Help me understand hair dye

[Rizzla]

Hi, I’ve never dyed my hair before, it’s a dark brown ‘rich’ colour (according to hairdresser!)

I’m starting to get a few greys. She said I’m some years away from needing to dye it but I want to understand what my options are.

I want to keep the same dark brown hair colour. Everything I read about covering greys include highlights, lowlights, blending, gloss colour, which I understand are designed to minimise the upkeep and makes regrowth not look so stark.

however I don’t want to change my hair colour at all and don’t think I would suit going any lighter (I have dark eyes and colouring etc)

it doesn’t see to be a popular option but if I was prepared to do root touch ups every 2-3 weeks could I do this? Would I get the hairdresser to start with an all over dye of my current colour and then do root touch ups at home? Could they match it exactly? What about home box dyes? Thank you :)

mine doesnt like us messing with box dye at home for touch ups in case it doesn’t agree with the stuff she uses.

doing it at home can be a bit of a faff.

we effectively have to choose between one or the other if we want to use her.

i sometimes use these powder filled pen things to hide the grey. or the ones like eyeshadow with a sponge applicator.

Hi ,
if you only have a few greys I would try out the root powders first .
I originally had dark hair / but a pale complexion . I did use the box dyes - but was a bit of a faff as my roots started growing in after about two weeks . The problem with box dyes , apart from the faff is that the colour can look quite flat , especially on dark hair .
I did try going lighter and now have lowlights too. I went too light and it didn’t feel me .
I have now been using the root powders for a good few years . The one I found the best was the colour wow ones . I did try cheaper versions but they tended to not stay in very long .
With colour wow ones, it stays in mostly until I wash my hair. It is about £28 from Amazon . There aren’t a huge selection of colours and the brown ones I found were darker than they first looked . They last me for months and I don’t need to dye in between hairdresser appointments .
There are other root powders advertising on instagram but haven’t tried any of the others .

It sound like you have similar hair colouring to me. I started getting grays through but the coverage was patchy. Hairdresser at the time had be doing highlights with foils which picked up the greys and blended the colour in. But it was time consuming and expensive.

Current hairdresser just encourages me to have a root tint (basically roots coloured) as she likes my natural hair colour and does not want to colour it. This covers all the greys at root level and this matches the rest of my natural hair colour exactly. However at £70-80 a time (not cheap!) I have diy'd this task quite frequently, with box colour from esalon. Your hairdresser OP is likely to be less than this.

But having taken a look at the colourwow suggestion for between diy root touch ups I am tempted to try that as well.

Thanks everyone, my hairdresser also recommended the powders as a first option. So sounds like I could use this until there’s too many greys, then would I go into get an all over colour of my natural shade and then use the powder in between going in for root tints?
thanks all