Do you colour your own hair?

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I have coloured my hair for about 10 years using Nice n Easy light ash brown, the modern colours look very natural. I would be totally whire/grey without it and wouldn't mind going thatvroad but can't quite get the courage to do it. I have started using semi permanent as a start but it doesn't last long on the roots.
The colour doesn't drip so while I'm waiting for it to develop I usually have a coffee and get on the ipad - with a towel on the back of the chair in case I lean back.

I colour mine at home with various makes, but only the semi permanent. I've paid a lot of money at hairdressers having it coloured and it still fades and wears off at the same rate and looks barely any different from when I do it myself. It is such a tyranny having to keep it coloured but I have a much younger partner and don't want people mistaking him for my son!

If anyone could recommend a nice grey colour I would be grateful, please?

I dye my own hair using natural henna powder which I brought back from India. It is messy! The colour fades gradually so you don't get the badger look and my grey salt and pepper streaks look like I've had expensive highlighting. The more I do it the redder it becomes. My hairdresser even compliments me on it when I have my hair cut. It is sooo cheap. I reckon it cost me about 2 pence per application.

I mostly go to the hairdresser as I make a mess at home and often it turns out too dark.
However the spray on colours that have come out are great for touching up the roots in between

I have always coloured my own hair...started when I was 17 and saw the first grey hairs. I have been light ash blond for years but am now doing it a very fashionable silver grey...loving it

Started using Nice and Easy Golden Auburn in 1981 until 2016 and never had any problems. I then changed to Golden Blonde and I am quite white naturally now so it doesn't need doing so often as the regrowth doesn't show much. I would be happy to stop colouring but DH thinks being grey/white wouldn't suit me. Dont quite understand that as he is.

Tip (apologises if already mentioned)
Spread a thin coat of Vaseline on skin around hairline and ears.
This will prevent the dye colouring the skin and is easily wiped off afterwards.

Used to use home colours years ago with mixed results, especially as the ends of hair are more porous than the rest, and they slurp up the colour and come out darker.
Modern colours are no doubt better, but even so, I won't mess with them.?
No overall colour, just have two colours put into hair as highlights which mask the grey.Have this done about 2/3 times a year.Always at the hairdressers.

Good point about long hair, Oriel. Mine is fairly short so the sun has bleached it out evenly.

I think a lot is down to the length of hair.

I had long hair... I say 'had' because it's now short due to the cock-up referred to up page.

The thing with home dyes is that, unless you're double jointed, it's very difficult to just do the roots then leave for a the suggested minutes before doing the rest and the result is that you get a build up of dye. My hair had a graduated effect - not good!

If you have a short style you wouldn't get the same build up because the hair is cut regularly.

Thanks polyester. Will definitely give it a try.

I have always coloured my own hair. I have discussed it with my hairdresser who says the salon could not do it any better.

I colour it one shade lighter than my natural shade, which I have always loved, but I have very little grey hair. Only at my temples and low on my hairline at the back.

I just use the Superdrug own brand, nothing special.

silverlining I was at my salon only yesterday and asked my hairdresser if she could put a few silver strands though in preparation of me going all grey eventually. And she said, buy a shampoo for grey hair and it will bringhten up the grey in the blond highlights as well as your own grey hair. Am planning to do this when my shampoo (argan oil) runs out.

White hot is good but I I do like the John Friede blonde. My hair is now completely white and don't know what to do with it. When I have a tan I think it looks more blond than white. Any ideas?

I've colored my hair at home for many years using L'Oréal Dédicace light chestnut - still got a bottle in the bathroom cupboard. It gave a nice natural result, and didn't contain harmful chemicals.
But the last few months I couldn't be bothered - too hot. Left it au naturel and it's a sort of blondish grey. So that's it!

My hair does it on its own. Went from a very dark brown to silver in 10 years with no help from a bottle at all.

Has anyone tried the silver shampoo/ conditioners?

Used to do it myself until one day i turned an unpleasant and livid orange instead of the pleasant shade of blond on the nice and easy box. Now i have a hairdresser come to my home, its much cheaper than a salon, and she does a good job.
However hair now very fine and porous so colour doesn't hold. Sparklefizz may check out your suggestion.

I was fed up with the brassy look which I always had 3 weeks after professional colouring, so tried Tints of Nature home colouring kit, which is free from ammonia, resorcinol and parabens, and a very gentle way to colour hair as most of the ingredients are also organic. I am someone with multiple allergies but have been fine with this, and goodbye brassiness. I get it from Amazon and one pack lasts at least 4 applications as I have short-medium length fine hair, so it's much cheaper than a salon, and I will never return to salon treatments.

I'm surprised that people prefer to do their own, having always regretted doing mine
I always end up varying shades of red, khaki, and all manner of patchy, awful colours.
I'm tempted now though, by reading that a nice colour can be achieved.

No, I don´t do my own. Have done a few times when younger but found the process messy and the result unsatisfactory. Very uniform, deep colour, probably didn´t choose the right tone. Marks on pillow from the semi-permanent dyes. I have been going to my lovely hairdresser for several years, she always advises on the colour, uses an oil-based permanent dye (so no horrible ammonia smell), puts in a few lighter strands so outgrowing grey hair doesn´t show too much. It is my treat and I go about every two months. May have to stop once DH retires though.

Having just had a monumental cock-up on my hair I would say get it done professionally.

Most off the shelf colours bleach your hair so that the colour you get is as on the box. I found this out when I stripped the colour off using Colour B4 (doesn't contain bleach by the way). I wanted to go grey but what I got was peroxide orange. It was because of the peroxide in the home colours I'd been using for donkey's years.

Hairdressers don't strip the colour to achieve the shade required.

I used henna as a young woman but had it coloured at the hairdresser for years. I let it grow out earlier this year and it's now silver with a few strands of darker hair. I've found it liberating to stop colouring it, as well as so much easier.