I bloody hate my grey hair and now hair dye just washes off my temple region.

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I need some suggestions as it's driving me MENTAL.

My hair is PURE WHITE at the sides of my head and speckly elsewhere. Now if it was all pure white that would be fabulous, but no, just tufty and irritating.

I have a pixie crop because it's the only style that suits but it means the roots show up really quickly and then make me look lime I have bald patches, in less than a week of colouring the beggar.

I am naturally dark, with pale skin and grey blue eyes. Attempts at blonding have not gone well. I seem to take on a brassy hue and it clashes with my skin tone. I don't think I can carry off any sort of blonde really and red just looks nasty and doesn't resolve it.

I am not even 40. My mum went boiled onions colour when she was my age because she had the same issues. I would look corpse like beige.

I need your wisdom please women before the urge to bleach seizes me and two hours later I resemble Russ Abbot's see-you-jimmy. Again.

Is there a blonde colour that will grey it out so it blends is really what I missed asking!

How about going platinum blond ?

I tried it. The rest of my hair is really dark in places so it wouldn't lift enough. The lightest I could get it (2 bleaches in a couple of days followed by a toner) was still gingery. I used purple shampoo to no avail too.

Thanks for the suggestion. I do adore that colour.

You need a really good colourist.

There is no easy answer to this.

A hairdresser will be able to find a colour that will take, but you will get a line of grey roots as your hair grows.

Is it worth going to see a decent colourist at a salon? Maybe be pricey in the long run, but they may be able to give you some advice about what you can do at home?
I've fairly recently gone from blonde to brunette and now really notice my grey roots! Maybe going back to blonde very soon.

X post.

The last time I went to a hairdresser they coloured my hair the colour of teddy bears.

Imagine. Cost a bomb too.

I have friends who have their hair dyed and it doesn't seem to last longer than the home dyes when it's darkened.

My grey has now stopped grabbing colour so it washes off after about 3-5washes. Only bleaching it first helps but I don't want to have to triple process my hair. After you bleach you have to add red back in before brown or it turns green.....

It's a boring arse pain.

Grrrr.

I wish I were actually greyer rather than this in-between mish-mash bollocks.

It needs to be something I can do myself because otherwise I would need to have it done every 2-3weeks at the hairdressers. The hairdressers round these parts are not the best....

I really feel for you. I have black hair with white streaks and I'm allergic to hair dye. It looks as though I've painted the ceiling.

The last time I went to a hairdresser they coloured my hair the colour of teddy bears

Sounds cute, actually

Seriously though, have you tried henna? I have pale skin, blue-grey eyes and was a mid-brown before I started greying. My hair is rubbish texture (fine and thinning) to boot. I have great results henna-ing.