balayage leaves me with 6 colors in hair-help!

Hi everyone,

I moved to the mid east 2 years ago. Since then I have had nothing but major hair disasters..

I had a hairdresser give me a debby harry style of highlights which left me with a dark brown base and white stripes around my face that burnt off the day after anyway. I went to another hairdresser who tried to salvage it by making the hair blonder and warmer, and while it looked better I decided to dye it dark brown.

I then had beautiful (as they call it in france) california balayage light orangy highlights which I then added more of. I went back a few months later as my roots were out to my ears..and he gave me zebra stripes through the dark roots (even though I insisted he use the same technique). I looked like a golden zebra. He then tried to cover the roots with a diacolor, basically giving me the grown out look again. But he then combed it through the rest of my hair! leaving my formerly golden highlights a horrible light ash brown.

How on earth do I get my hair back to medium brown? It's now a mixture of ash and orange (I didnt even know that was possible), and dark brown near the nape. I have about 6 different colours in my hair, and some white bits that he says is 'dead' hair and cannot by dyed. His advice, dont worry about your hair so much. He is supposed to be the top hairdresser out here..there's no one else I can go to..

There is a beauty supply store out here, selling mainly low end crappy european items..I know I need a filler but no one here seems to understand what I'm talking about..when I complain that new color isnt taking, they just tell me the hair is dead.

Any advice please? I'm going crazy here..


Edited by desert rose - March 18 2007 at 5:35pm

I can't help you with color .... but if you are looking for products I'm sure you can look and order them over the web ...... just google "hair products" and I'm sure you'll find a bunch of stuff!