Seeking advice: going from dyed red hair to my natural grey/white asap

[Pennypie]

I have been dying my hair for all of my adult life: I found my first white hair on my 20th birthday, and after that I rapidly went grey, which I successfully covered with permanent hair dyes. I reckon I’m almost 100% white now, and I want to stop being a slave to the dye.

I am currently dying it a light auburn. I don’t want to grow out a huge white stripe.

Has anybody managed to do this by colouring the ends so that the hair can grow out less noticeably? The solutions I have considered are
a) highlights, gradually increasing the amount and then washing with one of these silver shampoos
b) stripping out the dye - I’ve been looking at the Scott Cornwall Decolour Stripper which takes out the dye and bleaches the colour, which you can apply a dye to afterwards (a white toner?)

The other thing is, I cannot afford to go to a hairdressers - I need to do this at home.

Please please, has anyone successfully done this sort of thing, and if so, would you mind sharing how you did it?

Thank you

When I went from dying my hair to my natural white/grey I stripped it with Colourb4 three times, and then bleached the front section which was pure white with high lift bleach. I also used toner.

If you are very grey all over, I'd strip and bleach, then use a grey or silver toner and see how it all grows through

I removed mine, then put the lightest ash blonde colour I could find on then, had it cut short and have grown it out. Started last Nov and I'm now white/salt and pepper all over.

Thank you both for this - looks like stripping the colour is the way to go!
I’m enlisting my sister’s help and going to go for it next week.
CMOT, please can I ask how long you left between each colourb4 treatment, and also before you bleached the front?

Be prepared for how much colour stripper stinks!!!!

I think I left a day between each colour stripping and then a week before I bleached. If I was doing my whole head I would have done Elasticiser and masques before bleaching.

Note, with the colour stripper you cannot skimp on the rinsing. You need to do it with a decent shower for the whole length of time if not more and really make sure it is all getting rinsed as you are removing the colour molecules from inside your hair and if you don't get them out they will reoxidise and the colour will come back.

I have long hair and didn't want to go short so was prepared to do this.