When do you think I'll learn?

[jennielynn1970]

The last time I used a box color was one of the Loreal True Brunette colors. I figured, I'm brunette, it shouldn't wash up really quickly or anything, so i should be safe. I can't use anything "golden", "warm" or anything that gives the impression that it's going to come out light.

Turns out the True Brunette box color is for women of color, who has thick, coarse hair. My hair just kept coming out lighter and lighter and lighter, and here it was because it just kept lifting off my natural color. Ugh.

I now only go to the salon, and I'll get them to color and highlight my hair maybe 2-3xs a year. They don't even let the highlight color on me for longer than 3-5 minutes, and they don't ever use heat. The first time they did that, I came out sooooo blonde, I was in tears. It took the entire night, and 3 color jobs later, I was finally able to look in the mirror and say "yes, I can live with this color."

[Husky_mom]

you know...... that pic actually looks good....... we have to see you in person to tell how red it is indeed.......

I went red one time and it was soooo cool.... it was like deep purple red..... and i loved it but it washed out in a week.... so I redid it and it turned out orange red, which was fine but I liked best the other red which also faded some sort of pink but i liked it... after the orange one it took me over 6 months to get rid of the orange and go back to my palest extra blonde hair.... haha.....

now I´m considering getting it red again.....but will have to consider getting it touched up every week or so..... perhaps some manic panic..... but I also don´t want to get everything painted red with my hair....LOL

[moosmom]

That's why I stick with "Natural Blond" by L'Oreal, cuz I'm worth it

[Medusa]

Lordy, I've been there so many times I can't even count them! My hairdresser should have a merit badge for putting up w/all my hair color changes through the years. For a while, I was changing it every 4 weeks, no kiddin', from platinum blonde to motorcycle mama black, didn't matter, I wanted a change. I finally settled on platinum blonde and I'm sticking w/that cuz no one can tell where my gray hairs are. And for the record, I think your hair color looks good!

[Taz_Zoee]

In the photo it doesn't look as bad as you describe it.
I've been Tony the Tiger, a reverse skunk and strawberry blonde in my life. Now I only let my hairdresser color my hair. Which in fact I just did today. I'm trying to go back to the darker color and get rid of the brassiness that is caused from perms (yes, I'm old!! I still do perms) and the sun.
Can you do a darker color over it to tone down the redness, maybe?