I need help

Hiya, what colour is your hair now? Is it still blonde with dark roots? If so, then just colour the roots, and not the ends. Your hair is most certainly breaking off from the build up of colour. Keep having regular trims and deep conditioning treatments and stay away from any heat apliances.
I would definately go to a salon to get the roots done, don't do it yourself. Good luck xx

Hi there K,

Yes, you and I have something in common: hair that let's us know when enough chemicals are enough. For DECADES my hair would not budge past my shoulders, but then I was colouring, relaxing, blowfrying and heat styling - all at once.

It wasn't until the past year that the little broken off hairs everywhere got really, really bad.

Then this summer, I went crazy with the colouring again, three different ones. My hair was FRIED big time.

I got half the damage chopped off last month and stopped torturing my hair. I am trying very hard to avoid getting the rest cut off because I look too much like a boy for my taste now.

So yes, 'just say no' to the hair colour is probably what you hair is trying to tell you. As an experiment you couild try not colouring it and baby it for awhile and see if that helps. At very least, it can't hurt.

(Mine has made a major turnaround since I cleaned up my act. Hopefully this time next year I will have some decent length back but it will be thick and healthy not damaged and yucky like before.)

It could very well be that your hair's breaking off at that length. It's up to you what you do, but it wouldn't hurt to take a break from the processing until you have some virgin hair to work with, and then treat it gently, so it will grow for you.