My hair color keeps fading help!

[ashmivy]

Ok so let me give you the breakdown and if anybody has "good" suggestions I'm all ears. So I had highlights for years, went brown last summer and then got highlights again in the spring. I kept up with them until my hairdresser got careless and fried my tips making it look awful!!! So (I was in cosmetology school for 3 months and moved) I decided to just do it myself at home and go all over brown again until I get it nice, healthy and shiny again. On the scale my hair was about a 7 and went with a 6N, my ends went brown no problem but my highlights were still dirty blonde and ugly!! I used a permanent Socolor with a 10v developer. I called a friend of mine that lives in another town, also hairdresser and she said go darker to cover up the blonde. This past Friday night I dyed my hair again, with Paul Mitchell permanent 5N with a 10v developer, it was a shocker but I love it!!! Sadly enough after just TWO washes its already fading and brassy where the highlights were. I want my hair color 5N chocolate brown what do I need to do exactly to get it there and keep it? Do I go semi permanent or will it even hold? I don't want my hair even more damaged but at the same time I don't want it ugly. Right now it looks and feels really good as far as damage wise. Ok so tell me what my next step is please, before I really jack up my hair.

 

[*sarah*]

I'm not a hair pro but I'd recommend you go see one I had highlights but have been getting 6/0 then 5/0 to 5/1 (all semi's) but to start with I needed it done every 3-4 weeks as the blonde kept coming back thru xx

 

[persianista]

The reason it keeps fading is because you are;
1 not doing it right and
2 not using the correct colour.
Colour correction is a bit of an art, and you need to see a stylist trained and qualified in it who can repigment your hair properly. By just keep bunging brown colours on it, what you will find is;
1 it will keep washing out, and the more you do this the more porous it gets and the quicker it washes out.
2 the colour will go REALLY patchy sometime soon.
3 You will wreck the condition.
Please go and see either a hairdresser or a college teaching level 3. x

 

[ashmivy]

Thanks Sarah :lol: the sad thing is, one of my good friends is my hairstylist and she is the one that messed it up so I don't really want to use her again and she is also the one that told me what to go with for the brown, . I've read to just keep dying it until it takes but I don't know if that's a good idea or not.

Thanks

 

[persianista]

Thanks Sarah :lol: the sad thing is, one of my good friends is my hairstylist and she is the one that messed it up so I don't really want to use her again and she is also the one that told me what to go with for the brown, . I've read to just keep dying it until it takes but I don't know if that's a good idea or not.

Thanks

NO!!! It will get worse and worse! Everytime you put dye on it you swell the hair slightly. This in turn allows colour pigments to release a little quicker. It needs prepigging and recolouring ONCE.
If your friend mucked your hair up, why do you still believe a word she says?
Clearly you are aware it was not good advice as you posted on here!

 

[ashmivy]

I do not want to go to a professional. I know what I am doing as far as the color and applying it I just don't know the steps I need to take now. That is what I am asking. I don't want a professional to do it, I would just like for someone to help me and tell me what I need to do. Clearly yes my hairdresser was wrong that is why I am on here right now!! How do I get pigment back?

 

[persianista]

You cannot do this yourself. It is not possible to colour correct hair yourself as a non hair pro, without access and training with, pro hair products.
This is a pro forum, and no hair professional would advise you to attempt this yourself.

 

[ashmivy]

Seriously lady get over yourself!! If you are not going to help me then don't comment on my post.

Thanks

 

[muddi]

Sorry but you asked for help from professionals and yet when you are given very sound advice and help you dismiss it.

As a 'Professional' has said, you cannot sort this out yourself, you do not have the technical knowledge to do this and no self respecting therapist would give you step by step instructions over a forum without seeing your hair and its condition for themselves etc..

So im sorry - I dont want to seem rude, but maybe your the one who needs to 'get over themselves' and take the advice given to you, of which you came on here and asked for!

 

[VIVA.GLAM]

If you went into a salon and asked the professionals there to tell you what to do they would tell you EXACTLY the same as you have been told here. Understandably you're distressed because you're hair is not how you want it but YOU cannot correct it with colours you have NO knowledge about. The more you muck about with it the worse it will get. What is so wrong about going into a salon to get it corrected? If it's a money issue then visit your nearest college?

 

[*sarah*]

You really are btr going to a pro hun, maybe try getting some recommendations from friends ? I know once your hair has been mucked up by a supposed pro it can be hard to trust again. Happened to me at 18 long story but then went into the best salon in the town and have been with the same hairdresser ever since, followed her everywhere! she's the best
I'd be worried you wont know exaclty what damage you could be doing without knowing it as the actual pro's on here have pointed out hth xx