This Woman's Hair Went From Magenta to Platinum Blonde After Color Correction

Picture this: You walk into a salon, hungry for a major color change. Maybe you’re bored. Maybe you’re looking to reinvent yourself. Maybe you're going in on a whim you didn't really think through that much.

You sit in your hairstylist's chair, and before you know it, you've gone from blonde to magenta, in part because your stylist pressured you into it. We're talking dark, dramatic, can't-miss magenta. And you, ummm, hate it. So you go to Amy Ramos, owner of the Pink Nouveau Studio in Riverside, California, for a little color correction S.O.S. This is the story of one of Ramos's recent clients, who was in desperate need of a major hair transformation.

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“She used to have really blonde hair. That was my first time doing her. She got pregnant [and] hadn’t gotten her hair done in a while," which you can see with all that new, chocolatey growth. "She went to a hairstylist to make [her color] look more blended. The girl put all these magenta [shades] in it and the client wanted blonde back,” Ramos tells Allure. “She was told it would break off.”

In the right hands, though, not so much. What the client needed was someone to do right by her hair, as going back to blonde takes time and meticulous attention to detail when you're dealing with a dye job like hers.

“I love doing color corrections. I play a lot with different vivid colors. I’ve been doing it 13 years,” says Ramos.

Seeing the challenge ahead of her, Ramos says she didn't make any promises to her client, but she was still willing to try fixing up that color.

“I didn’t guarantee exactly what the bottom would look like," she said, though she wasn't too worried. "There’s always plan B." She got to work, putting foil all over her client's head, working in sections to gradually get rid of the color. Even if she wasn't able to get her client where she wanted, Ramos knew she would be able to "do something nice."

Fortunately for both Ramos and her client, her technique worked. "I was able to go through the pink and it somehow lifted and in the end it came off. It was pretty even. It took about seven hours. The girl has a lot of hair. It’s literally doing it slice by slice, in thin sections,” she says.

The end result says it all. “It was a nice honey color and she was happy with it,” says Ramos.

See? Proof that nothing is impossible when you go to the right colorist.

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