HI,

6 months ago I got talked into highlighting my medium brown hair , problem is I have natural highlights esp in summer so  the new highlights were brassy and bad. I went to salon a month later and had a Wella color glaze in a shade similar to my natural color. This was working until now, I went back Friday and the stylist said I needed more color to hide the growing out highlights, I refused to get another 200 bucks of ugly highlights , I asked about semi perm color in my natural tone and she said no lets do a glaze. She used a chocolate brown shade. It is so awful. My skin tone looks off (I am fair skinned Irish and Italain and now I look sick) the color is totally flat and all the pretiness of my brown hair and the shade variation like when it seemed more chestnuty and other times darker is gone. I spent 110 on a cut and glaze and its uglier than natural color and worse than I could have done at home. the werid thing is its darka nd awful but sdome gray shows thru (only 30 so just a teense gray)

This is supposed to fade with 5 to 7 weeks according to salon but I have a bridal shower and family wedding during this time and I look awful

what can I do? I can't go back to that salon. Should I home color?

Well, here are my two cents...

Since the glaze is considered a "semi", I would use a clarifying shampoo to get some of it out.  Your previous highlighted hair might have been too porous and taken the glaze darker.  One thing that I know you should not do is try to "lighten" it with color.  COLOR WILL NOT LIGHTEN COLOR.  This will only make your hair darker.

I have used baking soda in my shampoo (as a clarifyier)  before with some success, but use a good conditioner after this because it is kind of drying.  Some suggest Tide detergent, but I have not tried this. 

Good luck,

Braelyn

Maybe you could give Neutrogena Clarifying Shampoo a try.  A couple weeks ago I had a brown filler, brown hair colour and lowlights put into my very pale blonde hair.  I hated it, it didn't suit me whatsoever~ (nor was it what I wanted).  All I wanted to do was to get my blonde hair back~ as fast as possible. 

Problem was~ I have been lightening my hair for years with bleach and was very concerned about damage~ so I didn't want to mess around with more colours on my hair or more bleach, etc.

I went and bought Neutrogena Clarifying Shampoo and washed my hair daily with that.  I also did some hot oil treatments~ not to keep my hair well conditioned~ (which you must do when using clarifying shampoos or other 'soaps' to help fade).  The oil was to help fade the hair colour out as well as well.  (The clarifying shampoo really helps to fade the hair colour/dye and apparently hot oil treatments help to fade hair dye as well~ I noticed more of a difference with the Neutrogena though). 

Both helped enough to fade my hair back to a yucky blonde colour~ but at least that yucky light colour was light enough that we were able to put a light blonde toner on it and my hair is blonde again.  I also used Palmolive dish soap as well~ it helped as well, but it also REALLY made my hair very dry.

If you use either of those fading methods~ the Neutrogena or the Palmolive, please condition like crazy and deep condition as well~ those soaps are VERY drying to your hair.

Give it a shot~ hopefully it can fade your hair enough that you can then go back and have a colour put on that suits you far better. 

Good luck~ I hope you get your hair back to how you like it for your special events :)

t.

thanks for all the advice! I tried some palmolive in my shampoo and I think it helped a little bit on the areas that had been highligthed. I am going to get that Neutrogena and hope it helps. I think after it fades completely I am going to leave it natural and just deal witht he highlights if they are bad growing out maybe i can get a new person to fix but i have learned my lesson. I had such a pretty hair color I should not have messed with it.

so glad I found this forum!