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