Help! Daughters hair has been ruined at hairdressers

peachyprice

How can they call that perfection? It's bloody awful.

tinkerbell28

You'd go mad wouldn't you? Brown blocks, orange blocks, blonde blocks. Looks like a home dyed hair job gone wrong....

Another one http://woohair.com/id42863/vincent-greer-runway-red-carpet-real-world-ombre-hair-color-240x360-pixel.html

Technically ombre hair colour is dip dying the hair in blocks.....I am told it is quite the tricky technique to get right. Which is why it always looks like bad roots to me.

What Kate has in that pic is technically not an ombre colour which is what op agreed to..... but a highlights and lowlights...to give an ombre effect......

MamaMoo_2

One thing I will say is after a few washes if several different colour dyes have been used in blocks, the colour looks more graduated and blends better, so although it may look like 3 blocks of colour now, it should mingle a bit where the colours meet and blend to look like a more gradual colour gradient.

That said, if she's not happy she could get the opinion of another hairdresser. If they agree there's an issue then go back and ask the original salon to fix it.
Alternatively, if they say it will blend, then maybe give it a week and see. The original salon said it will blend so if it doesn't after a week or two then they can't try pulling that line again and it'll be obvious they have to do something.

pulliptears

My sons GF went for the ombre look a few weeks ago, she has naturally very dark hair. On the way back from the Salon she went via Asda and bought a home dye and it was gone within the hour.

It's a funny thing, suits very few people it seems. I'd have had that Kate Beckinsale style down as more highlight than ombre but it looks a little more natural than a lot of the ombres I've seen.

fridge_raider

I really wouldn't worry too much. My girlfriend is an experienced stylist who has worked in lots of salons, including Toni & Guy, and they get this kind of thing all the time.

Just go back to the salon, explain what's happened, tell them you're unhappy and that it wasn't what you wanted and that you want it to be rectified. 9 times out of 10, any decent salon will do this without any quibble.

Regular clientele is highly valued in the industry, if you complain they will almost always offer to redo the colour/cut to attempt to keep your business.

hgotsparkle

tinkerbell28 wrote: »

But to get it even semi acceptable, it is a notoriously hard hair technique to do without making a mess of it.

Having done the ombre affect on myself using the l'oreal ombre kit and some tin foil, I achieved it easily, and had a lot more compliments on it than my friends who had hers done in toni & guy!


On topic: You should go in with her and complain, tell them to colour over the hair to bring it all back to one shade and let the hair restore, plus make sure they do loads of conditioning treatments at no extra cost.

Krojan

Honestly provided they coloured the hair in the requested style, then you've gotten what you've asked for, just because she doesn't like it, it doesn't mean you can really "return" it. Of course it'd be advised to get a 3rd party professional to give a professional opinion on the work undertaken, however if it's been done properly then you'll have to put it down to experience, if not then complain and get them to rectify the problem

At £100+ I'd expect this to be a decent salon.

for £100+ I'd expect this to be a higher end salon

£100 is NOT high end either in most parts of the country

£100+ on a hairdoo!? Don't care if it was blummin' pope who did it, how on earth can people justify spending so much money on something that lasts a few weeks at best? At that price I'd rather shave the damn stuff off!

tinkerbell28

£100 in most places I've lived, and there have been plenty....is the going rate for a cut and colour in a salon.....We are talking the south though.

If you want your hair done properly at a salon, that's been the bog standard prices, pretty much everywhere.

Country_Cousin

What happened OP. Did she go back to hairdresser?

gayleanne

It is supposed to be the new fashion in hair, having a dip dye look. If you do not get any joy at the hairdressers, you can remove the colour yourself, by using COLOUR B4 it costs about 12 pounds a box from boots, superdrug, wilkinsons, if you have long hair you will need two boxes, to make this work, it takes a long time standing in the shower, the longer you rinse the hair the better the results.