HELP! Ginger to brown semi perm

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Omg! I really need opinions right now..

My natural hair colour is a copper strawberry blonde... (not bright ginger) but I really want to semi permanent dye it to a similar but little darker colour so when my roots come through it won't be super visible!

Looking at golden to light browny tones but super unsure where to look

Garnier?
Loreal?
I've been super indecisive back and forward looking at colours it's driving me insane..

Anybody go from Ginge to brown and have any ideas?
Box dyes are sooo tricky!🙈

I’ve done this recently gone from a reddish copper to a brown. I used Clairol non-ammonia 24 wash in Light Ash Brown & Dark Ash Blonde - I mixed them together. I wanted to eliminate some of the copper/red tones so that’s why I went for ash based colours, although I knew it would still have warmth & I went for both Light Brown & Dark blonde as I found the Light Ash Brown when used before can come out quick dark & the Dark Ash Blonde seems to really push the ash tones through while not adding that extra level of darkness.

It came out pretty much as I expected, in the sunshine (where’s that?!) you can really see the warm tones coming through but otherwise it a light warm brown colour. Hope this helps! It will probably wash up a fair bit though, they always do.

I'd try a toner/ colour shampoo first to see if you like it. It may be a shock against your skin tone etc.! Superdrug do some affordable ones.
If you use box dye; I've always used clairol nice n easy - and get loads of compliments on my hair.

@seeyouyesterday thankyou so much! Have you ever tried using clairol dark ash blonde on its own rather then mixing? Would be worried that I mix it wrong with wrong quantities unless you just mix both the full boxes together? We're they semi permanent?

Will deffo try clairol dye

@Bearpawk thankyou lovely, do you have any recommendations of a colour shampoo? Never used one before

Yeah so what I do is mix the dyes up in their bottles as you would normally do, then add the two dyes in a bowl & mix them together. I have tried Dark Ash Blonde on it’s own before & it didn’t do much, not enough difference for me, I needed that one level darker so that’s why I went for the Light ash brown also. What I will say is whatever dye you go for, always chose the lighter shade of you’re undecided as they will initially turn out darker than the picture on the front. And yes the Clairol ones I have mentioned are semi-permanent, to be honest though, I find the permanent ones do wash up anyway.

For colour shampoos, I’ve been using what my daughter uses & she uses Pantene for coloured hair which I have found quite good, I’ve been using that and using the Aussie 3 minute miracle treatment conditioner because my hair is very dry, I find using this combo is making my hair look better & I’m trying not to wash it too much so going 2 or 3 days between washes.

Just to add you say you have golden strawberry blonde hair colour, which by the way sounds lovely, why would you want to dye it?! Anyway yes, a semi is the way to go & I wouldn’t go darker than a light brown, if you wanted to keep the golden tones, the Clairol do a light brown dye also, which is quite nice.