Which home hair dye

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I've been going to my hairdresser for nearly 2 years and she does a fantastic job with my hair. However, as a result of my marriage breaking down (a whole other thread!) Im obviously looking to cut costs.

£90 every six weeks is something I can no longer justify as much as I love it! So my question is - which is the best at home hair dye? I'm naturally a brunette but have been blonde for 4 years now.

The hair dyes I used before I went to the salon fried my hair but I'd like to stay blonde as it's a shade that suits me and I'm trying to grow it long. Is there any hope at all or should I throw in the towel and return to being brunette?

TIA

Just to say I'm not white blonde anymore, I'm quite a dark one with a lot of different tones and shades that my hairdresser has put in.

If you are trying to grow your hair is there any way of letting the colour grow out a bit. I've got bleached highlights and quite fine hair (but lots of it) I saw my hairdresser for a trim today and she recommended that because I want to grow it - I should basically try and not colour it for at least a year. I'm quite curious about my hair will look though, I'm light brown, with 10% grey.

It depends on what shade you're going for, obviously, but I keep coming back to L'Oreal Paris Light Ash Blonde (9.1 I think). Ash blonde is the most difficult tone to achieve, but this one does it really well - there's almost a greenish tinge to the hair. Sounds weird but if you're going for an ash tone, this is exactly what you want, and what no other hair dye achieves in my experience.

Not sure how dark your natural colour is but shop bought blonde tints only lift a couple of shades, you would need bleach to lift brown to blonde, is there a training college or hairdresser near you that does models, that way would be cheaper but you would have a stylist over watching it and helping with colour choice

If you decide to stay dark, then go for the fabulous Daniel Field water colours home dye. But it doesn't lighten. And if you feel good blonde, go for it!

I rate the custom mixed colour from the States I’ve had. Can’t remember the name now though. Esalon that’s it. My hair felt great after and good colour but blond might be risky

The Schwarzkopf Nordic Blonde range is absolutely excellent, I used to use the lightest one and it lifted my hair from dark brown to icy platinum with no damage at all.

It left my hair really soft and glossy too, I've tried so many box blonde dyes and never had that with any other.

Its pretty foolproof to use too, and there are some really nice shades in the range, from dark blonde to platinum

Also x