pinkiepromises
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Hey hair geeks!
Gosh it's a long time since I've been on SG. I should start by saying I'm not a hairdresser, I'm looking for help from hairdressers who care for their clients, like I know you lot will.
This week I've been in tears.
Bit of a long story, but bear with me! So I started with shoulder length fine hair, with an ombré from my natural root colour, probably a 7/8 with a lot of natural red in, to blonde, but with a lot of different colour blondes in. My mission was to get to a nice ash blonde, with as close to my natural colour, but covering greys as I could.
So first hairdresser put high lift bleach all over, avoiding roots, it came out as you would expect, some orange, some almost white bits, I though, it's ok because she will tone it, but she didn't, she said we needed to lift it more, and that she had used a bleach with a toner in already? Ok I though, we will get there in the end. She did a cut, took about an inch off, and left. I wasn't too happy with what I was left with. IM a nail tech, one of my clients said one evening that she could get me to the colour I was wanting, and I was thrilled, and booked my hair with her. She said that she used to teach colouring at college, so I felt in safe hands. When she came she said she would pay attention to my mid lengths as my ends were light enough to tone, so she put bleach on, all the underneath of my hair, the complete back, and sides up to my ears, even at the root.
At this point I didn't panic because I couldn't see what she was doing and I trusted her. We took the bleach off after about 30 mins. She had used one that gets 7 levels of lift she said. With a 20 volume, plus olaplex to help my hair not get ruined. I should say this was all done at my home as she was mobile. I took a quick look in the mirror after rinse off and that's when I started to panic. We then did the next part which was toning. She put the toner on ALL over my hair, using 3% including my roots. She said it wouldn't touch my normal colour. It was time for wash off. I washed off and put the next part of olaplex on, left on for 30 mins. Rinsed off, I was excited to see the colour. I was mortified. I had patches of ginger on my roots. I had patched of white above my ears and the whole underneath and back of my head was yellow. She said it would take a while to get to the colour I wanted. She left. I got more and more upset as the day went on, I eventually contacted her, I don't usually complain, but I couldn't leave the house like that. She also gave it a cut, which is awful, loads of choppy bits. So she agreed to come back and darken my roots up a bit, because obviously the 3% on my roots had taken. And lifter to ginger. I was happy she was coming back to fix it. When she came back I told her I needed my roots darkening up to my natural colour, but I was worried about having a line. I though she would ombré it in, but she proceeded to put foils in all down my ears, and near my partying. I'm not a hairdresser and I trusted her. When I rinsed off and looked at my hair in the mirror o was shocked, but thought let's see what it's like when it's dried. She said do you want to have a look then. I went into the room to the mirror and nearly screamed. I think she could tell that I was shocked. The whole front of my hair was brown, hardly any blonde, and the underneath was white still. She said I'll come back Thursday to fix it because I've got to go. I couldn't leave the house and sobbed, I couldn't even do the school run. I have had to buy a 7.1, I've had to go back dark again. I've done it myself, as I've lost confidence in hairdressers.
The front has taken more than the back because it was darker already. The underneath is lighter because it was yellow. My hair looks badly damaged, and I Dare not text her telling I've had to go dark to cover up the mess she's made. I don't know what to do. I now have short brown hair, which I didn't want. What can I do? I don't know what to do. Will I be able to go back to my blonde? Does anyone live near me who can help me? I'm absolutely devastated. I'll try and upload some pics of what she left me with. Do I contact her? Please help me, I'm so upset. ❤
Gosh it's a long time since I've been on SG. I should start by saying I'm not a hairdresser, I'm looking for help from hairdressers who care for their clients, like I know you lot will.
This week I've been in tears.
Bit of a long story, but bear with me! So I started with shoulder length fine hair, with an ombré from my natural root colour, probably a 7/8 with a lot of natural red in, to blonde, but with a lot of different colour blondes in. My mission was to get to a nice ash blonde, with as close to my natural colour, but covering greys as I could.
So first hairdresser put high lift bleach all over, avoiding roots, it came out as you would expect, some orange, some almost white bits, I though, it's ok because she will tone it, but she didn't, she said we needed to lift it more, and that she had used a bleach with a toner in already? Ok I though, we will get there in the end. She did a cut, took about an inch off, and left. I wasn't too happy with what I was left with. IM a nail tech, one of my clients said one evening that she could get me to the colour I was wanting, and I was thrilled, and booked my hair with her. She said that she used to teach colouring at college, so I felt in safe hands. When she came she said she would pay attention to my mid lengths as my ends were light enough to tone, so she put bleach on, all the underneath of my hair, the complete back, and sides up to my ears, even at the root.
At this point I didn't panic because I couldn't see what she was doing and I trusted her. We took the bleach off after about 30 mins. She had used one that gets 7 levels of lift she said. With a 20 volume, plus olaplex to help my hair not get ruined. I should say this was all done at my home as she was mobile. I took a quick look in the mirror after rinse off and that's when I started to panic. We then did the next part which was toning. She put the toner on ALL over my hair, using 3% including my roots. She said it wouldn't touch my normal colour. It was time for wash off. I washed off and put the next part of olaplex on, left on for 30 mins. Rinsed off, I was excited to see the colour. I was mortified. I had patches of ginger on my roots. I had patched of white above my ears and the whole underneath and back of my head was yellow. She said it would take a while to get to the colour I wanted. She left. I got more and more upset as the day went on, I eventually contacted her, I don't usually complain, but I couldn't leave the house like that. She also gave it a cut, which is awful, loads of choppy bits. So she agreed to come back and darken my roots up a bit, because obviously the 3% on my roots had taken. And lifter to ginger. I was happy she was coming back to fix it. When she came back I told her I needed my roots darkening up to my natural colour, but I was worried about having a line. I though she would ombré it in, but she proceeded to put foils in all down my ears, and near my partying. I'm not a hairdresser and I trusted her. When I rinsed off and looked at my hair in the mirror o was shocked, but thought let's see what it's like when it's dried. She said do you want to have a look then. I went into the room to the mirror and nearly screamed. I think she could tell that I was shocked. The whole front of my hair was brown, hardly any blonde, and the underneath was white still. She said I'll come back Thursday to fix it because I've got to go. I couldn't leave the house and sobbed, I couldn't even do the school run. I have had to buy a 7.1, I've had to go back dark again. I've done it myself, as I've lost confidence in hairdressers.
The front has taken more than the back because it was darker already. The underneath is lighter because it was yellow. My hair looks badly damaged, and I Dare not text her telling I've had to go dark to cover up the mess she's made. I don't know what to do. I now have short brown hair, which I didn't want. What can I do? I don't know what to do. Will I be able to go back to my blonde? Does anyone live near me who can help me? I'm absolutely devastated. I'll try and upload some pics of what she left me with. Do I contact her? Please help me, I'm so upset. ❤
