hair advice please, i'm not well up on this sort of thing!

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after 31 years i decided to have highlights in my blonde hair, just a shade lighter to give a sunkissed look. Looked great, left the salon in state of glee!
6 weeks later hair looked tatty and re-growth was showing, not really bad but bad to me, so, i went back and had the highlights done again.
i think because i had had foil ones and fine strands she couldn't just do the roots, so , it was an entire repeat of the time before.
this time it looked lighter because i suppose she had gone over some already lightened pieces.

now, i don't know what i can do with it. if i continue to go back for more, my hair will get lighter and lighter and be all one colour eventually..yes?? but, i hate my natural roots in comparison to the highlights. they have faded somewhat but not back to original colour by any means.

also, would i be damaging my hair keep having the highlights done?

what do people do? i am thinking i should never have started this!!

please advise me if you can!

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You could colour it back to your original colour and wait for the highlighted bits to grow out then just keep it natural. At 31 I suspect you don;t have any grey hairs yet.

no, no grey but my own colour is a really dull blonde

With highlights you do either totally commit, or grew them out now. I love my highlights but yes, your hair will get lighter. Even if you choose a darker tint, or have some darker colour put through, on top of bleach/lighter tint this darker colour will come out within just a few weeks.

You could always grow it out as much as you can deal with, then new highlights you can have just on the roots, thus less of a block colour look. But, you will have to go longer between colours. Try moving your parting further down your hair as this will make a darker parting much less obvious. Maybe just use a volumising product on the roots too and just go with the sexy darker routes look that can sometimes look really nice!?

I leave mine 10 weeks and get a full head of foils. Treat your hair to really fantastic shampoo/conditioner so it glistens, and you'll focus less on any root situation anyway.

thanks. is your hair shortish then? or do you get different colours put in?

and i suppose the lighter my hair gets the more obvious the roots will be then ? so , i can't really win can i ?
don't want to be a white blonde!!

My hair is shoulder-length and what I've done in the past to bring my hair back to a more natural look, is every 10 weeks have 3 colours - 1 darker, 1 the same lightness but a different shade and 1 lighter. Then, after just doing this a few times a good portion of your hair will be darker, and then you can choose whether you like the darker shade and if so just add some shimmery subtle highlights for blending whilst the rest grows out, or maybe you'll see the darker shade and hate it! In which case you know you are meant to be more blonde!