Growing out blonde...help it look less crap

[Kemer2018]

I'm convinced my thinning hair is the result of using blonde colourants on the roots every couple of months.
So I have left the roots for 5 months. It looks absolutely shit.
My hair is dead straight and fine. If i plait it or twist overnight, the resulting texture helps it look slightly less shit.
I'm at a loss. I'm even considering using a cap to highlight the roots myself
Any ideas?

Dye it semi permanent brown

Can you get a hairdresser to dye it close to its natural colour or even halfway between the blonde and your roots so it's less obvious as it grows out?

Could you get a hairdresser to do a balayage colour treatment?

YouTube "DIY Root Stretch"

I have just started using nice and easy non permanent colour for this reason. I use mid blonde which is more like a mousy brown and my natural colour.

You could try a t section highlights - just to give you a bit of a blend from your roots to the ends and then lengthen the time you take between visits to the hairdresser. High lift tint highlights are better than bleach but you would have to be light brown or lighter I think. Anything that takes you from brown to blonde is ultimately going to wreck your hair. I'm growing out bleached highlights which were very fine and made my hair look dark blonde - I'm mid brown. I've been using the /Nice and Easy colour enhancer(which you don't have to mix so no chemical reaction has to take place for the colour to infiltrate the hair - the wash out just sits on the hair and actually conditions it.

Get a hairdresser to do a root stretch.

Agree with the root stretch idea or a half-head of either highlights or lowlights.

I had bright platinum hair, when it started growing out I had lowlights put throughout and it looked fabulous and grew out well. Now everyone thinks I have an expensive balayage!

Do you like your natural colour?

If so, I would persevere with not going back to bleach/blonde highlights. I am growing out mine too as repeated highlights have made it fragile and damaged and I realised there's quite a lot missing from strands that have been highlighted.

At most and if your hair was dyed all over to start, I would consider a few lowlights close to your natural colour, scattered, focussing on the T-section, to blend in the roots.

But by far the best thing to do is just grin and bear it for a while, if you can.

(also - try not to use hairdryers. That was also literally just blasting the moisture out of my hair and made matters worse).

Oh and please don't be tempted to use a cap/DIY. Caps are terrible on hair, pulling the strands through, you can't see where you've placed the highlights accurately, and the home kit bleaches are usually too weak to lift the shade. It's too hard unless you are very proficient at hair (and doing your own at that) and you'll undo all your good work of growing the bleach out so far.