a pro will know what to use on your hair after looking at your hair and actually coloring it.

Basically, you get dye and developer mix it (I can't recall the ratios which you can adjust) and let it go for 20-30 minutes, then adjust it the next time. There's this stuff called Grey Magic that you add a few drops to your dye mix because grey can be resistant.

I've had grey hair since I was 17. About a dozen years ago my hairdresser was sick of looking at it and insisted I started dying it. But it's just a pain in the ass because my natural color is very dark and I also have a beard. This means that after 10 days it needed redone. This meant I had to learn to do it myself and even if I did it every two weeks there were still a couple of days it had gone too long. After a couple of years of this I just said the hell with it. It just wasn't worth the bother. I'm glad I have all my hair. Grey is fine.

If you do decide to still do this, as well as the dye, developer and Grey Magic, get the stuff that gets the dye off your skin and keep windex and bleach around to get it off your cabinets, counters and floors.

Good luck if you do try to do this yourself. The problem with products like Just For Men is that it's a one size fits all kinda thing. So if your hair is different from average it won't work well for you. This is where a good hairdresser earns their money, adjusting the ratios and mxing off the shelf colors to match yours.


Really shocked no women have chimed in on this thread.