A quick and easy DIY guide for dyeing your roots

Need a root touch-up? Did those grey's just come in way too fast? Well here is your quick and easy guide to touching up those roots yourself at home in a quick, all-in-one hour and 15 minutes.  

I’m definitely not against going to the salon for a cut and a style and any sort of big change up in your hair, but when it comes to doing some maintenance, take that matter into your own hands and get it done quickly and easily at home.

Here is a quick and easy guide in photos and videos of how to dye your roots yourself with some products you can order on Amazon. I would definitely highly recommend ordering these suggested products as opposed to using a box dye. I feel that not only is it a better quality, but you can also control your color more. 

I like the brand Satin, and I know many salons use it too. Here is what you’re going to need to get.

**Note: These products will LAST so long!! The bowl and brush will last years, the color developer and colors will last probably about 5 sessions (depending on how much coverage you need). Overall, this is much less expensive than buying just a box dye, and the quality is much better.

A mixing bowl and brush set

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Color developer 20

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Hair color 4N

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Hair Color 5

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All of those can be purchased with the links above.

Here is a video tutorial on mixing the color and developer. You will note that the ratio is one part color, two parts developer, and then I'm showing how to apply the hair color: 

Again, you’ll see the ratio is one part color to two parts developer. For example, if you eyeball about a quarter cup of color, you’ll use half a cup of developer and then mix that together in your bowl with your brush.

As you’ll see in the video, I like to use two colors and mix them together. I feel like using two colors adds dimension. 

Now it's time to apply...

Use your brush and start painting those roots. Use the back of the brush to section off your part. See below for a quick video:

Then you simply let it sit for 45 minutes. 

Now, rather than wasting that time, I put in a white strip so that my teeth can be whitened at the same time

Here is a link to those white strips:

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So rather than sitting in a salon chair scrolling my phone for that 45 minutes, I use that time to get things done around the house. Start a little laundry, unload the dishwasher, and wipe down the counters or open mail and file. Whatever it is, you’ve got 45 minutes to get it done.

Then simply head up to the shower, rinse out that hair color, take out those white strips, and time-wise you’re at an hour all in. That gave you time to mix the color, apply the color, let the color do its thing, whiten your teeth, and also get some work around the house done, then rinse out the color. That’s basically less time than your commute to the salon and back.

Now the blow-dry. I personally do like to blow-dry my hair so that I can check the color and feel like I came from the salon.  I love my Dyson and use it to blow dry my hair without an attachment brush attachment for the final touch.

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Here’s the final product:

So there you have it, 1 hour and 15 minutes, and you have accomplished so much more beyond just the goal of dyeing those pesky roots.  You’ve fixed your root color, whitened your teeth, have a picked up house, and saved money... that is a winning combination that I can certainly get behind. I might’ve been there an,d I do know that.

XO, 

Mama