my hair before lowlights disaster pics*

You have my sympathy about your lowlight crisis.

A common problem I have noticed on these hair forums - letting friends or family do one's hair and it becoming a disaster.  Why did your friend choose to use such a dark lowlight anyways?

Hey noey, i dont actually think your hair looks too bad at all, i once bleached my cousins hair and it turned into a disaster, with white on the top yellow at the middle and black bits where i hadnt had enough bleach to put on the rest of her hair, Me thinking im a hero insisted to do her hair and i made a huge mess, as soon as she seen it she burst into tears. Oh well that was years ago.. her hairs fine now lol

Hi again!

Thank you guys for your kind words.  It really means alot. Tyranna - I  have no idea why Rose put that black color in my hair, it was supposed to be a nice warm brown lowlight, but I think she put filler in it and then did not follow up with color.  Anyway it is over and I have to live with it, but the thing that really burns me is that she took a goldwell 3 day course and now has a stupid ad in the paper every day that says she is a "color master"  WHATEVER!!! Master at screwing up color jobs more like it!! As you can see I am still very upset.  Rini - even though the pics make my hair look healthy, it is still dry in the blond areas and there are some pieces  that have broken off to only about 3 inches.  I need to count my blessings that it didn't all fry off, but it is too easy to be upset about what did happen and not "what if"  I know if anyone else did this instead of my friend, i wouldn't be as mad - its just that she pressured me to let her do my hair, and I wish i didn't let her.  Thanks for the disaster story Mrs MNK - it makes me fell better that I still have hair.  And thank you Dave for making me feel better.  Do you guys think that my hair will be back to normal in 2 years?  I have cut alot of the damage out, but it still isn't the same to me.  In 2 years I think that my damaged hair should be replaced by healthier hair and I should have about 12 inches of new growth.   I am still in the process of getting it back to my old blond color.  Here are my recent pictures of what I just cut off in Feb. 

Thanks for any replys!  I really need words of encouragement!

Noelle

 

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Last one-

This is the front:  I still am not happy with the blonde color.  It is not the same as my very first pic on this post. WHat do you think??  She is slowly getting it a nicer color each time so not to damage it further.

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missrini wrote: Noey...I think you look just gorgeous no matter what your hair colour!!  but I do see what you mean about the whole elvira thing. I think it is because of the contrast between those two colours, each on their own is quite nice, but they look a little harsh together.  I do like the last pic you posted though, I think it is coming along really nicely!!  The warmer blonde suits you    I still think you'd look FAB as a red-head though  Keep doing what you are doing, looking after it and getting trims for the damage. You will get there!!

Like Rini, I think either color by itself would look good.  The harsh contrast is odd to me.  What is the natural color - is it as dark as the underneath section is now?  What to do depends on what you want.  As time passes the blonde sections will start growing out... will you re-blonde the new growth, leave as is, or darken the blonde?

Noey, you are very pretty! And your hair still looks quite healthy and shiny despite the damage. I think each time you get it "corrected" it will start to look more and more natural. Until then, just hang in there. Good luck!

Hi Noey! (is that your real name? i like it! ) I don't think your hair looks
bad. Infact, I think you pull off the look nicely. To change it I would
suggest going over your whole head with a medium honey brown dye,
which will darken those blonde areas and bring more warm hues to your
overall color. A golden brown would look really great with your eye color
too...

Hi guys,

Thank you so much for your replys.  Every day I come home from work and go straight to the computer to check this site. 

To answer a few questions:

DaveDecker wrote:

Like Rini, I think either color by itself would look good.  The harsh contrast is odd to me.  What is the natural color - is it as dark as the underneath section is now?  What to do depends on what you want.  As time passes the blonde sections will start growing out... will you re-blonde the new growth, leave as is, or darken the blonde?
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Dave - my hair is naturally medium brown.  The color underneath is dyed that dark.  My goal is to keep growing and touch up the regrowth with blond every 6 weeks and eventually grow out the layers to cover up the underneath dark layer.  As you can see from the front picture, it dosn't look bad - I just don't like the major contrast in the back because of the layers. This way - I don't have to highlight my entire head of hair and some of it (the dark) remains healthy and untouched by bleach.

MISSMARIEJANE - Noey is my nickname.  It is short for Noelle.  Thanks for saying it is cute!!

I will keep everyone updated when I go to get my roots touched up in April.  I wish I could try red or a warm brown all over, but I feel I look best as a blonde.  I used to have dyed dark brown hair in high school and when I got my first blond highlights I started to get more attention and when my hair became more blonde I felt more confident.  I also feel I don't need to wear much make up with blond hair because it agrees with my skin tone.

Talk to you soon!

Noelle

 

 

MissMareeJane wrote:

what's the "color master"?[/QUOTE]

MissMareeJane - The girl who wrecked my hair took a 3 day Goldwell course and now she has an ad in the  local paper that says "Book with Rose Goldwell color master."  Its just a stupid title because she passed some 3 day course about color and stuff.  I am suprised she even passed!  I know for a fact that she got her hairdressing licence by the skin of her teeth.  I was stupid for letting her do my hair, but she was a friend of mine and kept bugging me to let her color my hair.  She was often offended when we would go out and people would compliment my hair (before she wrecked it), it offended her because when girls asked me who did my hair I would tell them about my hairdresser in London and then they would usually ask why I didn't get Rose to do it.  I always said because I didn't want to mix hair and friendship.  Well I wish I never backed down!!  We are not even friends anymore because she handled then whole situation very unprofessionaly and never said she was sorry for alot of my hair falling out and breaking off.  Whatever!!!  What goes around comes around.  I just need to stay positive and thats what this board is all about!

Hey Noey, that really does suck to have a so-called friend do that.....you have such a great attitude. Your hair will be back to the way you like it in no time. Thanks for sharing your experience as it really makes me more careful about who I select to work on my hair.