I recently (as in a few months ago) went to Lorraine's based on reviews. The stylist I had was nice, very funny- great cut but the color... I'm a little mad about that. I had blonde highlights in my naturally chestnut hair that had grown out and were pretty disgusting- I enlisted the stylist to dye my hair back to my normal color and then put red highlights in for the fall/winter. Instead of dying my hair all the way back to brown at first she dyed my hair red first- then did like a brown glaze. I went with it because she's the expert. The color looked fantastic when all was said and done- all was very well, I went around recommending Lorraine's to every one. I even bought the follow up products she recommended and began using them religiously (and still do). Two weeks after my cut and color the red was still rinsing out of my hair. It turned my one time 'blonde' highlights into hot, bright, barbie convertible pink... I'm positive that they used semi-permanent color now and I certainly didn't intend on paying over $100 on a semi permanent color that I could have trusted myself enough to do. It just really rubbed me the wrong way. Like I said, I liked the stylists personality and the rest of the people there I came into contact with... the color was my only issue (but a pretty significant one).
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