My hair is ruined, advice needed!

[JonSnowsWhore]

Since having some colour stripped out of my hair & then having it bleached it's absolutely terrible, it's so dry, it gets knotted so so easily. It was thick to start with but I'm pregnant so I think it's just got drier & thicker.
I'm at the point now where I can't even get my tangle teezer through it, it's completely knotted. I've washed it tonight & put some conditioner in it to leave in over night, it's only cheap stuff though so doubt it'll do any good. I wanted to get it cut tomorrow to make it more manageable & get rid of some of the dry/knotty ends but obviously can't go anywhere in this state.

Any miracle products I can put on it so I'll be able to get a brush through it? Will it get worse if I just put a brown over it once it's cut to get rid of the horrible brassy 'blonde' that was meant to be a balayage?
Unfortunately I can only afford a cut at the hairdressers at the moment & not any of their treatments or colours so hoping for some of you to come along with some miracles for me

you dont want a pixie cut, but your hair is fucked. You might not have much choice. No conditioner is going to do anything except oil/silicone/moisturise it. It wont make the hair better. Youre better off starting from scratch, waiting for it to grow, and learning your lesson

What about a copper wash in wash out hair dye from.super drugs with get rid of the green and will leave your hair with a lovely rose tinge

OP, another vote for chopping it off. You can't really unfuck hair.

Short chop. It'll grow back

I do have a choice, I'll get a lot of the bleached stuff cut out today & then let it grow out & keep getting it trimmed regularly. I've already said I've managed to detangle it, so with less hair it'll be easer to manage. A pixie cut is completely out of the question I look like Phil bloody Mitchell with my hair up as it is

I've used Joico K-Pak Deep Penetrating Reconstructor on slightly over bleached hair and got very good results but if it's got to the stage where it's stretchy and sort of gummy there's not a right lot you can do.

I've been there several times when I've taken risks with already bleached hair and ended up having to just chop it all off and start again.

I'm back & im in love with the woman who cut my hair. Excuse my scribbled out face.

No pixie cut needed 😂 she just cut a lot of the crap out (it was waist length this morning) & said keep treating it once or twice a week so I'll look up all of your suggestions!

Oh it won't let me post the pic :( says you can only upload 6 per day but all I've uploaded since midnight are the 2 on this thread 😕

Sounds like your new hairdresser is a keeper.
Oh no! a pic is a must - a pox on bloody technology.

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There we go, must have been the app playing up I had to log in to the site

Gorgeous hair OP!

Incase anyone has tangly hair she recommended this brush to me, she used it after she'd washed my hair (usually hate hairdressers washing & brushing it) & I didn't feel a thing 😊

https://m.johnlewis.com/denman-pink-tangle-tamer-ultra/p/2035385?sku=234525278&skwcid=2dx92700017288617233&tmad=c&tmcampid=2&gclid=Cj0KEQjwicfHBRCh6KaMp4-asKgBEiQA8GH2x90D-CATO9aH1-yz55_50iaBDvBkHuKX768rchYEj-DoaAjpM8P8HAQ&gclsrc=aw.ds

That looks lovely! Bet you're so happy and relieved.

Kerastase Oleo Relax shampoo and Aqua Oleum treatment spray plus Philip Kingsley Elasticizer will keep the dryness away.

I would love it to be longer & like that like it was before, I really do love my long hair, but needs must, it does feel so much nicer with all the crap bits cut off. & as a lot of the orange tones have gone I don't think I'll bother with a brown over it now.

I'm off to a hotel for the night tomorrow & was dreading using the pool because I knew it'd make my hair 10 times worse trying to brush it but now I know it'll be fine. Just got to figure out how you haul yourself out of a pool whilst heavily pregnant with spd now

Love the length and love the colour!

Oh I have to see it! Please post after midnight. I will be up eating Easter eggs anyway

It's there 3lucky, with a scribbled out face because none of my other posts on MN are identifiable at all

Amazing!!! (The Easter egg!)

And your hair is nice too! She performed a miracle really. Good stuff.

This is why I leave all our Easter eggs in the boot of my car until the day

Just saw your final after hair pic, wow! It is just beautiful! I would stick with the stylist that did it. Personally I'd be scared to go in a pool in case the chlorine affected it. Saved a lot of links posted of products...I have heard mane and tail products are fantastic before!

For those interested in mane and tail products, these are also the mutts wotsits
www.equestriansupplements.co.uk/cowboy-magic-detangler-and-shine-4oz.html?gclid=CMS5ypfCqNMCFYgp0wodUDgGyA

All available online and from local tack shops. BTW, Cowboy Magic is what Jennifer Anniston uses, and nobody is more famous for great hair than her. CM is actually a human product but in UK has become established as a horsey one.

I know you've got it sorted now, but I can't believe your original hairdresser was so stupid. She basically double processed your hair, which any hairdresser should know is a bad thing. Colour stripper (not colour remover) is bleach, and then she bleached it again. You are actually lucky you have any hair left at all!

Be really careful putting brown anywhere near it too. I put brown on my daughter's bleached ends and they went a lovely shade of forest green.

On a different note, is there some sort of o-la-ple-x (

Oh it's been bleached for quite a while so I thought it'd be ok with the pool, for some reason I thought only fairly newly bleached hair would go funny in chlorine 🙈

I'm not planning on a brown anymore (unless chlorine turns it green anyway haha) as she's cut out a lot of the horrible orange colour. It really was a mess I've had my hair all sorts of colours for years & she's the only person who's managed to get it in that state! I've never known hair that could tangle like it.

I'll look after if with treatments all the time now I pinky promise