Natural Redheads who need to dye their hair to cover grey hairs....

[TinyPanic]

If you are a natural redhead who now needs to dye their hair to cover stray grey/white hair coming through please tell me which product you use!
I have naturally ginger hair and have been trying to ignore the white/grey strands coming through but it has come to the point that I can't ignore it any longer and want to try and dye it as close to my natural colour as possible (if people can't notice that would be fabulous, although I realise that this is unlikely!). So fellow redheads, what do you recommend?

[ArielManto43]

My hair isn't grey yet, but I am older in years and have thick copper coloured hair that has lightened slightly with sun and time. I use a colour depositing product for copper hair: Davine's Alchemic shampoo and conditioner. I love it! It's expensive, but I don't use it all the time and I love the little zing it puts back in my hair if I feel like a lift. The Davine's Alchemic comes in red or copper - worth knowing.( I sometimes wrap my hair up with the conditioner still on and have a long bath before rinsing it off, just to give the product a bit longer to "take", if you see what I mean).

[Tangoes]

As this thread has appeared in active, I agree with previous posters who use Henna.It's cheap, natural and nourishes the hair.It's really works well with red hair.

[Bwitch67]

I use Madison Reede hair color. It's a bit pricey (for a box color), but it doesn't damage your hair. And if your hair is thick/have a lot of hair, I recommend getting two boxes.

[PisceanLady]

Hi, I found this thread while looking for hair dyes and most mentioned are no longer available. From the selection currently available what are natural redheads finding that covers greys and boost fading red? I was using Garnier Nutrisse 7.34 but can't it anywhere now :(

[Sshea]

I have been using Loreal Ginger Twist. I find that as I get older my dark red hair is becoming darker and less bright. Loreal ginger twist lightens just enough and I love the added highlights! I’m turning 60 and have tried a lot of differen dyes. This is absolutely the best and most natural looking red I have found.I’ve also noticed that the highlights help hide the gray longer.

[motherinferior]

I am reviving this thread to say HELLP. I've been dyeing my hair with John Frieda's Lightest Copper Brown which has now been discontinued! Any advice, anyone?

[TinyPanic]

FriedSprout, that colour is perfect! Thank you very much!

[FriedSprout]

Thanks all

[SheepNoisesOff]

Oooh nice colour FriedSprout!

[nappybrain]

Ooooooh yes that is a nice shade fried sprout looks great.

[LemonPeculiarJones]

Yes fried sprout your hair colour looks very nice in your pic! I'll head off to Superdrug I think

[nappybrain]

Lemon it might have been the Medium ash blonde....it was one of the semis....I had previously used one of their 8 wash glosses which was ok and then the leaflet recommended that semi one for a longer lasting colour. The gloss was golden, this was pink! I can see now from pics on nice and easy web site that the shade looks a bit pinky! Is the n and e auburn a permanent one? Really I'd like a semi. Off to look at fried sprouts suggestion....

[FriedSprout]

Have put a pic on profile using superdrug's own. Please excuse state of hair, it was ver windy earlier

Also pic is sideways, I was not!

[OwnedByACockerSpaniel]

For grey coverage on red, I strongly recommend a salon! However if you really dont want to, buy a red close to yours but perform a strand test to get it right or as close to your natural hair colour

The thing is Grey hair has "lost its pigment" so when you do colour it the colour molecules sink in originally but don't stay very long when washed, you could use a neutral protein filler before colouring to lock the colour in better than just colouring it.

[FriedSprout]

Superdrug's own brand, Vibrance Rich Copper Gold is fabulous, and currently 2 for £4.99

copper gold

Very pleased with it, my own dark ginger was going a little dull and the odd grey was creeping in.

[LornaEds]

I too have natural red hair with blasted grey bits coming in at the sides. Have been on a mission to find a natural semi-perm that is similar to my own hair colour, but without success so far. Was just getting excited there reading about the Castings one in Butterscotch, only to see further down it has been discontinued.

Have used the Castings Amber lots, although it is definitely a bit darker than I'd like. Also have used the Nice and Easy one in Light Auburn, really liked the colour but it was messier to apply (much runnier) and didn't last as well.

Looks like I may have to venture into the permanent section now. Scared.

[LemonPeculiarJones]

Oh which one was that nappy? Am considering the Nice and Easy light auburn - it wasn't that was it?

[nappybrain]

Will keep looking too lemon ....it doesn't look too red more auburn which is what I need. Had bad experience with a nice and easy one which turned my auburnish hair pinky!

[LemonPeculiarJones]

Oh damn it! I use Butterscotch, only bought some a couple of months ago on amazon - but looks like its been discontinued as I can't find it anywhere either, nappy!



Back to the search!

[nappybrain]

I've been reading with interest ....does anyone know where u can get the casting cream in butterscotch please as I am having trouble finding it online...has it been discontinued? A shame if so as it looks nice!

[TinyPanic]

Thank you so much for all the recommendations. I'm terrified of mucking it up but am going to pick one and give it a go (over the holidays when I can spend a lot of time re-washing my hair if I don't like it!).

[ditavonteesed]

I henna

[OneLittleLady]

My hair's neither red nor brown, it's somewhere in between. No dye on earth matches it so I just colour it even more red because I think it suits me. If there was a dye that could somehow match my natural colour, I'd be happy to keep it natural but until there is, it's bright red all the way!

[treaclesoda]

My sister is naturally red haired and has never used any dye other than henna on her hair. Its beautiful, covers the greys and looks totally natural. She has the sort of hair that makes total strangers stop her and tell her how lovely it is not that I'm jealous, oh no, not me despite being no spring chicken!

[DueInSeptember]

I started off colouring it with red dyes (usually a mahogany colour), but found that the greys would show pretty quicky. Have just started getting my hair highlighted and I can't see the greys now, even when they are there. Looks ok was scared that it wouldn't suit but it's fine.