Colouring grey hair

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Think hair is grey in parts but previously natural colour brunette with copper lights. Currently colour at home close to original shade. As am just over 40 (nearly 42) want to get to a lighter toffeeish colour as understand this makes you look youthful and untired altho obvously want to avoid greige (a la Alison Steadman). Am thinking Ruth Kelly stylee (only in terms of current hair colour obviously). P.S. paleish skin with freckles in summer but not in winter. Please help - is this something I could do myself or do need to spend £££ at hairdressers but once done could maybe maintain at home? Do not want to go grey.

Margaret Mountford, I have found some hennas online (lots of different colours), all natural, semi permanent AND cover grey.

Am going off to look now

Margaret Mountford, I have found some hennas online (lots of different colours), all natural, semi permanent AND cover grey.

Am going off to look now

www.ecohamster.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=8829 here

I worry about the going blonde route to mask grey. I just would NOT suit blonde hair at all. So, semi-perms in the bathroom at home every 3 to 4 (or usually 5, because I'm lazy) weeks is teh way for me.

oh, interesting fizzbuzz

I was too, Tinker, but I decided to go the blonde route to lessen the obvious line between dark and grey on regrowth.

What my hairdresser has done is put several colours into my hair - from bleaching to a dark honey colour. It really breaks up any lines on new growth.

What really sealed it for me was when I watch one of those 'ten years younger in ten days' shows. They had someone on there who was about 50 and had long straight hair that she dyed almost black. The expert on the show said that the dark colour actually made her look older, even though it was her natural colour as a younger woman. She said that hair does naturally get lighter as you age, so that it is inappropriate to keep dyeing with your original colour.

Basically, the bottom line is that your beauty treatments should be age-appropriate in order for you to look your best. What makes you look best at 40 is not the same as what makes you look best at 30 and 20. Your beauty treatments have to evolve with age.

But why does the cost increase with age? I would love to have my hair done professionally, but just cannot afford it atm

It is a shocker, Fizzbuzz. I've only been able to do it since I've been earning. I did the Clairol jobs when I was a SAHM, and then not often enough.

There may be ways of getting it cheaper. For example, my salon has a 20% discount every Wednesday, so that is when I go.

Just thinking about it, I pay the same for my hair as I do for my teeth, which seems like an odd set of priorities.

I am completely grey and and toying with the idea of going blonder. Has anyone ever tried the London hairdressing schools. I might look around for them and report back if no-one else knows. I currently use diacolour - a professional hair colour that you can just mix up in small amounts. I have a tinting brush and do the roots at the front and sides in the same way that the hairdresser does, then i get a whole head with highlights done when I can afford it.

omg im sure i would look ridiculous with blonde hair

my hair was never blonde

tho all my brothers and sisters and parents were and my children

im 50 are you saying everyone should go lighter

Think Anne Widdecombe

aaagh she is bizarre

i fear getting like that

well i probably already have

does she have a young bf lol

I can understand going a bit lighter and not a block of colour, but no way blonde. NO WAY. (tries desperately to think of older brunettes)

What about Loreal Colour Experte where you use all over colour and then paint on the highlights. It does come in all shades from blonde to brown.

I do get some compliments re my hair colour when I use this however what has happened is that I do whole head and highlights every time (rather than just the roots) and it's getting blonder which was not my intention.

That's how I ended up going blonder before.

I am also growing my fringe for the first time in my life and am not sure what the overall effect of that will be.

Hoping it will look more sophisticated but not sure. Just suddenly felt gawky with a fringe.

i use the loreal coleur experte and do it all every time too