HELP HELP HELP HELP ME!!!!!!!!

oK SO...well...as you know my hair is liek 613..maybe a lil lighter...and well i decided I wanetd to pern it so I could do the body wave hair...WELLLL....I wanted like 3 weeks in between dying my hair..just the roots..and perming my hair...which it said only a week..and well we did the perm..and now ALL of my hair is FRIED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! well..its sticky and rubberey (sp?) and i dont know what to do ....im afriad I might have to shave my head...its THAT bad!!! :-( :-( as you can see im freaking out...I went to sallys and I guess the lady gave me the wrong perm..I guess you cant use a tinted forumla perm on bleached hair..and ya well...now im stuck!!! I definitely CANNOT pull off the britney spears shaved head!! :-( Sallys is having me do this protein mixture stuff with this really good conditioner...but does anyone else have any advice or ANYTHING?? Im gonna try this stuff when I get home from work..but my hair is just awful...it wont even dry from last night..and its now 1pm.....its kinda dry but its like straw almost in some parts..like ya know when ya spray hair spray..it kinda feels like that...so any suggestions would be awesome...im just sitting here in tears... :-(

malibu wrote: I would go to a salon and get a serious conditioning treatment, with steam. I think Aveda has a good one.

aveda has GREAT conditioning treatments, they have several different ones that are better for specific problems. I'd definately seek professional help besides Sallys, in my experience, the women I've seen working there have done AWFUL damage to their own hair.

well I have an appt tomorrow with a prof stylist...but the lady at sallys really knew what she was talking about..and like wanted to fire the crazy girl who told me to use the wrong permm...she said she has seen it happen to people all the time..but she said it would help alot...its a protein and you mix it witht his conditioner stuff...she said it was stuff they used in salons but would give it to me to try first before iw ent to a salon..cuz she said they would jsut want to cut it all off.. :-( so Im gonna try to use this protein/conditioner stuff tonight when i get home and leave it on for like 2 hours and hopefully it will be somewhat better...geeeeez.... :-( no mroe messing with my hair...lol

Kateadreena is right.. Protein could dry the hair out even more.. With dual chemical processes and the dryness you describe, it sounds like what your hair needs right now is moisture.. I would see a professional before I did anything else.. I REALLy don't trust the folks at Sally's.. (At least I don;t trust the folks at nonw of my local Sally's..)

Edited by Divavocals - April 18 2007 at 1:33pm

oh dear, im so sorry snowwhite!!
back in the 80's and even early 90's me and my group of friends all did the perm/color combos and let stylists snap our hair off :(      first of all, dont ever do both again!

while seeking professional help here is very good advice, i will add that MANY/MOST/almost ALL pros out there will want to cut a good bit of your hair off.
you DONT have to agree to that, you can comprimise to trim SOME and have them recommend and sell you DEEP conditioning and super MOISTURIZING daily treatments

i was a waitress in 1988 and one of my coworkers had fried her hair by getting a 'frosting' and a perm... on her already fine hair, half of her hair snapped off within a few days....she went back to the salon (the same one that did this awful perm/frost combo!) and they wanted to cut it to almost 4" all over (she had waist length hair )but she would NOT let them cut it, it looked horrible, but she used deep conditioner on her hair DAILY for a couple of weeks before she went back to the salon and let them trim....the result was they did not have to cut off as much as they wanted to at first first (she ended up with shoulder blade length hair)

at this point, you can only baby the hair that is there....there is NOOOOOOOoooooooooo product that is going to 'heal' that hair...you need to get regular trims after you decide how much you will let them cut and keep up with really moisturizing your hair

thanks for all your help :-) i am definitely going to leave this deep conditioning over night tonight..and wash it out before ihave to be to work at 5:30am...wooho..then to the salon at 1:00pm..im gonna bring this pic... and tell them no shorter than this..which will be about 6inches short than my hair :-(

Now first things first, calm down and take a deep breath. You're going to be ok. Because you have the knowledge and resources and your own experience here at your fingertips. Many of us have had this happen to us (including myself a couple months ago, pretty much to the tee), even girls who if you saw them walking along on the street, you would never have even guessed. I can even name some names of girls on this board who's stories I read about and seen their photos. (Frenchie, Kristin, Jenny, etc..) But guess what, they're ok too,  because while they're chilling after an experience of their own, they found a solution and make it look f'in hot in the meanwhile. So will you.

Edited by Quadratic - April 18 2007 at 7:28pm

Quadratic wrote: I tend to go with the mentality of playing up either one or the other (either length or volume, too much of both = Dolly Parton).

So True!!

I'm really sorry about your hair! I did the same thing 3 weeks ago, I call it cotton candy hair, sticky and never dries. Trust me, you don't need to cut it all off. It needs to be babied and really well taken care of, probably a little cut for the ends, this will get better!!

xoxsn0whitexox wrote: So.....the verdict is in...there is nothing they can do to the back of my head where is rubber...so I have to shave my head....this guy is one of th best in orlando....here goes my life

 Oh no girlie.. So sorry to hear that..