redsadie
Well-Known Member
Hi guys, I cannot decide what to do with my hair!
I have short hair graduated at the back and slightly longer on the top and I am a natural base 3-4 with some grey at the roots, so I decided to go with some blonde foils to try to disguise my going grey (it doeasn't seem to be all over though, just on my parting and some other random places). I couldn't cope with the roots coming through (seemed to be just after a week, maybe foils not close enough to root?), anyway, I coloured it back to a dark brown using a Loreal box colour (no, it didn't go green!).
I then had a mad moment with a hairdresser friend of mine (24 years in the industry) and decided i would go platinum blonde all over
. Using a 20vol peroxide with bleach powder, it lifted to a horrible orange (as expected) so the mixture was reapplied for a further 20 minutes. It was still a horrible orangy colour. I used a toner after this and a blue conditioner to try to lift it further, but it still had orangy tones throughout, mainly on the tips.
I went to college and (as luck would have it?) our demo for the evening was a bleach bath which couldn't make it, so I was used. My head hurt like hell and after the bleach bath, a toner with peroxide and a toner without peroxide didn't really do much, I got on with my client who had arrived.
Now I really don't like it and I don't know what to do. I don't want to upset my hairdresser friend as this will be the second time I will have recoloured it behind her back if I do it, but will it be ok to colour it back?
I think I would like it to be light, not really dark anymore, so would some caramel or chocolate tones be ok to put through as slices?
I really don't know what I want, please some help and/or advice would be really appreciated!!
Sorry for the long post :hug:
Sarah. xx
I have short hair graduated at the back and slightly longer on the top and I am a natural base 3-4 with some grey at the roots, so I decided to go with some blonde foils to try to disguise my going grey (it doeasn't seem to be all over though, just on my parting and some other random places). I couldn't cope with the roots coming through (seemed to be just after a week, maybe foils not close enough to root?), anyway, I coloured it back to a dark brown using a Loreal box colour (no, it didn't go green!).
I then had a mad moment with a hairdresser friend of mine (24 years in the industry) and decided i would go platinum blonde all over
. Using a 20vol peroxide with bleach powder, it lifted to a horrible orange (as expected) so the mixture was reapplied for a further 20 minutes. It was still a horrible orangy colour. I used a toner after this and a blue conditioner to try to lift it further, but it still had orangy tones throughout, mainly on the tips.I went to college and (as luck would have it?) our demo for the evening was a bleach bath which couldn't make it, so I was used. My head hurt like hell and after the bleach bath, a toner with peroxide and a toner without peroxide didn't really do much, I got on with my client who had arrived.
Now I really don't like it and I don't know what to do. I don't want to upset my hairdresser friend as this will be the second time I will have recoloured it behind her back if I do it, but will it be ok to colour it back?
I think I would like it to be light, not really dark anymore, so would some caramel or chocolate tones be ok to put through as slices?
I really don't know what I want, please some help and/or advice would be really appreciated!!
Sorry for the long post :hug:
Sarah. xx
