as Pluto's fur).
* Happened to Lou in ''{{Rugrats}}''. The main plot dealt with Chuckie getting tired of getting attention from his red hair, so he used Lou's black hair dye. By the end of the episode, exposure to the sun turns both their hair orange. While Chuckie is thrilled to be a redhead again, Grandpa is less than happy. Didi chalks it up to buying hair dye off of an informational.
* On ''{{Daria}}'', Jane wants to dye her black hair with orange tiger stripes and essentially forces Daria into helping. It comes out looking terrible, and Jane blames Daria, only to later realize that this wasn't really fair and she was sublimating her anger about [[LoveTriangle something else]].

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* In ''GirlTalk'', Sabrina tried to dye her hair blond in an attempt to improve her chances of landing the part of Sandy in ''{{Grease}}'' - it came out ''Bright'' Orange and one of her friends had to do an emergency dye job. Amusingly, she ended up with the part of Frenchie (see below).

* In ''TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody''[=/=]''HannahMontana''[=/=]''WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'', Miley tries to dye her hair blonde and it ends up green.

* Referenced at one point in ''QuestionableContent''. Raven tries to bleach her hair blond to appeal to [[EveryoneLovesBlondes Sven]], but instead it comes out "all orangey and gross", so she has to settle for dyeing it neon-pink.
* Lia in ''YuMeDream'' accidentally dyes her hair green when the protagonist forgets to add an ingredient to the (blond) dye.

Alice wants to dye her hair black. Or bleach it blonde. Whichever naturally occuring colour she wanted, it turns out a very different and thoroughly ridiculous colour--usually green, though other strange hues pop up. Sometimes, the only thing to do is to shave the head and let the hair grow back.

This is a SubTrope of CosmeticCatastrophe specific to hair colouring. Also compare NeverTrustAHairTonic. KaleidoscopeHair can occur if Alice keeps re-dying her hair.

* The (mildly anti-)Soviet classic ''TheTwelveChairs'', by Ilya Ilf and Evgeniy Petrov, has a scene where one of the protagonists tries to dye his hair and eyebrows and mustache a darker colour, but the dye is counterfeit and ends up turning him a rabid green colour. The poor sod ends up having to shave his head completely devoid of hair.

* In the last episode of ''TheBradyBunch'', Greg buys some hair tonic from Bobby out of pity, and it turns his hair orange. Greg wasn't trying to colour his hair; it just worked that way.

* Emma of ''Series/H2OJustAddWater'' decided to colour her hair and Cleo used a dye called "Scarlet Fever". Luckily for Emma it only showed up in her mermaid form.

* Howl in ''Literature/HowlsMovingCastle'' was turned ginger when Sophie meddled with his hair products.

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* The botched Dye job look was the inspiration for approach to the Joker's hair in ''Film/TheDarkKnight.''
* This film: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040185/ (The Boy With the Green Hair.)

* In ''{{Girl Talk}}'', Sabrina tried to dye her hair blond in an attempt to improve her chances of landing the part of Sandy in ''{{Grease}}'' - it came out ''Bright'' Orange and one of her friends had to do an emergency dye job. Amusingly, she ended up with the part of Frenchie (see below).

* In ''TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody''[=/=]''HannahMontana''[=/=]''WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'', Miley tries to dye her hair blond and it ends up green.

* Emma of ''H2OJustAddWater'' decided to colour her hair and Cleo used a dye called "Scarlet Fever". Luckily for Emma it only showed up in her mermaid form.

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* In a show of Truth in Television, this also happened to actress Emma Roberts when her hair was supposed to be dyed blonde for her role in ''It's Kind of a Funny Story''.
* Chilean writer IsabelAllende told in one of her memoirs that when she was young she tried to bleach her hair blond, but for some reason she ended with green hair. Rosa, one of the characters in ''TheHouseOfTheSpirits'', was inspired by that experience.
* Sometimes, recently dyed hair has an... interesting reaction to the chemicals in swimming pools causing discoloration.
* Cheaper men's hair regeneration topics used to do this.
* This is the origin of the ElderlyBlueHairedLady. You see, some people's hair turns an ugly yellow color instead of white or gray when they age. In the 70s, salons would typically treat this with a little bit of blue dye to counteract the yellow, but since different people's hair absorbs pigment at different rates, some people wind up with bright blue hair.

* Doubly subverted in ''{{Pepper Ann}}''. Her hair turned out green when she tried dyeing it ''blue''.

* On ''{{Daria}},'' Jane wants to dye her black hair with orange tiger stripes and essentially forces Daria into helping. It comes out looking terrible, and Jane blames Daria, only to later realize that this wasn't really fair and she was sublimating her anger about [[LoveTriangle something else]].

* Stephen in the ''WaysideSchool'' series has green hair. In the third book, it was finally revealed to excessive chlorine in a nearby pool.

* In the ''StarWars'' expansion novel ''I, Jedi'', character Corran Horn accidentally dyed his hair green in an attempt to disguise himself as Kieran Halcyon.

* One ''HouseofMouse'' short was actually about Minnie Mouse accidentally dyeing [[PlutothePup Pluto's]] fur purple after mistaking a bottle of purple dye for shampoo. She then tries to find ways to get the purple dye off, including painting the dog with a can of "Pluto-colored Paint" (which is the same shade of orange as Pluto's fur).

* The botched Dye job look was the inspiration for approach to the Joker's hair in ''TheDarkKnight.''

* ''BrideWars'': "My hair's blue!]] '''''IT'S BUH-LUE!'''''"

This is a SubTrope of CosmeticCatastrophe specific to hair colouring. Also compare NeverTrustAHairTonic.

* "[[BrideWars My hair's blue!]] '''''IT'S BUH-LUE!'''''"

* Happened to Lou in ''{{Rugrats}}''. The main plot dealt with Chuckie getting tired of getting attention from his red hair, so he used Lou's black hair dye. By the end of the episode, Chuckie's red hair revealed out of the sun while red hair came out of Lou and questions about the hair dye.

* There was a TV advertisement with this trope. Middle-aged woman tries to dye her hair and it turns out purple or pink. She's upset until her husband suggests they go to the advertised restaurant. Suddenly she doesn't care anymore.

* Happened with Lou in ''{{Rugrats}}''. The main plot dealt with Chuckie getting tired of getting attention from his red hair, so he used Lou's black hair dye. By the end of the episode, Chuckie's red hair revealed out of the sun while red hair came out of Lou and questions about the hair dye.