BLACK?! Oh my Gosh...

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Stephanie originally wrote:
WHAT DID I DO TO MYSELF?!
I suppose my form of teenage rebellion is doing strange and bizzare (according to my mother) things to my hair.
For the past year, though, it's been a chin-length shag-sort of cut, and blonde.
On a stroke of PURE genius (sarcasm included) I decided it would be a GREAT idea to start a new lok and dye my hair black. Jet Black.

oooooh, goodness.
Turns out I am not only allergic to the dye I used, but my hair statred breaking off.
I hauled to the salon and tried despareatly to lok normal again.
What I woudn up with was a SUPERSHORT pixie cut
(and with my square face, it looks AWFUL)

Should I wait until my head calms down and re-dye it a more flattering (and NORMAL color), or should I just let it grow out naturally?

BTW- Im in college now, and went home for a few days this past weekend, and NOBODY in the town likes it...
Which makes my cituation THAT much more critical...

PLEASE HELP!

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Hi:

This is probably going to be advice that you don`t want to hear. First of all an allergic reaction to hair tint can lead to very serious health problems. Once you have had a reaction too tint the best thing to do is forget using tint, at least permanent color dye again. I do have one idea that you may find reasonable. You can have your hairdresser do a foil weave highlighting technique with bleach to give your hair an illusion of lightness. You could also have a cap highlighting done. If the color comes out too brassy looking you can tone it with a semi-permanent toner and this should carry you through for awhile. As far as the haircut that you will just have to suffer through - hair does grow but it will seem to take especially long since you don`t want it short. That`s life. I hope you don`t try using permanent tint again but if you do please do a patch test before putting it on your head, like I said serious health issues could come up. Good luck and let me know how it goes. Forest