Hair Disaster: blonde to blonde with violet red to black
Please help. I'm in tears, and have found no posts specific to my situation. I need a beauty professional.
I have had a run of professional hair color disasters. I've done nothing myself. I'll lay it out.
I am naturally a medium brown/auburn. I have been a wheat blonde with platinum highlights for 10 years. My hair was long and very healthy.
This summer I moved and choose a new colorist. She was running the bleach through my hair each time instead of putting it only on the roots, so by the 3rd time, I had intense breakage and lost half of my hair length. As a result, I had the damaged hair cut off and then let my hair be for 5 months and deep treated it. Finally, it seemed good and I had new healthy root growth which needed attended to.
So I found a new colorist and asked for blonde highlights on the roots and also a nice strawberry blonde to be woven through the blonde hair. I got a dark violet red put all over my roots and woven through my hair!! It was awful.
So a week later I went to yet another colorist for "color correction". She put tons of bleach filled foils on my roots in effort to break up the violet red. It came out with an orangish cast and looked different but just as bad. Orange-ish hair.
So I thought, maybe this is the time to just go back to my original color. So I found a 4th colorist who was supposed to be board certified, and she turned me BLACK!! Or at least a very very very dark brown. I was told I'd be golden brown. But I'm black, and it's so much darker then my natural color. I need to fade it. I look like death.
My question is, what can I do? My hair has been through a lot. And this last colorist put an orange-toned filler all over my hair before she colored it dark and said I could never go back to blonde with this hair. Is that true? If it is, can I at least lighten the dark? How much can my hair handle?
Please help me. I don't know who to trust and am very close to shaving my head...