appeal for a home hair dyeing expert

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I've got mousey greying hair and have been wanting to go lighter for a while now. I bought a golden blonde hair dye but my mum told me it would make my hair go red, so I put a semi-permanent in it in light brown shade about 8 weeks ago. Was happy enough with this, but still want to try blonde. I bought an ash blonde dye today.
In mumsnetters experience will this be a success or should I stick with brown?

I would have thought an ash blonde would work - it works on my mum's 70% grey!

Mousy to blonde (as long as it's not platinum blonde, which could make you look washed out, depending on skin tone) should be OK, (speaking as a mousy lady who used to dye all the while). But make sure your light brown shade has grown/washed out totally, that's when you risk the dreaded orange hair (this happened to me when I once went from black to blonde in one foolish go).

If you do a strand test first you should be able to confirm what shade you will end up with.

ok, thanks. if i do get the dreaded orange hair, what can i do to cover it up? i already bought a shaders/toners sachet-would this do the job short term? and what about longer term? would i just use a semi-permanent in a brown shade?

i know it should be done that way, but i don't have the time, and no childcare to let me get there.
so, shaders&toners won't get rid of the orange-ness, but would a semi-permanent?

semi permanent would, but that can also go wrong - i have had pink, green and orange hair, all quite by accident!
ash blonde going onto mousey or light brown hair should be fine though

lol tmmj

lovely pic, that made me laugh, tmmj!