Hair colour help

[cannypants]

So I'm 44 with a few greys. Naturally mousey. I've been highlighting my hair for probably 2 years and it's gotten blonder and blonder. Thinking of going back to brunette as upkeep is murder. What do you think?

I'd probably go all over block colour for a few months before working a few highlights back through just to get the colour intensity back

Go for it, you’d get less problems with regrowth. You could always go for balayage coverage too

I went colour block when my greys came but it actually looked worse so yes I did put high lights back in.

Got bored of that because it's so continuous so let everything grow out and I absolutely love my grey/brown hair. Very striped and cool.

What do you think it will be like if you grew it out?

@jeaux90 I think grown out it would be ok but I'm not sure I could bear it for the growing out process. It looks bad enough at 6 weeks!

I do get it, I had to grin and bear it but it was really worth it. It's in fantastic condition now too, and the ball ache/costs of getting it coloured has gone.

Another friend of mine did a pixie cut then let it grow out for this reason.

What about a root stretch using a similar colour to your natural, to give you a ombré sort of effect? You could see how it goes with the roots, if you’ve not got many greys it might not be too bad.

I'm really similar to you and gave gone cold turkey with dying. The greys don't show too much as they blend in with the ash blonde.

I get toning treatments to tone down the blonde bits and make it less obvious. Almost there now and it's starting to look great.

It was actually a hairdresser who persuaded me to do it as she said ash blonde/grey is really trendy! 😆

Going against the grain here, I think your hair really suits you blonde. As others have suggested you could always have more of an ombré? That's what I have and I'm also naturally mousy and now I literally have my hair coloured twice a year it's so low maintenance x

Your hair really suits you. If I were you I’d just put in a few lowlights in dark blonde.