Home or salon hair colour

Citygirl1

Which do you go for?

Sublime_2

Always at home. Why pay £40 + for something thats easy, and costs under £5.

Maldives_lover

Home, cheaper, more convenient and faster, no sitting around in a salon for hours

emmaanddave

Funnily enough I am sitting here with my hair in colour!! Have 10 mins of cooking time left! I used to go to Toni and Guy to get it coloured and now have resorted back to home colour as alot cheaper, unless i want highlights etc. )

llh189

I was having low lights at the salon, with haircut it cost £80 every three months. Budget restrictions then kicked in and I started doing my hair at home.

I got one of the ten minute ones, when they were two for £7 in Sainsburys. My first attempt was a little harsh, I choose dark brown and after 11 minutes ( one for luck ) I looked like something out of The Adams Family, but it lightened over weeks.

The second box (same colour as before ) I left on for 5 minutes and got a lovely colour and lots of remarks about the shine etc.

This is obviously full cover instead of low lights, and after two months or so I need to redo the colour, I also went for more natural shades based on my skin tone and hair colour as I hate the thought of root regrowth.

I personally wouldn't go from dark brown to blond all by myself at home but that's because I am chicken!

But I would also never pay to have my hair dyed at a salon again.

dmg24

I home colour at the mo, but when I go lighter have it done professionally.

poppy_f1

mainly do it at home even do my own highlights

glowgirl_2

I home colour as I can get exactly the colour I choose without the stress and expense of a hairdressers but then I'm not much of a fan of hairdressers in general.

mcculloch29

I've had one salon colour in over 25 years, everything else has been done at home. My only mistakes have been in going burgundy c. 1985, that lasted a week before I took a chance with another colour on top (it was fine), and in getting Darkest Brown in the L'Oreal Excellence freebie last year.
As I posted on the No Buying Toiletries thread, Darkest Brown is a synonym for black and I looked like a misplaced ageing Goth. Be warned.
I let it fade rather than colour it again and will be using medium brown from Clairol's Perfect 10 range tomorrow.
If anyone has any tips on successful low-lights at home I'd be interested. Or is this really a salon job unless you are very clever?

System

Home colour everytime, though i tend to dye mine bright colours that salons would find impossible to do (or charge me a fortune for)

kitschkitty

Home for me too, I think I once had a salon colour done, but I truly cant remember! I must admit I always stick to the same product though (I use garnier nutrisse red shades) as the one time I decided to try something different it was a disaster. I tried a schwarzkopf purple and ended up with black hair (with my pale skin it was like the poster above said - a very bad goth look) I had to let it fade out.