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{{trope}}
[[File:Howl weird hair.jpg|frame|link=Howl's Moving Castle (anime)|"Look, look what you've done to my hair! Looook! It's ''hideous''!"]]
{{quote|''"Anne Shirley, what have you done to your hair? Why, it's '''GREEN!'''"''|'''Marilla Cuthbert''', ''[[Anne of Green Gables]]''}}
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* There was an advertisement for Outback Steakhouse with this trope. Middle-aged woman tries to dye her hair and it turns out purple or pink. Her husband cancels their reservations at some hoity-toity restaurant and they go to Outback instead, where there are "no rules, just right" and her worries are forgotten.
== [[
* In the ''[[Maximum Ride]]'' fic ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5107706/1/Diary-of-a-Lovesick-Mutant Diary of a Lovesick Mutant]'' by "Phoenix Fanatic", Fang tries to dye his hair blond, and tomato gets into it, turning it green.
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Bride Wars]]'': "My hair's blue! '''''IT'S BUH-LUE!'''''"
* The botched Dye job look was the inspiration for the approach to the Joker's hair in ''[[The Dark Knight]].''
== [[Literature]] ==
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* 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 ''[[The Dog Who Wouldnt Be]]'', 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.
* In Robert Service's poem
== [[Live
* In the last episode of ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'', 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.
* In ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]''/''[[Hannah Montana]]''/''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]'', Miley tries to dye her hair blond and it ends up green.
** Cody also tries to dye his hair and it ends up bright red.
* Emma of ''[[H₂O: Just Add Water]]'' decided to colour her hair and Cleo used a dye called "Scarlet Fever". Luckily for Emma it only showed up in her mermaid form.
* This got blended with a [[Green Aesop]], of all things<ref>For a Green Hair Aesop?</ref>, in an episode of ''[[
* An episode of ''[[The Oprah Winfrey Show]]'' 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.
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* Liz from ''[[For Better or For Worse]]'' goes for a dye job, and apparently ends up with her hair bright purple.
== [[Theatre]] ==
* Frenchie in ''[[Grease]]'' accidentally dyeing her hair bubblegum pink is what leads into the song
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* One ''[[House of Mouse]]'' short was actually about Minnie Mouse accidentally dyeing [[Pluto the Pup|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]]
== [[Real Life]] ==
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* 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 [[Elderly Blue
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