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what brand of hair dye covers gray hair the best?


If I go to the HAIR salon, and they will charge me for cut and color hair as the same price as color hair alone. I don't want to have my hair cut yet for other 4 to 6 weeks. SO I need color for my hair so BAD!

I need to know what brand of color hair will cover grey as much as possible.

THanks. :fruit:

edit: thanks loveblue. :giggle:
 
Frisky Feline said:
what brand of hair dye covers gray hair the best?


If I go to the saloon, and they will charge me for cut and color hair as the same price as color hair alone. I don't want to have my hair cut yet for other 4 to 6 weeks. SO I need color for my hair so BAD!

I need to know what brand of color hair will cover grey as much as possible.

THanks. :fruit:
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I personally wouldn't go to a saloon for a hair cut or color. :giggle: No telling what I'd look like when I came out. :shock:
 
Honestly, the salon colors generally are better, especially if you have a good colorist who knows how to blend in high-lights and/or low-lights. If you combine salon color with a drug-store brand, no telling how it will come out. It helps if you do a strand test, like it says on the box, but I know most of us are too impatient to bother.

There is a product you can buy at the drugstore that is like mascara for hair, to just touch up the roots. You buy the color that's the closest to what you want, and treat the roots only.

Or try this:

Hair Mascara -- How to Mask Your Gray Strands

Get the hair dye that most closely matches your color, mix it up and apply to roots only with a clean mascara wand (which you can buy at the drugstore).

OR: You can be really radical and grow that grey out!! Only works if you are more than 75% grey, IMHO, but once you do, you might love it that color.
 
Beach girl said:
Honestly, the salon colors generally are better, especially if you have a good colorist who knows how to blend in high-lights and/or low-lights. If you combine salon color with a drug-store brand, no telling how it will come out. It helps if you do a strand test, like it says on the box, but I know most of us are too impatient to bother.

There is a product you can buy at the drugstore that is like mascara for hair, to just touch up the roots. You buy the color that's the closest to what you want, and treat the roots only.

Or try this:

Hair Mascara -- How to Mask Your Gray Strands

Get the hair dye that most closely matches your color, mix it up and apply to roots only with a clean mascara wand (which you can buy at the drugstore).

OR: You can be really radical and grow that grey out!! Only works if you are more than 75% grey, IMHO, but once you do, you might love it that color.
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I guess I'm a radical because I'm letting my hair go natural...one gray strand at a time.
 
I finally let my hair grow out grey a couple or three years ago. I love it! I get lots of compliments on the color. I still have some of my natural dark-espresso color hair underneath, so that give somes dimension and shading to the grey.

Sometimes I get a "no-color color" at the salon, which makes it nice and shiny for a couple months.
 
I only ask for which brand color hair that more likely cover the grey hair. Thats all. I ve been always going to the hair salon. But the problem is that i dont want to have my hair cut yet! they charge me the same price for hair cut and color hair as well as just color hair alone. Bother.

One told me that john freida foam may not cover the grey enough. I ask everyone to see which brand of color hair that can cover grey as much as possible. lol
 
Look for anything that says "permanent color." Not "semi-permanent" or "temporary" or "washes out in 12 shampoos" or anything like that.

There are a lot of good brands out there. I used to use a Revlon product and liked it.
 
i probably buy the revlon color silk. i will see about it. eh. my co worker loves it. Her hair looks good to me. i ll give it a try.
 
beach girl makes a good point. permanent is better. I tried a few myself... (don't ask just because I'm a guy. if you gotta ask - walk away ...NOW!) I find that if you wait too long and let hair grow out the color, you will have hard time covering gray with one application. I also found its better to stick with one brand/color if you already colored recently.
Right now- I am not vain about my graying hair so letting it all out now.:D:cool2:
 
It's not grey unless you did took a good look closer up if it's grey. For myself, I see it as white hair.
 
Which can be a perfectly fine look!

My aunt went white quite young (when she was in her late 40's) and just let it be white. It was GORGEOUS - she went from nearly-black to absolutely stark white, and it was thick, and always beautifully styled.

I remember hoping I would go grey like that. Mine is almost more of a pale, pale ash-white than it is stark white, but I like it fine, as it turns out.
 
I used hair henna once and my white hairs where pink! I was not going for this look! I think you need to talk a hair colorist as everyone hair is difference. It depend on your hair texture and what shape your hair is in.
 
LoveBlue said:
I guess I'm a radical because I'm letting my hair go natural...one gray strand at a time.
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Count me a radical, too. My son asked me over Thanksgiving why I didn't color my grey. Told him it was too much upkeep. Plus, I have earned this grey. Actually, though, mine is not going grey so much as it is getting white a streak at a time. My nephew has gorgeous salt and pepper grey, and has had since he was about 25. I wish I had his grey.
 
whatdidyousay! said:
I used hair henna once and my white hairs where pink! I was not going for this look! I think you need to talk a hair colorist as everyone hair is difference. It depend on your hair texture and what shape your hair is in.
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Anytime you try to color grey or white hair with a red dye or henna, it will turn pink or bright orange. Horrid! That is why mine is going natural. I don't want to have to change my hair color completely, and red dye on grey hair just turns out UGLY!:giggle:
 
Beach girl said:
Which can be a perfectly fine look!

My aunt went white quite young (when she was in her late 40's) and just let it be white. It was GORGEOUS - she went from nearly-black to absolutely stark white, and it was thick, and always beautifully styled.

I remember hoping I would go grey like that. Mine is almost more of a pale, pale ash-white than it is stark white, but I like it fine, as it turns out.
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I'm 45 and my hair is completely gray.
 
I have earned a few strands of grey hairs. Not quite enough to color yet...... :P
 
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