How to hide my roots?

[nadine90]

I started a hair journey about 18 months ago from dark box dye colour to lovely blonde highlights. Due to personal circumstances, I’ve not been able to afford to go to the hairdressers to have my roots done for 6 months. The growth is quite obvious, although it’s grown so much I’m convincing myself it looks balayaged! Natural hair is mousy brown. I have an event coming up I want to look my best for but can’t afford to go to the salon before it. I’m good with a box dye but don’t want to undo all the work it’s taken to get to blonde. I am planning to get it sorted before Xmas, so am looking for a quick fix to get me through this event. Does anyone have any products/accessories/brainwaves of what I could do with it? I’m looking at semi perm dyes online but I’m scared it won’t turn out right with the difference in the blonde and brown, and that it’ll be hard to get rid of.
I don’t suit hats!

I saw a video of someone painting highlights onto the roots using blonde ColorWow powder. I’ve never tried doing that myself, but it looked pretty good!

If you have a regular hairdresser consider speaking to them first advice. However if you fiddle they may charge you for a colour correction next time which is costly.

I would either look at hair up style, a topper, or a fancy large accessory to pull focus.

At a real push, id consider bleaching a few strands yourself near the root in a highlight fashion around your t zone, toning and hoping for the best with an updo.

I would not, under any circumstances, go darker.

Don’t semi-perm the blonde. It will have to be bleached again and you can’t guarantee the colour (could go very flat/green tinged if you don’t get the right shade). Definitely don’t lighten the roots either (obviously you can’t do this with a semi-perm dye), but it will ruin all the hard work you’ve been through.

I would either go to a hairdresser, be honest with what you can afford and see what they suggest (could be a toner or hairline and parting lights), or as a PP says, if you are confident you could do some fine highlights at the front and put it up, but get the proper Wella Blonder stuff.

I think with your hair up people won’t notice the two-tone look, and I don’t think it looks bad even if they did!

My salon does ‘express’ highlights- only a few- then washes it but doesn’t dry it, for a fraction of the price. Could you stretch to something like that? Or a curly up do that blends/hides the regrowth line a bit?

If you’re good with a box dye you could try some home highlights? I’m not particularly talented but a couple of people recently were very surprised I did them myself.

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I don't think there's anything you can do other than go to the hairdressers. You could put a dye over it yourself but that will cover the highlights.

As PP said I'd ask the hairdresser to just do some T foils and don't blow dry

Thanks for the suggestions. I’d be fine doing a few highlights if I didn’t already have them but not confident trying to do the roots of existing ones and definitely don’t want to put bleach on top of bleach and risk it breaking. My budget is zero - a tenner at a push! So I will get practicing some easy up-do’s x

Could you use a spray-in root cover in maybe a light brown to try to blend the two colours into each other?. Or even a brunette dry shampoo. Shouldn't cost more than a tenner and you could practice beforehand.