A Hair-raising update (hahaha)

So I went to get my hair done yesterday, as I mentioned in the previous post, and told them I wanted to go back to as close to my natural color as they could get me. I really thought it wouldn't be too bad: I had a good inch and a half of uncolored roots to match a swatch to, and my hairdresser in this area always told me he had been dying hair for twenty years. Don't get me wrong, when he dyed my hair red, it was great. Color was perfect for my skin tone and he was very accomadating to my nutso schedule (though was always hard to get ahold of - when a customer calls you, word to the wise, don't wait three days before calling them back). I thought this would be similar. He told me he would lift the color using an ammonia free system, which is great. I hate damaging my hair excessively. SO he went at it. And, at the end of two hours of lifting and tinting and washing and conditioning... my hair looks just about exactly the same. ::deep breaths:: Yeah, I don't mind having my hair different and wold colors, but when I have to pay for two hours of nothingness, I get a tid bit frustrated. Hair is no where near natural color. I'm just a slightly duller color of red-brown. (For those familiar with hair color, I'm a six, this is an eight.)And I can even still see my roots! Very frustrated, I paid, was polite (that's right! Stop Snarking in action!), and vowed to find another color artist.

I loved my salon person in Pittsburgh. Seriously. Capristo is AMAZING. I have actually waited until I'm going back out that way to get my hair done. Sarah is my lady/homegirl/fabulously talented and sarcastic brush-weilding heroine. But, in all truth, I work primarily with guys at the fire house who if I showed up with purple hair might ask me if I lost weight, or did something a little different with my eyebrows. I love them, wholly and completely, but I'm not so sure they'd actually notice anything different! I'll be sure to take pictures of the hair later and post them next to the original hair color so you can see the "difference"! ;)