Aaaah! Is this supposed to be blonde? (Hints & Tips On Colouring Hair At Home)

Member Name: rachelmerrey

Product:	Hints & Tips On Colouring Hair At Home
Date:	24/03/01 (2249 review reads)
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Advantages: None unless you want to look like a brassy frizzy mess.

Disadvantages: Damages your hair & your health.

If only one person reads this and takes my advice I will be happy to have saved someone the horror of my experience on being a DIY Blonde.

About 6 years ago I walked into a salon and decided on a few blonde highlights to brighten up my mousy brown tresses. Three years later I was an all over nice shade of ash blonde and happy with it. It was shiny in good condition and suited my complexion. The problem was it was costing me an absolute fortune.

A colleague at work had blonde hair and I asked her whether she was fed up with the expense of having her roots done every four weeks. 'Nah' she stated between chomping on her regular chunks in a variety of flavoured Hubba Bubba. 'Cost me a fiver from Superdrug I do it myself and its the same fing in it'.

Hmm, I wondered to myself. The Hairdressers are obviously making a fortune out of me lets try a DIY job.

The next weekend armed with my fiver and many a butterfly in my stomach feeling like a naughty child I stepped into Superdrug and scanned the aisles for an ash blonde. There were hundreds of the things and all of the girls on the fronts of the packets looked fab. I started to get excited. I picked up a Loreal packet thinking yes I am worth it and ran back home locking myself in the bathroom.

Half an hour later I was humming to myself stinking of peroxide fumes and merrily reading a magazine.

An hour later I was having dicky fits in front of the bathroom mirror. My hair was the most horrendous brassy gingery yellow. I must have washed it twenty times to no avail. I was a mess. I can't begin to describe how bad this colour was. You know those women that are totally grey with wiry frizzy hair and they smoke like a chimney and it tarnishes their hair into this dirty yellowy colour? Mine was worse.

I had to wait until Monday to rush back to my hairdressers thoroughly ashamed, humiliated beyond belief and explain what I'd actually done. T
hankfully my hairdresser rectified it. Giving me a stern telling off.

Fact: Hairdressers have battled for years to get these products off the shelves and it is not because they can then get more business. These products are dreadful for your hair and eventually they will catch up with you.

Fact: The girl who advised me to go the cheapo packet way confessed later that after a year of using the packet stuff her hair was in a frightful condition and she was having to go to a hair clinic every fortnight for reconstruction conditioners until her hair was strong enough to be rectified to her natural colour. They had done a test strand and 20 minutes later the strand had turned green and when ever so slightly stretched between the fingers immediately fell to bits in the hand.

So please please don't do it. Even if the colour turns out okay it IS STILL damaging your hair. The ingredients are harmful not only to your hair but also your health and they are definitely definitely NOT THE SAME as the products used in professional salons.

If you do decide to go blonde be prepared that it is going to cost you, if you can't afford it, don't do it. Its just not worth it.

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