Do you tint your hair yourself?

Hi all.
I was wondering. Do you tint your hair yourself or do you have a hairdresser do it?
If you do tint your hair at all, that is.

If you tint your hair, how often do you do it? Every four weeks? Every six weeks?

Where do you get your ingredients? Do you go to a beauty supply? Do you get them from the drug store? Or does your hairdresser supply them?

I'd love to know what most do so if you'd share, I'd appreciate it much!

Dancer, who has a hairdresser tint and highlight her hair.

I used to do my own but decided it was too boring having it all the same color, and I didn't have enough patience or dexterity to do the highlights etc. myself. I am blessed with an artist who not only cuts and colors my hair, but also puts art on my nails. I love her!! And I've been with her, following her from salon to salon, for 13+ years. I don't know what I would do without her. She buys the supplies for my hair, and is always trying new things, which I enjoy. She does my hair every 6 weeks - it grows fast - and my nails every 2 weeks. She manages to make my hair look like it's full of life and body when it's really baby fine with no body at all.

I color my hair myself. Do it about every 5 or 6 weeks........whenever I get my hair cut, I usually do it within a day or two of getting it cut. I have short hair and get a trim about every 5 weeks. Before starting to go gray, my hair was dark brown/almost black and I continue to color it dark, but I realize that at some point I'm going to have to do something different. I paid to have it done once and the gal got dye all over my neck and ears and didn't clean it up well while I sat there waiting for the color to take, and since I'm nearsighted and didn't have my glasses on during the process, didn't know it til I got home and had to live with the stains on my neck and ears til it came off which took several days. At that point I thought I can do a better job myself, and I do. I buy my haircolor at places like Walmart or the grocery store, I have a couple of brands I really like and try to buy them whenever they're on sale or I have coupons.
While we're on this subject, thought I'd also mention that once in a while, if we're going on a trip or something and I'm midway between haircuts/haircoloring, I'll use the root touch-up stuff that they have out now. The one Clairol puts out is great. I do my roots and any obvious spots with it first, than because my hair is short, I can comb it thru all my hair and kind of refresh the color, and it'll hold me for another 3 weeks.
The whole process is kind of a pain (time-consuming, but it would be that way if I went to a salon too) and can get messy and many times I've thought about not doing it anymore but after I do it I'm always happy with the way my hair looks and I'm just not ready to go completely gray.
And also, I always wear a hat if I'm going to be out in the sun, it helps the color to last, keeps it from fading and turning a funky red/brassy tone that is anything but flattering!!

I don't paint or paper rooms and I sure don't tint my own hair. I get more paint on me than the walls and more glue on me than where it should be. If I tinted my own hair, it'd turn out some freakish shade of blue, orange or pink. It might even be purple!

When I first started coloring my hair, I went to a stylist to get it done. The expense kept climbing and climbing, so I finally decided to do it myself. I colored it on my own for a few years, until it started looking like it was all one color and very bland. So two years ago I went to a new stylist - she's much cheaper and does a better job for me, so I'm very happy.

I go every 6 weeks, right on schedule. She's wonderful because she takes her time and does a great head massage when she shampoos - mmmmm. If I didn't color my hair I'd be totally grey.

My stylist told me I'd look great if I let my WHITE hair grow out; she's seen lots of women doing that lately. I thought about it, and mentioned it to my hubby. Oh my gosh, you should have seen the look on his face! No way he wanted a grey wife!! I think it would make me look much older, so we're sticking with the color for now.

Until three years ago I covered the few grey hairs.My hairdresser did this every thrim which was six weekly.Then I noticed it needed more often attention. I decided to stop colouring and had a good trim.It is now dark with some grey woven in by nature. There is nothing I dislike more than someone making their hair solid black when older..except piebald when its in need of tinting.Especially on an elevator.I like I can wear lilacs and mauve and even grey now well.Earlier I did not suit those shades.
Mountain ash

When I moved to Florida I got the recipe from my hair person and have been doing it myself ever since. I buy products from Sally's Beauty Supply. Are they in your town? You don't need a license.

I try to get a cut every 6-7 weeks and color after the cut. I use Wella color.

Not for yeras now, but I have been considering it. Hey girls that were here, what did you think of my natural color hair and BE HONEST, its important to me....

I go from a dishwater yuck color to blond, and my hair grows fast, so I do the all over color myself. I go in once or twice a year for high and low lights. No gray yet, just ugly dark roots.

So lucky, Anno! No gray yet? Great!

dancer

Anne3
Your technique is great! It is the way most hairdressers mix colour! To take more than one color is the way to go, that way, you have a more natural color and it is richer.

Dancer

Mountain Ash,
I'm sure your hair is beautiful and suits you!
Dancer

I agree, CrossStichQueen, I'm not ready to let my hair show it's gray either!
Dancer

very artistic, Anne3!
Dancer9

I started getting highlights a few years ago just to lighten up my face and hair. Since, I've had some low lights too. Whatever. I listen to whatever she says. I just like a highlight look, not the all one color look so I'm paying for it!

I go whenever the mood strikes me. I am on no schedule, but probably should be.

Hi Dotsie, Highlights or low lights should be applied every three months. There are some who use high lights to help their roots.

This is done by putting highlights where you usually have gray comem out of soonest. The highlight blends with the grey to give you more time to do your roots! This is a really good way to give you more time between touch ups!

Highlights should be around the face to flatter it. Mine are light brown and very thin and in places that gray may come back so that I can wait for that root touch up.

Low lights give depth to color and are fantastic. Done in a deeper color, they give you deep colour.

Many times a hairdresser does your hair where it ends up looking like theirs or many of their clients so it's good to be creative and look at photos before you get your hair tinted or cut.

Some have highlights repeated every two months, (me,) because their hair grows fast, (mine is very thick and grows very fast which is a pain,)

Just more info,

Dancer

I'm a dyed blond. My real hair colour was a dark auburn,...but in the front I'm grey and the back of my head is still brown...If I left it natural I would look like a skunk. My hair lightens naturally in the summer...so no need to dye it then, but come winter and I have to go to the hairdresser's every two months. Yuck...I hate to go. It takes soooo long. They do strands and gab and some more strands and gab..It takes at least 4 hours! I think I need to find a new place.

I noticed Dancer you say "tint" the hair. And most of you say "color" your hair. I grew up with you "dye" your hair.
Am I the only one killing it with all the chemicals?

Dancer you are soooooo right about how stylist can make you look like every one of their other clients, or themselves. Couldn't have said it better myself. I've had that happen even after I've taken in a pic....it is so disheartening...cause you still have to pay!

Edelweiss,
It's just another way of saying "colour," or "dye,"
Dancer

Yes, Jaw Jaw, You've got to get STRONG with them!

Dancer

Again, you are so right Dancer. I think we (at least me) are afraid if we tell them "the truth" that they may stop us from coming there again. If it is a salon we like, we have that fear....course then again, if they treat you that way, I suppose it is time to move on anyway....

I see why so many women stick with a winner. Once you get a good one, they are worth their weight in gold.

I think I've mentioned this before, but...I hated my strawberry blonde hair as a young teen so as soon as I was allowed I went blonde from the bottle. My hair darkened in the winter and was so red. In the summer it lightened. I stayed blonde for years and years. In 2004 my hairdresser, a woman I adore and trust, told me it was time to "make friends" with my red hair. As I aged and grayed underneath the blonde was almost impossible to keep without looking weird. So she began putting me back together as a redhead. I've since found a shade that's over the counter and agrees with me. Occasionally, I have felt the need to have my hairdresser do it for me. I have some very stubborn silver hairs that glow through right over my ears and at my hairline. Thanks, dancer, for bringing up this subject. It's always interesting to see what others do and what works for them!