Okay so I dont know if any of you ladies on here have any experience in hair coloring/styling or have done cosmetology on the side. But even if not, it doesn't matter, I'm sure you can still help me. So last November I got the top of my hair colored purple and my stylist accidently left it on for too long and it over processed. So some of the hair on the top of my head fell out, but it did not effect the overall length or thickness of my hair. It just looked like I cut a few pieces of the back of my hair shorter. It was really short in November, like literally looked like little sprouts coming out of the top of my head in the back. But my hair is long and thick and the way I styled it helped disguise it. I was PISSED at my stylist for not telling me! But I stupidly kept going back to her to color my hair, which I had her dye back to its normal blonde color.
Luckily, she did not do any more damage to my hair and my little sprouts have grown out a lot. But it looks SO awkward when its growing out! Almost like I have choppy layers on the top of my head and its NOT a good look for me! I've decided to let my hair grow out and stop coloring it for a while so that it grows more and becomes more healthy. I'm naturally brunette so getting it colored blonde is not the healthiest thing for my hair every month (although my hair is in pretty healthy shape for dying it blonde so much). Anyway, my stylist told me that I should get the base color a little bit darker if I'm going to let it grow more because the new growth will be counterproductive if I'm trying to grow my hair longer (it will just make my ends shed and it wont grow that long)...wtf??! It makes sense that coloring my hair darker will make it blend better with my dark roots, but why would coloring it darker help it grow more?? I think not coloring it at all for another month or 2 would be better for its growth. and maybe just trimming off the dead ends every now and then. I dont care if my hair is gonna look a little brassy or trashy with the dark roots and the blonde, I actually think its kind of a hot look on me lol.
I think my stylist knows that I'm probably gonna stop going to her and find someone else, so she wants to get more money out of me while she still can (by having me let her dye it darker). I do plan on finding a new stylist, but my question is this; am I right or is she right? Dying it darker will not be better for its growth, not coloring it AT ALL for another 2 months or so will be. But she says dying the base a little darker will help with its growth. Even if she is right, I'm still going to find someone else to do it. And by the way, I hate the way dark hair looks on me! I was meant to be blonde, it suits me so well. I dont want to color my hair darker and then have to dye it back to blonde and do even more damage that way. What do you guys think?



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