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[quote=Anonymous]I told my colorist I wanted to do something different. For years I've been getting blonde highlights, mixed with darker lowlights, over my base color of mousy brown. But when I was younger, my hair was more of a lovely, dark auburn. So I asked the colorist if she thought a base color of dark auburn would work for me. It is such a beautiful color, and my skin and eye tone would go perfectly with it. She told me I'd be coming back every 3 weeks for root touchups because it wouldn't grow out in a subtle way. So instead she told me she'd give me some dark auburn highlights. (Or lowlights? Whatever. Streaks of dark auburn throughout my mousy brown hair.)

So the dark auburn highlights turned out looking more of a dark pink color. I went back, had a toner applied, it looked better for a few days, but now I'm back to the unnatural dark pink color with these highlights. It looks ridiculous, sort of like that elderly-lady artificially dyed red hair, and this is a colorist I previously trusted.

I find it so frustrating when a colorist gives you a look that _obviously_ does not look flattering, and tries to talk you into liking it. And also frustrating when I told her what I wanted (dark auburn base color with some highlights) and she wouldn't do it. I mean, maybe it wouldn't have looked good, but what she ended up doing looks terrible.

Is there anything that can be done at this point to make my hair look better? Should I just wait for it to fade; speed the process by washing in hot water, shampooing daily, etc.? I don't want to go back to this salon for the 3rd time in a week, and really don't trust her with my hair now anyway.

This is really just kind of a vent but if anyone has constructive advice, I'd love to hear it!

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