Disaster
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Please help me out: I don't know what I should do in this situation.
So I went to a local hairdresser that claims to be a 5-star salon. I showed them pictures of what I wanted: grey hair with dark root. My roots were already dark, and I explained to them that I had dyed my hair at home before and that it had grown out. This was a light brown colour. They then tested a strand of my hair. Said everything was fine. I asked for Olaplex as well because I did not want to damage my hair which was £20 extra: I agreed to pay £75 total.
So I went and the process took 4 hours and 20 minutes. I ended up not with what I asked for at all. But it was not awful and not that different just with an ashy tone so I went with it:
Then I washed it with regular Herbal Essences shampoo ONCE.
Patchy, greens-yellow, orange top and black roots.. I went back and they told me it was because I had not used silver shampoo (okay..) but that it was easily fixable. The guy told me he mixed 20 vol developer and olaplex with the toner and left it in my hair. Then washed it out and attempted to dry it. It was completely green. Patchy, with orange roots. They said that 'oh the garner olia dye has created an oil barrier so it hasn't worked we need to bleach more and apply a base colour'. To that I objected and said 'you know what just put a flat brown on it. I asked them if this would damage my hair and they said no. They did it- and it turned out okay.
Then, I came home and washed my hair. I have never had dryer hair. Falling out in places, crumbly. My scalp was burning from a regular shampoo. I'm SO annoyed. After this pointless journey of wasted time, I'm left with frail hair that keeps breaking, and with tons of split ends, hair sticking up at the top of my head that has been left short and burned off. What should I do? The thing that irritates me the most is that I could have just dyed my hair this colour with a box dye at home. Doesn't even suit me. Any advice?
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So I went to a local hairdresser that claims to be a 5-star salon. I showed them pictures of what I wanted: grey hair with dark root. My roots were already dark, and I explained to them that I had dyed my hair at home before and that it had grown out. This was a light brown colour. They then tested a strand of my hair. Said everything was fine. I asked for Olaplex as well because I did not want to damage my hair which was £20 extra: I agreed to pay £75 total.
So I went and the process took 4 hours and 20 minutes. I ended up not with what I asked for at all. But it was not awful and not that different just with an ashy tone so I went with it:
Then I washed it with regular Herbal Essences shampoo ONCE.
Patchy, greens-yellow, orange top and black roots.. I went back and they told me it was because I had not used silver shampoo (okay..) but that it was easily fixable. The guy told me he mixed 20 vol developer and olaplex with the toner and left it in my hair. Then washed it out and attempted to dry it. It was completely green. Patchy, with orange roots. They said that 'oh the garner olia dye has created an oil barrier so it hasn't worked we need to bleach more and apply a base colour'. To that I objected and said 'you know what just put a flat brown on it. I asked them if this would damage my hair and they said no. They did it- and it turned out okay.
Then, I came home and washed my hair. I have never had dryer hair. Falling out in places, crumbly. My scalp was burning from a regular shampoo. I'm SO annoyed. After this pointless journey of wasted time, I'm left with frail hair that keeps breaking, and with tons of split ends, hair sticking up at the top of my head that has been left short and burned off. What should I do? The thing that irritates me the most is that I could have just dyed my hair this colour with a box dye at home. Doesn't even suit me. Any advice?
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