Hair Dying help + money saving?

Carrera74

I've been colouring my damn greys for the last 15 or so years and never done a patch test. I saw a programme the other day too and coloured my hair this morning and did give it a thought but I too colour mine when I get a spare hour or when the grey is really bad!

I believe you can use the same colour or brand for years and you could become allergic if they change the slightest thing.

I bought a hair kit for my daughter and it had a paper with it about patch testing. It said you're more of a risk if you have tattoo's. Never heard that before?

Bonbon

It seem that we're all the same...never do a patch test. I'm too impatient to wait.Perhaps we're all the lucky ones. Well I'm doing mine again at the weekend so fingers crossed:eek:

Sugarcubed

I've been dying my hair for about 10 years and I've never done a patch test

Bonbon

I remember reading the thing about tattoo's last time I did mine. I've got a tattoo and it did make me wonder...for 2 seconds.. then I just did it. I don't know what a tattoo's got to do with it, but I survived!

Elizabeth_739

Hi Muppet, you could have been me! I've had ash blonde highlights for more years than I care to remember, which means that I have more highlights than natural colour hair - also the hair is beginning to go salt and pepper!!! not grey enough to have an all over colour and getting very expensive to keep up. In my youth I used Nice 'n' Easy which is a great product, and I would love it if I could find something just to wash in - even if it needed a toner as well. But I can't now find a product which will allow me to do this on top of bleached highlights.

JennyW_2

apparently the darker the hair dye, the higher the risk. It's amazing how many of us don't do a patch test, I've been colouring my hair for ages but only did one this last time. I've been having the odd itch but I think that's coz i'm thinking about it all the time.

My friend had her eyelashes tinted and they did a patch test.

Carrera74

I use black, eeeek!

annapantscats

I have been colouring my hair every few months for about 20 years and never do a patch test. Like lots of you I just slap the colour on whenever I have a few hours to spare. I am currently using black and dark red.

Which reminds me...I MUST do my roots before I go to a 3 day bike rally tomorrow :cool:

newlywed

I always do a patch test and always have done - mainly because I've been allergic to shampoo, hair mousse, face creams etc etc. :rolleyes:

However my hairdresser doesn't patch test on me when I have highlights etc because with the foil it doesn't really touch your skin.

Kaz2904

I never do a patch test. The thing is that the dyes I have bought recently have been mix-yourself ones and they all say on the packaging that they must not be kept. I've heard about these things blowing up if they are kept as they expand in the bottle so how would you do a patch test? Even if you use the two creams for the test they will react differently than they would if you had mixed them?