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MY NEW HAIR

So while I was still living in Canada a couple weeks ago I was really craving a good hair cut and refreshed colour. However prices where I lived were expensive. I heard that in Korea hair cut prices are way less expensive depending on where you go and the cuts and colour are very good! So I decided to hold out on updating my style until I got to Korea.

Two days ago I went to Juno Hair. I had only heard good things about the chain online and figured it would be worth my while. So I gathered my money and decided I would treat myself to an intensive salon day. I wanted a cut to remove all the broken hair, a new colour because I was tired of my blonde and then I wanted a magic treatment to bring health back to my dead hair.

I brought a picture into the salon to show the stylist exactly what I wanted so there would be no miscommunication and they could literally see what I wanted.

I showed them the colour and cut to the right and said I wanted that colour and that cut. They agreed and pointed to the colours on the colour chart which were the exact same so I agreed.
As you can tell the results were not good… Just my luck after not going to a salon in 3.5 years!
This is what I got… a lighter top of my hair and a dark blue grey shade at the ends… when you compare it to what I asked for and showed them there is nothing at all similar! ๐Ÿ™ Surprising I was only slightly devastated, I was happy because I mostly wanted all the dead cut off which I knew was the majority of my length. I also had the urge to go darker but I was scarred to so didn’t request it. 

However what bothers me the most is how in the world did they thing putting a dark blue colour over a very light blonde was a good idea? What also bothers me again is that the blue dark they put on the bottom clearly was not the colour we agreed on. Since I am quite knowledge in hair dye and mixing, I know 100% that they messed up hugely on my hair. Thankfully they gave me a discount for ruining my hair. Naturally if I wasn’t meeting someone in the next hour for lunch I would have made them fix my hair right there on the spot. But I was already running late so I quietly left with a disappointed look on my face.
To top it off the stylist kept insisting I give him my phone number the entire time he was doing my hair… It made the process awkward because I was there to get a new style… not get hit on! >.<

That night I kept considering going back and making them fix my hair for free but I came to the conclusion that if they messed my hair up that badly which should have been a very simple and easy dye job, then there was no way they would be able to properly fix it without making it worse.

So as per usual I decided to take matters into my own hands and use my own skills to fix their mess. 

I walked to my local Lotte market and picked up a dye brand that I was familiar with which was the Japanese brand Fresh Light.
Since for some reason they put such a dark cool ash blue brown colour in my hair I had to pick up a red colour to counter the blue. I was very limited on my options since Korea seriously doesn’t have a large hair dye variety. Literally they have 1% compare to North America! Not much selection at all. This was the only colour that had a good amount of red. 
The packaging sure it cute though! This also was the only dye that showed it being able to go over multiple hair colours.

As soon as I got home I started to add the colour. I surprisingly really loved the product! There was so much foam! I had so much extra it was fabulous and it spread evenly all through my hair leaving no patches or dry spots. A very even and mess free application.

I let the product sit for the max amount of time to make sure it took properly on all the sections of my hair. I was nervous at first while it was processing because the colour was looking very red and almost like a dark pink.

But it turned out great! My hair colour still is not truly even but it is so much better then how it looked! The colour is now fairly consistent and the top of my head isn’t substantially lighter then the ends. The ends of my hair that were previously blue are now more of a burgundy colour while it fades up into a nice rich chocolate medium brown colour.

As you can see it is a lot better then what the salon had done to my hair! I still can’t believe how terrible it was >.<  he even tried to cover it up by telling me it will wash out to blonde in 3 washes. If I was someone who didn’t know hair dye then he may have been able to fool me. But I have years of experience and know for a fact that he just messed up hugely ๐Ÿ˜›

What I am hoping for is that the colour that was previously a grey blue will now wash out to more of a warm light brown colour rather then washing out to grey hair lol. I will probably have to re-dye my hair again in a month of so just to even it out more but for now this is 1000% better and I am now finally happy with it!

Anyways that is my horrid hair story from my salon visit! What do you think of my new hair colour and cut?

About Author

Hi! I am Bronwyn Papineau AKA BiiBiiBeauty & BiiBiiBap. Welcome to my area of the internet :3 I blog about my life and review the things I love while I travel. I am a beauty blogger & youtuber in Toronto Ontario Canada who lived in Seoul South Korea for 2 Years, Tokyo Japan for 1 year, and Melbourne Australia for 1 year. So, come with me on my beauty journey!

1 Comment

  • Misa Lee
    April 17, 2014 at 3:27 am

    That was not pleasant salon visit :/ though I must say that you look gorgeous in dark hair but it wasn’t the color you wanted and agreed on with the stylist. I personally think you did a better job in coloring with fresh light. Love the burgundy color on you and your hair looks healthy ๐Ÿ™‚

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