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Never again - be warned!

(34 Posts)
cornergran Sat 25-Aug-18 22:19:03

Looks very good now maw. Nothing to worry about Have fun on Monday.

Doodle Sat 25-Aug-18 22:10:46

I think you look good too maw. What a shame it all cost you so much. A friend of mine uses the John Frieda purple shampoo and it give a lovely lilac sort of under colour. She has had many compliments on it.

seacliff Sat 25-Aug-18 22:07:26

We've all done it, well similar anyway. Very annoying, but it looks great again now.

GrannyGravy13 Sat 25-Aug-18 20:45:52

MawBroon, hair looks great, just smile and enjoy yourself.
As the saying goes "life is too short to stuff a mushroom'
Sexy sixty
Sensational seventy
Extravagant eighty
Naughty ninety
Happy Hundred (I think that's because they are alive!!)

MawBroon Sat 25-Aug-18 20:42:15

That was this evening but I am never ever going to try to be “edgy” again blush Yes I do use a purpley shampoo usually Touch of Silver.
God luck kitty you will be fine as indeed I might have been if I had left well alone. I still fancy a smoky pearl effect. But will lick my wounds for a bit first. All that money for lowlights and then the stuff to strip out the dye blush
I am sue if paw had been here I would not have been so brainless.

annsixty Sat 25-Aug-18 20:21:58

Actually Maw you look fine in the photograph, I can only assume it looks different in RL
I am sure you can carry it off.
I am now white and just go along with it.
To be frank, I neither have, the time, the money or the will to do anything else.
You really do look great.

Coolgran65 Sat 25-Aug-18 20:18:43

MawBroon I bet your scalp was as tight as a drum.

Your hair is a lovely colour, nice and silvery. Have you ever tried the purple shampoo, I think it's John Frieda. It brightens silver hair nicely.

However, if you'd like to do something different I think that a pinky pearl wash would be lovely. Or you could have it put in, in a few bold slices. The pink is very subtle, I had it done in slices in my (dyed) blonde hair.

kittylester Sat 25-Aug-18 20:14:22

Looks fine to me maw!

But, you gave frightened me as I have an appointment next week with a view to having a complete rethink of my style and colour. I might stay as I am!

MawBroon Sat 25-Aug-18 20:09:35

Tired of the unrelenting white of my hair I asked my hairdresser to put some dark lowlights in yesterday with the intention of a more silvery grey pearl effect.
Well it looked fine there, if a little dramatic as she had put very fine black lowlights assuring me that a few washes would fade them to the grey I wanted.
Today - no go. I just didn’t like it.
Hairdresser couldn’t fit me in as they were shutting early for the BH weekend so I bought some hair dye remover from Superdrug.
Never ever do this.
The black faded OK but to a ghastly ginger/apricot colour! Another application faded that further to a sort of strawberry blonde in places ??? so I tried yet again and apart from a slight blonde cast at the side, I think I have got away with it, but never, ever again.
Due to be at a big family do at DD’s on Monday (plus her inlaws) I was seriously thinking of throwing a sickie or buying a burqa.
That was a lot of money down the pan too. ???