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I Should Have Left Well Enough Alone!

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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: August 02 2025 at 2:28pm


Topic: I Should Have Left Well Enough Alone!
Posted By: AlliSoCal
Subject: I Should Have Left Well Enough Alone!
Date Posted: May 16 2008 at 1:49pm
Hello,
 
I am new here and hoping someone can help, please! My nautural color is a reddish-brownish, auburnish?
 
Here is what I did:
 
About 5 months ago, I used ( I think ) Maxi Blonde. It turned my hair all sorts of colors, ranging from white, to gold to orange. Went and had corrective color done, which turned my hair almost back to normal, but not quite and it did not last. About 2 months later, the orangey look came back.
 
About a month ago, I went had asked for a dirty blonde color. She did something and it came out, ok, not what I was asking for, but ok. Again, it is starting to go orange.
 
Now (and this is my main problem) I have my natural, dark roots showing, then below that, about 2-3 inches of another shade a bit lighter (from the root growth that she didn't completely match), then the rest of my hair, so it looks like I have 3 colors.
 
I wanted to go buy dye that is closest to my natural color, but then I have the problem of all the 3 different shades dyeing diffrently??
 
Any suggestions please, please (other than just letting it grow out)??
 
Thank you very much!
 


Replies:
Posted By: Rebekah
Date Posted: May 16 2008 at 10:44pm
Well, it depends on what you want to achieve.  If you want to work with the roots now then you could dye lowlights into the rest of your hair.  Pick a shade to match your roots, then do a tint back (add the colors back that are missing, usually red) on the sections below before adding the darker color.  It's possible to just dye one section down on the bottom to match the middle one then dye over that to match the root color.  It all has to blend though.  I hope this helps. 
 
Rebekah

Posted By: r4ch3l
Date Posted: May 17 2008 at 10:28am
I'd just use a protien filler in the dye, that'd probably help it all even out


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Posted By: AlliSoCal
Date Posted: May 18 2008 at 12:50pm
Thank you


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