Do you use home hair dye or go to the hairdressers?

[Ginger]

hello

just out of curiosity....am wondering if people use DIY packet hair dyes or whether they go to the hairdressers?

i used to always go to the hairdressers to get my hair dyed, but it's becoming harder and harder since having ds. i also can't justify the cost anymore. last time i went it cost me $70 just to get it dyed, no cut, nothing else!

so last time i dyed it myself at home. the dye cost $7 and it looked great!

what do you do? can you tell the difference between home and salon jobs????

[Kitt3n]

lol - may i brag?

I havent coloured my hair for over 3 years - I have no greys and my natural colour is actually quite nice (people always say what a nice colour it is) so, until i see some greys, its a-la-natural for me!

But.... before that I either used to ahve a girls night where my friends and i would do each other's hair - or go to the salon when I had moolah.......

[New Dawn]

I ALWAY do my own at home I dont think it looks to bad and if it does no one is game enough to tell me

I only just went to the hair dresser for the 1st time to get foils and I was so board I had nothing to do for two hrs but sit on my butt and read mags not my cup of tea... Plus the girl doing my hair kepted telling me how she could never have kids as she wouldnt have time for herself anymore and that she could believe I hadnt had foils before Blar blar blar blar like I care...

So I will go back to doing my own from now on I think...

[LaDeeDa]

I always go to my hairdresser although she works from home so she doesn't cost me an arm and a leg..... that being said though I'm pretty sure I'll be going back to home dye when DS arrives as $$$$ will be tight

[Beach Mama]

I go to the hairdresser but my hair is naturally brown and I have blonde foils so I am too scared to do it mysel for to get anyone to do it for me at home, even though my sis does her own and it looks great. Se gets those ones that you do foils with a brush or something. Im alsotoo chicken to go back to my natural hair colour (its been 10 years!!) so I will keep forking out the $$$ unfortunately. Mine costs over $80 just for colour too but I found a lovely Sth Korean guy who is awesome and I go every 10 weeks on average! I used to get my sisters SIL to do it at home and she only charged around $50 but she lives OS now and its taken me nearly 2 years to find another hairdresser Im happy with!!

[Ahurani]

I sometimes go to the hairdresser and get foils and a colour and cut.. it only costs me like $75 I think. But when I just really cant be bothered I do it myself. My motto is

Looks great, I cant see the back so it must be ok! :P

[~Amy~]

i only ever do my own. I usually dye it black & end up with dye all around my hair line,all down my back & around my ears haha. It comes off after a couple of showers. I just cant justify paying all that money for a hair dye at a salon when it looks the same as if i did it myself after a couple of days anyways. i havent done it for a while now. Cant decide on a colour anymore

[MrsB26]

I go to the salon to get my hair done but i am a hairdresser so i would be expected to

I couldnt colour my hair at home if i wanted to as i dye it very blonde and would end up with orange hair if i tried it at home even though i have 12 years experience!

If i was only colouring it to add shine or hide greys and the colour i wanted was close to my natural colour then i would probably DIY but for anything else its off to the salon.

Cost is an issue for me but then again i dont care how much it costs if i end up looking HOT!!

[smiles4u]

I dyed my hair for about 2years with the Garnier Nutriesse (home dye kit) ... the colour was Cappuccino ... it was a nice colour (and believe i'm fussy) but after that time my hair became extremely dry so i went back to getting it coloured at the Hairdresser ... also i like foil highlights in too (and can't do that myself)

I certainly saved myself a ton of money$$ in colouring my hair myself at home those two years. I only went to the hairdresser to get my hair trimmed

[mbear]

I have always gone to the hairdresser, but recently didnt find the $$ so much of a problem, it was finding 3hrs to go to the hairdresser and get someone to mind the kids. So ive decided to get my hair done every 10 wks, but inbetween the greys, i will do it myself - with professional hairdresser colouring........
Do you know what colour they use on your hair (professional colour name, they are in numbers, not supermarket colours).??????? If you know that (e.g im a 50/50 of no. 7 and no. 8) you could try and buy them from a wholesaler and save a heap. e.g a small tube of the hair colour costs $11, the bigger one double that, then i will have to buy peroxide $22 (my girlfriend does her hair every 4 wks and still has her peroxide after 3 years !!), its worth looking into...personally i would never buy supermarket brands, but thats just me.....

Good luck.

[[M]umma[M]ia]

lol im a hairdresser (comp 2nd year) and even I use at home dyes!

[Bloom]

I've only had foils done once professionally and while they were nice, I just didn't think it was worth the moolah! I have also dyed my hair at home and I like how it turns out. But the vast majority of the time, I stay natural. Though I'm considering a colour change soon.

[kristy J]

ok i have been a hairdresser for 13 years and honestly it depends on what colour you are, how often you colour it and how long your hair is.

i colour my own hair but with salon colour.

if you colour at home it is important to:
- use the same colour each time
-use enough colour (1 box if for short hair only or just a root touch up)
- don't try to colour correct (Blond + brown = Green)
-use a good salon brand shamopp to counteract the higher peroxide levils in home colour
- don't use bleach at home EVER
- if you mess it up don't try to fix it get help.
-do it ever 5-6 weeks and just a root touch up
-only colour ends every 2-3rd time

good luck hope it works out ok.

[alioops]

I dont use the box colours as a box colour fades a lot faster and has higher peroxide which just fades so fast for me. I use the Salon Professional Supplies tubes ($10 each) and I only use half a tube at a time, and the Salon Professional Supplies Vol 5 1.5% and that stays in for ages. My hair takes ages to 'grab' a colour so I have to do it the painstaking brush and bowl with the clips to hold it all in place. I also have a cape that came with DH's clippers and I use an old towel to protect my neck at the back. I have to leave it in for almost an hour even on recently coloured hair.

I have dry hair. I use a treatment just after colouring to extend the colour and add moisture to my hair. I find that after dyeing I have healthier hair than when I have virgin hair.

Using the dye that I do is about the same cost to me as a box colour and it lasts longer.

[MollysMum]

I do both. Every few months I'll get my hair done properly at the hairdresser, but do it myself between proper colourings, just to keep the roots looking nice

[Mrs Jak]

I'm glad this question has been asked!

I just bought a couple of packets (semi perm) today. I have done my own hair only twice before and it worked out great. It was a while ago and I think I only stopped because I went back to blonde streaks, so went to the hairdresser for that.

Since seeing old photos of me with blonde hair, I have decided dark is best for me now and will probably continue doing my own from here and just go for a haircut when needed.

Thanks for all the tips everyone has supplied

[tattoo_mama]

I've coloured and cut my own hair for the last 10 years, I've been to the hairdresser twice in that time, once I paid over $300 for a cut and colour at Maurice meade and the colour came out after 2 washes, the other time was to get my synthetic dreads sewn in , close to 600 bucks, and they killed my head so took them out after a week...I have bleached the crap out of my hair and done it every colour under the sun and never lost all my hair like hairdressers say you will if you do it urself, maybe im just lucky.

I get awes colour in my hair (well I think so anyway) by doing my hair with 30 vol bleach til its almost white, then use fudge colours over the top. Lots of hair repair and treatments keep it from being like straw, and I cut my own goth fringe and ever changing hairstyles with a normal pair of kitchen scissors.
I think most women go to the hairdresser for the pamper treatment and talk, I hate both ( my neck cains in the wash basin at hairdressers and they always talk such crap!) LOL

[Glamourcide]

Definitely an at-home girl all the way. But then, I have a fair bit of experience as a hairdresser (didn't finish my qualifications but may as well have, I was almost there and I did enough work experience to last me nearly a lifetime) so I know all the tricks.

It saves me so much money and to be perfectly honest I really hate going to the salon and making meaningless small-talk with a complete stranger for over an hour... I'd rather just put DD to bed early one night and get my colouring done while I play with my laptop or watch my favourite shows on TV.

It is really easy to do even if you're not a pro, though, and I'm with tattoo_mama with the mad bleaching and neon colours. I think my record for bleaching was six times in a 16-hour period, using 30vol bleach, and no my hair didn't fall out either - maybe we just have good hair, or maybe the hairdressers are just lying to everyone!! (I think they're probably just erring on the side of caution by advising people against doing drastic things like that, we know when it's time to pull the plug but a lot of people wouldn't, and then would blame the poor hairdresser for their lack of smarts!) Tattoo_mama, what colours do you usually use in your hair?? I can't stay away from jet black (I'm not into the blue-black thing, it washes me out, Clairol Nice n Easy Natural Black is perfect for my colouring) but I usually do the front part of my hair (from ear to ear, like a really thick fringe) in either Pink Flamingo or one of the red shades, I've forgotten which one (pg atm so am staying away from regular bleaching/dyeing etc). I'm thinking after this bub comes along it might be time for some acid green, any recommendations?