What are your?!? I have never drastically done anything to my hair but yes, home hair colored turned it orange and had to rock it for about a week looking like my nani with mehndi dyed greys. Another one was recent when I wanted to go light and as always it ended up looking the same so the lady decided to give me hilights.ona. discount. Never get hilights for free or as a discount. She straight up bleached them and didn’t tone them. I looked like those desi women with patchy hilights and they just got worse with time until I had to just get my hair colored all over. I did the whole let’s go black and well not everyone can pull it off. I looked sickly and pale and a little hillbilly. Another awful thing was when lighting the top half of my head. I WENT THERE with hilights and with the famous Rachel haircut it looked god awful. I just keep it safe now, a shade lighter or darker. What are your blunders?!?
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Only once. Hasn’t happened again in almost 12 years 
In high school even when I was totally clueless; right a week before attending a wedding did a bleach kit at home and ended up with your nani’s similar colour, ran to the best hair Italian hair dresser knew of; 2.5 hours/$90 later he turned me into a burgundy bombshell, I could still remember his face, he was so proud of the results and kept pecking my face, even danced with me in the Salon in front of everyone, I was mentally shot down but ever so relieved and I just went along with the freak show…Lolz
My dad loved the hair colour so much that he still reminds me to get that colour back, Anyway got tons of compliments at the wedding, so I guess it all ended well 
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I don’t remember my natural hair colour any more 
My hair has never been pure black, in fact even before I started to colour it, when the sun hit it, people would think I had highlights. But of course who’s going to be happy with naturally lighter hair and I decided to colour it. My hair colour changes twice a year - dark in the winter, lighter in the summer. I get lowlights or highlights - but I generally stay in the range of dark brown to nearly black to caramel highlights or a reddish tint. But whatever colour it is, my hair colour must suit my skintone - so blonde or some variation of that is out.
The worst was when I spent $200 and the stylist added chunky fire-engine red highlights. I lived with it for 5 days, but every morning, my pillowcase would be red and the red going down the shower drain was brutal. I went to another salon (cost me another $80 dollars) and had it rinsed with brown. Looks great after that.
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Oh Lord…like Sehrysh…I no longer remember my natural hair color
Pink highlights (the day before a rishta came over…ha!)
Fire engine red highlights (when red lights were the thing)
Blonde highlights - thin and chunky
Suuuuuper dark black
I lovvvvvvvvvvvvve messing around with my hair but I have actually calmed down now. Umar ka taqaza samaj lo
I dye it dark brown during the winter and lighten it up during the summer or go for highlights.
Next project is shorter hair…I have to have short hair.
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I’m too chicken to try coloring/highlighting etc…I can’t tell you how many appointments I’ve made and canceled because I back out at the last minute :sid:
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The first time I got highlights, I was about 16 and I got them done by my hair lady. They came out so red (and I had never done anything to my hair before, so I didn't know that the color needs a week to "settle"), so I went home and dyed over it with a box of brown color. My mom was furious for wasting all that money, but there was no way I was going to embarrass myself for an entire week in hopes that the color would calm down.
Then after I got married, I wanted to get ombre hair, but I was too poor to go to a salon in the expensive area where I live. I found a beauty school and I thought, this will be a fun experience. Oh my Lord, that was such a mistake. She did nothing but bleach the bottom half of my hair, like there was a clear line. No color, nothing. I was so embarrassed, I cried for 3 days, and then I got the name of an affordable salon that a friend went to and had them fix it. They had to dye over all my hair to my natural shade, then bleach in an ombre/baliage pattern, then color those highlights the color that I wanted. It took 4 hours. In the end, I wasn't in love with it, but I was so overjoyed with not looking like a punk rocker chic that I almost didnt' care how much $ I lost. Never again.
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i have naturally medium brown hair that have some light brown strands. never dyed my hair but i applied mehndi recently, a few months ago. the aftermath was a really warm nice brown. but the color faded off soon after. i was horrified to know that mehndi apparently takes 7 years to go off from hair????? someone told me that. however, i feel it didnt stay in my hair long! back to the original color now.
if i could, ill get blondish highlights done or ombre hair !
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oooh and i got hair extensions when i was 17. in blond and red if i remember correctly. they tied the extensions to our hair! faux pas :D
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I have naturally jet black hair and have always wanted to colour it but have been too scared about ruining my hair. Have any of you girls experienced hair damage as a result of colouring or has it been fine? How often do you have to get the colour done?
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I don't have very healthy hair, so dying has really dried my hair out in the past
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i NEVER colored my hair in my life never never
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Mine is bleached platinum blonde.. its almost white lol.. next on the list is auburn/red :D
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A couple of years ago I decided to give blonde hair a go (as my hair is naturally light brown). However, I did not want the new colour to be such a stark contrast to my natural colour that I looked like a different person, so I asked my hairdresser for a darker, more caramel shade of blonde, a bit like this:
However, she went much lighter than I asked and made my hair very platinum blonde, almost white, rather like Emilia Clarke in Game of Thrones:
Oh my word! I looked like a completely different person (even had couple of people ask if I was Swedish/Norwegian and here on holiday). I suppose it looked alright but I was not terribly fond of the look.