I've dyed my own hair with home dye for years. After the breakdown of my marriage and finally picking myself back up I feel like a change. I decided I wanted to go back to my natural colour and then have blond ends - balayage or ombré or whatever it's called.
I've had strand tests done and because of the current redy/browny colour on my hair they'll need to go darker than my natural colour to cover it. They think stripping the colour out would damage my hair too much and I also had a reaction to one hair dye so they think I'd likely react to whatever they use to strip the colour out. So it'll be a brown on the top and blond at the ends. She said she'll leave some stands brown throughout the whole length to break it up.
I'm quite nervous. What if it all goes horribly wrong and I end up with various shades of red? Or if I get a huge block of blond around the bottom and it looks ridiculous?
The first image is my current colour and the other two are something like what I'm hoping for.
I'll be back with the after photo tomorrow. Keep your fingers crossed!
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It's all done. It took 6 1/2 hours and it looks really nice but MN won't let me post a photo as I've exceeded my limit for the day or on the thread. I'm not sure which. 
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I'm glad you're pleased with it after all that 
. Please come back tomorrow and post a photo!
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