Hair colour advice - getting warm, reddish tones out of my hair

[SirRaymondClench]

I died my hair black for years and last year had all the black stripped out again so I could go to a mid brown colour. Because it was stripped it tends to grab colour so I have to be careful or it goes too dark.
Finances won't allow me to keep going to a salon and so I've been colouring it myself with semis.
They only seem to last a few weeks and then my greys are showing.
Also they seem to go coppery.
I hate the reddish tones and read on here I should be using an ashy colour.
So I am going to do a Colour B4 treatment to lift out a lot of the colour and then use a colour on it.
Can anyone recommend an ashy mid-dark brown that won't go coppery please?

Nice and Easy "Mid Ash Brown" works for me - I use semi-permanents so that I don't get regrowth at roots - it all tends to fade at the same rate and then I just dye it again (usually every 5 weeks). Found using a shampoo for coloured hair makes it last longer.

That sounds like one to definitely try. Do you find it gets those reddish tones ever?

Ive been colouring my hair a sort of mahogany shade for years, but whenever I try an ash shade it takes on a khaki hue, which requires a red tone to cancel it out. I would be interested to know if you also get that when you try it. I read somewhere on tintanet that red just has to be allowed to grow out.

From what I understand you shouldn't use anything more than a 6-8 washes dye after colourb4 and not dye it with a semi/ perm for a month.

If your hair has a bleached look about it once the colour is stripped you will have to put red back in before using an ash because it will turn green. When I say bleached I mean warm Ginger hue. Dark hair looks like like if it has been repeatedly dyed because of the hydrogen peroxide in the products which help fix the colour to the hair.

The upshot is that your hair will always pull warm when the dye fades because even cool toned dyes have to have the red component to counteract the green.

If you are cool toned your best hair colour is your own.