highlight gone bad
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Forum Name: Hair Color
Forum Description: The tricks and tribulations of changing your hair color
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Printed Date: November 23 2025 at 12:10pm
Topic: highlight gone bad
Posted By: bamagirl
Subject: highlight gone bad
Date Posted: November 10 2005 at 9:38pm
| Help!! I had my hair highlighted for the first time today. I told the stylist that I wanted subtle highlights and I wanted it to compliment my natural color which is light brown with some golden tones from summer. I also told her That I didn't want anything drastic. I just wanted to add some shine and enhance my natural color. Well, My 3 year old aked if someone drew on my hair. The top of my hair looks like it was frosted with white and yellow large streaks. What do I do? I want it out? She says I can have her tame the blonde down or have her color all my hair to a light brown. |
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Posted By: nancy143
Date Posted: November 10 2005 at 10:49pm
| i know people who have had similar problems and went and got like a dark blonde or light brown to put on what you have and it looked great. |
Posted By: bamagirl
Date Posted: November 10 2005 at 10:58pm
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thanks for the info I am just freaking out because I don't wnat to damage my hair and end up looking even worse!!!!
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Posted By: Rebekah
Date Posted: November 10 2005 at 11:43pm
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It sounds like your colorist bleached highlights without toning them. She should not charge you to fix it. She needs to go back and tone them. |
Posted By: bamagirl
Date Posted: November 11 2005 at 8:30am
| I do know that she used bleach but I never heard anything about a toner. |
Posted By: swede
Date Posted: November 11 2005 at 9:09am
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yeah, I think you'll need to tone the hair. Try a medium blonde toner, to make the highlights less obvious. |
Posted By: KB
Date Posted: November 12 2005 at 2:50pm
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See, this is why I'm afraid to get highlights in my hair. You go in and explain that you want subtle color to complement your natural hair and you end up with bleach blonde streaks. What's the matter with using color to highlight hair? Bleach is not always needed! I'm sorry this happened to you. Yes, the stylist should tone them and that should bring them to a nicer color. But do yourself a favor afterwards and ditch this stylist in favor of another, at least for color anyway. A highlight job today should never come out looking like your hair got frosted. Yikes. |
Posted By: nancy143
Date Posted: November 12 2005 at 9:20pm
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i wanted to say, my highlights turned out brassy at the top when my stylist done my new growth and the old color was a pretty blonde.and like you i worried myself to death and came to this site for advice.someone had metioned a toner called born blonde to help even out what i had. well i figured it couldn't hurt because either way i would have to find someone to correct it if it didn't work out. i used blistfully blonde and now my hair is pretty even as far as color.i still have my highlights but it darkend it down some so i would not look so fake.my point is that the toner toned it down which might be a could solution for you and it is a semi color.good luck on a new sylist, alot of them do what they want mostly and seem to slack off on quality after a while of going.
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Posted By: KellyH
Date Posted: November 13 2005 at 12:35pm
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If you are going to try it yourself, even a toner, please do a strand test first. ------------- 
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Posted By: bamagirl
Date Posted: November 14 2005 at 10:23pm
| Thanks for all the advice. I spoke to the owner of the salon and she promised to make things right. The stylist claimed that she never heard me say I wanted subtle highlights. She put some brown color on my hair, washed it, dryed it and then I made her do it again. She was not real happy with me, she said that I was going to barely be able to tell that I had gotten highlights. I said that was what I wanted in the first place. I don't think she knew what the word subtle actually meant, which is really rather sad!!! She cut my hair better than anyone ever has and I am 34 years old!!I don't know if I can even go back to her for a cut! I tried to leave everything on good terms. The lesson hear is "Don't let someone color your hair without a reccomendation from someone they have colored before!" She came highly reccommended for her great cuts!! |
Posted By: KellyH
Date Posted: November 14 2005 at 10:26pm
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Ack! That's how I ended up with Chesnut lowlights and had to bleach them to what you see in my sig myself. -------------
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