Dyed my own hair and Product Rave - hair color! - UPDATED WITH PICS!!

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LoveyQ
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Dyed my own hair and Product Rave - hair color! - UPDATED WITH PICS!! - TWO NEWER PICS in first post

My experience with dying my own hair for the first time...

So I've been going to the salon to get my hair dyed for years. My hair is naturally jet black and for years I was dark blonde with highlights and progressively went darker.

Late last year I went brown. I wanted a chocolate brown, NO RED. The problem is, my hair naturally has red tones, so my hair lady would do a number of things but still, it had a reddish tone which I was not thrilled with. And the more I washed it, the brassier it would get.

Well, my roots needed to be done and even though I was SUPER scared of really f*ing up my hair, I didn't really want to go sit for 6 hours at the salon (I have to get 2 color processes and then wash, roller set, then blow dry - I have thick, long hair). So I went to Duane Reade; it took me a while to decide on what to buy (I mean, there are SO many different brands, colors, etc), but I finally decided on something.

I bought two boxes of L'Oreal Superior Preference - #5A Medium Ash Brown hair dye. I picked an Ash color since I know that would help with getting rid of the red/orange/brassy tones. $10 per box.

I figured I might as well go for it. I read the directions, put on my gloves, mixed the dye and jumped right in. I had NO idea what I was doing (although I had seen my mom apply hair dye to her thin, short hair for years with that little tip bottle) but I went ahead. As I figured, one box was not nearly enough for all of my hair. I mixed the second box, worked it into the rest of my hair and waited a half hour. I made sure to massage the dye well from root to tips since I was afraid of having patches of the new color and patches of the old color. Nevermind that I was worried that my hair color would turn out orange!!!

When I get my hair dyed at the salon, my scalp is always BURNING at the top - it's so sensitive. I actually did not have any burning with the L'Oreal hair dye!!! Major plus!

Also, it didn't drip down my face or my neck like what happens at the salon. Another plus!

I know it says NOT to shampoo for 24 hours, but I didn't like the smell of the dye once I rinsed it with water, so I shampooed with my ION Color Defense Shampoo and then used the conditioner that came with the hair dye. Suuuuuuper silky! Man, I wish they sold that separately (especially since it was supposed to last for 6 weeks and I ended up having to use the ENTIRE tube because of my hair!).

I quickly dried my hair and noticed that it was definitely darker than before, but not TOO much darker. BUT, more importantly, THE RED WAS GONE! I know that sounds really silly, but it has always been SO hard to get the red out!!!

Once I straightened my hair with the In Styler (NOTE: This is the BEST invention EVERRRRRRR), I was really thrilled. It's been two days and it even looks a tad lighter now, definitely more ashy (aka NOT red) than before and four people at work have complimented me. My mom saw it and she was really impressed and said I shouldn't bother going to the salon to get it dyed anymore!!! Besides saving $$, the TIME saving factor is a HUGE plus (I mean, I can just do this on my own time and even dry/straighten later on depending on my schedule). Of course, I'm now afraid of going back to my hairdresser for my next cut or whatever since she'll know, but heck I've been going to her for 10 years and I'll just tell her we need to save money.

Soooo, that's my experience with dying my hair for the first time - with a major product rave for L'Oreal Superior Preference hair color!!!!! Chat Icon

PS: I was thinking of asking DH to take some pics tonight.

ETA: Here are some bad pics taken with my blackberry, but you get the idea of the color. Also, this is after I used the InStyler (but keep in mind it's been crazy humid so normally it looks better).

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In this pic I think the lighting is off - the color is ashier I think.

ETA AGAIN: So I took a couple of pics with my regular camera since the blackberry pics were kinda sucky, lol. Here they are! Ignore that my hair is frizzy - I should have InStyled it again (or at least brushed it well! lol) before taking the pics.

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This is the exact box I bought:

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Message edited 6/11/2009 9:38:57 PM.

Posted 6/10/09 2:53 PM