I have been coloring my hair myself for almost 20 years. I have mastered doing my own highlights, mixing colors, and getting pretty professional results. I finally decide to treat myself and have my hair done by a professional and it came out amazinggggg (See image 'Before') A lovely Mahogany red with caramel highlights.
Unfortunately when I was due for a touch up, the originally stylist was on maternity leave, so I went to someone else who is a friend of a friend.
She RUINED my hair. All I wanted was my roots touched up and she let every foil on my head bleed. (See images 'After1' and 'After2') I had PINK and ORANGE hair. NOTHING like what I walked in with and NONE of my roots were even touched. The next day, I hesitantly went back to let her fix the pink colors and actually color my roots like I had asked for originally.
Then I'm left with (See images 'Correction#)
3 Weeks later My roots still look horrible (even worse now that my hair has grown and I have even MORE roots) and my hair is completely over processed and wwaayy too blonde/brassy for my skin tone.
I'm standing in a wedding in a week. (the bride just so happens to be the girl who messed up my hair) And as bad as I'll feel when she sees that I've changed her dye job, every day it looks worse and worse and I just can't be in wedding photos with a skunk root trail on top of my head. I don't have time to get to a salon but I need to get rid of the roots and the 10 different shades of red, blonde, and pink in my hair. What can I buy from Sally's to help fix this? I'm considering going way back to before I put highlights into it at all and just using a medium auburn color but I'm afraid the result will still be 10 different colors and my roots will still be apparent. help meee
I think the easiest and safest thing to do will be to cover it all with a direct dye such as Adore. They have loads of natural shades, and you can mix and/or dilute with conditioner to get the exact shade you need. You will get some variation over that base rather than flat colour, it could look gorgeous.
Should I do anything special with my roots since the "highlights" are so much lighter?
If you are going darker they will blend, but you could add more highlights through the roots if you wanted.