Growing out an awful short cut

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   OK my hair has been through so much since New Years Eve. Kind of a long story. My natural color is like a medium beige blonde but I have been getting highlights since I was about 10 yrs old. Granted I usually only got highlights at the most twice a year. On new years I went to a salon to get highlights and the girl really screwed up my hair. She used 40% bleach on my highlights and then in between my foils and roots she put some kind of color on my hair. Well, my hair turned neon orange with white streaks. I went back 3 days later so another girl could try and fix it and she added some lowlights to my hair which then left me with neon orange, white and green streaks. Needless to say I ended up having to cut my long hair to a chin length a line. Well I started going to a new salon and the girl there fixed me all up. After a couple of times going to her she was able to pretty much highlight all the orange out of my hair. Although, I ended up being platinum in the process which didn't look all that bad on me. I just hated to always have to touch up the roots. After about 2-3 inches of regrowth I asked if she could start adding some lowlights into my hair so I could just let my natural color start coming in. So, she added lowlights, but way too many. I was practically a brunette when she was done. She also razor cut my hair at the same time to give me real choppy layers. Well, I about died when I saw how dark my hair was. I went in the next day and asked if she could just add a few highlights around my face, cuz it was so dark. She decided to give me a bleach wash. Well, the wash turned the lowlights yucky orange. So, now she heavily foils my hair to remove the orange and that turned me white, white, with no root. I then started to cry. Well, she decided to add lowlights again which turned out flat and horrid. My hair looked like a wig. I just left the salon. The next day when I washed my hair and it dried it it was a complete fuzz ball, my hair was so broken off that my new hair cut actually looked like I was on chemo therapy. I went to another salon refered to me by a friend and the stylist told me the only thing I could do was let the horrible color gradually wash out, seeing how it was a semi perm color and just condition the crap out of it. Come back in 5-6 weeks when I have some regrowth and we would take it from there. Well, the color was gradually fading but it stained my hair this yucky orangey color and my ends were still fried. One side of my hair broke off shorter then the other. The only thing to do was trim it up a little and get an asymmetrical cut which I absolutely hate. So, now i have this ugly cut and ugly color. Ok so fast forward 5 weeks. I did treatments every 2 days on my hair and it was actually starting to look like hair minus the ugly color. I made an appointment to get the color fixed. I go in and I have close to an inch of regrowth. The stylist tells me she is going to put a toner on my hair that lifts and tones at the same time. She says it will blend my roots and tone the orange to blonde. It has a blue/violet base. So, I am excited to finally look normal again. Well, she puts this toner on my hair leaves it on few minutes rinses me and OMG I could not believe my eyes. The ends were blonde but my roots were neon orange. I once again start to cry. I just left the salon and cried all the way home. I bought a medium blonde semi perm color and put that on my hair. And of course as it is washing out it is staining my hair orange, I used one with a neutral color. My roots are fading an orange color again just not as neon. I go once again to see a stylist at yet another salon and tell her i just want my hair dyed dark. She tells me she won't do it cuz she knows I am going to hate being dark and then I will be trying to go blonde again from dark which is going to make it even worse. She tells me to just try and bear it for at least 8 weeks use a purple shampoo and condition the crap out of it again. So, I can't help but wonder what she is going to do when I go back in 8 weeks? She said she would highlight my roots so they can start blending but yet leave me with some of my natural color so I can just start letting my hair grow out.  It has been 2 weeks since my last hair color disaster. I hair is still all choppy and short like almost to my ears. I hate it I really do look so ugly. I just want to hide under a rock until this all grows out. I guess this is Gods way of getting back at me for being so vain. I decided to start this journal so I can keep track of some of my progress. I was really worried that I might have stunted my hairs growth forever from the last color episode because it had been almost 2 weeks and I wasn't seeing any new root regrowth. Well, today I noticed that I have a about a 1/6 of an inch showing so at least I know it is growing. I am not sure how fast my hair grows. I know that my mom, dad and brother grow hair super fast so i hope I have the same genes. And we all have super thick hair. I am leaving for London Dec 30th. My goal is to not color or cut my hair till right before my trip. I am hoping that my hair will grow enough that I can at least get some kind of cute cut for my trip then let it grow out from there. I really don't want my hair super long again because it's not that flattering on me. I want it to about my collar bone. So I can wear clip ins if I want it long and not wear them if I want a shorter look. I just want to get rid of this ridiculous asymetrical short cut. I need my hair to grow about 5 inches to get to my collar bone. So, I am looking at a year to have it the length I want. So, I have started taking vitamins. I was taking the GNC nourishair but I switched to the GNC hair, skin and nails vitamins because it has 3000 mcg of biotin and 3 mg of silica. Deep conditioning treatments very 2 days for a while. No cuts and no color for 4 months. I will be using the straightner on it cuz I have naturally curly hair. I measured my hair. I tried to measure the shortest pieces. Left side piece temple down in front of ear is about 4 inches maybe 3 1/2. Top crown piece 3 1/2 inches. Right side temple down in front of ear is 5 inches. I have alot of choppy pieces that are only 2 inches. Some of my hair was sticking up about a week ago but they seem to be laying down more. I literally hate my hair right now. Here's to hoping that I can at least get my hair done a short aline style by time I leave on my trip. I wash my hair with pureology nano works with shimmer lights mixed in and use it's a 10 hair mask. I am going to buy some stuff from eqyss to see if it will help make it grow faster. It works on horses, maybe it will work on me.