Hello,

I went to a salon set on putting beach blonde highlights in my already natural dark blonde hair when my stylist told me my natural color was doing nothing for my skin tone and suggested I still get my highlights but to change my base color to a warm brown color. I decided to trust her and let her do it.

It does make my skin look really fresh and healthy.. but I think it might be too dark for my own taste and I want to change it back to more of a blonde come my touch up.

I have 2 Questions;

#1 - is it possible to achieve my blonde again without really damaging my hair. My hair is naturally wavy so i'm a little prone to frizz on sticky hot days etc. I'd like to stay away from bleaching.

#2- my natural blonde was made of of strands of corse black, baby fine really blonde hair and red normal hair. The stylist who put my color in did not mention that there was any red in the color but my new brown in the light casts a hint of red.. My hair always did this naturally so I was wondering if its possible that my natural hair is doing this or the hues of the new dye. I am worried about this because I hear if you have red in your hair it's impossible to go back to blonde.  

If anyone who knows about this subject could get back to me that would be a great help. I'm really depressed over this new change.

Thanks

Ashley 

1:Color does not lift color, therefore you can't achieve a lighter color on your base without "bleaching"/decolorizing. You will see damage if you have to decolorize your base.

2:It sounds like your hair is actually RED so there shouldn't be a huge problem getting back to a blonde, but you will always see that red tone. If it was in your natural hair then more than likely it will show up in another warm color applied to your head. If you do plan on decolorizing your base, maybe you should tone it with a violet base in order to get rid of some of those warm tones that your hairdresser thought you should have.

Don't take this as a professional opinion, I'm currently a hairstyling student and i'm still learning :)

Thanks for the advice! That's pretty much what I figured out on my own after some searching.

I think what I plan on doing is trying to get this color to fade and go back in a month for a touch up on just my foils (and some extra ones underneath to break up the color so it doesn't look SO dark) and let the brown grow out and eventually get back to a blonde.

Maybe you'll be finished school by the time i get through all of this and you can do my hair!! :) I'm from Newfoundland too! Your hair color was what i originally wanted!

Thanks again for the advice

oh really? ican do your hair if you want! i'm already doing it!

growing out the brown is gonna take supppper long!

i think you should go foils all over

Really?? Where are you doing it? Give me some contact info and I'll set it up with you :)

I'd love to have someone my age do it who can relate to me! I think i'm going to take the foil all over route.

Anywho let me know! :) I'm looking for a new stylist!