I'm thinking of going blonde: please advise

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I'm getting very bored with my poker straight long light brown hair and am thinking of going blonde. I've never been blonde before and have no idea what the process is. Obviously I would go to the hairdressers to start off with, but could I do the roots myself?

I have light brown hair. Is it as simple as dying it or while they have to do it in stages?

What shade should I go? I up for anything that looks good. Will the hairdresser be able to advise me?

How regularly am I going to have to get it redone and what are the long term effects? If I get bored can I just dye it back to my natural colour? My hair is about chest length and I am not adverse to getting it all cut short if necessary.

Should I do this? I've never been blonde before and never wanted to but I am starting to habour yearnings and feel like it will make me look younger and hipper (I'm 28).

I remember using this a couple of times which was quite good. For the very blonde I used some "nordics" or some such.

Ah yes, the MN look: MN haircut, dyed slutty blonde, dress from Wallis, crocs/birkenstocks, knitting their own lentils.

I have gone blonde (well alot blonder) today as well as having very VERY long hair cut off to just below chin length .

I wouldn't do it DIY,shop bought colours are one sheer colour and I feel make you look washed out as you don't have any tones within your hair after dyeing.

My hairdresser uses two highlights,a bleach and a toffee blonde and applies that and leaves some of my natural colour which is mousey and it looks really natural.It also doesn't look a state when it grows out (I can't afford 6-8 wk roots).

I'd go with a pro hairdresser for any blonde dye

sounds lovely, poshwellies

can i ask how much you pay though, poshwellies?

Oh last time I attempted that 'bleach blonde babe' look was at 16.A friend who was training to be a hairdresser just shoved pure peroxide onto my mousey locks.

NOT A GOOD IDEA.

Top of my hair went white blonde and the back and sides went yellow,it was bloody awful.I then decided to try and rectify it by dyeing it brown,it went fecking GREENY grey and muddy looking and was falling out in handfuls.At 16 I couldn't afford to have it done professionally and had to have most of it cut off and let it grow out-fucking horrendous time of my life.

My hairdresser is dirt cheap tbh.She comes to my home and does it.It costed £40 today for restyle,full head of highlights and blow dry.

so how much did you pay for your colour today though?

thanks oops impatient me

Colour is £30

Wow, poshwellies, that's pretty good. I think I will investigate mobile hairdressers who do it cheap. I mean surely they can't do a worse job than I would...

I may investigate the L'oreal stuff, I'm just not sure what colour would suit me.

I have just done my second bleaching

man, I look like a canary now

chirpie chirpie

We demand pics MP so we can laugh admire.

no way dude

there are people on here who have rules about hosiery that I can never hope to understand

I am SURE they have VERY DEFINITE RULES about having canary hair

mp's doppleganger

yes that's me

but thinner and younger

shit

Hello again

I have a plan. I'm going to get a home highlighting kit and my mum is going to do it for me. She isn't a professional but she turned 49 today and still has dark brown hair - she is well experienced at home dyeing!

So, what kit would you recommend? The L'oreal one seems to get good reviews.

Oh and how do I decide what sort of colour to go for.

I would say I have a medium skin tone, warm, not too pale but not olive, brown eyes and mid brown hair.

ermmm I don't know about colour

I would say you probably need to expect the first time to go horribly orange

I'd go for very light blonde here its a bit more ashy so less likely to go orange..... maybe

Ok, I've bought this, not sure if you can see it, it's colour 8.0. I picked it because the model had brown eyes!

So in a couple of weeks I am going to my mum's and she is going to do it for me. I will let you know how it goes.

I like it. I'm going to do it too. Think I'm going to go for no 7.1 (Tiramisu). Still a bit worried about whether it'll take on my base colour (ie my natural mouse, and the brassy 'golden blonde' which has never, frankly, gone blonde enough for my liking. In the old days I just chucked a bottle of whatever on it and it went the colour on the box, near enough. I'm confused!

But in for a penny ...

Oooh a blonde buddy Love the name btw, WW is my fav!

There wasn't much choice in Boots, only 3 of those L'Oreal ones.

I have another question, sorry to bore you all, will I need to put anything on to strip my hair or will the kit do it?

Thanks, Bumpers

Yes, I'm up for it, but I can't find the stuff anywhere. Crappy local Boots hasn't got it, I need to search further afield. Still nervous, but I'll report back.