Is it easy to colour your own hair?

[Netix]

I'm getting my hair cut short next week (I can't wait!), and am thinking about colouring it too. Can you colour your own hair successfully, or do you miss bits, or is it easy to mess up?

Failing doing it myself, I could get my Mum to do it when I see her.

Thanks guys!

[Cupcake]

I do my own all the time, have for ages, it really depends what colour you are going i guess and how different it is from your natural colour as to if you will see the little bits you may miss

Good luck!! Woohoo for the hair cut too!!

[squidipa]

I'm getting my hair cut short next week (I can't wait!), and am thinking about colouring it too. Can you colour your own hair successfully, or do you miss bits, or is it easy to mess up?

Failing doing it myself, I could get my Mum to do it when I see her.

Thanks guys!

short hair yeah or above the shoulders or fine hair yep. Use old perfume to remove any dye from around the ears etc if ya get it there and use gloves. Best tho if possible to have a spotter to say hey u missed it here and put newspaper or plastic on floor incase of spillage and dont put the dye bottle directly on basin cover sink area with paper too. or old towel. I always come through after too.

[Netix]

Oooo, thank you! I might get my Mum to do the first one. Or the Man. He's coloured my hair before...

I'm so excited! I jittery like a sugar bug!

[~Kim~]

funny you mention that Netix, I was going to ask DH to do mine too. It's short...how hard can it be. He's great at painting toenails and shaving legs.....

[rufalina]

I used to get DH to do mine, then it got too long to do at home... Good luck with it!!! I love new hair!!!

[ladybird11]

I wish I could do my own hair - as salons seem so expensive these days!

But I wouldn't trust my rather volatile blonde hair in even my own hands - so off to the hairdresser I go! (Plus its an excuse to get out of the house kid free ).

[Jellyfish]

Me and my friends use to do each others hair all the time in high school. Wasn't too tricky

[Netix]

It can't be that difficult Kim. When the Man would do my hair, we'd need two boxes of colour, and it was blonde! The only time it didn't work was the first time, when my hair went a strawberry blonde... eek! My Man painted my nails for me too.

I'm not really into the whole hairdresser experience, so I'm happy if family do it, and to save money. Plus I grew up with my Mum perming and colouring my Stara Mama's (Grandmother) hair, so home colour is more the norm...

[satya]

I actually thought I posted on here earlier but looks like it didn't work.

I have colored my hair for around 20 years. In the early days I'd still sometimes get it done at the hairdressers but for the past 15 I've done it myself fully.

I mostly use the kits where you do an all over color then add highlights - it does take longer but it looks great at the end of it. All over color is good too.

I recommend you stay away from Nice n Easy as its colors can be nothing like what is on the box. I've never experienced that with any other brand. My only disastrous dye job was done with that brand.

My advice is to never do it when you are in a hurry as you may not spread it completely over all the hair (the abovementioned disaster occurred when I was in a hurry but probably wouldn't have been so bad had the color been anything like what the samples were on the box).

I do mine in the bath. I strip off & put the dye on in front of the mirror. Jump in the bath & wait for it to develop. This way you don't have to worry about drips. When it's ready to rinse jump in the shower.

If you do the highlight kind of dye make sure you have a second mirror handy so that you can check the back of your hair to ensure that you have selected strands from all over your head.

Believe it or not I have had numerous compliments from hair dressers on how well I dye my hair.

[danniellabella]

I've never been game enough to colour my own hair. My mum used to do it when I was living at home. For the past 6 or 7 years I've always had it done at a hairdresser, but now because money is getting tighter I'm thinking of going back to home hair colouring.
Still not willing to do it myself though so I've got my cousin doing mine when I'm ready.

I will say though, be careful when colouring your hair. A lady at my work who has been doing her own hair for years was going about it as usual the weekend before last. She made one big mistake this time which was almost very very serious. She got some dye in her eyes. Thankfully she only got it on the white part of her eyes, but it could have been a lot worse. She had to have 2 days off work to recover as they were very sore.

[DoubleK]

i do my own all the time! i could never bring myself to pay a hairdresser to colour my hair! i never have foils or anything, just a plain colour. although i have done a few blonde foils myself over the years.

i just start at the bottom and work upwards.. then massage it all through as if you were washing your hair!!

[Netix]

Good points... I like the idea about the bath, but I don't have a bath tub at my house!

I don't remember which brands I have used, but even though it was just one colour I still ended up with different tones, which was good.