I need some advice, or new ideas, or anything really on what to do with my hair next. About six weeks ago, I wanted to warm up my level 10 blonde hair (with about two inches of virgin level 8 roots) to have more reddish tones, to achieve a strawberry blonde shade close to my natural color. The first mistake I made was buying a box of compound henna in "strawberry blonde." It turned my hair blueish brown. Afraid to use chemical dye over the compound "henna," I used Manic Panic in bright red and left it on for 24 hours. It faded quickly to a color my mom called "period blood." After a couple rounds of margaritas, we bought a box of L'Oreal Healthy Look in White Chocolate (second mistake). It turned the roots the perfect shade of strawberry blonde... and the rest of the hair BRIGHT LIGHT BLUE. Next I used Beyond the Zone Color Jamz in Outrageous Orange. It evened it out to a bright, wild orange for a couple days. Next, I did a soap cap/bleach bath, which turned my roots a normal level 9 shade of strawberry blonde, and the rest of the hair a bright pastel blue. The next day, I used a protein filler in red, and then Beyond the Zone Glam Street Glaze in Red. Then my hair looked like an Easter egg. From root to tip: orange, blue, blonde, yellow, pink. I bit the bullet and bought L'Oreal Preference Mega Reds in Light Intense Copper and 20Vol developer. Turned my hair a normal shade of dark red with the roots and the length blended fairly well. But of course it faded after two weeks to what is shown in the picture. My hair is in good condition, because throughout this all I've been doing protein treatments with Aphogee and Redken Chemistry Shotphase/phix, and doing deep conditioning masks twice a week, and only washing twice a week. It's healthy, just a stupid gray-blue-green with red-orange roots. What can I do next? I still want strawberry blonde hair, but this blue color is super resilient and re-pigmenting with red only lasts so long, and overall the hair is too dark. I'm considering another bleach bath/soap cap, then using a mixture of the lightest blonde and a bit of light red in Wella Color Charm Demi-perm. But then committing to re-pigmenting with demi-perms every couple weeks until it grows out. I'm trying to grow my hair out, so I don't really want to give up and cut it all off, though I'm not entirely opposed to that either. I wear wigs at work, so none of this experimenting is affecting my money. Also, going to a professional is out, because this has become my hobby/pet project, and obviously I'm not emotionally invested in my hair, I've just run out of ideas. Anyone?
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That's something to do when you get sick of having to redye your hair red often anyway 





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