To dye my hair at home in future?

[WeirdHandDryers]

I always used to buy home dying kits but then got into going to hairdressers to get it done properly, however I find the whole process mind numbing, just sat for hours in one place and the result is rarely what I asked for.
Does anyone get by with home diy kits??

Oops I see I resurrected an old thread that I was already on lol

Last time I went to the hairdresser I paid £100 and ended up looking like a zebra.

I went back to doing it myself and am always happy with the results. I get DH to do the back , it takes about an hour and it looks great.

Have very short hair which is completely grey/white. I dye it at home every 4 weeks or so using a plum colour. Not a colourfor everyone but random people stop me and say they love it!

My sisters both use henna dye and it looks amazing and leaves their hair so soft.

I have short hair which is grey. I use Excellence Creme or Nutrisse, nothing to pick between them really. If you want highlights, you need a level of skill.

Mine always looks too dark at first but it calms down in a few days and is shiny and soft. I used to work with a group of girls who dyed too dark and we tended to look like a troupe of Las Vegas Elvis Presleys.

However, last time I had it coloured in a salon it was ginger at the roots and the salon owner blamed the junior. I had to go back and have it corrected - another 3 hours or so in an overbooked salon feeling uncomfortable and unwelcome. This has brought about the rise in home hair colouring. Sometimes it will be a good result, others not so much, a bit like a salon.

I have dark blonde hair naturally with light highlights put in. What sort of home dye would you recommend as can't afford regular salon trips

What is the actual difference between the stuff hairdressers use and the box stuff? I used to go to a fancy salon and I'd sit there for fucking hours with hair dye on. I now go to a cheaper salon and cut and colour is done within 2 hours max. What are they doing thats different?! The colour all looks the same after so I have no idea.

If you're home dyeing then buy yourself a bottle of Vines Biocrin:

www.amazon.co.uk/Vines-Biocrin-703954-Colour-Remover/dp/B007EEKHF8/ref=sr_1_2?s=gateway&crid=369YG2SCZNFP3&keywords=hair+colour+stain+remover&sprefix=hair+colour+starts%2Caps%2C148&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&qid=1557134525&sr=8-2

Thats the stuff they use in salons to wipe excess dye from your skin. Makes home dyeing a lot easier and its only £6.50 a bottle, which lasts ages.

I bleach my own hair as I find the box dyes you end up with different results each time and the colour faded pretty quick. I bleach and use fudge shampoo and conditioner once a week to take the yellow tones out. I learnt to cut my own hair from YouTube tutorials (have a a line lob) so I haven't been to the hairdresser in over 4 years.

I took my bow three year old once when she had all the toddler hair coming through but they done a terrible job for a child specialist so I also cut her hair too. (Much calmer experience)

@WeirdHandDryers I have done mine myself at home, for 20 years now. I used to go get it lightened every 6 weeks at £30 a time, (prob £60 in today's money.) By the mid 1990s, the price went up about 40% all of a sudden, and I started to get home kits.

I do it maybe every 7-8 weeks with a £4 kit. My hair is naturally dark blonde, and it takes it up a couple of shades, so it goes from the colour on pic 1, to the colour on pic 2.

Looks great. Hairdressers will advise you against it though; they say it's bad for your hair. It's really not. It's the same products that THEY use. They are just miffed that they're losing the £60 to £70 they charge to do it.