Stubborn greys. How to kill them all at home?

[mrsflux]

I've been using clairol perfect 10. It's nice and easy but I have a serious number of White hairs. I'm 28 so will not be embracing them!!!
I can't afford to go to the hairdresser often enough.

What hair colour do you use to nuke your greys?

Am posting here to get tips as my white hairs keep increasing

I use Nice and Easy and leave it on for the max time as am almost totally white

i use to pull them out, naughty naughty i know, but noe i live with them, dp doesn't care so i shouldn't.

Oh I am in the same boat

I'm 29 (well for another 4 weeks anyway!) and my greys are abominable.

I've tried all the hair colour brands and have found that Clairol Nice and Easy is the best but even then I get greys back in 3 weeks rather than the 6 weeks it claims on the box.

Also as my hair is so thick and long I need 2 boxes of due so it costs a tenner each time.

So £10 every 3 weeks for the rest of my days or look like an old hag

Oh yeah and I leave the dye on for 2 hours as opposed to the 20 mins advised and it still only lasts 3 weeks

Clairol has a product out now in the US that is formulated for stubborn greys.

I didn't pick it up when I was there, but a friend is getting me a box next month.

I will report back and hopefully we here at MN can send their customer service emails to get this product in the UK, too!

I also cannot afford colour at the hairdresser, cuts are bad enough.

Please do let us know about that expat.

I would happily buy from the US if I had to if it actually worked.

I used to dye mine at home and went though a packet about every two weeks (I left it on for an hour or so too ). I now go to hairdresser and disguise it with highlights in slices on the crown combined with semi and permanent block colour underneath. Costs a fortune but lasts about eight to ten weeks. The way she does it, you don't notice the regrowth as much iyswim. I need it doing now for instance, but you can't really see it.

Disguising is the only way in the long run. I'm 43 and been going grey since my mid 20s. Tis a losing battle with block colour.

I can't wait to try it out!

We really can't afford for me to go to hairdresser, so boxes it is.

I am 39 and probably about 50% grey. Dark brown hair, too.

How much do the boxes cost these days?

I can't afford that kind of high maintenance do either.

And, as my natural colour is darkest brown/almost black, highlights just do not take in my hair.

When my hair is just dyed with a lovely chocolately colour it looks gorgeous.

After a few weeks [http://willersproducts.co.uk/images/limages/old%20lady%20hair%20web.jpg not so much]]

not so much

Ba Dum Tish

I use Nice & Easy too - it gives a better result than having a colour at the hairdresser - doesn't fade nearly as much (but makes a bit more mess). It's also about £40 cheaper.

That's me Bunny.

No really, my hair is dark brown with bleached highlights in slices on top. They will take in any hair. Honest it works, have had people stopping me in the street asking where I get it done.

I know you think it's too expensive to go to a salon. I'm just trying to save you all a fortune on crap shop hair dyes that fade out in a jiffy... the ones at the hairdressers last three times as long.

Oooh I'm dying to see your barnet now PM!

I know you're talking sense but I just can't reconcile handing over £80 at a time to the hairdresser.

I'm convinced that even if I did the greys would defeat the dye and I'd cry myself to sleep about the waste of money!

Even the hairdresser struggled to get my greys last time. ESP as first attempt didn't take in hair at all, second went too red as reacts with first lot of dye. Third time lucky lovely result but greys popped back again.
£70 is too much every 8 weeks!

Bunny, this pic isn't me (20 years too young!!) and my hair is longer and thicker, but the effect I mean is this ish.

Clairol Nice n Easy semi-permanent every 5 weeks.

Really easy to apply then leave it on for 15 minutes. It does fade but I actually think that's better as the regrowth line isn't too awful. Mind you, follow the instructions - they're there for a reason!

Last time I had highlights put in (as well as full colour), they relieved me of 100 quid, and some of the highlighted sections hadn't actually taken any colour, so what I actually had were white streaks

I decided then that on the basis of spending 7 quid every 6 weeks, plus adding a root touchup round my hairline and parting in between, it looked fine, and at least there was no one else to blame.

People tell me what a lovely hair colour I have - the amount of white underneath means it sort of glitters and has colour variation

shade 118 nice and easy lovely choccie brown davina style colour us silver sisters lately did a poll.steer away from colours with too much warmth in them they fade to brassy tones,118 is better than a professioal job imo.

It's cheaper to dye at home even if you do it once a month.

Really, truly can't afford highlights at a hairdresser.

I loathe going to the hairdresser so it´s DIY for me!

Have dark brown hair & love the colour.
What I really want is something that will leave my hair the colour it is & just dyethe grey.

Recently I used a reddish colour-could hardly see it-and it left the greys a lovely pink colour!