Calling all hairdressers - need your help

chipmunk

It's getting too expensive for me to have my hair coloured at a salon so I'm thinking of going down the colour-it-yourself route.

I'm naturally a brunette but for the last few years have been blonde, a bit like Susannah Constantine. I usually have a full head colour (sort of a caramel colour with some darker strands) and then blonder foils. I've got quite a lot of grey now as well and so roots are "salt 'n pepper (lucky me ).

What would happen to my hair if I just used a blonde hair dye? Would it colour what darker hair I still have as well as the grey or would it just cover the grey leaving dark roots?

Sorry if it's a dumb question

niceday999

i've been wondering the same thing. been blonde for years as in foils 2 different colours and want to start doing it myself....would I be better going back to natural colour of mid brown and then doing a home colour.....I also have a lot of grey at roots and side of hairline ...HELP !!!

chipmunk

Oi, get your own thread instead of hijacking mine

niceday999

chipmunk wrote: »

Oi, get your own thread instead of hijacking mine

Here no-one offering either of us poor wrinklies any advise......I could have written your post word for word !!!!!!!!!!!:rotfl::rotfl:

chipmunk

Yes, there is an unfortunate lack of replies, we must be beyond help:rotfl: Perhaps we should meet up and do each others hair. If it all goes Pete Tong, maybe we could start a new trend.

karen24_2

can't give any tips on home colouring as it always went wrong for me! However can I suggest hairdressing training colleges? My mum has her hair coloured for about the same price as a home colour and it always looks good. You do need to allow lots of time but it is well supervised. If you do decide to do home colouring, good luck with it.

Alcmene

Can you post some pics?

I imagine that this would require a back to basics (so a bleach) then you foil up the strands with your strand colour, and apply the other colour over the rest of your hair. If I had to go to a hairdresser's it would cost a fortune, colour and cut all at home!

the_cat

I colour my hair at home all the time. I have too much grey not to! I have had no problems doing it but have always dyed it back to my natural brunette colour. The one occasion I tried putting highlights in was a huge mistake..... it came out with bright orange streaks. I kid you not:rotfl:

I would think your best bet would be to stump up one last time at the hairdressers and go back to your brunette shade. This will be far easier to manage at home.

I think (am not a hairdresser, just got told this by one) that if you want to have lighter hair than your roots etc you need to use a hair lightener first to strip the dark colour out, then faff with the dye as a second stage...... sorry, that is prob not what you want to hear

fixx

Disclaimer first - I am not a hairdresser!

But I have dyed my hair a LOT over the past 10 years, mostly adding blonde.

In my experience a blonde permanent hair dye with lightener (which the majority have) will lighten the roots (and all other hair!) as well as cover grey - depending on how dark the roots are, you might need extra strength lightening ones, like Belle colour "super lightening" shades (most big ranges have some similar colours with extra bleach).

You can also get at home pre-lighteners, and use a dye after, if you have really dark roots.

Generally the first time or two I've found that if you dye over highlights/lowlights with a blonde hair dye, you still have a highlighted effect in your hair, as they dye will work differently on the different colours you have in your hair, but beyond a couple of times, you'd have to go back to a hairdressers for highlights, or try an at home kit for that too - which can be fiddly.

Unfortunately there's no guaranteed outcome with home kits - until you try them, you don't know exactly what colour your hair will go. At least with a hairdresser you have someone to complain to if it goes wrong

Still, I've been dying (blonde) my hair at home for years, with a professional colour maybe once a year, and I have no intention of changing that myself