Just to clarify, dying my own hair is not a matter of know how. I've done it before when I was a dark auburn. But I do believe it was easier to do darker hair. It seemed I couldn't mess it up. (Sometimes I can't believe I actually went through that phase! It's the only time I haven't been blond in my whole life. Hmmmm. Maybe I should do it again!)

It might be harder with a lighter color, though, to touch up and do just the roots.

But my main question was what it would do to my currently treated highlights mostly.

I might just grab a box of temporary color, as suggested by a few, and see how that goes. Unless I misunderstood, I have less of a chance of having a strange color reaction?

I've often wondered how I'd like myself with my natural color, so I might even decide to do a temporary color to match my natural and see how I like it. Hmmmm. So far, at 43, I don't have any grey hairs to cover up. Maybe I'll be like my dad who didn't get a grey hair for many, many years. I get my blond thick locks from him, so crossing my fingers I get the non-grey hair gene as well.

Part of my consideration is just saving money. With two daughters now in private school, and my husband's business that has ups and downs, I'm currently in a really, really, really long phase of waiting to get my hair done because money is tight. If I dyed my own hair this would not be an issue.

My sister dyes her hair blonde and her natural is much darker than mine. I figure if she can do it, I can do it. Cause, you now, "Anything she can do I can do better, I can do anything better than her!!!!" (That's a song, in case some of you didn't catch that!)