If you dye your own hair, how do you keep from hair dye dyeing your hairline?!

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I am going grey around the front of my head. I need to keep up the dyeing every two weeks so there’s no way I can afford to go to a salon, so I use organic home hair dye and it is working fine.

BUT I keep dyeing my head! I can’t get the very front hairline hairs otherwise. And then I scrub it off and break the skin! Any tips? Or good things for removing it? I don’t have makeup remover, but keep wondering if that might work. Good old soap and a scrub sort of does, but like I said - I have to scrub so hard that I break the skin a little

A good smear of Vaseline!

Don’t dye right at the front hairs, brush/comb them back into the hair behind them

I top up the dye on my temples at home in between visits to the hairdressers. I put a barrier on the skin around my hairline . I use vaseline or an old tub of waitrose baby bottom butter.
I still get a bit on the skin round my hairline, but it helps.

Vaseline loads of it around the hairline.

Another for loads of vaseline.

You can use vasaline. I would remove as soon as you see it with a small flannel too. I worked in a hair dressers years ago washing hair and I found if I rubbed the hair in the hair dye on the hairline/skin when removing it came straight from off.

Tint removes tint, so when washing, make sure to lather some dye into your hairline and rinse properly

Baby wipes

Definitely Vaseline or some type of heavy facial moisturiser. But I also find it easier to use a dye that you apply to wet hair. That way your hair isn’t as flyaway and it’s easier to be more precise with the dye.

I use a lip salve stick. I find is less greasy than Vaseline and easier to apply accurately. It does the same job.

If it's not enough then rubbing the stained skin with a baby wipe afterward gets the worst off. If you have the odd prominent white hair, dying around it always results in needing to use a wipe.

Yep Vaseline with baby wipes nearby to wipe any splatters quickly.

I put on a facemask!! Two in one job there

I dye my own hair every 4 weeks (bright ginger) and have never used Vaseline around my hairline. I've never had stains with the tint removes tint method. Learned from a friend many many years ago when she was studying hair and beauty at college

It's true that tint removes tint, just rub a bit of the dye into the stained bit and as if by magic the stain will disappear.

Olive oil on the forehead (and ears, neck etc). The after applying the dye, if any dye has gone on the skin wipe it off immediately.

I just leave mine to wear off with normal hair washing, it only lasts a day or 2 IME, dye hair at the weekend. I wouldn't want to risk the roots not taking the colour well due to vaseline etc.

I use an eyebrow brush to do my hairline - I leave it til last, then get right up to the mirror & do it really carefully. It’s one of the main reasons I prefer dying my own hair, I used to find that salons would just slap it on my forehead & never wipe it off properly.