Home or salon hair colour

irishwexford

I got fed up with the mess of colouring my hair at home and ruined a few shower curtains into the bargain but paying £50 at hairdressers every six weeks was a bit too much so I now go to local college which costs £14 for a full head and £18 if I have two colours. This I find acceptable and I find the colour lasts longer than shop bought ones. Of course during the summer holidays I do have to colour it myself.

Barneysmom

I've always done mine at home.
As much coffee as I like, I can watch telly and get no 'where are you going on your holidays' faff.

sarah*a

At home everytime.

Even went from natural (mid brunette) to very white blonde at home by myself - was tough, painful and took time but worth it. Have done the 'funky' colours too - Pink, Purple etc - gave up on the bleaching and funky colours as CBA to do the roots weekly - I use more sedate chocolate shades now

I couldn't justify salon prices to have it done but StepDD gets hers done 'professionally but at home' (mobile hairdresser ) every six weeks and it costs upwards of £40 a pop (used to cost (£80 :eek:) but thankfully her mother pays for that :rotfl::rotfl:

PudseyDB

I've coloured my own hair for over 20 years now! I just dont like my natural mousy brown.

Modern dyes arent at all messy now they can be done on dry hair. I use permanent dyes and always apply to the whole hair as I find the dye fades over time anyway (though meant to be permanent)

I've been told that the dye hairdresser's use lasts longer, but then I'd have the hassle of having obvious roots!

HeidiHi

I've spent thousands getting my hair coloured in salons over the past 25 years but it's so not in the budget now to do that.

At first I allowed it to grow out for a while, but that was too horrifying. I was worried that I would be reprimanded at work for being unkempt so I buy Perfect 10 and Clairol Root Touch up on advice from the No Buying Toiletries Thread.

My hair colour spend used to be between £600 and £700 per year. This year it should be £34. I'm brunette instead of blonde now though.

Alizarin

Home - I had it dyed at a salon once, and it cost £50 and my colour really didn't come out how I'd wanted it/asked for. So not worth the money! At home I can get exactly the colour I want and it only costs £4 a time so I can keep the grey bits covered up for longer and cheaper!

mcculloch29

I've just used Perfect 10 Medium Brown- as posted in the No Buying Toiletries thread - and it's great. I've always got on with Clairol's Nice and Easy and Perfect 10 comes with the happy bonus of a six-week supply (a 58ml tube) of really lovely cream conditioner.
I wish manufacturers had done this years ago. I tried to work out the marketing strategy as to why they do it now.
I think it's because luxury conditioners for coloured hair are now widely available, and with so many different colouring brands on the market, Clairol are hoping that a six week supply of creme will be the thing that inspires brand loyalty. Good for them anyway. It isn't cheap, but I got mine in Wilkinson's when it was on offer.

BOBS

mcculloch29 wrote: »

I've just used Perfect 10 Medium Brown- as posted in the No Buying Toiletries thread - and it's great. I've always got on with Clairol's Nice and Easy and Perfect 10 comes with the happy bonus of a six-week supply (a 58ml tube) of really lovely cream conditioner.
I wish manufacturers had done this years ago. I tried to work out the marketing strategy as to why they do it now.
I think it's because luxury conditioners for coloured hair are now widely available, and with so many different colouring brands on the market, Clairol are hoping that a six week supply of creme will be the thing that inspires brand loyalty. Good for them anyway. It isn't cheap, but I got mine in Wilkinson's when it was on offer.

wondering how you got on with perfect 10 - i tried it twice and the colour only lasted one wash and then the greys all showed through again. Back to using nice and easy as always covers well and lasts until regrowth,

Citygirl1

mcculloch29 wrote: »

I've just used Perfect 10 Medium Brown- as posted in the No Buying Toiletries thread - and it's great. I've always got on with Clairol's Nice and Easy and Perfect 10 comes with the happy bonus of a six-week supply (a 58ml tube) of really lovely cream conditioner.
I wish manufacturers had done this years ago. I tried to work out the marketing strategy as to why they do it now.
I think it's because luxury conditioners for coloured hair are now widely available, and with so many different colouring brands on the market, Clairol are hoping that a six week supply of creme will be the thing that inspires brand loyalty. Good for them anyway. It isn't cheap, but I got mine in Wilkinson's when it was on offer.

I use the L’oreal Casting Crème Gloss which has a conditioner that comes with it and that always lasts me until I buy the next hair colour so I very rarely have to buy a bottle of conditioner. Its really nice, only a small tiny bottle but its rich so lasts me about a month till the next colour and then I get another one.

money_honey

I always use a salon. I'm naturally fairly dark brown but love being blonde. After around 4 years of dyeing my own hair blonde with various different dyes and never getting a nice colour I now use a proper hairdresser to get a half head of foil highlights every 2 months. I could NEVER get the same result using home dye, especially as I have 3 different shades put in my hair each time! Fine if you don't want to go blonde from dark brown, but if you do, and you want natural looking highlights, in my opinion you get a far better result at the salon. Having said that, luckily for me my hairdresser (who I have been using for around 6 years) went on maternity leave last year and started highlighting my hair at home for around half the price of the salon, and she now works part time but has agreed to continue colouring my hair at home for the same price so it's win-win for me