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I`m looking for advice.

About six months ago I started highlighting my hair with that stuff called Sun-In that`s supposed to give you blond streaks and some of that Lighten Up Brighten Up creme. Then I decided I didn`t like it and put Feria Brazilian Brown in my hair. It was okay, but it didn`t stay in very long and lightened up within a month or so.

What I was trying to do was grow my hair long from a supershort cut that I hated. I had gotten all the layers to one length and the back of my hair to about the top of my shoulders, and that took about a year.

So, a few months later it`s looking a little limp. My hair is thick, fine, and straight. My mother`s always harassing me to get a perm for my flat hair but I was trying to hold out for some length since permed hair is drier and doesn`t grow as fast.

So finally in June I gave in and went to the salon. I told the stylist I wanted a little body and curl, but that I DID have color on my hair and I used Sun-In, which I remembered was supposed to be very hard on hair.

So, after all this information, the stylist proceeded to totally WRECK my hair. It was so overprocessed that by the time she was done I had hair that was curly ONLY when it was wet; when it`s dry it just sticks out flat like cotton candy. On top of this, the color came up and it`s now a really ugly copper yellow, PLUS my roots are showing from all the lightening so I now I have two-tone, wrecked, overprocessed shoulderlength junk on my head.

I have just left it alone for about two months and have been using every conditioning product on the market, plus giving it baths every few days in olive oil. It`s in a little better condition than it was, and I would consider keeping it for the length if it weren`t for the color. I`m tempted to try a Feria or something over it, but I`m worried it will just make matters worse.

What do you think? Should I try to color it or just give up on my year`s worth of growth and get it cut off, or tough it out for a couple more months and then color?

Thanks,

chen

Chen, I don`t know if you tried them, but a product I think works well is Cholesterol. You can find it in most drug stores, a lot of times they put them with products for african-americans. I know it sounds gross, but it`s not. It`s not the actual substance, just the proteins from it. After I stripped my hair a few years ago it was the only thing that brought it back. Every 2 or 3 days I would wet my hair with cool water, goop a lot of it on my hair, cover with a plastic shower cap and then wrap my head in a hot towel and leave on for 20 minutes. Rinse thoroughly and if you must wash your hair use a very mild shampoo and only wash the roots, not the ends. Also, have you tried some silicone based frizz tamer? It might help with the frizz

Good luck!

if u want to repair ure hair then condition ure hair every night it`ll take time but it`s worth it!! i

If you want to color your hair go to a salon that specializes in color correction. There is no way that you should do anything else to it on your own. Sun-In is a terrible product. Apparently it deposits some kind of metal in your hair and after that it doesn`t handle other chemical processes well. The stylist who messed up your hair should have done a test strand first.

My daughter had a color disaster that ended up with her looking like Ronald McDonald. We finally went to a salon where they worked on it for five hours but eventually made it look like human hair again. She has been back a couple of times since and I am happy to say that her beautiful blonde hair is back and looking fairly healthy. That takes an expert and is worth whatever you have to pay for it. I am sure that a good salon could work wonders for you. Go for a consultation first.

Good luck.