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| - Having tricky, porous, extremely damaged blonde hair, I was counting on this salon to successfully apply highlights and lowlights. Or, at least, not make things worse.
It was my first time at HAIR. I spoke with Jennifer, my colorist, at length before the color. (my natural hair color = level 7 dark blonde ash tone.) I mentioned that my hair is so damaged that it ALWAYS pulls undertones of GREEN with ashy, neutral, or even gold color. This leaves two safe options: non-color-deposit bleach for highlights, and copper-base lowlights (I asked for a level 5 - med/dark brown). I also said that I did not want a midtone (very light brown) color woven in, because it fades to a nasty brassy faded blonde within three washes.
My stylist came back with four colors for a weave. Wow- four? My first thought was: why complicate things when my hair is already volatile? As she was weaving all these into my hair, she explained that one was an ultra high-lift (read: color depositor), one was a "honey blonde" (darker gold high lift?), one was a orangey light brown midtone, and the last was a darker lowlight. Fast forward: after the color was processed, it didn't look terrible, but it also didn't look quite right. Then came the cut- a bob (which I requested) which ended up with strangely uneven pieces on either side.
Upon closer inspection, I realized the problem with the color: the tint-depositing ultra high-lift had turned my hair a nice greenish-bluish-whitish color. Just as I had predicted and warned about. And the other light tone, the honey blonde, had completely bleached the previously-colored part of my hair strand while leaving 1.5 inches of roots a murky light brown. The highlight result? A courtney love circa 1992 root look blended with nearly translucent pieces of light green hair. The midtones, of course, looked bland, wierd, and orangey even before washing out. The darker tones weren't anywhere close to a level 5 - more like between a 6 and 7 - but at least they were the copper tone I had requested.
However, on top of these color choice problems, there was the application. I was trying to figure out why the color looked like an aggregate muddy dark blonde - and then I looked closely in the mirror. The color is completely uneven. I have rows of color where the root is light blonde and the rest of the strands are a patchy orange midtone. I have chunks of color where the middle of the strand is a tentative copper but the end is almost blonde and the root is a patchy orange. I realize that I have porous hair, but for God's sake - I have never had this color-evenness problem before, and my hair has been in much worse condition in the past.
Overall, it's not a complete disaster, but there's something markedly odd-looking about it. The worst of the blotchy, uneven strands are only in a few places, but looking over my whole head I had a hard time finding a section that was colored completely solidly from root to tip. And worse, my green hair (the kind that is IMPOSSIBLE to get rid of once it's been summoned) is back. The green hair I just spent $800 and 6 months getting rid of.
I think I'll go back tomorrow and see what they can do for me - they at least need to acknowledge the patchy color and try to give me a color rinse that will tone down the icy green.
P.S. I did get a nice hand massage, but there was no scalp massage. Price-wise, I thought it wasn't bad for a nice salon - but for uneven greenish color, I could have gone to the Aveda training institute and paid $15 instead.
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