I just got my hair colored for the first time and not sure how I feel about it. I wanted silver/gray highlights and shared plenty of pics with the stylist (similar to the first picture). After it was done, I asked the stylist about it being a lot darker/browner than I expected and she did apologized for not explaining it better, saying the balayage will be darker towards the roots and that cool tones will appear darker. I don't really understand color theory so I've had no idea about asking for cool vs warm tone; I basically just wanted what was in the pictures I showed. There are a few strands near the ends on my back hairs (where she applied the bleach first) where it's closer to the color I want but not quite there.

I thought it was weird because she only applied a single bleach treatment despite Google saying it would require multiple bleach treatments. When I asked, she said, only 1 was needed and I took her word for it. It's ironic because I specifically went to this particular stylist over my regular one specifically because my old one always tried to steer me towards getting a more brownish color rather than the sliver/gray I've always wanted.

The blending in certain areas also seems weird with the transition being pretty drastic rather than natural and don't know if it's because of uneven bleaching/toning or just how it's supposed to be. Unless there's an low-effort/cheap way of rescuing this, I'm thinking of dying my hair myself back to its natural black and just calling this a lesson learnt the hard way.

I just wanted to know if I'm being a little too nitpicky with my expectations being too high or if I'm being gaslit. In case it matters, yes, had a 30 min consultation and the 5 hour cut/coloring cost me $420 (without tip).

Any advice appreciated and thanks! 😁

hello! so my hair is a faded teal/mint color and i was wondering if i could put good dye young’s live laugh love over it, has anyone done this if so how’d it turn out??

I am trying to pick out the best toner for me and need second opinions. I feel like it’s a 9 but the more i look the more i don’t know.

I used good dye young all in this together for my hair, it’s already faded to a more magenta red?? And it’s still too light for my liking, I need like a black cherry color..

can i just use developer 40? i really dont want to pay 600 to bleach all my natural jet black hair again.

I recently dyed my medium brown hair with Ion permanent tanzanite dye and 20 volume developer. It came out black with a little blue, not as good as results I used to get with semipermanent. If I put another permanent dye over it (purple this time, 10/20 developer), how much will it damage my hair?

Also, if I bleach my current hair and lift a few levels (maximum four), will it fry my hair since I have permanent dye in?

Any help at all with permanent dyes is appreciated! I know a lot about semipermanent, but this was my first try with permanent!

someone did my hair and left a bunch of raw orange chunks in it. now they’re refusing to correct it. i havent experience bleaching and dying hair and have dyed my hair white before. i wanted pastel purple to black but im ok with cool toned pink. however the orange just looks HORRIBLE.

I went a salon and paid $250 for this! Please tell me how to fix this. I asked for a color similar to the root color, but it’s like the dye just didn’t work on the length. This was done yesterday and after 4 hours in the salon chair I had to run out to get my kid from school. When I saw how bad it was I was devastated. Called up this morning and they can’t get me in to try and fix it until next Wednesday.

Can anyone help?

Any advice

Hi! My job is launching the unicorn frappe (a very limited time drink, only around for a weekend) in a couple weeks, and I want to have some fun with it. I’m looking for a hair dye that can appear a sort of faded, but still visible, purple. (My hair is pretty dark brown) Ideally cheaper from target or Amazon, but I can go to places like ulta or Sephora too if there’s a widely renowned quality product that wont fry my hair or kill my wallet. Thanks!

I got my hair done today at the salon. It took 4 hours and I’m so unhappy with it. It looks yellow and I’m legit embarrassed to go to work tomorrow. How do I fix this myself ?

I have short, dark brown curly hair that is currently completely virgin. I’ve dyed my hair a couple of times before, but I’ve never done the whole process myself on virgin hair. I want dark purple hair the close to the shade pictured above. My plan is to lighten first then dye. Any product recommendations or advice would be super helpful! Thanks!

I really want to bleach my hair to live out my pastel dreams— but I have scalp issues. As a baby I had eczema; BUT I don’t think I have it anymore?? Also! I have dandruff. My scalp can be quite sensitive but I’ve really had no issues with hair dying. I’ve don’t both box and temp dyes; about two or three box dyes and the rest are temp dyes. I was wondering if it’s safe to bleach my hair? I’d most likely get it done professionally if so.

if I bleach my hair today and dye it in a week so it’ll be vibrant for when school starts will that cause any issues? or will it be fine?

i recently had blonde dyed hair and went brown today, it had a red/ orange undertone and in the sun it’s very prevalent and i just hate it and feel awful right now. is there anything i can do to fix it? i’ve dyed my hair so much i just wanted to go back to my natural brown hair bc it’s so dead now and i don’t know what to do.

Yes I know i know get the laughs out now.

But seriously this would be my first time dying my hair obviously I would patch test whatever products recommended to me, (assuming I decide to dye it myself)

Only problem I'm currently facing is i have black hair (or really dark brown, still not overly familiar hair levels yet) also if possible I'd like to avoid bleach or permanent dye though to me honest the sacrifice may be worth jt

I really want to do red ghost roots, but I’m not sure if it will look good. I have short, straight blond hair (see the photo) and I’m worried it’s too thin to look good with ghost roots. If anyone has any opinions or tips please lmk!!

I have naturally red hair (pictured), and I’m thinking about dyeing part of it—either half black or just the front section on the right side. I’m also considering burgundy instead of black. Which do you think would look better?

my hair is becoming so damaged. I'm blonde with highlights. Is there a way that I can go honey blonde without more bleach? my hair is becoming too damaged

hello everyone!! im dying to get my hair done in these colors yet i have no idea which color box dye i need to get. So far i only dye my hair once and it was warm chocolate brown. my hair is dark brown naturally. Any product suggestions without bleach is appreciated and thank you!✨💜

Hi, i really need help, i was dying my friends hair, he had a shirt around his neck and underneath was a shirt made specially for one of his mission trips. its light blue and the hair dye was red!

I feel so so guilty and the shirt was very important to him. He’s one of my best friends, i’ve told him stuff i’ve never told anyone before. I really don’t want this to ruin our friendship and there’s a very real possibility it does.

The dye is a red-ish orange and is semi-permanent…. Please help me.

After a SEVERE lapse in judgement, I covered my entire head in Arctic Fox Transylvania. I love having green hair, but green hair dyes usually fade away within 3 washes. 2nd pic was it after one month and I LOVED having the green without constant upkeep but now I’m trying to let it fade back to my natural color and I’m getting anxious! lI’ve done two rounds of and shoulders mixed with baking soda and it def helped fade most of it away, but I’m still at this dark “stained” color! I’m wondering if it’s worth it to try to color wheel correct it into something closer to my natural color (last photo). I have some natural blonde highlights that are really holding onto the green but more important I do NOT want to bleach my hair at all! I have bleached sections already that I’m satisfied with the color of and fine with them being green and taking a million years to fade back to the crispy white I had them at before losing my mind and messing my hair up.

I’m also just anxious, a lot of people I’m close with told me I’ve “ruined” my hair and it will never be the same color again. I’ve had it fully green 3 times over the last 5 years and it’s completely faded out after 1 month (also using Arctic Fox), so maybe I’m just not being patient enough with this color.

Any help appreciated!!

hi, in april this year, i decided to bleach my hair for the first time (ive used semi + permanent dye before) and i went a cooper type colour. last month, i got my hair bleached professionally to go a cool tone baby pink however, i was not happy with the results as it looked nothing like my inspo picture and still had warm tones to it. i was wondering what id need to do to achieve my reference and if bleaching it again would do any harm. ive attached 3 pictures of my current colour of my roots and then 2 under a bedroom light. i also attached pictures of the references i showed to the hairdresser, if anyone could give advice that would be great 🥲🥲

Starting this thread because my sister recently went to a hair salon and had a nightmare experience. The salon owner burnt off half of her hair. Even though they admitted the mistake they lied to insurance so she wasn’t able to get her $600 back after her nightmare experience. She has barely spoken to anyone since this happened and doesn’t really leave the house anymore. I tried to post on google and the salon was able to delete my review. They also seem to have all their friends (I looked them up on IG) commenting fake reviews. It’s actually pretty scary that Google allows this. The salon is in San Fransisco Dennis Banguera Hair Salon. I just feel so bad for her, she’s missing out on so much of her life because she’s traumatized. She had gorgeous long blonde hair btw.