needing a hair colorist who knows what there doing!

[Catgirl]

Originally Posted by beth1104

Yeah, I'll go ahead and let them know we went elsewhere to fix it, but I doubt they'll help monetarily since (I think) they would have fixed it if I'd waited another day for their availability. And... (okay, don't laugh at me), I signed a waiver that probably allowed them to do whatever they wanted. Didn't bother reading it because she's done these before with national product shows and the this salon said they wouldn't cut. (I think they just got a little excited). From what I've heard, their skill is okay, it's just they went really 'funky' and now that it's over, am hearing is their style. Shame on me for not checking into that. (Which is why I didn't mention their name here). My main reason for being upset is they agreed to NOT do anything weird with the color, and weren't going to cut it. But thank you!

LOL, social services for you Beth. Poor girl but I'm sure she looks fine now.
I'm not a hairdresser but having had all shades of brown, black and red myself, I know that to go from a dark colour to blonde they have to bleach your hair and then colour it or use a dye that has a very high percentage of peroxide. When doing that, if you keep it on for too long your hair will get very dry and damaged.

[beth1104]

LOL! Yeah, Noelle was honest about what she could/couldn't do to fix it... wouldn't let her go back to the blonde she wanted because it would damage it too much.

[Browsing Duo]

Greetings! I'm living in Paris temporarily--lucky me--but not lucky in the hair color department. Ooo, la, la. Haircuts are good here, but the bad color jobs I see here are awful considering that in every other way the women look incredible--orange-y, weird reds, zebra look--no subtlety at all. A friend here took a cheap flight to Dublin to go to an Avedea salon with the formula she brought from the US--that's how bad the color jobs are in Paris! They seem not to use foil layers, heat, or pay attention to roots.

Anyhoo, I'm going to be visiting Charleston over Christmas. Here are my specs and wishes: I am over sixty blue-eyed, pink skin (well, okay washed out formerly pink skin) with curly hair that was blond when I was a child. My natural color now would be, if I let it, silver at the temples, but still dark and mousy-ish in back. However, my colorist back in NYC, lightened up the back with one process by using Sheer Delight on my roots, as well layers in back, and some layers in front. The result is a silvery, blondish, natural color that suits me--it's on the ash end of blond, not the gold end. She does all this with many layers of plastic wrap then sticks me under heat lamps/dryer for about 15-25 minutes. The heat, apparently, is what takes out bad yellow and orange with Sheer Delight--it goes to the white end, or something like that. That's it. No double process, no wrecking hair with a all over bleach.

Any recommendations of a particular colorist in Charleston itself since we're sharing a car? I do have a strong urge to go out to that salon in Walterboro that someone highly touted on another hair thread. I might check out Aveda salons, too, since you can bring a formula to any other salon anywhere in the world where there's an Aveda salon. Thanks so much. If any colorist know what I'm talking about, please join in. Thanks for your help.