Hair and highlighting advice - any professionals around

[TondelayoSchwarzkopf]

Two years ago I started highlighting my mid-brown hair. It was lovely for the first year - golden highlights / sunkissed california type look. Could have the roots done every 3 months. All was fine.

Unfortunately it has evolved into a bleach-blonde. I don't know if this was inevitable or if I didn't manage the highlights properly (should have just done roots / t-zone rather than full head all the time) and I don't like it at all and don't want to spend £100 every 6 weeks on getting roots done but it feels like a fait accompli. Every time I mention this to the colourist they smile and nod but don't suggest any solutions apart from one - too just dye my roots caramel and only have a small number of highlights put in. That sounds awful.

Also, I want my hair to look more natural and use the natural colour - I haven't got any grey yet. I am too pale for full-on brown hair but I don't want to be a brassy blonde either.

At the moment I am just having roots and t-zone doing but I am worried about evolving into 'two tone' hair which is dark underneath. I like to wear my hair up so this isn't a solution.

My first solution is to change my colourist, which I am doing but what else? Should I dye it back brown and begin again? And how do I keep it 'sunkissed' and not let it go all Pat Butcher?

Thanks in advance.

I had the same thing. I let my roots grow out a good inch then the colourist alternated foils between my normal blonde and some darker more natural colour. The theory being that roots still get done but the rest is broken up. It takes a few goes to get it perfect but it's definitely worked. Good luck!

£100 for highlights??? Where?
I pay £40.

Isn't this inevitable, because each new foil won't be exactly on top of the previous one, IYSWIM?

Whenever I've been trying to ease out of a block colour (which essentially sounds like what you have now), I've always done a mixture of highlights and lowlights to cover up the transition.

That London tywy - it includes a cut / blow dry.

Thanks Snake - I will discuss that with the colourist.

Yes Zola - I think it is inevitable. Hopefully breaking up the colour might help. I just don't want to 'lose' my natural colour in there.

If your roots grow out enough for your hairdresser to see it, could the lowlights be the same as your natural colour, done through the whole length of the hair, not just the roots?

Blimey! I'm not that far away (North Wilts).

I have foils, with four different colours - you could have a different colour done each time, or two at a time, and break up your current colour/roots. If you have a fair bit chopped off, the old colour wouldn't be so obvious, and would grow out in no time.