Blond hair - need advice

Hi All,

I am so glad I have found this forum as there is always so much advice avliable and helpful people!

I naturally have very dark brown hair and want to be Blond! I went to my local hairdresser and she said she would put blond highlights through all of my hair and would need to have this repeated a 2-3 times to get it blond. I have had it done three times now and its still not the light blond that I had showed a picture of. She done the highlights in a short space of time and my hair is so dry now and breaks really easy.

I went to Tony & Guy to get some advice and change my hairdresser!! and they advised they would not be able to put any colour through all of my hair as it is not strong enough but they can do the roots. They said to build up the hair again and make sure I do lots of conditioning treatments.

The problem is I also use straightners every other day, which doesnt help!

I need advice from anyone else that has gone from dark to blonde and also any advice on what I can do to get my hair back to good condition!

Thank you
Elaine

Don't really have any advice, but..

I went blonde a couple of years ago, spent lots of money at my local hairdresser's and ended up not liking the results! I only stayed blonde for a month or so and went back to dark again. What a waste of money.... I guess I had to give it a try! xx

Its going to cost you!

I think tony & guy did the right thing. Praps they can recommend a hair repair? I got one from my hairdressers Mahogany, expensive but brilliant, and a protective serum for straightening.£20 each but honestly worth it, as very srtrong much stronger that the boots stuff..Once a week I sit with a treatment on a shower cap over and a hot towel for an hour...it works.
I did the same dying thing a year ago and was horrified that after a week I could see the dark at my roots again...ended up dyeing the whole lot dark again. I might risk highlights for the summer, but I'm getting yesd to my rat-brown hair now.
I can sympathise!
H