To beg for your too stripey highlights help

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I decided to treat myself to a trip to the hairdressers today. I showed a picture of what I wanted, didn't get it, and now I feel like a raccoon. Is there some way to tone it down?

Attached what I wanted and what I got. There's no brown between. They're very blocky. I wish I'd said something at the time, but I thought I just needed to get used to it. Now that I'm home Idk

The more I look at it the worse it gets. I'm starting to think head amputation might be the only option.

I would say there's about ten times as many as you needed  That first picture only has about ten lights in it

I'd go back and ask them to dye it all over a dark chestnut and start again

Also the lovely thing about the first picture is how fine the lights are, looks like about ten strands are painted in each light.

Note: I'm NOT a hairdresser and know fuck all. But I love the first picture

Ask the salon to tone the whole head a shade or two darker. That will give a result much closer to the picture. I'm not sure why they used red low lights at all? There is no red in that picture just copper babylights.

Agree the red ones especially are not good at all.

Go back to the salon and say your not happy etc, it’s not what you asked for. Any decent salon will put it right somehow OR if your not brave enough for that walk in to another salon if you have the funds and hopefully they can help

I have had this happen and I went back in and made them put it right without charging me. Do it immediately though. Like go back today and if they can't fit you in, then fair enough, they can offer you an appointment. Don't tell them how to do it (like dyeing over it). That's their job.

They are terrible - I would be straight back insisting it's put right.

I called them and asked to go over it darker. She was lovely too, I feel awful!

Don't tell them how to do it (like dyeing over it). That's their job.

Usually, I would agree and as a hairdresser I get narked when people tell me how to do my job but what OP asked for what OP got are two utterly different things involving different techniques and different products.

Why is there red? The woman in the picture has a cool brown with a few copper babylights, mostly around the front. They have given OP nineties style highlights/lowlights. They don't look bad, necessarily but they are outdated and explicitly not what she asked for.

Does the salon know what it's doing? And would they know how to fix it?

Thank you guys for giving me the bravado!

Any tips on what I should ask them to do? If they just dye it over brown will it fix it?

You need to go
Back. Busy sat is ideal time. They’ll fix. Sorry, it’s not a good look and like previous poster I have no idea why they used red

No, don't dye it brown. That will turn the blonde highlights khaki. Ask them to tone it with a level 7/8 gold based toner.

It will darken the highlights and they'll blend better with the red lowlights. It will look closer to the picture but still won't be what you asked for.

Or you could ask them to pick out most of the highlights and lowlights and colour correct, leaving only a few highlights behind to tone to copper like the copper in the pic but that will take hours and cost them a bomb so they/you might not be willing. It would give you a much closer result to the picture.

I thought the first picture was your hair and was about to be like "what's the issue" .. god OP, it couldn't look more different could it. They defo need to sort it! Why is there so much red! Red is a bitch to get out too.

Red is an absolute bastard, had to have my hair stripped to finally get the red out of mine.

I wouldn't attempt to tell them how to fix it tell them how you wanted it.
I gave myself terrible striped orange highlights at home once and a lovely hairdresser sorted it out but I had to go back every month for a semi until it grew out because the permanent dye wouldn't hold. At my expense because my fault. So if they fix it with a semi you will need a discussion about who's paying for the upkeep if it fades back to the stripes

Why did they add red, it looks awful. You need to find a good colourist with experience of balayage who can sort this mess out. Looks like your current hairdresser is clueless so I'd ask for a refund as they didn't give you what they agreed to do, and find someone else.

I have had this same problem but I got the salon to fix it for free. Which they did.

After that I had a different stylist who did a different technique and it looks much better.

This gives an example of the technique she uses and it looks sooo much better.

There’s too many.
I actually don't think the blonde ones are bad ( just not what you wanted) but what are the red ones doing?

I don't think the hairdresser knows what they are doing.
I went today and asked my hairdresser to put red bits throughout my blonde highlights, she pretty much described the affect you got and said an outright no to doing it. Instead I got a full head mahogany as we discussed my wants and how colours would take etc.... that is what a good hairdresser should normally do.

You need to go back and get it corrected but I'd ask for a different person if it was me.

Sorry op hope you get it sorted