Anomaly

So, just when I thought accidentally turning my mom's hair pink(ish) was bad, I decided to royally disgrace the hair on my roommate's head.
My roommate's hair has always, been hard to lighten.  I took her from black box color to a really pretty blonde with some darker pieces still throughout...honestly, one of the best foils I have done.
This time, I wanted to try something new.
Instead of just simply doing a foil retouch, I wanted to do a root shade.  I have been learning more and more about color now that Toni&Guy have taken over my independent beauty college.
A root shade is aaaaamazing!
Instead of placing the packets all the way to the scalp, you leave a small amount of the overall color nearest to the scalp and start the lightner after that through the ends.  It just creates such a beautiful highlighted look.
Well....unless you are my roomate. Then it spells disaster.
I wish my camera had been charged, cause the process that happened was something like I have never seen.
She pulled really, really, really warm, like most darker colors do.
With such warmth I did what anyone would have done, I decided to get a toner and try and counteract the red orange in her hair with a natural ash....makes sense, right???
Hahaha, nope, turned her hair a really pretty swamp grayish green....and it wasn't even left on that long.
So now, back to lightner, then some high lift color that has natural toners in it, to help, once again counteract the warm tones....nope.
Now we are left with a scalp too sensitive to brush through and a nice reddish blonde...the complete opposite of what she asked for...she hates the warm red tones.
So what now?
She waited 12 hours, came back to the school, and this time we just used lightner. Straight to the scalp and a cleanse of lightner, shampoo, water and 20 volume developer to the ends....at least it made it less warm, but now, at this point we have moved on to big bird yellow... I think this is about the point that I start to cry. Honestly I have never, ever been so confused, angry, or felt soooo incredibly stupid as I did for wanting to try this on her.
Finally we get it toned back down, still to a warmer blonde than desired but at least to a point where she can use shampoo to help tone the rest over the next few weeks....but GOOD  GRACIOUS!!

Thankfully, my roommate still loves me.  And this was her final results....