She said color corrective services start at $200 and advised against going that route, reminding me “you can’t do anything permanent with color anyway!”Ī little backstory… up until 2009, I’d never used any kind of permanent haircolor. I called my stylist at my usual salon and told her what happened. (And no, you don’t get a photo of that - the ones I’m sharing in this post are bad enough.) I looked like the opposite of the recent ombré haircolor trend - I was light on top and dark on the bottom. Worse, I only color the roots and the first few inches of growth, so the bottom of my long hair was still a medium brown.
Level 2 haircolors use peroxide to open the cuticle and deposit color, but this reaction was unlike anything that had ever happened to me. My haircolor had definitely been changed in a big way - it was much lighter than it should have been, and in theory, it shouldn’t have lightened at all. Something had happened to my hair this time though, and I really wasn’t sure what it was. It’s a level 2 haircolor, which means it’s semi-permanent in that it deposits color, but it’s not supposed to lift or lighten one’s original haircolor. I would estimate that I’ve used Natural Instincts haircolor hundreds of times. What happened? The day before, I’d colored my hair at home, as I’ve always done - I used Natural Instincts, which has been my brand of choice since I started coloring my hair (aside from a brief stint with Garnier Herbashine when Natural Instincts reformulated a few years ago.) Over the years, I’ve been various shades of Natural Instincts browns, usually going with a 12 (Toasted Almond) or 12A (Caramel Brown) depending on the season. I nodded, peering at my reflection in her car’s window. She looked curiously at my hair, which indeed, was an unusual shade of orangish-brown. I stood in my driveway talking to my mother, who had stopped by our house.
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