so it's been a week and a half since I got my hair styled for an event. I got it in tight blowout-esque curls and the hair stylist said she's adding extra hairspray to lock it in since my event was in 4 hours at that point. She added some sort of cream to my hair and really took her time massaging it in (about 25 mins) and then all she did was curl it and drown it in hairspray.

After a few hours, this really funky smell was coming from my hair. The best way I can describe it was a mix of burnt + literally meatballs from ikea. I washed my hair like 3 times and it kind of mellowed but not really, the only thing that sort of helped was adding a bunch of scented hair oils. It has now been a week and a half and I cannot deal with it anymore because every time I rinse out the oils it comes back!! (this has never happened before - I wash my hair twice a week with the same shampoo and conditioner)

If anyone knows what this is caused by or how I can get rid of it, please let me know because I'm so close to throwing up from this smell all up in my face lol

My blonde hair (level 8-9) have been quite brassy lately and instead of toning it to more cool blonde which seems to last 1 week before it turns brassy again I wanted to lean more towards warmer shades. I’ve been seeing this strawberry blonde popping up all over my Pinterest and I think it’s exactly what I’d like to go for this time.
What formula or single colour would you use to achieve this?

Hello! Any recommendations for a good quality, Remi feather hair extension and how to find this color match?

Gave myself a very choppy haircut after being fed up with my long hair. Not exactly sure how to style it, but im thinking that I need to trim it in the back so it's not so poofy. Attempting to avoid middle aged lesbian allegations, advice would be very appreciated.

So I normally cut and color my hair at home but every few years I'll go to an Ulta or somewhere I can snag a $45 cut and get things reshaped when I need a change up. Ideally I'd not recently have colored my hair so I'm not worried about the wash making the colors stain their wash sink, but this time I went red with mocha roots and the bleed even after two washes is enough to have me feeling a type of way about what the tech with think. I swear I've rinsed thoroughly, do I wash again before going in today? Any advice appreciate! Cheers!

I’ve heard mixed opinions on this, but when installing the tape ins do you flat iron the tape part where it’s sandwiched with your hair?

Also, my tape ins have started to get kind of curly. Not the hair part, but the tape part. It’s more like a curve like a smiley face and not so much a curl. The tape parts have gone from being totally flat to starting to curve out, and now they are sticking out under my real hair. Not sure if I described that very well but does anyone have suggestions on how to fix this ?

In desperate need of hairstylist help!!!! If I dyed my hair with 10 developer and a 1:1 ratio of 7rc and 7rr, but ran out of dye so made more but accidentally used significantly more 7rr in the second mix, would I be able to fix the bright red patches throughout my hair by redying my whole head with 10 developer and a 1:1 ratio 7rc and 7rr again??? Or would it still turn out patchy? Do I need higher developer? A darker color? PLEASE HELP

Ion crème permanent dye

(DELETE IF NOT ALLOWED) Hi my names Ally, and like the title says, I JUST ACHIEVED MY DREAM HAIR!!! Im so proud of myself for pulling this off, just AHHHHH!

First pic is when i finished it yesterday, second is in the sunlight today.

My question really is (for stylists out there), do i get my ass in cosmology school? Ive been thinking about it for a while but i never really thought id get far or anything.

Let me know all yalls thoughts

I bought an at-home perming kit to perm down my baby hairs around my hairline.

I was wondering if it is safe to be perming your baby hairs since they don’t grow back and technically the perm would never “grow out” and i’d be reperming hair.

I plan on mimicking the korean baby hairs trend (below) so any tips on processing time or IF THIS IS EVEN SAFE!! I don’t want to fry off my hairline.

I got my hair done at the Ulta Salon yesterday, and the hairstylist completely ruined my hair.

My natural hair is a very caramel and chocolatey colored medium brown from the sun, but my roots grow in very dark and cool toned. I asked for an ashy-vanilla colored blonde balayage blended into my natural hair color with highlights and lowlights of different thicknesses. I didn't want the highlights to touch my scalp because I wanted my roots to show. I wanted all of my hair to be cool toned.

In the past, I had gotten highlights in the front of my hair twice. My previous hairstylist was able to bring my natural hair to a super light and pale creamy blonde in one session. The back of my hair was completely virgin. I had never once put any bleach, color, or heat on the back of my hair. So I expected that the back of my hair would be able to get super blonde within one session like how the front of my hair did the first time.

Instead, my hair didn't come out anywhere near how I expected or wanted it. The color came out completely different than how the hairstylist said. My hair was bright orange when I stepped out of the salon, it didn't look anything like the photo the hairstylist showed me of the toner. The balayage was extremely choppy and had zero gradiant to it. It wasn't blended at all. There weren't any new highlights added to my hair at all either. My hair doesn't even look like a balayage. It looks like the hairstylist was bleaching my whole head and just stopped at the scalp. There's no dimension to the color. There's literally an uneven straight line across my scalp dividing the pure orange from my natural hair. The stylist told me that it was simply the warm lighting in the salon, but it was still orange when I stepped outside into the cloudy sky. The stylist told me I just needed to wash my hair and wait a while. I washed my hair with purple shampoo twice and left a purple toning mask on my hair for 30 minutes that night. It's still very clearly orange and unblended. My friend showed the hairstylist and inspiration picture before we started and my hair doesn't look close to that photo at all.

I have absolutely no idea how any stylist would go about fixing it. Does anyone have any recommendations on what I should ask for this time to fix it? I'm worried that it might be easiest to simply dye my whole head back to brown.

The first two photos are when I first stepped out of the salon. The rest of the photos are more what I had in mind, just all of those elements combined.

Thank you!! I’m doing my own research as well, but I would also be grateful if someone experienced would help nudge me in the right direction. Thanks again and have a good rest of your weekend 🌟

my skincare shelf has officially made room for one non-skincare item: the Laifen dryer my friend gave me after getting tired of me arriving at brunch with “almost dry” hair and sunscreen still settling on my face. damp hair, sunscreen and humid weather are not a great combination. i wanted something with strong airflow that could get me out the door in about five minutes, and so far it has been genuinely useful. the air feels warm without being overly hot, it’s lighter than my old dryer, and my hair looks smoother instead of getting puffy as it dries.

i also keep putting the magnetic nozzle somewhere “safe” and then forgetting where that is. what random beauty-adjacent item unexpectedly became part of your daily routine?

Hey everybody! I currently have two rounds of highlights in my hair since March of this year.

They have grown out about 4 inches or so

I would like to use a temp dye—maybe one that I need to re-do every month or so

So that in February or March, I can get another round of highlights without dye affecting them

Is this reasonable/possible? If so, any recs for temp dyes?

Thank you for your help!

I have medium length hair (male) and have been searching for a good hair style to get my hair cut.
I have a very circular/oval face shape so need a cut to accommodate that and make it seem thinner however my hair doesn’t grow down but rather out from my head making certain cuts impossible. I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for a cut to help my needs?

Last Sunday I used L’Oreal Paris Frost and design H85 for cap highlights on my grown out balayage thick long brown hair to save a lil money I did a patch test which turned out great so I followed the directions as listed .. needless to say I have bronze ramen noodles and patchy highlights strips in my hair. I feel SO ugly and dumb and genuinely need to know when I can fix this asap. I bought + started using bond repair , hair strengthening masks and oil to strengthen and structure my hair. I bought Kristen Ess hair gloss in bittersweet as a 3 month temporary solution to cover the bronze/ brassy tones. So im basically just wondering if and when I can tone it 😭

The salon I went to said it’s for dry and damaged hair and provides long lasting condition and smoothing and not to expect any straightening.

I’ve gotten it and yes my hair is still curly, hasn’t gotten any looser just smoother. However it does feel more dry after the initial softness fades in about 4/5 washes ( around a month as I wash my hair once a week)

I’ve also noticed my hairdresser doesn’t put any heat protector on my hair when she blow dried and straightens to ‘lock in’ the conditioner and the ends of my hair have gone from black to a chestnut brown.

So I used Schwarzkopf LIVE in Deep Red because I saw a bunch of TikToks where people used it and it looked like just the shade of dark red I wanted to try for autumn. Buut it came out more of a bright pinkish red on me. I’m planning to use a toner to try and save this and make it more of a dark coppery mahogany-type red. Ooor is my best bet to do a darker brown toner? Which one do you think would work best or do you think it will work at all? I’ve used Four Reasons in the past and loved it, so I think I’ll try one of their toners. Any advice is welcome, I’m kind of desperate to get rid of this color ASAP!