Having no luck with hairdressers.

[J6765]

Hi, In feb I decided that I was going to go to new hairdresser. I've been going to the same one for 12 years and I just fancied a change. I decided to go to a mobile hairdresser she is someone I know and her photos always look really good. However she put highlights in my hair and added a toner when I came out my roots we bright orange. I asked her to fix it and she put an all over warm brown dye on which washed out in two washes and I had all over brassy hair. It cost me £63 for this mess.

Went to another hairdresser four weeks later got highlights and low lights (£53). After two weeks all low lights had washed out so back to brass with highlights. Waited three months. Had grown most of my roots back in so decided to get rid of the brass went back to second hairdresser again asked if they could dye my hair my natural colour as I thought this would be best. She assured me it wouldn't go brassy and dyed a dark ash blond 7.1 (£85). This again last two weeks and back to brass but only at root where my natural hair had grown in. I went back in and they said it must be my shampoo and need to use a non sulfate shampoo. Why did nobody tell me this?

I'm now resigned to using dark dry hair shampoo to cover roots and will try my hardest to grow it all out this time. I'm just gutted that I have spend so much money to have crap hair for nearly a year. I turn 40 this year too so didn't really need this confidence knock. My hair is natural a dark ash blonde.

I've also tired purple shampoo, blue shampoo, various toners and nothing works. The colpur shampoos seems to bring out the brass even more. Does anyone have any suggestions how I get through the next few months with awful hair without spending more money because today I just feel like I want to cry.

I am sorry if this appears insensitive but as someone who has highlights for ten years and lived all over the UK, that sounds very very very cheap. I wouldn't expect a good job from someone who can't charge a fair price for their work.

I vary between a local 'old ladies' salon for a little refresh who charges me £60 for a small t-section and a rough dry for when I want a freshen up. She's not fantastic but she's good for in between. I go to a fancy place where it's about £120 for a half head of highlights with toner, then additional for the rough dry.

That is the price for highlights/full colour here in many salons. In my old salon I was paying £66 for highlights and a cut.

My post wasn't really about the price paid. It was asking if anyone had anything they could suggest so I didn't have to walk around with brassy hair until it grows out. Sorry if that was not clear.

So you're saying OP that if you walk into a proper salon in your town you'd get charged less than £70 for about 3 hours work?

I think you ought to go into whatever salon looks the fanciest, have a proper job done and then you have somewhere decent to go back and complain to if it goes wrong

I've been having highlights for 35 years and have NEVER used any different type of shampoo and never had it go brassy

Where I live it's £180 for highlights - if someone made my hair go brassy for that cost I'd be back in there very quick getting them to fix it

What people are getting at with the price thing is that it is all connected. The price you pay is usually reflective of the skills and experience of the hairdresser and therefore the quality of the end result. It sounds like you are choosing the same type of salon again and again and so I agree with you getting a consultation with a fancier salon.

In the meantime, you can get shampoos to eliminate brass and tone it down so I would suggest getting one of them. Matrix Brass Off is a good one and there’s a John Frieda one available in boots for natural blondes.

Forgot to add that I did see you have tried a whole load of products and they aren’t working - Matrix really worked for me after a load of others didn’t

Thank you. That's really helpful to know.

Maybe I should not have put the prices in the original post. I think that is a lot of money to spend on my hair and would not be able to afford more.

Wow people are really nasty on here. Good luck to you all. Goodbye.

I don’t think people are being nasty they’re just saying you get what you pay for, my grandma used to say ‘if you pay cheap you'll pay twice’ and that seems to be what’s happening here!

Nobody has been nasty!

I think, having spent a lot of money on something that was supposed to be a confidence boost and has ended up not what you wanted at all, you are very sensitive about the replies. There was nothing nasty about the previous replies, I ( and I suspect the others) was just trying to point out that labour, products, time spent, skills expertise and tools etc all cost money and so, if you factor all of those in, what you have paid doesn’t seem much at all and that seems to be reflected in the end result. That doesn’t mean that it isn’t a lot for you to be spending or that you weren’t let down by the second hairdresser but this situation doesn’t seem to be down to the shampoo.

Your question is actually how can you reduce brasiness and the rest is all superfluous. It will cost money though to fix it, although it doesn’t necessarily mean another trip to the salon if you don’t want to. You can buy toner online etc.