Salon highlights or home colour?

[WinlessChunder]

I've got shoulder-length mousey dark blonde hair. Since my late teens I have been 'enhancing' the blonde with salon half-head highlights.

I work part-time and have two pre-schoolers so it's getting increasingly difficult to spend a couple of hours sitting in the salon every couple of months. We are also having to tighten our belts financially at the moment. This, plus the increasing number of greys appearing, means I am considering trying a full honey blonde dye using a home kit.

Would anyone advise against this? My hair is dead straight and in quite good condition and I wouldn't want to end up with dry frizz. I also want it to look quite natural and I'm afraid going with one colour after highlights would leave it looking a bit flat and dull rather than multi-tonal.

Any thoughts?

My advice would be to continue going to the hairdressers if you can possibly afford it.
I once used a home colour in an effort to save money. Turned out the exact colour of a ginger cat.

As a dye hard () home dyer who has JUST started getting highlights at the salon, I woudl save up and still get them done there

OR

Could you find out about trianing nights at salon or local beauty college? Woudl be MILES cheaper, and in evening so DH could be with kids

I feel your pain - mousey blonde hair is a nightmare to maintain. I tried to colour mine once and only once as it was a disaster. Horrid colour. Best to stick with the pro's.

highlights at the salon definitely! then you can have just the T section done for maintenance inbetween.

I'm going to go against the grain I've managed to get a reasonable result with clairol nice and easy, it's multi tonal which kind of replicates the highlights effect rather than being a block colour. I wouldn't say it's perfect but then nobody has noticed that it's any different or at least they've been too polite to say!
I go for an ash colour though which is a cool rather than warm tone, I think you might be more like ly to end up with a red tint with a honey colour but I'm no hairdresser.
I do use a purple shampoo to tone down the brassiness too.

I'm going to join you against the grain! I had highlights for years, but the expense and inconvenience became too much in the end, and I had block colour instead, first at the hairdresser and then at home. Similar colour hair to you - mousy brown with grey ? and I used a 'dark blonde' colour on the roots. The product was Kelly somethingorother, on offer in Space NK at the time.

I think hair comes out orange if you don't give the bleach element of the colour enough time to work..