I overdone it.....just a bit......LOL!

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My natural hair color is red, I guess just close to the shade of new copper penny red, though not exactly that color and I'm not best sure how to describe the shade exactly. Also, my hair is not all the same shade, it is naturally multi-tonal and some of it is lighter then the rest. Anyway, as a natural redhead, I've gotten gray hairs on and off for years, starting when I was 18 as red hair often seems to go white or gray earlier then most for some reason. Anyways, I used to get just the occasional stray gray strand of hair every now and then and I could simply pluck them out and be done with it, but for the past few years, I've had way to many to pluck and so have had to color my hair to get rid of grays. I had been way overdo to color my hair, so today, I finally got around to doing so. I meant to pretty closely match my own hair color and just color the grays. I couldn't find my actual hair color or anything close in the dye that I can afford, so I choose a shade called, reddish brown. I have used this shade before and not darkened my hair to much because I didn't leave it on very long, so I figured I'd just leave it on my hair a little while, just to color the grays and that it might make my hair color slightly darker but not to much. Well, I got distracted and left the coloring on my hair a bit to long. Now my hair is a dark reddish brown color......with burgandy highlights! LOL! It's quite a bit darker then I wanted, but at least the grays are gone and I think it looks kind of cool for now anyway! In any case, I'm not going to worry about it to much as the hair dye I used is a cheap variety and I know from experience that even though the box says "permanent" color, it will fade considerably and be quite a bit lighter within a week or so. Just the same, do you color your own hair? Have you ever accidently overdone it? Did you like the results?