Dyeing Already Half Highlighted Hair
Right guys, I used to dye my hair, and quite happily dye over my existing highlights, firstly to cover my roots (brown), and secondly to give my hair a new lease of life when salon appointments were getting too expensive (as in now).
Skip forward almost 12 weeks since my last visit to my hairdresser, and I have lovely almost ash blonde highlights on half my head (the top half), then the underneath I have always left my natural coour which is a bit of a dark chestnut colour.
I'm researching lot into buying a home colour to put on all over, first to accentuate my highlights, and cover my brown roots, and secondly to try and compliment my natural colour underneath at the back. I was originally looking at doing an all over ash blonde, steering clear of "golden" hues, as want to avid red tones, my original colour already has a lot of warmth.
I know without a picture it's hard to descrie my hair, but given it's blonde highlights on top and my natural underneath, all I really want to do is put on something that will compliment both sections, and not be a COMPLETELY different colour once I've dyed it. I know it's tricky ground, before when I used to do this I would use something that mentioned ash or light blonde, but as the marketplace has changed with box colours so much I'm unsure which are good to use - any people on here have a tried and tested way of covering up roots and accentuating/lifting existing, wtihout changing my colour completely?
I've also got a wedding on the 22nd June, so really can't afford to balls this up - I'm really worried about doing it, but my hairdresser bills are getting completely way overboard, and I need to reign things in where I can....
Any advice is good advice, I don't want to be completely put off where possible too, as I am really keen to do this, but obviously want to do it properly first time round or as close to properly as I can wtihout having to rectify it. All the videos online have scared me stiff BTW....
Thanks
Frilly