Stripped hair disaster!!

Ok so first of all, what did you strip your hair with? Hair colour removers like Color Oops or L'Oreal ColorZap? Or did you strip the colour with bleach? If you stripped your hair with bleach, you have to let it rest first, as it could be damaged and bleaching it again would damage it further beyond rapair.

The next question is, if you wanted a balayage and the hairdresser said it was a long process to go through, why didn't you just grip some patience? I mean anything needs a long time to be done well and with less damage, especially when it comes to hair.

Since what's done is done now, I'm intereseted in what final result do you want now. Semi permanent dyes don't really cause much damage to hair, so you can dye your hair all you want. But if you want something else, I suggest you go to a hairdresser and be patient. I want a silver ombre, but my hair is too yellow right now. I already made some mistakes and had to bleach my hair twice. Now I'm more oatient for the sake of my hair and plan to wait another month before I do anything else to my hair.

Whatever route you choose in the end, good luck.  *loveeyes*

If it's done in a salon, colour removal is very often bleach.

My guess is your hair is far too damaged to hold the dye that's being put on it. It's been dyed, stripped, bleached and dyed many times it seems. That's going to have severely damaged the cuticle, if not totally blown it off. That then means there's nothing to hold the dye into the hair.

Your best bet now is to use the natural colour dyes in the adore range. These are totally non damaging and can be used over and over again if the colour fades quickly. You can even put some in your conditioner to top up the colour each time you wash your hair.

Hi both!! Thank you so much for the replies, I've only just caught up with them!

Just to mention, when the original hairdresser said about going lighter would be a long process, she also added she couldn't do that on that same day! Which is why I suggested the dark brown/violet tinge idea, so stripping my hair back seemed unnecessary really, but there you go.

It's been over bleached now (by hairdressers, not me) so I did put on a very light semi colour that'll fade in 8 washes. I've been treating my hair with protein products daily to try to sort the cuticles out. The colour has stuck ok and cancelled out the orange, but it's not great. The top is now showing a violent hue (!!) I'm going to leave it for now to recover 🙂

Thanks so much for the advice 🙂

I'd recommend using Adore as much as you can as even box semi's have developer in them and could make matters worse, even if you just use adore to tide you over between box semi's so you're not using them as often.

Another thing to consider, do you blow dry your hair? Myself and a few friends have noticed we get a band of fade where we angle the hair dryer (for me on the right hand side about half way up my head) so I found cutting out blow drying as much as possible helped. If this means wearing your hair up for work and only styling it for going out etc it might be worth it to help rescue your hair?

Ah! Great tip on the fade, that makes a lot of sense, thanks 🙂 I completely agree, I'm now just leaving my hair up most of the day…a bit annoying but I just need my hair to recover.

Will be checking out the adore range, they sound so much better! I just wish I could get back my hair how it was before my first hairdressers stripped it back & now damaged it! Haha. Ah well 🙂 Thank you girls

You may find the Adore fades fairly quickly but I find leaving it on under a shower cap or cling film for a few hours and heating it with a hairdryer (over the shower cap, you don't want the dye to dry out) every so often then wrapping it in a towel or putting a beanie hat on to keep the heat in really helps.

Another quick note on wearing it up, try to vary the style so you don't get a band of damage from your hair elastic. Braids and plaits are good, I do a lot of Heidi plaits crossed over the top of my head, or a tuck and roll into a headband is a good one too, and leaves you with nice bouncy waves when you take it out (Pinterest is awesome for ideas and tutorials for stuff like that!)