So maybe someone on this tribe has some experience here.

My hair is starting to get a lot of grey, and I'm getting to the point of switching to a more permanent color than the demis I use now (Not crazy about this, don't want the usual flat color & damage associated with permanents) or going natural (I have mousy salt & pepper, not fabulous silver or skunk striped, so not crazy about that either). When I was a kid, old ladies used to use Mrs. Stewart's bluing- a laundry product- in their hair, which helped cancel out the yellow tones and, if they overdid it, left them with a wholly unnatural blue-violet tint to their hair.

Which was kind of neat. Does anyone here use a colored tint over their grey, and what do you use? Anyone try the bluing? I used to think I could just use a Manic-Panic-type product, but they don't take well on me, they don't make subtle shades, and there's the mess...