My hair is purplish red..just great

I hope I can get a little help here. If I had the $200 I'd go to the salon today. I will NEVER highlight my hair at home again.

So, I went last week and had all over color at the salon, a nice dark reddish brown. I should have left it at that. I had wanted to get a few highlights after the color there, but my husband thought it was too expensive.

So, yesterday, I used Loreal Colour Strands and tried to highlight a little myself. I stupidly washed out the product too soon...right at the orangy stage. Why I did that, I don't know. So, I felt that I had these too chunky highlights, since I can never control those brush on things and don't know why I thought to try it AGAIN. So, this morning I had the bright idea to try putting Natural Instincts in Dark Auburn brown over the top. Now, those areas that were orange are more of a purple burgundy crayon red. It's hard to describe. It just doesn't look right.

So, my question is...could I go and get a permanent color and color over this whole mess? Or do I just have to wait for this to fade out? Will it wash out in 28 shampoos..because if so I will get 28 shampoos in between today and tomorrow when we're leaving for out of town.

I can't believe how stupid I was. Any help at all would be appreciated.

Julie

What I ended up doing was getting Natural Instincts in Medium Ash Brown and putting that over the top of the whole mess. It tuned it down some and I feel like I can go out in public. You can still see some red tones in there, though. It's way darker than I'd like my hair though. I'd reallylike to go and bleach out as much as I can and then put a color over the top and stop...but I don't know if I should. I hope I leanred my lesson this time.