Home Dye, is it worth it?

I've just dyed my hair at home. It's something I've done for years and I've got quite good at it. My bathroom did resemble the end of Carrie an hour ago but it's all clean now and I have red black hair. It actually looks quite a lot like it does on teh packet, which is encouraging.

i thought I'd have a bit of a change from the blue black that I have been for the last (stone me) nearly 10 years on and off. I did have a brief faray into cyber purple but it faded to auburn very quickly so I didn't try that again.


So I'm hoping that this stays true for a few months as I really can't organise myself to do this kind of thing too often.

I was thinking; as I sat with a plastic bag over my head, was it worth it to save £25. Should I just get my hair done at the salon like normal people. But then i thought that £25 was nearly a half term's worth of Gym classes for little Miss, so I decided that home dying would be here to stay.

By the way, this isn't a blatent Schwartzkopf advert. It's just that I haven't found any other hair dye that stays in my hair.