Anonymous wrote:I'd probably go for a correction, but you can also try stripping it out with Color Oops! or dish washing soap.

OP here, I tried Dawn dish soap and it help a bit. It's not as mushroomy/taupe colored as it was and I can deal with it for a bit. For the PP who asked about toner--I believe this step was done when they washed hair and not entirely sure what they used but it seems like a lot of stylist do use it.

It is hard to get cool blonde with reddish undertone. It sounds like it was done too much. You hair might be very damaged by now. I would cut it and wait. This is the reason I am not dying my hair now, even though I have some greys. I have brown hair that is dark red in the sun, it always turns orange when going for blonde unless a lot of treatment it done and then it is ruined and I become bleached Scandinavian white blonde...No thanks. No matter how much I pay and how professional the hair stylist is, result is always the same, and even if the blonde is awesome, after a few months that red keeps on coming unless I become that gross white blonde.

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Anonymous wrote:She said it looks mushroom colored, not brassy. OP- please don't take advice from people who thinking their stylist doesn't use toner on highlights. SMH.

Unless the toner is mixed in, I don’t get it. Because my stylist definitely doesn’t do an additional step and the OP made it sound like an additional step. I only do partial highlights and only every few months, with the roots colored every 6-7 weeks. I get tons of compliments on my hair. I’ve had previous stylists, many many years ago, who applied a separate toner, but it always seemed to me that it was to make my highlights less stark, basically to correct their mistake.

Toner has nothing to do with the "skill" of a hair colorist. They cannot change the undertone of your hair with highlights, so if you have reddish tones in your brown hair and you get highlights, they will pull warm. Something like a purple toner will help to reduce the warmth and brassiness that occurs with this. For any blondes who have used purple shampoo, that's all it is... toner.

Anonymous wrote:She said it looks mushroom colored, not brassy. OP- please don't take advice from people who thinking their stylist doesn't use toner on highlights. SMH.

Unless the toner is mixed in, I don’t get it. Because my stylist definitely doesn’t do an additional step and the OP made it sound like an additional step. I only do partial highlights and only every few months, with the roots colored every 6-7 weeks. I get tons of compliments on my hair. I’ve had previous stylists, many many years ago, who applied a separate toner, but it always seemed to me that it was to make my highlights less stark, basically to correct their mistake.

I'd probably go for a correction, but you can also try stripping it out with Color Oops! or dish washing soap.