Long hair destroyed

Hi,

I am in desperate need of help! For several years I let my hair grow and had long healthy hair with a fringe and I loved it so much. It looked very much like some sixties/seventies hippie hair, just how I wanted it too look (as I'm obsessed with this era!). Then, for six months ago, I decided to give it a treat and went to a hairdresser to get a propper cut (my father used to trim it for me before) and some highlights. This hairdresser totally destroyed my hair and it is now horribly layered with the longest hair shoulderlength and has got an awful blonde colour. It's gone half a year but I still feel really bad about it and, to tell the truth, I still cry a bit now and then. Actually, I cry copiously.... Has anyone got some comforting words or any advise? I feel like such a baby...

By the way, I'm new here and English is not my first language, so please excuse any mistakes!

If you want to feel better, simply go over to the Hair Color forum to read the daily disaster stories that seem to run along the lines of "I bleached my black hair three times to white blond within one week and permed it and now it has all broken off".

I exaggerate (lol, well not by much), but everybody experiences a hair disaster.  Be thankful your hair style rather than your hair itself was ruined.  It will grow back and you can always correct the color down to your natural shade (or what you had before).

If you do color, remember - stay within your color family and do test strands. 

Maybe you could wear it in an upstyle? That way you wouldn't have to look at it and make yourself upset. I was excited when my hair got long enough to wear up, because now I can just forget about it and be pleasantly suprised on the odd occasion when I wear it down

A word of advice though....stop using heat. It's no good for hair.

Dave, missrini and Bob, I agree with you. I think hairdressers often don't hear what their clients want. The woman who destroyed my hair did some really strange things to my hair, afterwards it felt as if she had been experimenting with my hair. I'm never going to go to a hairdresser again, I'm avoiding salons from now on!!

My little sister is more of the experimenting type when it comes to her hair and resently she wanted a quite short cut and told her hairdresser so. She told my sister that it wouldn't suit her and gave her a much longer hair than she wanted so she had to go just a few weeks later to get a new cut, still the long one. I think she was wrong: 1, my sister really looks good in short hair and 2, she should have done what my sister asked her. Sure they should give advise, but still do what the client asks of them.