Reflections

Let me tell you a little story. But first let me tell you that if you are going to color your own hair from one of those boxes you can get just about anywhere stick to the same brand! This is why...

Thursday I had a hair color coming in at 5:30. She came in with mostly blonde hair, except the last 5-6 inches were of a green nature. She wanted an all over blonde with some bright red chunks underneath. The more I got thinking about my course of action I began asking her some routine questions. Beginning with "What is this, and why is it green?" She tells me that she had been doing her own hair and about 2 weeks after the last time it turned green. So I asked her "Well what are you using to color your own hair?" She tells me that one time she used this and another time she used that... So on and so forth... I told her that we have a few options that we can do. We can use bleach and get out the green, then go in a put in another color, that is considered corrective color and will cost $55 per hour and will take 3-4 hours. And she didn't think that her mom would go for it.

So I decided to do a test strand with bleach just to see what it would do, if it would lift the green out. I was holding a small section of hair (about a 1/4 in.) in my hand with a foin and was applying a bleach mixture to it. NOT EVEN A MINUTE INTO IT and her hair started getting hot and I could see the bleach boiling. So I took a spray bottle and hosed it to get it off her hair. And as I was rubbing it with a towel to get the bleach out the hair was disinagrating. Can you imagine if I had put it on most of her hair?

So I tell her that we have 2 options... Cut it out or use a semi-permanent color and go darker to cover it. She wasn't up for cutting, so now she is a brunette. The whole time I am applying this brown color I am thanking God that I was wise enough to do a test strand and telling her why she needs to stick with one kind of hair color. The chemicals that companies use for haircolor are never the same as each other. Therefore the chemicals react with each other and create messes.

This girl told me that she will never be doing her hair again. We all got to learn something that day.