What’s the best way to cover these grey hairs? Pics attached

[Poppysball]

I’ve been getting more greys for a while now.
I used to have a brown tint but it looked so harsh and the greys were noticeable so quickly.
Hairdresser suggested highlights instead as she said the greys coming through would be less noticeable. So I had half head done six weeks ago. I liked it but I’m concerned the blonde is quite bright and now it’s growing out looks a bit yellowy.

As the pictures show they greys are showing again now and it looks a mess. I just don’t know what to do next?
Highlights again just a t section? But then I’ll have greys underneath.
If I keep having highlights this often I’m worried I will end up with yellow straw hair! Also quite frankly I can’t afford to have them every 6 weeks at the prices my current salon charges!

Please can anyone suggest what the best thing to do is? I’m just not ready to be grey.

I have highlights regularly - here's my hair. I have found as I've got older I need to keep on top of it more but I do think it's worth it.

I have highlights every 6 weeks at £105

I don't have yellow straw hair, she doesn't use bleach, just 2 different colours. The colours are much more gentle now

My hair is exactly like yours and I think it's the only way

Forgot the pic - I'm getting mine done tomorrow

iMatter that looks lovely, very natural. How many colours do you have put in and do you know what they are? Any bleach?

Laurie I think she does 2 or 3 colours in mine and I think she includes bleach. I thought she said you have to use bleach to get it to lift light enough? Do you know what kind of colours you get put in i.e cool, warm, golden etc. Also when you get them done every 6 weeks, do you have a t-section or more than that?

I get a half head done every 6 weeks. She uses L'Oréal colours I think, not sure which ones but I can ask tomorrow- I know there's definitely no bleach.

I've been having mine done for a decade

Get dry shampoo for brunette!

I'm blonde and I got (the blonde) one and it's a life changer!
Just takes the edge off

I have highlights and an ash blinde toner out through my hair as it doesn’t show the regrown as much. This time I’m hoping to just do the toner and not bother with the highlights again.

This is me with about 6 weeks regrow this

All permanent hair dye uses peroxide developer but it is mixed with the tint.

Op the brassy colour is due to the tone fading which happens with all dyed hair as it is more porous after processing.

I would advise having it dyed with Majirel in colour you like and then keep on with the upkeep at home. You would probably look better with the ash brown your hair colour is naturally. You need to add the red pigment back in first after going blonde because it will have a green hue otherwise. Get it done professionally first then it is easy to do yourself thereafter.

Loads of thread on here re how to do Majirel. It is the best dye I have ever used.

I don’t think blonde hides grey particularly well-you just get an orange badger overtime instead.

These sorts of shades....

My highlights have no orange in it - not once in ten years

They are bleached to feck though-to almost white with a toner.

Hmm - maybe not a good picture, there's loads of brown in it. My dh says I have mousey brown hair

I think your DH is colourblind Laurie 😂

PaulsHollywood a few questions about the majirel colour.
Would that be a permanent all over colour? I do like having some blonde so wouldn’t want to be completely brown. Could I have a few highlights through it?

I’m guessing not every salon uses this dye, I know my current one doesn’t so I guess I’d have to do a search to find one locally. Is it used in lots of salons?

If I had it done initially by salon is it then something I could buy from a shop to do the roots at home? How easy is this to do?

Asking any hairdressers here - is there nothing that you can dye the greys with that won't affect the base colour too much? Almost like a wash-in colour shampoo (used frequently) so you lightly stain the greys to blend like natural highlights?

That has to be gentler than highlights.

Also OP, I can't help thinking that your hairdresser is a bit heavy handed with both the highlighted sections and the colour. I don't think you need to go quite so blonde or heavy (but I'm not a hairdresser!) At the moment though I am growing out my own highlighted/bleach damage and the problem tends to be overlapping which happens a lot with highlights as they paint some strips of hair over and again with re-highlighting and this then breaks the hair after a while. As your highlights are mostly on the crown in your case, I think you'll run the risk longer-term of visible breakage problems (unless you have really strong hair) especially with highlights that are so very blond/lifted.

Haveyounamechanged I totally agree with you that my highlights are too heavy but now I don’t know what to do to correct it!
Anyone know how I can tone it right down?!
I feel like I just want to start all over again.

Poppy I should have added that your hair looks lovely but having been a victim of over-processed and too-heavy highlights in the past, and having delicate hair myself which has broken due to it, I'm paranoid about them!

Could you not have some light brown lowlights, with some blonde which is a few shades up from that, to break it up a bit without overdoing it? I think lowlights would be easier to maintain too and as your base is light brown with the greys they should blend in?

I think your base colour is still too dark to do what I think your hairdresser is trying to do - which is create a light, blondey-mousey effect. This works well on ash blondes/natural mouse bases going grey as indeed it does all blend together well, my DM has had it with good effect - but with a brunette base, even with greys, I think it's a stretch too far and doesn't tackle the regrowth issue that well as effectively you will end up with blonde growing out, followed by a brunette/grey base.

Hopefully a proper hairdresser will be along in a minute to advise! I'm not grey yet, but watching with interest because when the greys come, I'll be in the same boat but with the added complication that I can absolutely not have any bleach or blonde put on my delicate hair - it just can't take it! (sob)

Haveyounamechanged I think you’re right. I’ve always wanted to achieve the mousey blonde grey effect to disguise the greys but I do think my natural colour is too dark.
I am fed up with my current salon as it costs a fortune and yet they never seem to get it right. When I was having a brown tint previously it was nothing like my natural colour. So, as it grew out it would look orange against my roots! I would tell them every time and they would tweak the colour but it was still never right. Why is it so difficult for them to dye it the same brown as my natural brown??

I am interested in this Loreal Marijel. Maybe I should have this to get my hair back closer to it’s natural colour and then just keep up with the roots. Maybe have just a few subtle highlights put through it?

Yep - go and get it colour corrected - you want a light ash brown- no darker than 6.1.

Do it yourself thereafter- it’s a doddle.

(Thanks to this thread I have just taken a photo of the top of my head. I've never done that before. As you were.)

THIS might work OP. A FEW highlighted sections throughout the front in a deep cool blonde....with a darker base. The darkest here is 6.11

I get a mix of highlights and lowlights. Mine is also getting redone tomorrow - last done around 20th November

Mine doesn't go yellow either

PaulHollywood that’s funny as I’d found and saved that exact same picture from pinterest! That is so much more like my natural hair colour.
I have found somewhere local that does the Majirel so I’m popping in tomorrow for a consultation.
But how would they get my hair back to that colour if it’s saturated with blonde, brassy highlights? I just don’t get how it all works?

Poppy I would imagine you've got two options: (Majirel or not)

1. Do a mixture of light ash brown and dark/medium ash blonde low/highlights to break up the blonde sections and blend in to achieve a more natural light brown base with selected glints of dark ash blonde.

2. Dye out the head an ash light brown and then put in some medium ash highlights for lift and movement.

It is hard work to dye the whole head a satisfactory base shade over strong highlights, also then you'd need to pick out areas to highlight - which have been previously highlighted blonde, dyed back to brown, then highlighted again. It would put a lot of stress on your hair no matter how good/gentle/whatever the dye/Majirel/whatever is. Just saying this if it is suggested (I've heard and had worse even from some very expensive salons in the past) - be really careful.

I think it better to do things more slowly when it comes to bleached/highlighted hair. Hair can look amazing after lightening for the first 3 weeks and then gradually, bits break off without you realising. It's best to get to wherever you want to go hair-colour wise gradually than try and achieve it all in one go, if there's a choice take the slow road not the fast lane

Hopefully though a Majirel expert will be along to tell us more!