Ask a Stylist: When color turns out wrong

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By Marlena Isbell + October 31st, 2011

Q. I dyed my hair red. It ended up fuchsia pink. How do I get it dark brown again? Patricia Regar; Starke, FL

A. Often red hair color will contain violet or copper undertones that turn strands a less than desirable shade after dyeing. Resist the urge to play hair color chemist in your own bathroom. Getting your hair back to a normal shade is going to require the help of a real professional. Your stylist will first remove the intense shade, and then apply the final hair color of your choice. The end result will be something you love.

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Ms. Rice March 11th, 2012 (#)

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well if you want to be treated like you are just below dirt, head out to this place. We have a big event coming up in our family. My daughter who I mind saying that it took me over 30 years to get her in a chair. So I took her to this so called hair salon. Right if you want to have five hours of your life spent with a hairdresser that took a turned up noise if you even tried to talk to her. We had black hair at the ends of her hair and red on the top. What happen to us tonight should not even happen to someone sitting on death roll. Five hours to have her black to come even blacker—- Really. The part that really gets me is the so call mang. could do nothing but open her mouth and lie, lie, and lie again. The lady that was to do my daughters hair was still with someone. We were ask to come back in 20 mins. right? Which we did. Just to see her packing up to go. It went so bad that there is no way I could put it all out here. Rest to sure that I will not rest until someone within this Co. can explain why my daughter had to cry not just one time but all the way home. That girl just put this dye on her that only took her over an hour to get on. The side she started on was even drying out. REALLY? She went as fair as to leave her wet dyed hair just hanging down in her eyes! REALLY? I had to make her re-rince as my daughter still had so much dye in her hair that it looked like toothpaste. She was unable to even find her way to remove it. She had to try herself REALLY? It ran down her neck and under that cover up and down onto her chest! REALLY? And to get this person to talk or to even move at some kind of power. Why would you put anyone to work with people on such a personal level and even have to tell your guest that she is hard to get her to talk. We were left there with no boss around and boy you could tell for sure. Its not about the monies. REALLY!!!!!!!!!! Its about how very very very wrong we were handled. Hair will grow and life will go on. Yet the thought of this so call salon will stay a life time. A closed down sign on the door saying “sorry we had to close because we only know how to lie and mistreat others. Should be the kindess thing you could do as long as these are the people you have there. With so many needing work this is what you all pick to treat your guest? I need an answer to how could all this happen. How are we going to do my sons wedding now? How are we going to deal with how her hair looking like this. MY eyes are full of tears and my heart is heavy. Can anyone there explain why??????????????????????