[Marianna]

This was hopefully a once in a lifetime experience. Sunday night I got in the jacuzzi with my friend at her house. We soaked in it for about 2.5 hours. I have blonde hair (color treated w/extentions, but I have been in jacuzzis a million time, so I didn't care that my hair was in the water).
When we got inside the house I have discovered that the hair from my ear down was green! Not greenish,or a weird shade of blonde, GREEN as in monster green!

I totally freaked out, thinking, I have school+teach Tuesday, dance Wednesday+weekend. I can't go out in public like that! I can't do a ponytail, even french-twist, the green would still show. I took a shower, hoping it will come out-nope.
She got online and typed in "green hair from jacuzzi" and reported to me with a hopeful smile that "there are articles all over the internet, so you are not alone!! There may be a solution!"

We found that tomato will help get it out. It said to use tomato juice for a few minutes. I put tomato sauce (a bit more concentrated, and paste would be even better) on and after about an hour we saw improvement. It was still greenish in places, but now it was mostly a yellow shade of blonde, but I could deal with that.
I went home, more tomato sauce for another hour or so, then it actually became close to my shade,w/a little yellowish tone to it-it wasn't bad.

This morning I found that my hair had the consistency of hay. After brushing it got softer, but still it was so damaged. I spent all day in another tomato-wrap followed by olive oil wrap and now my hair is acceptable.

I find it absolutely amazing that simple tomato siuce was able to bring back my hair color. You can't imagine how green it was, unless you saw it. I'm still in shock. After 1 day and 4 showers, followed by scented lotion, my hands still smell like bleach. So does my friend's. I will never go near that jacuzzi again-way to much chemicals.

What I also found that the tomato sauce was really good for my otherwise normal hair - it gave it body and a nice tone. So those of you, that have color treated blonde hair and the color goes a little yellowish, tomato sauce will fix it.

I'm just glad it happened now (2 weeks before I need to redo my hair) instead of after I spent hundreds of dollars and would have to live with it for 5-6 months, or redo it again. The hair is so straight now, it looks weird. I will have to steam curl it, even if I'm not performing, just to make it look normal.

I had a good attitude during the whole thing - I told my friend if I wasn't laughing I would be crying. We giggled through the whole time: tomato sauce all over her bathroom, my head in the sink, she's washing it out. More tomato sauce, still green. Sitting on bed with my towel wrap, waiting for the results, contemplating what to do... We knew we'd look back and laugh even more.
She thought about wipping out her camera, and me, putting it on my website - look at the real Marianna :) Green!