Using professional hair colour at home

Flipjango

I think you do actually. I'm guessing you live in Whitney from your profile. There is a Sally in Abingdon, and another in Oxford. Its a whole new world. So many more colours to choose from than you'd get in Boots. Its like a sweetie shop!

Mrs_Arcanum

Flipjango wrote: »

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.

I am not a professional hairdresser but do end up doing streaks for DD & friends using wash out colour & foil strips. :rotfl: My own hair I just use an all over permanent home use product. Where I think there can be issues with home colouring is extremes of colour or constant bleaching. Some can be a bit scare mongerish over home dyeing.

For a first attempt I would suggest you try a standard at home semi permanent (ammonia free) kit in a similar shade to your natural colour to see how you get on. At least then it will wash out over a few weeks without damaging your hair much at all and you will find out how skilful you are.

Watch-points are too much colour at the back or on the crown (whilst you are putting the colour on you second guess yourself & think you have forgotten these areas). The other thing is to start on the highest grey areas. Other than that follow the instructions.

I have been home dyeing on and off for 30 years now and the products for home users have improved enormously in this time.

Good luck .

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Flipjango wrote: »

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.

Tie dying a T shirt isn't exactly as potentially life threatening or permanently scarring as screwing around with your hair can be.


Haven't you tried demanding an answer from a specialist hair forum? You might have someone [strike]unethical[/strike] helpful enough to have a guess at what you could do there. Considering they can't see your hair, your scalp, your colouring or anything else.


Or just stick the stuff on anyhow and see what happens. You apparently know better than anybody else that it's perfectly safe to do so.


Just put a big sticker over the 9 on the mobile keypad so you won't have to try and find it if your eyes swell shut.


ETA: Pride is being too pigheaded to admit that someone else can do something you can't. Just like the bloke who makes alterations to the house that lead to a supporting wall collapsing, or burning the house down because he thought he knew all there was to know about fitting gas appliances.

Flipjango

Thanks, but I really do want advice on the professional products. Dyed my own hair for donkeys years (red shades usually) prior to going blonder in the salon. Can do hand painting, overall dyeing, foils, the lot quite competently and am not phased by colouring at all, but have never used pro-colour formulations before and as most don't have instructions like the home kits do, I need some advice on the right formulations. Have tried home dyeing kits to cover grey previously, but as I explained, the products you get from boots are always much warmer than I need - even the shades labelled ash. From my understanding, this is because they have a higher concentration of developer so that they work quickly (20 minutes or less) which means they must have lift and therefore bring out the red in my hair. In order to get the results I want I really do have to use professional colours, with a lower strength developer over a longer time (45 minutes) or add in a blue/purple tone to counteract the warmth - something you can't do with home kits.

Flipjango

God Jojo, you're really a pain aren't you! What on earth has this got to do with danger? You can buy home hair colour kits that contain the exact same ingredients as the pro colours, just have different shades. Using pro colours doesn't exempt you from doing patch tests and following other safety instructions. If you can't be helpful, maybe go somewhere else!?

Flipjango

Actually, Jojo, I find your attitude quite offensive and incredibly patronising. Just because i"m asking about hair colours, why would I be prepared to do something dangerous? I'm now a professional property developer because i started as a DIY'er and have consequently become a member of CIOB. I never took risks as a builder, but took the time to learn how to do things properly, which I'm trying to do here. Don't be so patronising.

Keeping_Motivated

Have you checked out Youtube? They have videos on using professional hair colour at home.

Flipjango

Great advice, thanks.

Bennifred

When you find out, come back and share! I bet there's more than one MSEr interested

(By the way, it is Witney not Whitney - thanks for the info on Sallys!)

Keeping_Motivated

Flipjango wrote: »

Great advice, thanks.

Are you being sarcastic? I don't know the answer to your question and because you weren't getting the answers you wanted I had a quick check on YouTube and the answer is there so I was just letting you know!