Do you home dye your hair?

I quite often dye my own roots. My colourist charges eye watering prices and it’s a faff to get to her in central London. She gave me the colours to buy and the ratios. My hair is an ashy light brown (it’s actually very dark brown naturally but with a fair bit of grey).

I’m pretty good at doing it tbh. My husband does the back for me.

Did mine, after an almost 10 year gap, encouraged by this thread. BRASSY is the look I have achieved.

I’ve done my own hair dying since my early 20s (I’m now 62), and have been through many colours from punk black to dark brown, then mid-brown and have been going progressively lighter until now I’m a baby blonde which I love! I started with all the cheap ones, L’Oreal, Garnier, Schwarzkopf but now I use Josh Wood colour which I buy on mail order subscription, and it comes with a ‘shade shot’ which stops it being one flat colour. Looks much more natural.
Make sure you have an old top to wear, have a dark towel and a colour brush to apply it. I never use the nozzle on the bottle. I don’t bother with stain cream as I find a wipe with a wet cloth works fine. You need two mirrors so that you can see the back of your head, and I always do the back first. I usually leave it on longer than they say as my hair is able to take it. I did it today - not sure the photo does it justice!

I did esalon for years, they're excellent! I only stopped as I want to grow out my grey and I need a semi permanent colour now.

I use e-salon, & I love it! Costs me around £27 a treatment & I do it every 8 weeks. They provide an initial custom colour, then you can adjust it with their colourists (actual people). The application technique results in a very natural looking blended colour. It is actually better than a number of salon colourings I have had in the past, plus you are at home, so you can get on with other things. Started during Covid & I never looked back!

I've home dyed my hair for years now. I switched to John Frieda's Precision Foam a couple of years ago and it was a game changer for me. You make up the mixture and then squeeze the foam out of the bottle and just place the foam on your hair. It doesn't drip and is so much easier to use. It gives good coverage too and it's one of the only dyes I've used that doesn't make my long hair too tangled when trying to rinse it out.
I use Medium Red Brown and it's a much nicer shade than some reds I was using a few years ago.

I used to, and I liked the results.

I got to the point where I felt a bit too long in the tooth to pull off the colour I was using, so I had a radical haircut and grew it back gray. Now that I'm S&Pish gray I'm considering blondey highlights to give it a bit of dimension. I will do that myself after watching a few online tutorials if I can find some.

My treat to myself is my colour /hilights and cut at the hairdresser. I spend a lot of money on others (as many parents and grandparents do). For me, it looks so much better than a box colour although I appreciate that box colours can look good on others.
I am very appreciative of being able to afford it as I have had crippling financial circumstances in the past.

My naturally very dark brown hair started going grey in my late teens, so I started home colouring after I’d finished all my university interviews. First colours were bright blue highlights and then pillarbox red! This was in 1981. I’m now 62 and have used every brand going, and lots of colours. I started with punky black, then got progressively lighter, and now that I must be mostly grey, I’m a baby doll blonde which I love. I use Josh Wood dye, which is sent to me on subscription. It comes with a ‘shade shot’ which adds tones so it’s not a flat colour. I always get compliments even from my hairdresser! Who actually trained Josh as it happens. I must have saved myself thousands of pounds over the decades by doing it myself. Go for it!

I always use home dye and I'm happy enough with it. I dye mine a muted red at the moment although I've done blond and brunette before too.
My hair is that mousey wishy washy colour naturally which I hate but it does have the advantage of hiding roots and grey quite well!

I just offered my opinion on my experience, no need to ''totally disagree"' as you didn't see my salon tint and my amateur one. Well done if your home tint was OK but home tint is not something I personally recommend that's all.

I totally disagree. I has so many instances of being unhappy with what various hairdressers did that I chose to colour my hair at home and I am much happier with the result and it also lasts longer than what I was getting at the salon.

It might be different if someone wants a drastic change like going blonde when you have dark hair but for simply covering white hair with a similar shade home dye products are perfectly fine.

I do mine at home.

I was not impressed with what I was getting at the hairdressers for silly price.

I found that Loreal's "Nudes" hair dye work well for me and use the blond shade. No ammonia but covers white hair well.

I have my hair cut regularly as I have a short, sharp bob but will not have my colour done there anymore.

I also disagree, home dyes have moved on a lot and as long as you match tone carefully and don’t leave it on too long, then generally they are multi tonal and very hard to distinguish from a hairdressers.

Totally disagree with this if you use the right products - I use the same Redken products as headmasters (see my previous post) so it’s not dense or obviously a DIY job. I think box dyes can look like you describe, but better quality dyes are available in places like Sallys!

I do my roots at home now after prices went through the roof post-covid. My greys need done ideally every 4 weeks so I now use the same products my previous hairdresser at headmasters used. I buy Redken colour gel laquers at Sallys. £20 for the colour and that gives me enough for 3 treatments. £20 for the activator/20 volume bleach which is a massive bottle and I’ve yet to buy a new one after 1.5 years of doing my own hair. Sooo much cheaper than £60 at the salon every 5 weeks to cover the greys. I was also stretching the spacing between colours longer than I’d like because of the expense so now I do it more often before my roots start to look bad, I have medium brunette hair. No demarkation line for me, I just matched the shade/level of colour to what my previous hairdresser used. I’m late 30s and about 30% grey without the dye, feel grey hair would age me before my time!

I only do mine between hairdresser visits, she provides the dye for me to use and I do the roots in the centre parting and on the front hairline. I use a lower percentage peroxide than she does, so the roots are less obvious and blend in with the rest of my hair which fades slightly between her visits.

Yes, I dye mine blue black. I do my own hair cuts too. My hair is curly though which I think is much more forgiving if it goes a bit wrong as it's much easier to hide

I used to bleach mine and then put a toner on. Now I just put a toner on. Medium ash blonde although it looks more like a dark blonde. It lightens with the bleach underneath but looks quite natural.

I can’t justify the money or the time for the hairdresser which last time I had it done was £120!

I’ve always dyed mine at home since I started going white (seemed to skip the grey). I’m 46 and if I didn’t dye my hair, it would all be white. I don’t care if I live to 95; I am going into the ground with brown hair.

I just can’t afford to go and get it done. It’s about £80 here. I would need to go every 6 weeks. I can’t afford that.

I do my own hair because it’s pretty easy to do - curly (so easy and forgiving to trim) and I bleach the roots before slapping on a red semi permanent dye every few weeks. It costs me £12 every 6-7 weeks. I also don’t like the small talk.
If I had straight hair or wanted complex styles like balayage, I’d use a hairdresser because I think they’d be better at that.

Attempting to dye your hair at home never looks as good as a salon tint. It makes a mess, the colour is too dense and it's not worth it. Yes it costs more than in a salon, but they are professional and far better than doing a botch job at home, yes guilty previously but wouldn't attempt this now. Lesson learned.

I dye mine, have done for years. Different colours (auburn, brunette, blonde) because it’s not something I’m trying to hide.am currently in my blonde phase because my hair is going grey but I’m not ready for that.

I don’t do it as often as I should so sometimes my roots are a bit visible but never imho terribly so.

I don’t go for the cheapest dyes. Most recently I tried Naturtint but won’t use it again as my hair took ages to get back to normal. I prefer Casting Crème Gloss or John Frieda precision foam colour.

I have a hairdresser who comes to the house and and gives me tubes of professional colour and developer which I use between her visits. I just do the roots and the hairline at the front and it works fine.
During Covid I did use retail box colours and my hair ended up in pretty poor condition, despit my using good shampoos and the right conditioners.

My Husband dyes my hair for me & has done for over 25 years. He's really good at it. I have straight mousy hair & dye it dark brown. Saves me a fortune.