Hairdresser - Bring your own colour

ankles

Does anyone know if there's a hairdresser in Dublin where you can bring your own colour and they will use it rather than their own? My sister in law gets her hair coloured every two weeks and the cost is getting extortionate. She heard that there was a hairdresser somewhere in Dublin who let you bring your own, which would be much cheaper. She thinks it might have been mentioned on Ray D'arcy at some stage. Any ideas

eth0_

Why on earth does she need to colour every two weeks? If it's because of grey hair coming through, she should be using a permanent dye.

Why doesn't she just dye it herself? You can get kits that will do the job in ten mins now - Clairol one is great.

ankles

I think the problem is the colours are irritating her scalp using the colours that hairdressers use. So she wants to use her own colour that would be chemical free. She could do it herself but it takes ages and is awkward so she would prefer to go to a hairdresser. Hope this makes sense. I'm no expert:D

Blush_01

eth0_ wrote: »

Why on earth does she need to colour every two weeks? If it's because of grey hair coming through, she should be using a permanent dye.

Why doesn't she just dye it herself? You can get kits that will do the job in ten mins now - Clairol one is great.

If you have a very vibrant colour in your hair, especially a red tone, it requires a lot of maintenance. Hence my pink hair only lasted a month (and in that time I had to dye it four times. It was building up by the time I stopped, but it was a lot of work and expense, even with doing it myself).

jenizzle

Blush_01 wrote: »

If you have a very vibrant colour in your hair, especially a red tone, it requires a lot of maintenance. Hence my pink hair only lasted a month (and in that time I had to dye it four times. It was building up by the time I stopped, but it was a lot of work and expense, even with doing it myself).

Special Effects does a pink dye that will last month and months without the need for touch up - you can get it (atomic pink) here: http://www.beeunique.co.uk

I've heard of hairdressers allowing you to bring your own colour - but in Newry and not Dublin. Would a hairdresser refused if you asked them?

Blush_01

Thanks for that, I'll bookmark it for when I leave my current job - if I get there. Pink wouldn't be acceptable under our dress code. Baxturds.

Blush_01

Blush_01 wrote: »

If you have a very vibrant colour in your hair, especially a red tone, it requires a lot of maintenance. Hence my pink hair only lasted a month (and in that time I had to dye it four times. It was building up by the time I stopped, but it was a lot of work and expense, even with doing it myself).

Did your hair go back to its own colour afterwards?

I don't think is going to be cheaper to bring your own dye. Judging by the price of salon supplies, your paying mostly for the service.

sunnyside

ankles wrote: »

She heard that there was a hairdresser somewhere in Dublin who let you bring your own, which would be much cheaper.:

Moonbaby wrote: »

I don't think is going to be cheaper to bring your own dye. Judging by the price of salon supplies, your paying mostly for the service.

That's what I was going to say. What she needs is to get a hairdresser to come round to her house and dye her hair for her at home. Even the girls from the top salons do this sometimes for extra cash.

Blush_01

Moonbaby wrote: »

Did your hair go back to its own colour afterwards?

I don't think is going to be cheaper to bring your own dye. Judging by the price of salon supplies, your paying mostly for the service.

Ha, no! I bleached it, so it was a gorgeous neon magenta pink. (I have naturally light to mid-brown hair, I think!) I decided to dye it a natural looking mahogany red colour and it turned the colour of tomato soup, which I actually really liked. However, it was during what was possibly the last sunny summer we had in Ireland, and after a weekend at ****** my hair was bright orange. It stayed that way until I started college, and a few weeks into college I dyed it brown, then let it go back to my natural colour.

I can't see how bringing your own dye would be all that much cheaper either, seeing as the length of time in the salon will have a larger impact on the bill than the products used - or at least that's how things seem to go in my hairdressers. Then again, I've only ever got colour done in the hairdressers three or four times.

Madame Razz

jenizzle wrote: »

Special Effects does a pink dye that will last month and months without the need for touch up - you can get it (atomic pink) here: http://www.beeunique.co.uk

I second the Special Effects hair dye recommendation; it puts that 'Crazy colour' **** to shame.

That same site does the 'Manic Panic' colours too; they're also really good.

Special Effects deffo do the best pillarbox red colour though IMO, and it's incredibly long lasting;)