When I lived on the east coast, I was looking around online and came across a few amazing pictures of contrasted highlights. I brought these pictures to my stylist at the time, and while she did a so-so job of replicating the style the few times she did it, it was never quite right. Years later, I showed up at My Bella Color and I realized that these pictures I'd pulled were Paula's work. I knew I was in the right place!
Not only did Paula create an interesting and versatile pattern out of the colors we chose (platinum and black cherry), but she found years of coloring mistakes in my hair - to the point where holding a chunk of it up to the light would reveal something that could only accurately be described as leopard print checkerboard. She explained to me how my hair ended up in this condition, through years of going to multiple stylists who were merely piling color on top of my existing color without understanding what lay beneath, how the colors mix, and how they fade over time to create new colors. To do this level of color correction, I'm not joking when I say she almost had to dye each section of each piece of hair individually. Paula spent five hours that day foiling my hair to fix it, her longest, most meticulous foil job to date. After she finished, it was perfect. It grows out beautifully, and even the root growth ends up looking cool. And now that she's fixed it, it takes 80% less time to replicate the results because she's revisiting her own work.
I am never letting anyone else but Paula even THINK about touching my hair again. :)
Pros: Are you kidding?? EVERYTHING.
Cons: Not on your life.
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