Can you save leftover permanent hair dye for future use?

[thesugarbumfairy]

I have some white hairs - just in front of my ears and on my hairline - not my general roots. Lets call it a sprinkling! It really isn't much at all but I'd like it coloured.

I have not bothered with dyeing these before - actually I do dye the rest of my hair, but with what you'd call fashion colours - these are semi permanent and don't involve any 'mixing'. Its not at my roots, which are natural.

These fashion dyes do not cover my white hairs. So I guess I need natural hair colour dye for my sprinkles (my natural colour is dark brown)
But I only need a tiny bit. I'm not interested in 'temporary' covers like the godawful hair mascara stuff (Tried that - yuk)

I know you used to have to mix your dye with developer - but under the impression that once you do that, you have to use it or chuck it.

Is that still the case? I don't want to spend a tenner on dye and then waste most of it if I don't have to. Do I have to?

What about trying mens hair dye. much less in a bottle.

No you can't save it.

You could just mix the little bit you need and then you could keep the rest until next time.

That is what I used to do when I only had a few white hairs. Bought a home dye pack, poured just a tiny bit of the colour & and developer into a small pot and mixed just that bit. The rest saved fine for ages so long as the lid was fastened back on, and I only mixed the bit I needed.

I save mine. Lid back on tightly and no issues when I next use it. I use the L'Oreal majirel dyes.

Once it's been mixed you can't use it.

I dye my eyebrows and eyelashes with hair dye (not recommended to anyone sensitive and not without a skin test first) and I also do a colour wash once in a while to remove brassy tones

I buy a black box dye and only mix a little of the hair colour with a little of the developer and use.

One box dye can last me months and I've been doing so for years.

My hairdresser told me which colour she uses for mine, so purchased off Amazon and I now colour it when the greys are sprouting through, saves buying those kits !

Yes you can use it again.
As long as its not mixed together, you can use half the colour tube and half the developer bottle.
I get a pen and mark either halfway or thirds on the plastic developer bottle.
Then eyeball squeezing the amount from the colour tube.

I mix these in a plastic cup and use a hair-dye brush ( the brush that comes in the root touch up boxes).
I've gotten three root touch ups from one box of dye.
As you say you only need a little bit every few weeks.

My top tip is to get a bar of soap, wet it slightly then rub that around the edges of your hairline and ears to act as a barrier.

ok thanks everyone! @seaweed42 good tip to mark the bottles!

Honestly DON'T mix the developer & colour together & save it ..ALL colours even dark permanent have basically bleach in them & it heats up & is designed to use fast..If I was you ,you may have to buy one of those little pots with millimetre markings in it from a cookware shop off use a digital kit hen scale & only get say 1\3 of the mixture of developer & colour out & mix that small amount with a hair dye lot in a small plastic or ceramic bowl & just brush it on the sprinkling of greys ..If it's not all mixed together & the bottles kept away from direct heat you can get a good few uses.I thoroughly recommend eSalon the kits are huge ,I've got long hair & they custom mix it especially to find with my natural colour & it covers greys well ..I reckon if you were doing just hairline you'd get 3-4 uses..it's only £10 for your first kit ,subsequent kits are £22 ,a professional hair colour at the fraction of a price of going to hairdresser ,I hadn't coloured my long hair for about 8 months because I'm seriously ill & it made my hair feel like silk x..just again DON'T mix the whole kit like I.explained