well my hair is now gone..

know what ya mean....after the hair breakage situation i am not having as much trouble putting color on the hair....it had to come to that...what all colors have you had on your hair?  how did you change the look of it...like, did you just color over color or would you bleach or use a color remover?  i had one time a color lift from dark aubrun to a level 7 blonde...have you ever had hair color lift hair color?

ya, i know how they act in sally's....not too good....honey, there is stuff that will take the color out.....i hate to say this but sally's carries the stuff....there is color zap for perm color and something else for demi and temporary color....oh, you could go in a cvs or walgreens (a good drug store) and get stuff that will remove the color....then you apply a new color...it really is that easy....i totally understand where you are coming from.....i too am trying to go back to my natural and just highlight the grays instead of looking for the PERFECT HAIR COLOR...it has been like a quest for me and ended up damaging my hair...it is in good shape now and i will only use the shades eq....chicklet, they really are the most beautiful colors...but to really appriciate them you must see the hair swatches.....listen, get that bad color out and then go with something  closer to your own shade....i will be wishing you luck and thinking good thoughts your way.....you will be alright....just get that bad color out....talk to you later honey.....i know how you feel.

chicklet, i do think it is an addiction....i think we are trying to get a perfect look.....i too didn't know what would look good on me and started the EXPERIMENTING!!  i now only use shades eq and well bleach...hee hee....just once though....this haircut freaked me out.......if this will help...tell yourself that you are going to get your hair in the best condition possible and in the mean time look at magazines to see what you would really want....if the magazines don't tempt you to color that is....have you tried redken shades eq?  that is a beautiful color line and is gentle to your hair....2% peroxide...can get it off the internet.  i can tell you how to put it on, i have the education guide and everything.

LOL i'm with ya ! Boy i suer do know what you mean about cutting off the damage .Just last spring i had to shave my head because my hair was nothing but mush when wet and straw when dry ,then a few months past of living in ballcaps til my hair got to be a couple inches liong and i colored again and again and again ! then after a few months of this my hair managed to get about 4 or so inches long and i screwed it up so badly that i had to cut it again about 2 inches so i was back to about 2 ionches of hair again .So it grew some more and i just recently ruined it again a fwe days ago .Soooooo now i'm back to arond an inch and a half . I have had shoulder length hair most of my life but something about the last year and a half has got my nuts with the hair color . i have agnonized over my damn skin tone so much it is'nt funny and have colored my hair as much as 3 times in a single day drying to fix screw ups only to have a sore irritated head and still jacked up hair .Oh when will the madness end !

ltc-don't tempt me now we are in this together
COLORHOLICS UNITE!!

i'm with ya there sister, I think after i gfet thru this last color disaster i'm gonna quit coloring so much and finsd a color and stick with it and let someone else deal with the roots or just not color the stuff at all .i don't know. i think i look terrible in my natural color lol the only one that truly matches my skin tone according to nature go figure lol. i have such a hard time finding something i look good in and does'nt make me resemble a $2 hooker lol. I had my hair a medium strawberry bloned for years i got so many compliments on but it was so high maintenance i got sick of it .i don't know how i've gotten into this hair color obsession. I'd sure like to have the money i've spent on all this crap but then again maybe its good i don't know how much $ i've wasted it would probably make me sick . What i don't have is hair and i'm sick of looking the way i do .hell if i wouldhave left my hair alone after i shaved it all off a year and a half ago i might have some nice healthy hair i could do something with. Yeah i'd say i've met my breaking piont here. LOL I feel like i'm at an aa meeting .hello i'm michelle and i'm a colorholic .

  yep after all i been through i finally said SCREW IT and had my hair cut off i was tired of fighting it out, it reminds me of Kitty's hair style from that 70's show lol  but a bit more updated.  no amount of nothing was helping my hair so i would rather start with a clean slate.  actually it doesn't look that bad and my hair looks  and feels sooo much better

  no more bleachin for me (at least for a while) man it seems like after i had my daughter all my hair has changed it used to be able to withstand hell and high water but now it breaks  and falls off just by looking at the hair dye isles

oh well

ladies at there breaking  point your not alone keep trying maybe you will have luck... i just have better things to do then to fight with something  thats dead.