u/PleasantResearcher32

Throw away account because this is humiliating. I’ve been dying my hair to an almost black for a while. It was originally supposed to be just a dark brown, but it came out black on my hair and I went .but almost a year ago I decided to go back to closer to my natural color, which is a medium to dark brown. I get regrowth touchups every 3 to 4 weeks because my hair in front is gray. The brown looked very natural on me, and blended really seamlessly into the almost black so that it looked like I was just growing out my natural hair color and wasn’t even that noticeable happy with how it looked.

Earlier this week, I went to get my regrowth touched up, and my stylist accidentally put the almost black on my roots. It looked like almost black and back, a stripe of dark brown, and then black at the hairline. I really hate the way the black looks and the stripe looked ridiculous so I went days later to get it fixed.

The stylist did a bleached washed on the black at my roots, and it came out very orange, of course. So then she put a glaze on it (which I thought looked very warm at the time, but I’m not an expert). got darker, but was still very orange. So I went into a different stylist yesterday, and she did a color where she did color removal without a bleach, and then put a very cool toned glaze on it. This was a very experienced stylist who, as far as I could tell did everything right by the way. i’m not sure if the glaze did much of anything, but it still looks very orange. The pictures are what it currently looks like. This will get even worse as it grows out because I’ll have the normal looking brown in the regrowth and then this stripe of orange.

I did some googling, and it sounds like this might not be fixable. I’m extremely distraught. My hair is such a huge part of my identity and I’m worried I’m just going to have to shave it off at this point. My hair is so slow growing, but it would take decades to get it back.

I have very curly, dry, frizzy hair that tends to suck up hair dye. Dyes that are supposed to be permanent or even temporary tend to never wash out or even fade much. If anyone has any suggestions or insights, or just experience with a similar situation, I would really love to hear any advice. Sorry for any typos, I’m dictating and it sometimes does strange things.

Throwaway account because this is humiliating. I’ve been dying my hair to an almost black for a while. It was originally supposed to be just a dark brown, but it came out black on my hair and I went .but almost a year ago I decided to go back to closer to my natural color, which is a medium to dark brown. I get regrowth touchups every 3 to 4 weeks because my hair in front is gray. The brown looked very natural on me, and blended really seamlessly into the almost black so that it looked like I was just growing out my natural hair color and wasn’t even that noticeable happy with how it looked.

Earlier this week, I went to get my regrowth touched up, and my stylist accidentally put the almost black on my roots. It looked like almost black and back, a stripe of dark brown, and then black at the hairline. I really hate the way the black looks and the stripe looked ridiculous so I went days later to get it fixed.

The stylist did a bleached washed on the black at my roots, and it came out very orange, of course. So then she put a glaze on it (which I thought looked very warm at the time, but I’m not an expert). got darker, but was still very orange. So I went into a different stylist yesterday, and she did a color where she did color removal without a bleach, and then put a very cool toned glaze on it. This was a very experienced stylist who, as far as I could tell did everything right by the way. i’m not sure if the glaze did much of anything, but it still looks very orange. The pictures are what it currently looks like. This will get even worse as it grows out because I’ll have the normal looking brown in the regrowth and then this stripe of orange.

I did some googling, and it sounds like this might not be fixable. I’m extremely distraught. My hair is such a huge part of my identity and I’m worried I’m just going to have to shave it off at this point. My hair is so slow growing, but it would take decades to get it back.

I have very curly, dry, frizzy hair that tends to suck up hair dye. Dyes that are supposed to be permanent or even temporary tend to never wash out or even fade much. If anyone has any suggestions or insights, or just experience with a similar situation, I would really love to hear any advice. Sorry for any typos, I’m dictating and it sometimes does strange things.