Friday, March 3, 2017

Experimenting with: John Frieda foam hair dye 7PBN

Hi everyone! It's been quite a while since I wrote a product review, but I had a great experience with a product I used recently, so I decided to just go ahead and share it with you guys.

http://www.johnfrieda.com/en-US/homecolour/images/precision-foam-colour/Salon-Blends/7PBN/the-product.jpg

For those of you who aren't familiar with foam hair dye, it is much easier to use than cream hair dye, you can easily apply it evenly to your hair like shampoo!

Before I go ahead and tell you about my experience with this product, let me tell you a little bit about my "hair history". I got my hair professionally dyed blonde 8 months ago.



 Ever since then, I've been doing some highlights here and there to hide the ugly re-growth. I also had to cut it shoulder length because the very light blonde Ombre ends were straw-like and just really really dry.

Anyhow, blonde is very high maintenance so eventually I decided to tone it down a little so that regrowth doesn't look as ugly. That's when I decided to get John Frieda's 7PBN foam hair dye. I experienced with Japanese foam hair dyes before and I prefer foam hair dyes for many reasons:

1-They are easy to apply
2-They don't make a mess
3-You don't need anyone to help you apply it
4-They don't damage your hair as much

So without further ado, here is my hair 2 days ago, right before I dyed it.





You can see the ugly regrowth (Yuck!).

And here are the after pictures!





In natural daylight it looks a little lighter:





The result was a cool light brown, which I absolutely LOVE! The ugly regrowth looks much better, and even the darkest parts of my hair got light enough to blend with the rest of the hair.
The blonde highlights were toned down nicely into a pearl blonde, just as promised!
My hair feels soft and nice, I don't feel like it damaged my hair that much. The conditioner that comes with the hair dye is very nice and there's plenty, so it looks like it will last me more than a couple of washes!

I almost forgot! 3 months ago I used Revlon Colorsilk 60 hair dye. It did tone down the brassiness a little, but it only lasted for about a month and it didn't help lighten up my regrowth at all. So if you need an ash toner, but don't want to lighten your hair up, Revlon might be a better option. Don't expect it to lighten up your hair though!

I hope this was helpful. Thanks for reading and if you have any questions please leave a comment below.


Nana

Thursday, March 5, 2015

Experimenting with: Garnier Color Naturals hair dye 7.1 Ash blonde + 8.1 Light ash blonde

 I don't usually share stories about my hair and makeup adventures but I noticed that there isn't much info and personal experience stories about Garnier Color Naturals hair dye in English (most of them are in Russian), and that's why I'm going to tell you how it turned out with me. This is a picture of my natural hair 2 years ago.


I have naturally dark brown (almost black) hair. I'd dyed my hair about a month ago using a Japanese hair dye called Prettia Liese in the color Natural ash, and the results weren't very visible (only a little visible in sunlight I guess). Basically none of my friends even noticed that I dyed my hair T_T The change was that subtle. Too subtle for my liking really. I'm guessing it has to do with the fact that I should've used a lighter color + I probably needed 2 boxes (I only got one).


Results:


and then I colored my hair 2 days ago using Garnier Color Naturals in the colors 7.1 ash blonde mixed with 8.1 light ash blonde. I have long hair (past my chest) so I used 1 box of 7.1 and 2 boxes of 8.1. Needless to say, I ended up with a light brown? color that I actually liked very much!



And here are the results:




Obviously the color on the boxes wasn't even close to the color I got, but if you look at the color results for different hair colors on the side of the box, you'll notice that the color Garnier predicted for my starting hair color was pretty accurate!
It's only been 2 days since I dyed my hair, but so far my hair is in a very good state. It was VERY frizzy right after the hairdresser washed it, so I went back home and put some warm olive oil on it, because my hair is naturally very dry and needs tons of oils to behave <.<.

So there you have it! I hope this was helpful.

 Do leave a comment if you tried this hair dye on dark virgin hair or if you have any other questions :)