[SouthernMama]

This is a little lengthy, so I'll try to make it short but clear. For Mother's Day, I had my hair colored a reddish brown and highlighted at a salon. I absolutely loved it. I've been contiplating on going back but haven't because of the money. My friend offered to help and we chose a color close to my natural color of dark brown and chose a separate highlight kit. I would have been happy with it even though it was too dark. However, being the nice friend that I am, I let her highlight it. After effects are very close section of orange hair on my left side and 1 or 2 on the right that came out tented red. I didn't want to hurt her feelings so when she left, I ran to the store and chose a light brown color and it did help some with the highlight. Now it's dark brown almost black with dark orange highlights. This is what I want to do. Since dark hair does not look good on me, I can only think to strip it to lighten it to a copper color for the highlights, but I'm scared that it will come out more orange. I hope I don't sound confusing but I couldn't see getting an answer without giving the whole story.
Thanks so much!

[PrettyLady]

Dark hair color is difficult to fix by yourself. Please do not attempt to color your hair at home. Go to the salon and have them do a corrective color on you.

[SouthernMama]

Since I wrote, I went for a visit with a friend (who is a beautician) and she washed it twice with Dawn and cut it for me and the colors actually looks better now with a little lift to it. Thank you for the advise. Deep down inside I know that's the solution, but I just didn't want to cough up the money!!