I am hoping someone can advise me here.
I went to a new salon hoping to get a nice dark auburny red. I've dyed my hair a lot so I know at least something about red hair maintenance and just really wanted a darker, warmer version of what I had already. The stylist asked me to pick from their standard hair dye example book and so I pointed at a colour I thought was what I wanted and she got to work. She was distracted during the process talking to others in the salon. After she did another client's cut and style while I developed (which felt a little long to me) she shampooed me and sat me in the chair. She turned me away from the mirror, did a blow dry and started curling it, although I did prefer it straightened but she never asked. She turns me around and my hair is bright bright red. I tell her this isn't what I had in mind, it's too red. Too primary colour red and not natural looking at all. So she gets me in a different light in the salon and ask 2 other stylist's about it who say "it depends what she's going for". She asks me if I want to leave it a few days, wash it a few times and I said no lets try and fix it now, I know my hair soaks up colour easily (I mentioned this) so it won't fade that much at home. I've never not liked a colour before so I wasn't sure how to go about this without being a jerk. So she takes me to the back and says she'll tone it. I apologized about 5 times for being a pain but she brushed me off and said I wasn't being one. She toned it, her and another stylist blow dried it and straightened this time and turns me around and I feel like it's almost no different maybe a tad darker. I tell her it looks better because I feel like I'm in the way and being a pain (I had been in the salon an hour and a half at this point), I pay, tip a small amount for being annoying and go home. I've washed it 4 times in the last 2 days, even used purple toning shampoo so it didn't go orange and it just went even brighter red. Any toning she did disappeared. She also missed a spot right in the middle of my head on the hair line and another on my right temple.
Do I call her and tell her it still is too intense and she missed spots?
Or is it my fault it's this colour cause I picked it from the book, even though they did not turn out that way? Should I expect to pay for an entire new dye job when I go in?
Or do I just dye it an ashy brown to get rid of some of the red and call it a day?
I went to a new salon hoping to get a nice dark auburny red. I've dyed my hair a lot so I know at least something about red hair maintenance and just really wanted a darker, warmer version of what I had already. The stylist asked me to pick from their standard hair dye example book and so I pointed at a colour I thought was what I wanted and she got to work. She was distracted during the process talking to others in the salon. After she did another client's cut and style while I developed (which felt a little long to me) she shampooed me and sat me in the chair. She turned me away from the mirror, did a blow dry and started curling it, although I did prefer it straightened but she never asked. She turns me around and my hair is bright bright red. I tell her this isn't what I had in mind, it's too red. Too primary colour red and not natural looking at all. So she gets me in a different light in the salon and ask 2 other stylist's about it who say "it depends what she's going for". She asks me if I want to leave it a few days, wash it a few times and I said no lets try and fix it now, I know my hair soaks up colour easily (I mentioned this) so it won't fade that much at home. I've never not liked a colour before so I wasn't sure how to go about this without being a jerk. So she takes me to the back and says she'll tone it. I apologized about 5 times for being a pain but she brushed me off and said I wasn't being one. She toned it, her and another stylist blow dried it and straightened this time and turns me around and I feel like it's almost no different maybe a tad darker. I tell her it looks better because I feel like I'm in the way and being a pain (I had been in the salon an hour and a half at this point), I pay, tip a small amount for being annoying and go home. I've washed it 4 times in the last 2 days, even used purple toning shampoo so it didn't go orange and it just went even brighter red. Any toning she did disappeared. She also missed a spot right in the middle of my head on the hair line and another on my right temple.
Do I call her and tell her it still is too intense and she missed spots?
Or is it my fault it's this colour cause I picked it from the book, even though they did not turn out that way? Should I expect to pay for an entire new dye job when I go in?
Or do I just dye it an ashy brown to get rid of some of the red and call it a day?
