Hair color - salon or home?
Maintaining your hair color over 40 can be something of a pain.
Those grey hairs just keep on coming. You may start off in your early 40’s with a light sprinkling of grey and by the time you’re in your mid 50’s you have half a head full of grey hair. And of course - the more grey hair you have the more difficult and time consuming it is to cover it up.
So - do you go for hair color at home or do you find the best hair salon in town?
Cost is definitely an issue here. More than likely it will be much cheaper to do your own hair color at home. Even the most expensive hair color treatment is unlikely to set you back more than $30.
Getting your color done in a good hair salon will cost a whole lot more. Nowadays hair color stylists are highly trained and hair color options in salons involve multi-tonal effects - much more flattering and natural for most over 40’s.
Trips to the hair salon on a regular basis will add up fast - especially when you have to go back regularly to get those roots done.
Don’t forget the mess factor. Applying permanent color to your own hair - as well as highlights - can be a messy business taking up almost as much time as a visit to the hair salon.
Shampoo-in hair colorant is easy enough to do in your bathroom - but multi-tonal color is something else. Applying highlights to your own hair is hard, particularly when it comes to the top and back of your head. For the best results you want fine strands of hair picked out with lights just as the sunlight naturally would.
Try achieving that with two mirrors, messy bleaching cream and only one pair of hands!
Then of course there’s the potential for disaster at home. Judging the final effect can be very difficult for a total amateur with only a bad photo and a misleading name on the packet. Grey hair can be resistant to color - other hair may be much more porous - you may end up with an unusual black stripey effect when you had natural honey brown in mind.
And if you do make a bad mistake at home you will probably have to get the salon to fix it - your economical approach may cost you much more than you bargained for.
Of course you can get over this problem with help from a good friend. Most real friends will enjoy helping out but remember this isn’t just a one time request. How’s your friend going to feel a year later after six hair color session?
Full head bleaching is definitely one for the professionals. Peroxide is serious stuff and if something goes wrong it could result in hair loss or severe damage to your scalp.
Good advice if you want to maintain your hair color at home is to talk to your salon first. Get them to do the first treatment so you get a hair color you like and a really professional finish. Whilst you’re at the salon, pick up tips and techniques for maintaining your hair color at home afterwards.
If you talk to your hair salon first you could end up with the best of both worlds - a combined approach that will give you a professional hair color result AND low cost maintenance at home !
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