I'm going to try coloring my hair myself, brand advice?

When you had your hair colored in the past, did they do an all over color and not highlights?

If you have a Sally Beauty Supply nearby, I've found their employees are knowledgeable, can recommend products, & ensure you have the necessary supplies & understand the process for at home hair coloring. I'm pleased with Wella Color Tango for covering greys. 

For the past year I have purchased Madison Reed hair dye( I have some major allergy issues) which my stylist applies. She is impressed with the coverage.

I’ve been using esalon. It gets shipped to me on my schedule and is easy to apply on shorter hair. I went to sally beauty supply and got a cape and additional application stuff.

I get compliments on it all the time, although I’m about to go back to the salon cause my hair is getting too long to do it at home again.

I’m with you, a great cut is worth cutting corners elsewhere.

I pay $30 total to get the additional gloss for the ends. Using it as recommended really makes a difference in the result. You do have a personal colorist assigned, that you can email with pictures too, who will help you with a color selection you’re happy with.

I've been coloring my hair myself for the past few years and I really love L'Oreal Preference. It turns out matching so well with my original color, covers my gray exceptionally well, lasts a long time and turns out very shiny. I've tried Natural hair color brands from Whole Foods (yuck, turned out flat and didn't last long), one from Sally's (didn't last long enough) and a couple other drugstore boxed colors (John Frieda-was too harsh) and I can't remember the last one). 

It's very easy to color your hair at home. I use an old t-shirt to cover myself with and everything else comes in the box. I don't like the gloves they give you (I have small hands and they usually don't fit) so I buy a whole box of rubber gloves (I think they are actually latex) from Amazon that health care workers use in my size and keep those in the pantry to have ready ahead of time. L'Oreal Preference has the color come in a liquid form but it's so easy to use. You pour the color into the developer which is already in a squeeze bottle with a needle topped cap and shake it up. Then you start dispensing it onto your hair. 

I hate the stiff brushes that Sally sells to dispense the color and used to just use my fingers. Now I use an old, very cheap makeup brush that is flat and that works much better. The hairs on the makeup brush are much softer and work much better than the stiff brushes that are sold to use for coloring hair. 

This is the brand I use as well and I'm happy with it.

My advise to you is to buy 3 shades of color, and do patch tests to find which color you like best because it’s never the same color as on the box,

Another happy Madison Reed user here. I had never colored my hair (on my own) before and was really apprehensive about DIY hair color. Thrilled with the way it turns out. Not only do I save $$, I can also do it at my convenience.

Honestly, at least for my hair, I saw no difference in brands. They all worked fine.

As it turned out, the color I liked best was in the Revlon Colorsilk line. And it costs less than $3 per box at Walmart. Been using it for nearly 3 years and my hair is just fine.

All I know is don't believe them when it says you only need it on for 10 minutes. Right. 40 is more like it.