Color Correction on Damaged Hair

Ok so about 3 months ago, I had chemically straightened my permed and dyed hair (drugstore brand) and my hair literally fell out at my bang area. My hair color stripped out as well. So I did go to a salon and the stylist cut my hair and put a semi-permanent hair color in and told me that I can touch up my roots with a store bought semi-perm color to save money. She's my stylist and I did that, but my hair came out red!

I have tried the prell and baking soda, and hot oil treatments and lemon juice and vinegar, everything out there I have tried, well right now my roots are red and the bottom of my hair is almost black and my hair was light brown.

Need advice on what to do, but I need a new color asap, because I work with people everyday and I've had it in a ponytail everyday.

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Man, that's tough! You will need to use a hair color remover to remove the red color from your roots ONLY, then condition your hair/roots like crazy and try and find another semi permanent color that will match the almost black color you have in the rest of your hair. I would try a dark brown color at most.

If the rest of your hair (that's almost black) was fairly healthy, you could use a color remover on all of your hair and then recolor it the light brown color you want. However, if its not in good enough shape to do this, you are better off waiting until its had time to be amended by using regular conditioning masks and deep conditioning treatments.

(Your roots should be healthy enough for a color remover because root growth is new growth, which has more tensile strength than the rest of your hair.)

PS Before you apply any color to your hair after you've removed the color, it would really make sense to do a couple of hair color strand tests so you don't end up in the same situation again.