new to color - how to rinse out?

 

Just wanted to let you all know how much I appreciate your input.

 

It worked!!! I colored my hair without destroying my bathroom!!! I am so relieved - I had pictured this indelible brown goo everywhere - remembering the dark brown Fancifull my mom used to use.

 

I was feeling a little OCD as I spread newspaper everywhere, but it was worth it. And my bathtub is unscathed! Yay. I guess this was just another one of those things that everybody knew but me.

 

My hair ended up a little darker than I thought it would, but I like it. I used medium ash brown, which is as close as I could find to my natural color. I'm really glad I didn't use a warmer shade, because in the light, there is this deep auburn glow at the crown of my head (where a lot of the gray was). I would love to have red hair, but with olive skin I think it would just look awful.

 

It's supposed to wash out in about 28 shampoos, so I guess it will lighten some. I like the color that it ended up.

 

Thank you all for your help!

 

 

 

This may be a dumb question - you all seem to know a lot more about hair color than I do. I hope you can help.

 

I have never colored my hair, but I want to, just to color the grey. I have found a semi-permanent color that is very close to my own, so there will be no great change.

 

I have figured out how apply the color - spreading enough towels so I don't get the mixture on the wallpaper (eek!) but I haven't figured out how to rinse it out without causing a major color change to my bathroom ;-)

 

Have any of you rinsed out color in the shower? I have a plastic (fiberglass?) tub with tile walls. I know the grout is sealed. I just seems that it would be so much easier to rinse it out in the shower than trying to do this in the laundry sink.

 

I have a hand-held showerhead, so can rinse everything off quickly. I just worry about staining the tub or turning the grout brown.

 

Any thoughts on how to do this without remodeling afterward?

 

I appreciate your help.