help hair colour!

[simsarahlou]

hello hair geeks. please help me. im a beauty geek. and i have a hair dilema. i have about a level 6 hair naturally. last year it was dyed with wella colour touch 5 cant remember the exact shade but it was ash as i my hair always turns hair dye red no matter how much ash is in the colour. we added a smidge of 4 to give it depth. it went very very very dark! i liked it though so no probs there. fast forward nearly a year and i have major roots. i always opt for a semi so that it will wash out but as you can see this baby will not shove. i have been using clarifying shampoos non stop but the last bit of colour wont go and now my roots have grown out down to about eye level. i dont know wether to use a toner, colour or what. all advice will be considered. here are my before after and now shots. sorry they are so big, dont really know how to upload well yet. thanks

 

[craigkeane]

What exactly do you want todo?

Craig Keane
www.hculture.co.uk

 

[simsarahlou]

preferrably get the color out but i dont want to bleach it out. i want to be left with my colour. or to colour over with my natural colour. but the problem i have is no matter how well the base is matched it always goes too dark or too red my hair just drinks up colour and wont let go

 

[NeelieGel]

Personally I'd put some highlights in the darker lengths and ends to break up that line and leave it at that. Keep it trimmed and eventually it will grow out. A wimps option probably but I play safe all the time with colour. Just a salutary reminder to us all though - colour touch is permanent!!!!

 

[scottydolly]

colour touch is near enuff permanant with 4% on dry hair, with 1.9% on damp hair as recomended i have never ever seen it stick fast like this. . .

 

[NeelieGel]

Thats interesting. I do my own hair with Colourtouch 5/0 and 5/4. They cover the bit of grey I've got in front of my ears. It looks pretty dark as I would consider myself a dark haired person. It does not fade out it grows out. I always use 1.9% on damp newly washed hair. So for me I always tell my clients it is a permanent colour just not so strong and not complete of coverage of grey if there is a lot. But my main reason for using it is the wonderful sheen it imparts on the hair and the colours in general.

It may be that it fades a fair bit but I would assume that if you were say a base 7 and you put on a 5 you can pretty much bet that you will get regrowth.

I had this discussion with one of my clients today. She was moaning that she had agreed to let her teenage daughter use a colour from the corner chemist (!) and they purchased one that stated lasts up to 24 washes. She went from say a base 6-7 to almost a 4 with some red in it. You know that awful pinky red. Well roll on 6 months and she has almost black ends (I suspect due to straightening the life out of it every day) and about 3-4 inches of regrowth but won't have her hair cut. I lose count of how many times I have to say "if it says in the instructions mix one thing with the other ie. sachet a with bottle b you can be sure that, if you change the colour pretty substantially, it will be permanent and you will get a re-growth". But do they listen? Nope. She asked me today if I would bleach and re-tint it brown. I said no it is colour correction work and she should either go to a person I would consider to be more experienced in that kind of work or leave it alone. This girl is 12 for goodness sake.

Am I being old fashioned in feeling that people are asking more and more of their hair chemical treatment wise?