Hair failure - gutted - help!

[CareerGirl01]

So I stopped dying my hair for nine months - using my pregnancy as a good excuse to grow out an all over dark permanent colour (I'm naturally mid pale brown) which had highlights underneath.
So I have my baby and on recommendation a mobile hairdresser comes round and I tell her I want to go lighter and have a few inches off my long hair (falls just short of my boobs). I love the haircut but she dyed my hair darker!!! I ask her if she can come back and sort it out - she says she's given me a more uniform colour by matching my roots and ends. But at the weekend my family all notice how red my hair looks near the roots (which had been virgin hair) so I use colourb4 but underneath my hair is ginger and there's nothing I can do but put on a Nice and Easy light brown. I really want to go lighter! Can I still? I had hair in really good condition and ding want to wreck it too much. Am gutted after growing it out too!!!

Oh I so sympathise! This has happened to me countless times and it's all that good work down the drain (literally). I'm in that situation right now - I TOLD hairdresser that my hair was v porous when getting an all-over colour and to just use something very light. She didn't go light enough and now I'm back to very dark. It's so annoying. I had originally wanted to have lighter ends but was told my hair was too short and layered - at shoulder length- to ombre. But I've since seen pics of models with slight ombre at short bob length! Argh!
Absolutely no advice, just share your pain. From now on I'll be doing my roots myself, no more all over colour.

I would have given it a few days tbh. I use Nice and Easy and it sometimes takes about 10 days for the excess dye to wash out and become the 'right' colour.

Yes you can go lighter but leave it a month or so. Just use the 6-8washes dye until then. If you just want to go a couple of shades lighter try a medium ash blonde. It won't go really light because there isn't enough peroxide to lift it drastically but it will bring it up a couple of shades. If you want to go any lighter than hit the hairdressers to be sure.

If you want to tone down any brassiness try the Touch of Silver shampoo. It won't eradicate brassiness but it will dampen it down a tad.

I'm confused have you fucked up your hair or has the hairdresser?

I wouldn't put anything else on it and go and see a colour correctionist.

Took advice - going to leave it a couple of months when it's due a cut - and just the temporary nice and easy to tone it down every few washes - it looks okay now - reddish brown.

Hi, im a mobile Hairdresser, yes its still possible for you to go lighter ,maybe with highlights would be the best way ? if you have a lot of brassiness going on and your going to put an all over colour on it then an ash colour is best that will knock out the orangey tones, There are lots of shampoos out now which will also help the touch of silver or john freidia , if you can try and use conditioning treatments, to try and get the moisture bk into the hair, if you would like anymore advice I would be happy to help . 07766022555 ( I have been hairdressing for 18 years was trained by anne veck been mobile for about 5 years ) :-)

Thanks Zo I'm going to my local hairdresser to have an Aveda deposit to keep it reddish brown for a few weeks. Will give it lots of conditioner, treatments TLC etc. my DD2 is being christened end of August so will probably go for bleached highlights - which I guess I can keep up as the rest of the colour grows out.