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Scared to Color Your Hair at Home? Get Help Here!

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Call me a wimp, but I find at-home hair color pretty intimidating. I look at all the boxes and the little shade charts and see the long list of instructions and I just know that my klutzy self will botch something up along the way.

Do you feel the same way? Even if you don't, it's still worth checking out this at-home hair color video if you're thinking at all of coloring your hair. Even seasoned pros will learn a thing or two.

A few things I learned (spoiler alert!):

How Much Should You Pay for a Hair Cut?

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It's such a simple question, but with so many answers. I have friends that spend upwards of $200 on a hair cut, and others who wouldn't fork over more than $20 -- including tip. Me? I don't pay anything (one of the perks of having a mom who's a licensed cosmetologist).

When we asked TotalBeauty.com readers how much they pay for hair cuts, we got a ton of varied responses:

Can You Believe These Women's Hair?

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I've always been a bit squeamish when it comes to coloring my hair. It seems so much more drastic than a cut, although realistically it's probably easier to fix a bad dye job (like one of these) than a bad hair cut (as these photos would show).

But it turns out hair color really isn't scary, as these women prove. They're just average Janes like you and me and they managed to get amazing results from at-home color. Look at their pictures -- and get tips for your own hair color transformation. I think I'm ready to take the plunge …

Don't Color Your Hair at Home without Reading this

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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.