History Main / MyHairCameOutGreen

* In one of the subplots of ''Deadbeat Poets Society'' from ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}'', two of the clones, Kristen and Kirsten, dye their hair brown for some reason. However, after they see Jen and Caitlin wearing blonde wigs (which they're using to spy on Wyatt), they decide to dye their hair back to blonde--but unfortunately, they accidentally turn their hair green due to accidentally over-processing the hair dye they used (at least that's what they assume). Nikki helps her coworkers by giving them the blonde wigs her friends used, which the Clones can wear until the dye wears off.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/CaptainFlamingo'' episode "[[Recap/CaptainFlamingoS2E3HairdosAndDontsBabyYouCanDriveMyKarma Hairdos and Don'ts]]", Ruth-Ann wants to dye her blonde hair just like Naomi, her favorite star from the TV singing contest ''Screech and Win'', but her big sister didn't do it right which led to her hair becoming green.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode "[[Recap/RugratsS3E19ChuckiesRedHairSpikeRunsAway Chuckie's Red Hair]]". Chuckie gets tired of getting unwanted attention from his red hair, so he uses Grandpa Lou's black hair dye. Unfortunately, Chuckie soon sees that nobody seems to notice he exists without his red hair. He even gets upset when Angelica doesn't pick on him like the other babies. Eventually, Chuckie breaks down sobbing, and he begins ranting about how he misses his red hair. However, the exposure to the sun begins to melt the black dye away, leaving Chuckie's red hair underneath. The other babies tell Chuckie this, who rushes to a puddle and looks at his reflection and to his joy he's a redhead again. Grandpa Lou, on the other hand, is less than happy as the sun also turned his hair as bright red as Chuckie's. Didi chalks it up to buying hair dye off of an infomercial.

* In ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'' Anne often mentions how much she dislikes having red hair, and this culminates in an attempt to dye her hair "a beautiful raven-black". Unfortunately, [[JustifiedTrope she buys the dye from a dubious source, the local soil contains so much iron oxide (aka rust) that the roads are red so who knows what's in the well water, and red hair is known to do strange things with dye to boot]]. Her hair turns a hideous bronze-green, and Marilla is forced to cut it ''very'' short. [[EnforcedTrope Due to morals at the time]], there was definitely AnAesop against vanity in this chapter (the chapter is literally called "Vanity And Vexation Of The Spirit"), and Anne learns to accept the fact that she has red hair. However, as a PetTheDog, her hair grows back in as a richer auburn color that she finds easier to live with.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/CaptainFlamingo'' episode "Hairdos and Don'ts", Ruth-Ann wants to dye her blonde hair just like Naomi, her favorite star from the TV singing contest ''Screech and Win'', but her big sister didn't do it right which led to her hair becoming green.

* Averted in the anti-war film ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040185/ The Boy With the Green Hair]]'': the kid's hair just turns green one day, perhaps as a result of trauma.

* In one of Creator/BeverlyCleary's books, Ramona Quimby brings her doll Chevrolet to show-and-tell at school. Chevrolet has green hair because Ramona tried to use laundry blueing on her hair like her grandmother did.

* Variation: In the KidDetective novel ''What's a Daring Detective Like Me Doing in the Doghouse?'', Stevie and her friend Jesse find a stray dog and decide to give it a bath. While trying to find a bath product that will get the tangles out of the dog's fur, they accidentally use Stevie's mother's henna dye on it, turning the dog's fur green. They immediately nickname the dog "Swampwater".

* One ''ComicBook/{{Archie}}'' story has Archie's aunt leave a bottle of black dye in the shower, which he mistakes for shampoo. Jughead suggests using a few chemicals from Flutesnoot's lab, which, predictably, turns it vibrantly green. While Archie's annoyed at first, he lands a date with a punk girl by the end.

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* In ''Diary of a Lovesick Mutant'', Fang tries to dye his hair blond, and tomato gets into it, turning it green.

* PlayedForDrama in the ''Toys/EverAfterHigh'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9823823/1/And-Hair-as-Black-as-Ebony And Hair as Black as Ebony.]]'' Feeling inadequate because she is blonde instead of the traditional raven, the next Literature/SnowWhite, Apple White, decides to dye her hair black. Unfortunately, it ends up coming out dark blue and purple. This sends her into an emotional fit.

* Averted in the anti-war film ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040185/ The Boy With the Green Hair]]'': the kid's hair just turns green one day, perhaps as a result of trauma.

* The (mildly anti-)Soviet classic ''Literature/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 color, but the dye is counterfeit and ends up turning him a rabid green color. A second attempt with another dye of no higher quality results in multi-colored hair. The poor sod ends up having to shave his head completely devoid of hair.
* In the ''Franchise/StarWars'' expansion novel ''[[Literature/JediAcademyTrilogy I, Jedi]]'', character Corran Horn accidentally dyed his hair green in an attempt to disguise himself as Kieran Halcyon. Because the colour you got was dependant on how long you left it on, his head, facial, and body hair were different shades of green, no less.

* In ''Literature/HowlsMovingCastle'', Sophie's meddling with Howl's hair products while cleaning the bathroom resulted in him unwittingly dyeing his hair pink. (In [[Anime/HowlsMovingCastle the film]], his hair turns bright orange instead.)
* Variation: In the KidDetective novel ''What's a Daring Detective Like Me Doing in the Doghouse?'', Stevie and her friend Jesse find a stray dog and decide to give it a bath. While trying to find a bath product that will get the tangles out of the dog's fur, they accidentally use Stevie's mother's henna dye on it, turning the dog's fur green. They immediately nickname the dog "Swampwater".
* The ''Film/FinalDestination3'' novelization mentions why Frankie had shaved his head shortly before the events of the film. His attempt at dyeing it resulted in it turning pink.
* In Creator/RobertWService's poem ''The Baldness of Chewed-Ear'', Chewed-Ear Jenkins wagers $1,000 that his wife can't cure his baldness. The wife tries every hair tonic she can find, even selling stock to Chewed-Ear's friends so they'll try their own ideas on him. When their combined ministrations start to work, Chewed-Ear tries to cheat them by shaving and applying hair-destroying drugs to his scalp when they're not looking. The unholy combination of hair restorers and hair destroyers eventually makes the hair come in - ''green''.
* Stephen in the ''Literature/WaysideSchool'' series has green hair. In the third book, it was finally revealed to be due to excessive chlorine in a nearby pool.

* Creator/StephenKing's short story "Sometimes They Come Back" has a character with the EmbarrassingNickname "Bleach"—he had used ''laundry'' bleach on his hair, ultimately leaving it covered with orange streaks.
* In one of Creator/BeverlyCleary's books, Ramona Quimby brings her doll Chevrolet to show-and-tell at school. Chevrolet has green hair because Ramona tried to use laundry blueing on her hair like her grandmother did.
* In the ''Literature/FiveNightsAtFreddysFazbearFrights'' story "To Be Beautiful", Sarah, the protagonist, tries to [[IJustWantToBeBeautiful dye her mousy brown hair blonde]], with the predictable end result. Her mother takes her to a salon to have it fixed (but says she should have left it as it was, to teach her a lesson).

-->'''Asha:''' ''(stifling giggles)'' I only feel like 20% bad about this because I did warn you multiple times.
-->'''Nora:''' [[{{Angrish}} What, what even color is this?]] And ''the texture''! Is that a natural wave? Because I look like a Hot f------ Cheeto right now!

* In ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' Cody tries to dye his hair and it ends up bright red.
-->'''Cody''': But the box said it was supposed to be a 'Honey-mist auburn!'
-->'''Zack''': Honey, you missed auburn BIG TIME!!
* Emma of ''Series/H2OJustAddWater'' decided to color her hair and Cleo used a dye called "Scarlet Fever", which was a clown wig shade of red. Luckily for Emma, since water was required for the dying process it only showed up in her mermaid form.

* An episode of ''Series/TheOprahWinfreyShow'' was describing how she was involved in harmless pranks. One of the pranks had clients of a hair salon watch a teaser showing people using a shampoo/conditioner caused people's hair to turn out green. It was the same shampoo used in the hair salon.
* Happened to [=CeCe=] in ''Series/ShakeItUp'', although Tinka had secretly switched dye bottles and made it look like Rocky did it.
* ''Series/HannahMontana'': Hannah's hair dye gel turns her hair green instead of blonde in "Super(stitous) Girl".

* In the late 1950s or early 1960s, there was a Saturday morning panel show for pre-teens and young adults with a ''Series/WhatWouldYouDo'' theme. In one episode, a girl of about twelve is an initiate in a club called the Rats (perhaps "Lemmings" might have been too obvious). When the Rats vote to dye their hair as a badge of membership, the girl does so, accompanied by parents and siblings giving her the JumpOffABridgeRebuttal. Her hair comes out ''grey''. Horrified, she conceals it beneath a scarf, and when the club president comes over to check out her dye job, she screams that membership in the society has made her "an old woman before my time", dramatically rips off the scarf and tears down the homemade Rats banner on the wall. The leader does not take it well.

* On ''Series/TheLoveBoat'' episode subtitled "Green, But Not Jolly", cruise director Julie boards the ship with a new platinum-blonde hairdo. When it becomes clear that the ship crew really doesn't like the new do, she decides to dye it during the cruise. But when Julie fails to follow the directions and sleeps with the dye in place, by the next morning her hair is green.
* ''Series/YoungSheldon'': In "Blonde Ambition and the Concept of Zero", Missy tries to dye her hair blonde, but it comes out multicolored.

* In ''Dela the Hooda'' Dela -- an [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom extraterrestrial anthropomorphic fox]] (Hooda) -- tells that most Hoodas are red-green colorblind and her sister once bought green fur dye instead of red-orange. All her (multispecies) school thought she was being rebellious, but her family didn't notice. Her father wasn't colorblind (and a painter to boot), but for some reason, he didn't say anything.
* In ''Rep!'', this is is partly the reason Shorty is a redhead. Her mom brought some shampoo from a fundraiser and gave it to her to try. The shampoo turned out to be defective and turned her hair red. Worse it got into her roots and any attempt to reverse it would leave her hair prematurely gray. Shorty just learned to live with it.

* Doubly subverted in ''WesternAnimation/PepperAnn''. Her hair turned out green when she tried dyeing it ''blue''.
* One ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' short was actually about Minnie Mouse accidentally dyeing [[WesternAnimation/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).
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode "[[Recap/RugratsS3E19ChuckiesRedHairSpikeRunsAway Chuckie's Red Hair]]." Chuckie gets tired of getting unwanted attention from his red hair, so he uses Grandpa Lou's black hair dye. Unfortunately, Chuckie soon sees that nobody seems to notice he exists without his red hair. He even gets upset when Angelica doesn't pick on him like the other babies. Eventually, Chuckie breaks down sobbing, and he begins ranting about how he misses his red hair. However, the exposure to the sun begins to melt the black dye away, leaving Chuckie's red hair underneath. The other babies tell Chuckie this, who rushes to a puddle and looks at his reflection and to his joy he's a redhead again. Grandpa Lou, on the other hand, is less than happy as the sun also turned his hair as bright red as Chuckie's. Didi chalks it up to buying hair dye off of an infomercial.

* In one of the subplots of ''Deadbeat Poets Society'' from ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}'', two of the clones, Kristen and Kirsten, dye their hair brown for some reason. However, after they see Jen and Caitlin wearing blonde wigs (which they're using to spy on Wyatt), they decide to dye their hair back to blonde--but unfortunately, they accidentally turn their hair green due to accidentally over-processing the hair dye they used (at least that's what they assume). Nikki helps her coworkers by giving them the blonde wigs her friends used, which the Clones can wear until the dye wears off.

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Contrast NonconformistDyedHair, where hair is consciously died an unnatural color to stick it to social norms.

* Creator/StephenKing's short story "Sometimes They Come Back" has a character with the EmbarrassingNickname "Bleach" -- he had used laundry bleach on his hair, ultimately leaving it covered with orange streaks.

** In “Is It Fall Yet?”, Kevin and Brittany get a summer job as lifeguards. Eventually, the chlorine in the pool starts turning Brittany’s hair green. Kevin wastes no time in teasing her about it.

* ''Series/HannahMontana'': As seen in the page image, Hannah's hair dye gel turns her hair green instead of blonde in "Super(stitous) Girl".

* Exploited in ''Manga/SuperGals'' when Ran dyes her hair orange. The choice of color is deliberate, but when she gets in trouble at school over it, she claims that she was actually trying to dye her hair black (it was previously blonde with red highlights, which was also against the school rules) and that a failure in the bleaching process turned it orange.

* Exploited in ''Manga/SuperGals'' when Ran dyes her hair orange. The choice of color was deliberate, but when she got in trouble at school over it, she claimed that she was actually trying to dye her hair black (it was previously blonde with red highlights, which was also against the school rules) and that a failure in the bleaching process turned it orange.