thread: Is it easy to colour your own hair?

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  1. #1
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    Mar 2009
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    Me and my friends use to do each others hair all the time in high school. Wasn't too tricky

  2. #2
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    Nov 2006
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    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...

  3. #3
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    Mar 2007
    outer South East Melbourne
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    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.