Ombre hair -dark roots light tips- does anyone endorse such drastic trendy dyeing?

[NorfLondonNelly]

Approaching 40- have gone from near waist length to a bob in the last six months and feel further funkification is required as bob makes me feel frumpy... this is a hair trend started of course by youngsters without a grey in sight who love it cos they don't have to worry about roots - and of course I do worry about roots, in addition I have got my sad ole locks 'hairdresser ready' by leaving on a John Freida foam dye for too long and am almost black haired now... any thoughts, anyone had it done?

[TattyDevine]

I think its a hard look to pull off without looking simply like you need to have your roots done. To do so properly probably costs so much in a hairdresser you actually may as well have your roots done.

Agree to go for further funkification but there might be something more "obviously" funky but not obvious in a bad way that you can do.

If you have grey it would be hard to pull off this look I reckon. A non grey just needs to get a clever hairdresser to blend it all seamlessly whereas if you have grey you are probably wanting to cover that but in a colour that is believable which, if brown, is hard...it will be too dark, too shiny, too something...

Let us know what you decide, and how it goes though!

[NorfLondonNelly]

Cheers tatty! you are the voice of reason... will update on what I have had done. Think I might need to solicit photos of trendy coloured bobs via a new thread.