Ok, so I bought L'Oreal's Colour Experte' in
Chocolate Mousse - described as 'darkest mahogany' and it was supposed to have reddish highlights. Well, my hair came out very RED (which I don't neccesarily mind) and the streaks came out orangey with a slightly yellowish tint at the ends. Umm, this wasn't what I bargained for! So, because I felt so self concious, I took some
Crimson Storm (it's slightly more red than purple in real life) veggie dye over the streaks for the time being. This made things better, but I was/am afraid when I go to work my boss will not like it and instruct me to 'fix it.'
Well, I called the L'Oreal customer service number on the box to let them know how things went ary, and aside from telling me they would send me a certificate to compensate for the cost of the first kit, the lady on the line told me that to fix it, I would take
Preference Medium Brown 5G and mix per instructions, but to add half of just the colour of
Preference Light Aulburn 6R and mix it in so that the overall shade would be more brown, but the red would fill in the blonde-ish spots without making it ashy/greeny (possible if just the brown was applied). I thanked her for her help and hung up, but when I was at the store, I started thinking - why couldn't I just use a reddish brown? Isn't that essentially what she was saying I needed, only with a more customized colour and 2 boxes of dye versus one generic shade?
So I got
ColorSpa in Chestnut (reddish brown) since it's semipermanent (because I JUST coloured my hair) and it seems like it would do ok too, but now I am paranoid I should just do what the woman said... Help?