All hairstylists help please?!?!?

I am a hairstylist dream, I love change, I am not scared about edgy cuts, styles, colors...etc. Basically anything goes. I can pull anything off.

But in December, my beginner hairstylist friend, attempted to take my partly died black hair to bleach, white, blonde hair. I have never been a blonde so was all for it. However, it took 4 bleach jobs to get my hair that blonde! Must be the Irish in my, my hair wouldn't leave the orangy, brassy color for hours.

The result...my hair is so fried I had to cut half of it off.

I had layers in there to begin with so, they had to get cut too. Now I have some chin length pieces, and a few spots where it is about an inch and maybe a half!

In order to let the short pieces grow, I opted to take it back to a natural color.

However, my hair doesn't want to take the darker dye. It fades out and is a lighter color, at my ends than at my roots.

How can I get it to take a color? Why won't it dye?

I don't get it...

All hairstylists help please?!?!?

stop dying your hair!!!! go to a stylist and pay for a deep conditioner. do this once a week. it will restore your hair after a while. get a nice layer thin cut. (with a razor blade) to thin out any damaged parts. stop blow drying and straintening for a good month. it withh repair the spliut ends. it will take a while but u need to go buy aveda deep conditioner and use it regularly. my stylist highly recommends it for peopel who bleach their hair. it is agood for your hair and hopefully ina month of so it will be restored. no offense to your friend but tell her to practice on a dummy until sh has mastered the coloring process being that she severely damaged yoru hair.

All hairstylists help please?!?!?

if it looks bad go get some cute hats all diff. colors styles, if you could make hair look good you could make hats look good....

All hairstylists help please?!?!?

Artificial hair color is much more difficult to lift out than natural. Your hair now is very, very porous. It most likely stretches out and breaks when wet and if you looked at it under a microscope it would look like Swiss cheese. The color that you are trying to deposit on it now has no where to hold onto- it washes through the hair. I would suggest an in salon conditioning and protein treatment specifically targeting this condition- Kerastase Cemant. You can immediately follow with a semi- permanent color with low ammonia. Permanent hair color is not the answer and is causing more damage. Do not wash hair for 36- 48 hours after treatment. Use color depositing shampoo and conditioner every time that you shampoo. (I would not shampoo more than 3 times a week.) In the condition that your hair is probably in this will give you the best result. Stick with someone with experience with color correction.

If you cut this hair with a razor blade you will be left with strings. The porosity of the hair just can't take that tool on the hair. The entire style will feel "collapsed".