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Jan 16, 2013
Stephanie D.
So, I decided to go back to red hair because about once a year I get in this mood. Having been suckered in by claims and shiny displays of Garnier Olia, I decided to try it out.
Ok, the color payoff is amazing. It just has a kind of odd constarchy texture that caused me - for the first time in many years - to actually run out of dye. Foooooooook. I missed spots. Obvious spots.
I have since tried to fix it and by gum if I can't get the color distribution to be even enough for my liking. So now I'm going to have to strip it and start over. Sonofa....GRR!!
Just super frustrated right now. Word to the wise: if you use Olia, get 2 or 3 boxes of it and super saturate your hair.
Jan 16, 2013
Ave M.
Don't strip it just go get another box
Jan 16, 2013
Ave M.
It's not going to deposit more colour on the already dyed parts. I've done it plenty of times. Do NOT strip it.
Jan 16, 2013
Ave M.
Your hair looks longer than mine and I always use two boxes no matter what.
Jan 16, 2013
Erica H.
I would go to a salon and have them try to dye the discolored pieces. They probably have better quality dyes and can help you.
Jan 16, 2013
Allison W.
I agree with Ave. Just buy another box and do it again. It wont make the already dyed spots darker. I wouldnt go to a salon, in my opinion when they use hair dye it fades so much faster than box dyes. Probably so you come back sooner and spend money again.
Jan 16, 2013
Kelcy C.
DON'T STRIP IT! I'd just go to a salon or your hair lady and talk to her and have her fix it. so then if you get another box and don't like it again you'd be annoyed. it'd save your hair by a little less damage and get you to love your hair faster!
Jan 16, 2013
Stephanie D.
HA! Good lord, what an Odyssey.
Here's what happened: First, I colored my (fairly light) blonde hair to a light golden brown (ammonia free) to act as a base for the red. Then I used the Garnier Olia - which, like I said, had phenomenal color, but I missed spots. So then I got another box and tried to go back over the patches that I missed the first time. I think I just didn't leave it on as long as the first time I dyed it with the red or there was some interference from some product, because the red didn't take nearly as well as the first time in those areas. Still patchy. So then I had another ammonia free box of golden brown laying around which I decided to use to tone my hair down a notch so that at least everything more or less blends together.
Well...that got me darker, but it didn't even it out as much as I'd hoped in terms of how much red was in different areas (probably due simply to higher porosity at the ends). At this point, I'm probably the only one that would have really noticed the color difference and someone else might have left it that way, but I'm a perfectionist. Silly me.
I did strip it. To completely remove the color(s) that I put in I probably would have needed to do it twice, but as it is, it took out the violet tones, left most of the gold and red and let some of my natural pigment come through, so now I have a lovely light amber brown color that I quite like.
*pats self on back* It's not even terribly dry. I've done single color jobs that left my hair in worse condition. SO HA! Salon my arse. They would have bleached the crap out of it.
Jan 16, 2013
Allison W.
Lol. Glad everything worked out! :)