Help with getting colour right.

Hi everyone,

I wonder if there is ANYONE here who could help, I'd really appreciate it.

October of this year will mark one whole year of me not colouring my hair. At the age of 19 I had my hair coloured dark red with a white top section. I am a natural red head. For a few years I liked this radical look, then in 2005 I decided to grow the dyed red out while still getting my top section bleached.

In Oct 2006 I decided I was going to go natural as I have had so many bad experiences at hairdressers. I don't mean to offend anyone but when it comes to colour, I would say that many hairdressers in Scotland just don't have a clue. I was sick of it and besides, I've come to love my natural colour.

So here's the problem. I have a lot of red roots now but of course still a lot of bleached hair. I really need to take the bleached hair back to my natural colour HOWEVER, this is no easy feat - you can't buy my colour in a bottle. I've been told by various dummy hairdressers that they can colour over the bleached, I've insisted on a strand test, and of course the colour that comes out is nothing like my own. Is it possible to create any colour by mixing?

I'm writing to see if they are any extremely high qaulity colour technitions in the UK, I'd be prepared to travel to somewhere that will do this right. I live in Edinburgh and I've been to the salons there, won't name any as the post will prob be pulled, but they are all crap.

Thank you! If any hair people on here could advise me I'd so very much appreciate it.

Billie x