What do I do lol
Hello! So I did a dumb thing and box dyed my hair a warmish dark brown last fall with permanent color. That’s pic 1 for reference lol and pic 2 is just before service to show some better root color. I asked for a balayage to break up the color a bit and a toner. I showed the nice hair person my desired look (I like that darker root and my cooler tone much better), that’s pic 3. She said she’d have to place foils otherwise it “wouldn’t work”? but that she could get me closer to this right away, even though my short term goal was just to add a little brightness, esp towards the ends and maybe tone ‘er down a bit. I also specifically said multiple times that I reallllly don’t like a chunky, piecey look. Anyway what ended up happening is instead of just lightening up the ends and adding some small highlights…. We got something else. See pics 4 and 5 for the result. Pic 6 is after washing it once with both purple shampoo and letting purpley blue conditioner sit on it. 6 is why my texture usually looks like for about a day or so before it flattens out quite a bit. When I look in the mirror the yellowy brightness is so much brighter on the top portion of my head than the lengths of my hair which is the opposite of my preferred look.
Again pic 3 was my inspo for pattern. Eventually I would like it to look more like 7-8, which I also showed her for long term goals. There are also some chunks by my face that are darker in the middle than the root and end which is a little odd up close.
I don’t think it’s terrible objectively, but this look is not doing me any favors and in the salon it didn’t seem to look this rough (my hair was also not completely dry when I left and she had to rush to the next client). When I got into more natural light it is more noticeable to me. She was such a sweet lady and I don’t really want to go back there after a week to ask her for help since she looked at it once it was done and said it went great lol she also said my hair will grow out and then it will be closer to pic 3 lol (after I explained we are actually doing our wedding reception this summer)
I want to go to my old salon to fix this.
What would I ask for/do?