'Nice and Easy light ash brown layers cool tones and minimizes red/orange "

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does it shite! I am looking here at my distinctly orange toned hair that wasn't orange toned before!!

Gah! Is there anything out there that will cover my grey hair and be a cool brown cover?

This is why i don't home dye anymore. My hair just doesn't take it well, it never looks like the box examples, it always looks shit, it always either dyes my scalp or doesn't go close enough to my roots, oh and it makes a mess of my bathroom.

Bloody bastarding box dyes.

I'd go to a hairdresser. I'm sorry, iknew it's not chap and you were probably trying to avoid the cost and inconvenience of sitting in a shop for hours, but putting more home dye on it is more likely to just compound your problem.

In the meantime, to reduce the orangey brassiness, I would buy a purple/blue shampoo (like Touch of Silver) and give your hair a good few shampoos with that to take the edge off and 'ash' it up a bit.you can leave the shampoo on a few mins to let the purple dye neutralise the yellow tones. Don't leave it on for ages though, you don't want a blue rinse.

Not cheap not chap.

You can buy hairdresser dye and do it at home. That's what I do. It's cheaper than sueprmarket one because I can only use half for root touch up and so, so much better. INOA 5.0 is a lovely ashy brown that does not go orange.

You can sometimes get it in Amazon, if not, you can get in salon websites.

thank you both :o)

Def buy professional dye. I recommend Loreal Majirel. To achieve a cool ash medium brown you are looking at 5.1 or 5.12. Mix with either 20 or 30 vol peroxide at 50 ml Majirel to 75 ml developer ratio (1:1.5)

5.2 is a tad warmer but only a tad. Loads of Majirel on eBay and massive bottles of developer.

When it comes to doing roots you can just mix up what it required ( so 10ml dye to 15mls developer etc). Very cost effective and it works too.

Developers are not strong enough in shop bought dyes to penetrate grey.

Are the professional semi permanent dyes better too? I'm thinking of switching from perm to semi because I don't actually have that much grey hair, it's just at the most visible areas. I normally use Nice 'n' Easy Perfect 10 in Light Brown

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Has anyone tried this custom home dye place?