Grey hair help needed

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My hair colour is brown but i'm nearly 100% grey.I have coloured my hair for a few years now.I try to match my own colour most of the time but have tried red shades too.
But i'm so fed up with my roots showing in just a couple of weeks now.And because my hair is dark the grey really shows.
Any ideas?

Have blonde highlights, or even an all over platinum. The regrowth will be much less notoceable. I speak from experience

I am the same. Am working up to getting lighter brown highlights- don't think I could go blonde. The thing is, I actually like my hair colour- it's just that not that much of it is actually mine anymore.

I'm v v grey too - front is pure white, but am grey all over.

I've changed my hair colour to make it lighter and lighter so that it shows less with regrowth. As I have long hair, I can also get away with a rotation of overall colour and a root touch up along the hairline and parting which works really well.

Why doesn't anyone invent a pill we can swallow that will last 12 months?
I colour mine at home eery 5 weeks or so cos its too expensive to have it dine in the shops. Boo hoo!

Thank you for your replies.
So i need to go lighter?I thought that but RL friends keep saying my skin tone is wrong for lighter hair.
MrsSeanBean do you use a home highlighter kit or go to the hairdressers?

I gave up on home hair kits, they never really worked well for me and I had to get hairdresser to sort out my blunders, so I reasoned I may as well save the £ spent on home kits and go direct to the hairdresser.

It does cost £££s, and takes ages, but your hair is always 'on' so IMO it's worth spending a decent amount on.

I have brown hair as well and get it done at the hairdressers every 5 weeks with me doing my parting and front every 2 1/2 . I had highlights to see if that would help and all it did was give me more roots to contend with. I'm just not ready to go lighter yet although I know it would help with roots being less noticeable.

So what do you think is the best to have done?Just afew highlights or lots?One colour or different shades?
Sorry for all the questions but my hair is really getting me down.

If its the roots showing every couple of weeks could you not just do what I do which is do just the parting as soon as it starts showing and then do the whole thing less frequently? Or, if its the whole colour you dont like get lots of highlights or the complete colour changed to light. If you dont get lots of highlights then you need a colour underneath - if its brown your roots will still show and so the alternative is grey - if that all makes sense!!

Or do what Mrs Sean Bean says and throw money at the problem and just go to the hairdresser a lot and accept it. Its the time with that that gets me down though ....

Yes its the roots showing in no time.I feel like it needs the roots doing all the time.I don't mind going lighter has long has it goes blonde and not orange.
I think i'm going to go for lots of highlights.Is it still done with a cap?

I haven't got the money to spend going to the hairdresser all the time.Thats why i colour my hair myself.

You need to go to the hairdresser, home kits are crap. I have steely blonde "slices" on the top and semi permanent brown on the bottom... I can got for about nine weeks without anyone even noticing my grey. Cos the colour completely disguises it. You don't k#notice the root rgrowth cost it all just looks like a mix of colours. And I have bad grey. I don't look "blonde" I still mostly look like a brunette.

Get a colour specialist at your salon to do it. It costs me about £80 a go, but it works.

Most places use foils now. much less painful

What TheLongRoadHome said sums it yup really - I don't fret about my hair anymore - I gave up and now just ask the hairdresser to make it look good. You need a good hairdresser though! Never trust a salon which uses a pull through cap. In fact it would be wise to trust very few 'provincial' salons (IMextensiveE).