Tint or highlights?

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Any advice please! I’m in my 40s ,have naturally brown hair that I’ve been putting blonde highlights in since teens ..now ,mainly grey coming through (esp at the front ) ..I’m currently a mixture of highlights /grey and supermarket “root cover up”as the grey just comes through so quickly .Is an overall tint the answer now ?How to avoid a blocky look? Hairdresser suggested continue highlights and let the grey come through ,but I’m just not ready for that 🤔Can’t afford to get highlights every month tho’( time or financially ) I get ash blonde highlights .Thank you!

I've been doing ombré with great success. I've got curly hair and it looks something like this. I go every 6/7 weeks for the roots to be done in brown and very infrequently for the ombré which makes it quite cost effective and easy to upkeep

Looks really fab !!Esp with curls I would imagine .
I think however I’d still have the same problem of grey coming through the brown roots v quickly ( they seem to show every 2 weeks 😩)which is why I was was wondering if some type of a tint might be a better option.Hair is difficult at this in-between stage for sure..

Grey is very fashionable right now and for this reason my hairdresser bullied me into having highlights and leaving a lot of the grey visible, when what I really wanted was an all over dark brown tint (semi-permanent vegetable dye). I had that a few years ago and it looked fab! Now I have a mixture of my natural dark brown, the grey, and some weird unflattering’highlight’ (aka mousy mid-brown) that hairdresser added.

Go for the tint.

If you don't mind ashy tones, you could have some lowlights put in too - so ashy blonde, dark ash brown (plus maybe one more colour). I had this once and I thought it looked good - it was a natural overall effect and there was no visible regrowth.