Hairdresser problem
Posted By: sm on 2006-11-18
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I need opinions, please. I have pretty heavy blonde highlights and go for a hair touch up last night (normally I just get hightlights and nothing else, no toners, etc. because it blends great with my hair). I say I need a few more hightlights at my root to brighten it up a little, you know for the holidays and all. This probably would have cost me around 40 and did the job. Well, she starts telling me that the root is much darker than the rest ? Well, yeah, usually is. She said that I should do a *color* at the root that will be close to my natural hair color but brighten it up AND some lowlites that same color AND some highlights stating that this way it will be more blended. Okay..whatever you say. This was only my 2nd time with this girl and the last time she did a good job. So I go for it thinking she is the hairdresser, right? Well she leaves it all on an hour and a half (apparently the lady before me who just came in for a cut ended up being talked into a whole new color too!) Hmmm. So, close to 2 hours later, the regrowth and lowlites are red and I see very little highlight or blonde! Hello, doesn't *blend* at all and in fact my husband thought I went auburn! Of course with the salon lighting you really can't tell until you get home and see it in different lighting. I normally have neutral blonde hair but now with these very noticeable streaks and roots of strawberry blonde. The kicker is it cost me 135 because it was a double process. So my question is, do you think they sometimes do things just to up the price so they make more money even if they know it is not the best thing to do? I know in my heart if she did what I asked it would have been fine. I am going back today for a *toner* to cut some of the red but I am really MAD because I know now it will appear darker overall which sort of defeats the whole reason I went in the first place! Not to mention what all these processes are doing to my hair. What do I say/do? I know what I'd like to do but I'm pretty sure that I'd end up in jail. Thanks for any advice/opinions.
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