Using professional hair colour at home

beth.stephenson2009

If you dont want to pay anyone, I recommend you getting a friend/daughter/mum to help you with it- it WILL look patchy otherwise. There are bits you will find difficult to reach.

sophlowe45

Last two times i had my hair cut it was for free with trainee hairdressers (at a different Japanese hairdresser much closer to me).

Before that i went to Keisuke in London a few times and thought they were great and reasonably priced.

http://www.keisuke.co.uk/

Flipjango

I feel like I sound really ungrateful, but has anyone read my original question at all?! I asked for advice on using PROFESSIONAL dye formulas, not advice on mobile hairdressers, getting help dyeing it, supermarket colours or anything else! Can anyone tell me what strength developer and what ratio, plus what mix of ash to natural to blue neutraliser I need to use please? I definitely don't need to have my colour stripped to go 1-2 shades DARKER. This is a simple, single process colour that can be easily done, I just need some advice on formulas. Pleeeeeeeeeaaassssssseeee!!!

Flipjango

Thanks, but I don't need my colour stripped. I want it marginally darker, not lighter.

Flipjango

Are there any pro hairdressers on here who can help?

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Doesn't the fact that you don't know what to do suggest that it would be better to swallow your pride and pay someone who does, the going rate? Instead of expecting them to have a guess at what your hair looks like and tell you information that could be disastrously wrong?

Mrs_Arcanum

Not quite sure how you will get hold of "professional" hair colourants to DIY. However, as someone who found most colours ended up chestnut/auburn on my hair the only ones that work are Ash based shades. Trouble is the 7.1 shade is very hard to find these days (Belle Colour Lightest Ash Brown was a favourite). I regularly dye my mostly grey hair and find I have to leave the colour in for the maximum time to get decent coverage. This does mean the colour looks very dark until washed a couple of times, but it does fade nicely. Mouses are hopeless at decent grey coverage.

HTH

Flipjango

Wow, I can't believe what resistance I'm getting to home hair colour help. Over the years I have learnt how to do plumbing online and installed all my own central heating, learned plastering and have plastered my house etc etc. The DIY community is very open and its easy to find tutorials online for things that are are just as difficult if not more so that hair colour. So, why on earth shouldn't I be able to learn simple hair colouring too? I have a degree in textile engineering and colour chemistry so actually, I understand colour theory very well but mostly when applied to dyeing fabric rather than hair. So I have asked for some very specific advice - I'm not asking to be taught to dye everybody's hair - I don't need to know that, just the specifics for my hair. I'm going to be colouring my hair for the rest of my life and I would (rather open mindedly I think!) like to learn how to do it properly so I can get the results that I would like at an affordable price. Why on earth is this pride?! I thought this forum was all about thrift? I estimate if I colour my hair 6 times a year for the rest of my life the minimum this will cost me is going to be £15,000, and that is with a VERY cheap hairdresser. If I learn how to do it now, then I have a skill I can use for the rest of my life. I'm happy to experiment with MY hair to get the results I want, but I asked a question for a reason, so is it unreasonable to expect responses to the question I asked? How would anyone learn anything if they never asked questions? To me this is complete the opposite of pride.

Flipjango

Mrs Arcanum, thanks for the help. You can buy professional hair colour at any beauty supply shop - Sally is the main one in the uk. There is one just round the corner from my house. True ash colours are much more common in professional colours, hence the question about mix ratios.

Mrs_Arcanum

Flipjango wrote: »

Mrs Arcanum, thanks for the help. You can buy professional hair colour at any beauty supply shop - Sally is the main one in the uk. There is one just round the corner from my house. True ash colours are much more common in professional colours, hence the question about mix ratios.

We do not have such things locally.