If you have brown hair but greys are appearing, how do you cover them?

[Poppysball]

All I want is to cover my wiry grey roots but it seems impossible to find a hairdresser that can understand what want.

I have naturally brown hair which is cooler rather than warmer. Over the past couple of years I have had tints that have been nothing like my natural colour, that have turned orangey and highlights that are too brassy. Now I have so much yellowy colour in my hair it just looks awful when the grey roots come through.

I have spent so much time and money on hair colour that just looks crap. No-one seems to get what I want, which is basically to be as close to natural as possible, so closer to brown than yellow!!

I opted for a tint before as highlights were just so expensive I couldn’t afford to keep it up every 6 weeks. The tint kept going orange and despite me telling them it was the same every time.

I feel like I need to start again but just don’t know what to do. Please please can anyone advise what you do?
Preferably the cheapest, easiest solution.

I feel such a mess with my hair like this. It doesn’t help that it just hangs there either, with no style.

I use Lush henna - mainly the 'Marron' chestnut one, but mixed with some 'brun', the browner one. Makes my dull brown hair chestnut/auburn and the greys/whites go bright gold. It fades over the months so that the regrowth isn't obvious 'roots'.

Messy faff to do, but worth it. Dead cheap, too.

It's definitely towards the ginger end of the spectrum, though - if I use just marron, my greys are bright ginger gold! Hence mixing in the brun.

You have my sympathy. I'm cool toned and whilst Henna would be the perfect solution, in practice it's way too warm. Carrot roots in bright sunshine. Perhaps try a different colourist, or if you are contemplating a home solution, ring Josh Wood's adviceline for help with colour matching?

You need an ash based colour.
Dark brown although looking cool to you will have a lot of natural warm undertones hence why as the colour washes out it's brassy. Same with high lights.
Hi lights lift the natural tones from the hair to get to the desired colour. If you have a lot of warm undertones it takes more to lift them out to a cooler colour.

Do you visit salons op?
You need a good colour salon that have knowledge of the hair cycle rather than someone who just whacks a colour on iyswim

Try Hairprint.

I have been using it for just over a year and I absolutely love it.
I never want to use anything else. It basically gives your natural colour back.

I am really happy with my hair now (just need to lose 20kg....)

I have ash highlights x

I know exactly what you mean! I spent too much time trying to find the right dye that would look natural, not chestnut or auburn, and that wouldn't leave my roots lighter than the tips.

I use inoa 5.0 mixed with 6.0. The result is totally natural and people can't believe I dye my hair at all!

Hairdressers are really really bad at getting this right. I found one that knew what they were doing and now I just replicate at home ☺