Shouldn't a salon do what you ask?

Maybe its just my misconception but I think a good salon should be able to do what you ask. Even if your hair doesn't look so hot shouldn't a salon be able to fix it into something you want. Here's an example: My hair was bleached last summer & I touched up the roots with blonde dye. Now I knew that I couldn't lighten my natural clor to blonde with only dye but it doesn't look as bad as I make it out to be, or so I'm told. Anyways, I'm sick of hair with different colors in it & want to go back to my natural dark brown. Now, the salon told me that it wouldn't come out even. I think they could get it even if I threw a $100 at them! So, I'm thinking of MAYBE having them bleach the roots & hair that was only dyed to match up with the ends that were bleached, before having it dyed to dark brown. But first I'm visiting my beauty supply store to see if I can strip the color out myself (can you strip bleach?) then dye it to dark brown. Wouldn't a GOOD salon be able to get it evenly colored? It makes me SOOOO mad that unless you hand over your wallet they won't do what you ask. Jennifer

> Maybe its just my misconception but I think> a good salon should be able to do what you ask.> Even if your hair doesn't look so hot shouldn't> a salon be able to fix it into something you want.Well in a perfect world maybe, but in a perfect world I would have impecably slender thighs and would win the lottery every time I played! :-) Stylists can't work miracles... they have to operate under the rules of nature just like the rest of us.> Here's an example: My hair was bleached last summer> & I touched up the roots with blonde dye.> Now I knew that I couldn't lighten my natural> clor to blonde with only dye but it doesn't look> as bad as I make it out to be, or so I'm told.> Anyways, I'm sick of hair with different colors> in it & want to go back to my natural dark> brown. Now, the salon told me that it wouldn't> come out even. I think they could get it even> if I threw a $100 at them! So, I'm thinking of> MAYBE having them bleach the roots & hair> that was only dyed to match up with the ends that> were bleached, before having it dyed to dark brown.> But first I'm visiting my beauty supply store> to see if I can strip the color out myself (can> you strip bleach?) then dye it to dark brown.> Wouldn't a GOOD salon be able to get it evenly> colored? It makes me SOOOO mad that unless you> hand over your wallet they won't do what you ask.No, no, no. Please don't attempt to do corrective coloring yourself!!! First some things you should not do:1. Don't put stripper in your hair! You can't strip out bleach, it has already removed the color from your hair and a stripper won't put it back in. However a stripper WILL cause a lot of damage to your hair. My boyfriend is asian-american and had me dying his hair red for a while and we would use stripper to "rough up" his hair and make it absorb the dye better. (The cuticle of asian hair lies flatter and smoother than caucasian hair and therefore absorbs dye less.) If your hair is already damaged you don't want to put stripper on it, it will only make it worse.2. Don't try bleaching out your roots and then applying dye to all of your hair. The newly bleached roots will be more porus than the rest of the hair and the color will come out uneven. Not to mention that it won't exactly match the color of the new virgin hair growing out of your head. In fact the reason the colorist says she can't do exactly what you want is because your hair has already been dyed twice with different chemicals and has roots so your hair has 3 different reigons of porosity and is going to soak up color differently in all those areas.3. Do go back to the salon and tell them that you want to grow out the dye job and ask them if they can do something to make your hair look better while that's happening. They may not be able to give you a full head of your natural color, but they probably can even it out a bit with low-lights in the blonde part or mild highlights along the roots. You can't return your hair to it's original color and condition overnight, but I'm sure they can ease the growing out process and make your hair look better in the interim.Good luck.-jennifer j