Colouring Ones Own Hair

[friedgreentomato]

Ok after years of abuse my red hair is now a mucky red so I due it every 3-4 months to perk it up.
Why is the underneath about 5 shades darker?
Don't tell me to go to a hairdresser the last time the left me for 2 hours with dye in my hair!!

[cazzz1975]

the thing I hate with hairdressers is when you ask for a specific style they do something completely different!

[ummmm]

Do you do the full head straight off?

[karenmac60]

It's probably a build up FGT. You could try using one of those dye removers first and it would get rid of the old stuff. Either that or the outer layers are fading more quickly. I have the same problem, but it doesn't really bother me - I just dye it again :)

[Barmaid]

Could the underside be darker because he doesn't get the light on it?

I do my own, it looks fairly uniform to me, but on closer inspection the underside probably looks a tone or two darker.

[Zacs-Master]

I won't to my barbers and asked for a Simon Cowell. When they'd finished it looked nothing like his hair. I said SC doesn't have a haircut like this to which they curtly replied, he would if he came in here. Needless to say I haven't been back.

[Sharingan]

My hair is red and the top fades naturally because of the sun/ light. I think it's normal to have a darker underside with red hair because it fades so easily.

[pizza]

A good hairdresser would strip it back to it's natural colour, then start agin if it is such a mess.
I don't mean to be funny but why did you let the hairdresser leave the dye on for 2 hrs ??

[sue11]

From advice given to me by my own hairdresser regarding colouring problems caused by my previous hairdresser, I am guessing that you are getting what is called colour build up. As you dye and dye your hair, you are probably putting fresh dye onto already coloured hair, in some cases it can turn the previously dyed hair almost black as it has so much colour added and added to it.
When I have my hair coloured, my current hairdresser carefully does the roots, only putting it on the freshly grown hair, avoiding the hair that already contains dye from the previous time. If they want to refresh the whole head, once the roots have taken, they then comb out the dye over rest of the hair, but only leave this on for a very short time to avoid any new colour build up.
They say that over coloured hair has a very flat look to it (ie no shine) and they took a lot of time and effort with mine with some very careful colour correcting, to get rid of the bands of colour build up that the previous salon had done to my hair.
If this is the case with your hair, and you do not trust a hairdresser, I would try karenmac60's advice and see if you can buy a colour remover, but I would advise being very careful as you do not want to make it worse!
Hope this has helped.
Sue

[friedgreentomato]

Thanks all in particular Sue - that makes perfect sense.
Pizza, there was only one hairdresser on duty and I did ask several times how long they were going to leave me - its not as if I could walk out now is it?