Tips for Coloring Your Hair at Home

Coloring your hair at home is always a bit of a "mission impossible" but with a few tips from an old pro like myself, you can have a stylish color that you can show off!

First of all, there are a few things you should decide before you buy your color. You shouldn't try to do anything drastic on your own. Try not to go more than three or four shades lighter or darker than your natural color by yourself. I have naturally black hair that I've been dying for years because I have a lot of gray. I recently decided to try to go blonde to see if that would hide the gray for longer since my hair seems to want to shoot out of my head at a rate of an inch every three weeks and I have to dye it that often. I was dying it a dark brunette at the time and when I spoke to my hairdresser friend she said DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!! So I went to her and in three lengthy sessions, I had pretty blonde hair and I could go six weeks or more in between sessions but it didn't hide the gray that well and it was expensive to maintain (I had to go professional, there was no way I could have done that drastic of a change myself) and I didn't feel like myself as a blonde. So I decided to go from blonde to red. I thought I could do that myself but NO I was told that you have to go through a fill process and then color and another £80 later, I was a redhead that faded out really quickly. The hair that has been stripped to blonde still has trouble grabbing and holding on to any color. However, once I had gone back to a darker color, I could do that at home by myself.

I started out buying a semi-permanent since I knew that I would be dying my hair much more frequently. Sometimes they call them Demi-permanent hair colors in England. There are some nice colors out there, but man they sure fade fast. It was okay on my roots, but that blonde bit is giving me fits! I can't wait till it grows out and gets all cut off.

The thing about home coloring is that it is a HUGE mess. You wind up staining everything and have all this stuff to throw away and how do you touch it when its covered with hair color? Well, I have done this so much that I have some tricks to recommend.