How can I achieve this hair?

[LordLetMeGlow]

Natural hair is dark dirty blonde now 60% grey. Currently dyed a dark reddish brown. Obviously I'm not going to be able to do thus overnight but what are the steps to getting this colour? Previous experiences with balayage have been very brassy so I'm nervous...

Stay away from box dyes.

You need to go to a professional who specialises in colour. They’ll most likely use bleach in highlights or a balayage and then a toner.

Omg definitely no chance you can do this on your own! Save up and go to the best colourist you can find

This sort of colour costs hundreds, requires hours sat in a chair and tonnes of bleach that will ruin your hair. It's also only possible if you don't have any red tones to your natural hair colour, which the vast majority of us do! Just go grey naturally and enjoy it! Far easier and cheaper!

You definitely can do this on your own if you have the know-how. Your biggest problem's going to be getting rid of the reddish brown. Achieving silver means bleaching all the colour out of your hair first - you'll never strip a red dye out in one go, so you're likely to need two or three really vicious chemical treatments.

Even I wouldn't attempt it, and I belong to the "meh, hair grows" and "that's why we have conditioners" school of thought. I'd rather it wasn't growing from a starting point of having broken off an inch from the roots!

It's a colourist for you, I'm afraid, and probably next month's entire pay cheque. They might try to destroy some of the old dye, then use an assortment of toners to offset the remaining weirdness and bring it closer to the grey shade. Then you might go back a few weeks later for the highlights, and maybe another lightening treatment before silvering it (you could try that bit yourself if you're confident; I'm not sure I would).

It looks lovely in the picture. I have done something very similar with my own hair: it came out well, but I realised I'm so old it just looked old-lady grey on me 😂 so I covered it with turquoise.

Thank you for the replies!!!

I wasn't going to try and achieve it by myself, was going to go to a colourist but was wondering what the steps involved would be, particularly how they're going to try and get rid of the red brown colour on my lengths as my roots aren't too far off the base colour here. I guess I could always grow out the old dye but I'd be looking at years!!!

Stylist would need a colour remover or bleach/toner for that. I went from black to blonde by removing most of the black then having highlights (colourist did this, I did not attempt this myself) and now I'm just doing my roots blonde myself (salon colour at home though, not box dye). I promise it won't take years though- I did this at the end of April, my hair is down to my bra strap and the blonde is now at my shoulders and only the last three inches of my hair is darker. Hair grows surprisingly quickly