I messed up my hair color. Please help.

Hi:  I know it seems like it is a bad color - perhaps it is more of just the dramatic change you've experienced.  In the pictures of your hair, the overall color seems to have evened out the blotches and uneven color about which you wrote. 

That said, you don't like the warmth in the color.  Perhaps something to think about is going to a Sally's Beauty Supply and asking for their advice for a toner (maybe something temporary like "Born Blonde") to tone down the golden warmth.  If you read Claude's sticky post on the Introduction to Hair Color, you'll be better able to understand what color is present in your hair that you don't like and what color combination will counteract it.  It seems that perhaps you have a yellow-orange tone (goldish) and that a blue-violet based toner will help to counteract it.  I'm not absolutely postive as I haven't ever used a toner (but I do know that a blue-violet base in my color helps to counteract the prevalence of goldish tones in my own root touchups.)  What ever you try -- including toner --- take the time to do a strand test before applying to your whole head.  Best of luck to you.  Maria

I can't really see what color you currently have, maybe a new pic in the sunlight and not so close up?

So the 7A that you had was that virgin hair?  Did you add some highlights to virgin hair?  Then you added 8G on top?  Now your hair is too warm? 

A nice rich light light brown would be darker than your natural color, 7A right? 

You might try letting this fade and see what happens with the color.  Give it a few weeks, unless you look ORANGE, which you don't, at least not in those pics, just a little Red, but not bad at all. 

If you don't like what happens when it fades then get some Colorfix and remove all the color.  Those highlights will be back and will need to be delt with again.  Depending on what color you end up with, this will be your natural undertones, if you started out with virgin hair, choose an ash shade--if it's orange a blue based that matches the same tone as the orange; if it's red then choose a green shade that matches the same tone as the red.  Pull out those highlights and don't color them at all.  Once you've colored all the hair minus the highlights, then choose a light neutral shade to fix those blotchy spots where the bleach bled around the highlights, just brush the dye on the spots that got too blotchy.  Finally, get a toner for just those highlights, a ash blue/violet toner if they are bleached YELLOW or PALE YELLOW and tone those highlights.  Hopefully this will blend everything together. 

For future touch ups just touch up the roots with the same ash base color and foil or cap in some highlights once every three months, make sure you bleach them to the same color as the last ones and that you tone them again with the same toner used to blend the hair with last time. 

A lot of work, good luck and I hope this helps...please remember to strand test prior to trying any colors on the entire head. 

Rebekah

OK, HERE IS A PHOTO OF MY HAIR TODAY OUTSIDE IN AN OVERCAST WEATHER DAY.  HUSBAND TOOK PHOTOS.  PLEASE GIVE ME ADVICE.  THIS IS AFTER I ADDED THE COLOR SPA COLOR OF BLONDE AS STATED ABOVE.

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Can anyone tell me what I can possibly do to help my hair problem? 

I know it looks horrible.  This happened about 10 years ago, and I went to Visible Changes.  It took eight hours and $300 to fix it.  It worked.  I had to sign a waiver that I would not sue if my hair fell out then.  I don't know anyone to go to here.  I don't live in the same city anymore.

I did NOT add a toner to this at all.  Sorry.