- Which box to buy? How about one of these reader-approved dyes.
- Get salon-perfect highlights with this video.
- Protect that gorgeous new color with a quality shampoo, find one here.
Don't Color Your Hair at Home without Reading this
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Tip No. 1:
When selecting at-home hair color, never go more than two shades lighter or darker than your current tone. Jason Backe, co-owner and head colorist at Ted Gibson Salon, warns that if you do break this rule it could lead to disappointing or disastrous results because unlike at the salon, the product is pre-mixed, so it's impossible to control the volume of peroxide.
Check out more tips to get perfect at-home hair color here.
We're all trying to save money these days (I've been doing
my own nails
with help from this) and one way to do that is to skip the
salon color and DIY-it up at home. But, if this is your first time
with at-home hair color, or if your last foray resulted in bright
yellow streaks (don't
worry, you're not alone), then use
these tips to get color so good people will think you maxed out
your credit card at the salon.