Has anyone ever dyed their horse's mane or tail using drugstore dyes?

[SuperPony]

ummmmm…i dyed my pony w/ zebra stripes yesterday for our barn halloween party. He was the most adorable zebra! will post pix when i get them. i tried to wash it out today and it mostly came out. any help on how to get it the rest of the way out??? it was the spray on temporary halloween spray (washes out after 1 shampoo, supposedly).

also, my trainer is going to make us all wear hairnets and i HATE hairnets, so i think i’m going to dye mine so they’re prettier!!! how do you dye hairnets? i don’t want my hair turning funny colors!

-Caroline
“If I go crazy then will you still call me SUPERPONY!”

[Coreene]

Leave it sit for a minute or two. If you need to replenish the chestnut horse, get that shampoo for chestnuts stuff and put it uber amounts and leave it in for a long time. Then rinse it out and seal with a protein pack.

[Heidi]

I think I’ll get Hans, who’s always been very experimental with his hair colour, to dye his favourite mare a dark bay - he goes to the same salon so if my hairdresser/groomer needs to take out his horror on anyone, the culprit will be close at hand.

Any brands that all you experienced dyers would recommend - I have great fears of frying my mane.

Why is it illegal, BTW, to dye a horse’s tail - per the AHSA?

[OnceAThief]

You should come hang out down here! I (usually) have a stripe or two of red or something noxious, and HuntJumpSC had pink stripes at a show. It looked COOL - you could even see it under her hunt cap. Very spiffy.

[Dry_Clean_Only]

I don’t know if you could dye them, since they ar generally made of synthetic materials which won’t hold the RIT dye at all. Maybe use that stuff in the spray can that you used for your pony? If any did run into your hair it would just wash out!

I just let my lovely dye job on my hair shine through the hairnets

[Dry_Clean_Only]

Seeing as you are a ‘bay’ if you will, as is my ‘horse’ (aka MOM ), it will be a fairly painless and idiot proof task. Look for Dark Ash Brown - the black will look way too obvious. It will hide the ‘bleached out’ (aka grey) hairs a bit more subtley. If it is too light THEN you can go to a darker shade. A semi permanent dye rather than permanent is the way to go too - it fades faster in case ya screw up (in 8 or so years of doing it myself I never have! So it can’t be too hard!)

PS - if you ever want to do an actual horse the Just for Men stuff works the best

[Colin]

I had a paint that was all black w/ 4 white socks and a white blaze on his face. Very handsome…except a brand on his butt. I didn’t like it so bought black hair coloring.

Poor guy…majorly irritated his skin. Flaking and sore…not good!

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• Tommy Serio, 2001[/I]

[SoEasy]

a natural blonde, be very careful of ‘royale blue’ dye … hmmm I wonder if Laura still has GREEN HAIR

her natural blonde took the burgundy streak on the side fairly well though …

[Trixie]

My hair used to be blue, or blue with purple streaks. To tell you the truth, it’s been most colors.

[E11]

Yes this is in fact illegal, LOL. Well yeah whatever, there is a women who rides with my trainers at horse shows she thought it would look cool to have her grey/white horse have a black mane and tail, whipped out the dye at her barn one day much to my trainers surprize showed up at Culpeper ready to do the Jr/AO Jumpers with a grey horse with a bran new BLACK mane and tail…ah yes people it’s not growing out to rapidly either

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[spaz]

Delighted, I can so relate to those scenarios…

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[findeight]

Triggers tail nothing, I once used henna to dye a strawberry roan half arab chestnut. Worked too. Won a bunch of King Tut trivets-yipee skipee.
Keep in mind the old rule book, you cannot change the natural color. Or not supposed to anyway. OOps.

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