So fed up with trying to get my hair right. I am naturally dark mousey brown with increasing number of greys.
I’ve always had some highlights & then as the grey became more I added a tint aswell. The tint always looked okish until it started growing out & then it looked orangey.
This summer i had a full head of highlights & the tint as the hairdresser said alot of people do as they go greyer. I found it bit much and after a few more weeks it looked awful as it went from really blonde on the bottom to orange to dark/grey roots. The cost of this was extortionate so I went somewhere else a couple of weeks back.
I showed the new hairdresser various pictures, basically aiming more at a browny blonde look with caramel, honey colours. She said yes fine we’ll make the tint darker so closer to natural and then have some nice light bits. I said I’d like the light bits to be golden/honey tones & she agreed.
It’s awful. Really dark brown splodge of roots with chunks of almost white blonde bits. It looks dreadful.
I feel like every time I ask for highlights they just do one shade which is the lightest blonde there is. How do you get the a golden, caramel almost golden brown shades? Are they classed as lowlights not highlights?
I’m now looking at going somewhere else. I don’t get why it never looks remotely like the pictures I show. I wouldn’t mind at all if they were honest and said your hair won’t do that or that won’t suit you. But why do they say ok and then just do something that looks nothing like it?
I’ve wasted so much money. All I want is to cover my greys in a colour that suits my skin tone which is olivey, can be a bit sallow, with brown eyes. Orangey/yellow hair is washing me out & I just don’t know what to ask for next!
Any help appreciated please!