Hi,
I had my usual bleach highlights done by my usual hairdressers using 30vol bleach, my problem is that she started at the bottom back of my hair and worked her way up to the front (as usual), but the roots on the top of my head are orange! I know this is because the bleach wasn’t left on the top long enough because the underneath of my hair is a lovely white colour.
By the time she had finished putting the highlights in, the bottom ones had been in for an hour, I get my highlights very tightly together and I have a lot of hair. She then washed the back ones out but only left the top ones in for 15 minutes!
I’m very unhappy with the way it looks and am having a birthday party this weekend and wanted my hair to look nice. I have used purple shampoo but this has just made the white lighter and the orange only slightly brighter. Is there anything I can do to fix it myself as I can’t go back to this hairdresser and don’t have much money to go to a different one?
Thank you,
Anon, Ireland
I completely understand your problem but I do recommend that you re-visit your hairdresser to correct your hair. You may be right and the top highlights might have needed a little longer. Your hairdresser would welcome the feedback; we don’t like unhappy clients and he/she would want to correct their work. You are our walking advertisement after all!
Purple shampoo’s won’t really help correct things this time as all it would do is make your hair less yellow, as you have found out. The solution is for your hairdresser to go back over the highlights with a lightener to lift the top ones to the same level as the underneath ones. Trying to correct your hair at home may cause you more problems, so I would definitely advise you to speak with a professional.