Hello.  I hope someone in this forum can help.  My natural hair color is very dark brown, almost black.  For the past year and a half, I've had my hair blonde.  I absolutely love it.  A few months ago, the stylist I'd been with through the entire transformation moved out of state, and I had to find a new one.  I did, and I think she did a pretty good job of matching the color up.  I've had 3 visits with her so far (every 4 weeks).  I need to go so often because my natural color is so dark.  Anyway, here is the problem.......I'm noticing a bunch of things with my hair........It's shorter, and I did NOT get a hair cut in the past 3 months.  It's thinner looking.  It's not styling the way it used to because there is less of it.  I'm kind of freaking out, because I don't know what to do.  I love the blonde, and do not want to go back to dark brown.  I didn't have this problem with the other stylist.  Can anyone provide any insight.  I only changed one thing on my end.  My diffuser broke a couple months ago, and I couldn't find a new one.  When my hair came out the same way as it did without the diffuser, I didn't bother to purchase one.  Could that be a factor in all of this?

Thank you in advance for your reply.  Please HELP!!!