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Any tips to correct DDs hair without a salon please!

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Welcometotherock · 09/04/2019 11:30

DD had dark blonde hair and has used a home dye to lighten it.
Not only is it slightly patchy because her hair is naturally toned but the shower decided to die mid way so her hair is basically peroxide!

School will go beserk (natural colour dye is fine)

Lightening it has already damaged her so I'm wary of putting a lot more on.

If I get a semi perm slightly darker blonde dye will that work or be horrendous too?

Help please!

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EatenByDinosaurs · 09/04/2019 16:42

Yes precisely, but if you aren't planning to re-dye or do anything else to your hair Herbatint is a very simple, difficult to get wrong quick fix.

Lush Henna on the other hand - now that really is the devils work, especially over bleached hair, that was my worst ever hair failure Grin

EatenByDinosaurs · 09/04/2019 16:47

Nope just remembered, Garnier Olia was my worst hair failure, I had an allergic reaction, most of my hair, my eyebrows and eyelashes fell out, face swelled up so much I couldn't see and ended up being rushed to hospital.
What was left of my hair was a nice colour though!

Frequency · 09/04/2019 16:55

Yeah, if you use Lush on white-blonde hair without pre-pigging with red you're gonna end up tangerine orange. The only time I've used it was on a client who wanted to be tangerine orange but was allergic to PPD. We bleached her hair up to level 8/9, slapped the Lush on and it turned out great and very glossy.

I don't know any 14-16yos who would stick with the same hair colour/style for the 2-3 years or longer it would take to grow out the Herbatint.

My worst hair disaster was Sun-In in the early nineties when I was a naive teenager who knew no better. I don't think I need to say more....

Grin

Bad hair is a teenage right of passage. My DD lives with a hairdresser and still does stupid shit to her hair and then phones me in tears begging me to fix it. I usually do once I finish laughing at her and threatening to take pics for Instagram.

IncrediblySadToo · 09/04/2019 16:56

How old is DD & did she discuss this with you before doing it?

EatenByDinosaurs · 09/04/2019 17:54

Ahhh Sun-in, I remember it well Grin

Yep, in my teens international boarding school + crap wine + hair dye = many, many disasters Grin. Lush henna was one of those times

AppleBru · 09/04/2019 21:34

All honesty, don’t touch it. A semi permanent contains peroxide too, so will cause more damage. It might not even show until a few weeks down the line!

Get to a pro so they can control the level of developer, if even needed.

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Welcometotherock · 10/04/2019 09:03

Thanks everyone , reading all the advice.

She's 16 IncrediblySadToo and other than a couple of wash in wash out its the first time she's dyed her hair.

I have give it a massive condition and hair mask yesterday because it looked like straw and actually it doesn't look too bad now.
It's a bit patchy when it's down but I'm scared of trying to even out the patch bits. Up it looks okay now it's not dead tbh. I've told her if she isn't bothered to leave it and let it repair a little bit and save up to sort it professionally.

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