[Mabelle]

i have a bit of expirience in this feild.
wheni was 16 i dyed my naturally dark blond hair black (what a fool i was!) and then, 6 months later, i wanted to go chocolate brown. My friend and i fancied ourselves hair experts and bleached the shit out of my alreday dry hair. Result= Orangy crap hair with MELTED TIPS!!! thats right the last inch or so of my hair melted together. I cut it off myself (and managed to give myself an awesome haircut! what a horse shoe up my ass i must have had) and my hair color (once i added the brown dye) looked amazing. That being said, i was effing lucky. Even so, the metling hair thing is something i will never forget.

Now as for a colour stripper; a had a hair stylist royaly f up my hair this past xmas. The result was my hairdresser friend had to cover my blochy orange mess of a hair (i was going for julianne moore coppery red) with a dark mohagany. that was in December. In Febuary i went to a salon to get the colour stripped out to do the julianne moore colour i wanted. The cover up colour had faded a lot, so i only had the colour remover on for about 15 20 mins. The dye took great. My hair was dry, but nothing horrible. I just needed to do some deep conditioning. Mind you theres a section of my hairthat has moderate breakage going on, but this is due to the fact that that section was bleached (and dyed every colour of the rainbow) for the past 3 years. Whenever i dye over it (with my mothly touch up) i deep condition for an hour every week, and now im fine and dandy.

If you decided to do a colour removal do it in a salon. For some people, they dont seem to damage hair at all. For others, it makes they super dry and brittle. Get a consult from a knowledgeable stylist. If you're hair isnt in bad shape, some good deep conditioning treatments should be able to right the damage that stripping can cause.
good luck!!

sry about any rambling/ no sense making.