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I used their brunette one with the brunette conditioner. On my third wash now, I wet my hair but towel dried then applied shampoo and then conditioner leaving both on 10 minutes as 5 minutes hadn't done much on earlier two washes. It has turned my greys into a lighter brunette colour so they tone in with my natural brunette colour. This product gradually builds up so you get an effect over time/washes. They show you over 5 washes. I think it says it doesn't work on fully grey. But for me it has worked well to tone in the grey I had about 5 to10% grey before . I too have hard water. Just have to build up the washes and see.
I am so pleased it is working for you. I think the contrast between my dark brown and the sort of reddish effect I get with this just is not a good look for me. I also find it more faff than just dyeing my roots once every few weeks.
I appreciate your honest review! I want to share with you I tried Dphue color gloss in dark brown and it did not work very well to cover my greys. My natural hair is dark brown and I’m about 20% grey mostly on my sides and some in my bangs, the Dphue gloss made my natural dark hair look wonderful but on the greys it turned them a light golden brown color and it just doesn’t blend very well with my dark reddish brown hair color or my cool toned skin. It might work for someone that has brown hair with gold tones and warm skin tone. I was hoping to find something more gentle to blend the grey in between coloring and to go longer without coloring. I’ve tried so many different hair dyes, semi permanent, Demi permanent, permanents and box dyes! Since your hair is a darker shade like mine I highly recommend Age Beautiful hair color and use it with 10 volume developer. I try to go as long as can without coloring and I also use root touch up powders and sprays so I usually do my roots every 6-8 weeks! Another one I had good results with is clairol grey solutions, I used the reddish brown shades and it blended the greys a nice red color, also the clairol has a much better color selection than Dphue. I also want to give overtone color depositing conditioner a try but it’s quite expensive in my opinion. I was glad I got the Dphue on sale because it’s normally $30 a bottle and not worth it for me personally.
Thank you so much for all these suggestions - I so appreciate them 💜 I am using cover up sprays more often than I used to prolong between dyeing - but they are not ideal as they do leave a residue. Wish I could land on a food that would return my grey hairs to brown!
Careful as anything that contains vinegar ( doesn't matter if it's apple cider or made of wine) it strips colour dye from your hair. I always do a rinse with water and vinegar if I overtone my blonde hair with purple shampoo or purple mask. Anyway, great review.. I went platinum blonde at 37 because I have a lot of grey hair and it's the only way I can blend them, as I have natural medium brown hair. If you find something that actually works in blending greys, please let us know, as I would love to be able to go back to my natural hair colour.😅😊
Thanks so much for that shout out about vinegar - it should have crossed my mind! This may actually work for you - I have really dark brown hair but if you are lighter, you may be happy with the results. If you decide to try - let us know how you get on!
Hi! Cracked me up, "2 minutes felt like an eternity",... know what you mean. I like your hair with the lighter bits, but as u say each to their own. My daughter was encouraging me to embrace my grey during lockdown, and I couldn't even contemplate it at that point, but something switched 18 mths ago. It was a bit of a shock setting a pic of myself in the summer, looking quite grey, but most of the time I'm ok about it. But i have been wearing my hair down more, as I'm most grey on my hairline! Thanks for your review I wish this had been the solution you'd hoped for, but I'm glad you have the home hair dyeing to a tee. How many women will relate to your comment about the designated dressing gown for dyeing hair, I certainly do! I think the only thing I don't fancy about this product is the rest of my hair getting darker. As you intimated in a prev reply to one of my (many😂) prev comments...I'd prob quite like the coppery/ginger effect on my greys!
@@SelfcareKaren I think you’ve shown that it doesn’t fully cover greys so will save a lot of people disappointment if that’s what they’re looking for. You’ve inspired me to give it a go however as i have dark brown hair with a large scattering of about 2 years growth of bright whites and I’m hoping it will tone them down a bit. Golden would be great. I’ll let you know how it goes!
@@555police1 Oh yes please let us know! Are you in the UK? If so I am happy to post you my half full bottle? Just email me at manifest@selfcarekaren.com and I can organise that.
Hi I’ve got dark hair too and the greys do my head in. Haven’t dyed my hair properly for years as I’ve discovered a coloured hair shampoo from dexe and sometimes use bigen which is a henna powder dye which you mix with water. The dexe has been purchased from Amazon and Temu and the bigen was from Sainsbury’s. Hope this helps 😉
@@Minerva-b6h I have not used the Dexe shampoo but it is sold on Amazon - so you can learn more there: amzn.to/4dUM6rX Bigen is also sold on Amazon - here is the link: amzn.to/406jGrP If you do try either of them, please let us know!
I use Daniel Field water colour dye. I had to stop getting roots done at the salon as every other dye to cover greys was irritating my scalp way too much. A friend suggested DF as its got no harsh stuff in it. I use half Chestnut Brown & half Chestnut Darker Brown. It's powder, so easy to mix like this with zero waste. 50 minutes on the roots. Then I put a little water on my roots to work the product all over my hair & leave for another 30 minutes. Wash off with shampoo & condition as nomal. This works a treat for me. I do this every 4 weeks or so & use L'oreal root touch up spray in dark brown inbeteeen colouring. It's the best I have found.
I’ve tried the brown one first on my roots that gave me orange so I was hoping for a darker result from the dark bottled one. It’s got the same brown colour inside maybe different igredients but gave me the same orange result😂
Thanks for sharing your experience. I think this product would work better on lighter brown/red hair - my natural/non-grey hair is too dark and this just does not go dark enough.... Obvs if orange roots were "on trend" then this shampoo would be a winner 🤣🤣
Yes I think so - and that is what I did for a good while. I used it as a shampoo. Then when that did not work, I used it on dry hair - like a dye. Have you tried it?
Thanks for this suggestion. I think I might try going lighter when I have more greys to cover - right now I am reluctant to put any bleach/lightening product on my hair - it is damaged enough already.
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Interesting! I love that you do all the work so we don’t waste our money on products that don’t work. 🙂
Glad to be of service 💜
I used their brunette one with the brunette conditioner. On my third wash now, I wet my hair but towel dried then applied shampoo and then conditioner leaving both on 10 minutes as 5 minutes hadn't done much on earlier two washes. It has turned my greys into a lighter brunette colour so they tone in with my natural brunette colour. This product gradually builds up so you get an effect over time/washes. They show you over 5 washes. I think it says it doesn't work on fully grey. But for me it has worked well to tone in the grey I had about 5 to10% grey before . I too have hard water. Just have to build up the washes and see.
I am so pleased it is working for you. I think the contrast between my dark brown and the sort of reddish effect I get with this just is not a good look for me. I also find it more faff than just dyeing my roots once every few weeks.
I appreciate your honest review! I want to share with you I tried Dphue color gloss in dark brown and it did not work very well to cover my greys. My natural hair is dark brown and I’m about 20% grey mostly on my sides and some in my bangs, the Dphue gloss made my natural dark hair look wonderful but on the greys it turned them a light golden brown color and it just doesn’t blend very well with my dark reddish brown hair color or my cool toned skin. It might work for someone that has brown hair with gold tones and warm skin tone. I was hoping to find something more gentle to blend the grey in between coloring and to go longer without coloring. I’ve tried so many different hair dyes, semi permanent, Demi permanent, permanents and box dyes! Since your hair is a darker shade like mine I highly recommend Age Beautiful hair color and use it with 10 volume developer. I try to go as long as can without coloring and I also use root touch up powders and sprays so I usually do my roots every 6-8 weeks! Another one I had good results with is clairol grey solutions, I used the reddish brown shades and it blended the greys a nice red color, also the clairol has a much better color selection than Dphue. I also want to give overtone color depositing conditioner a try but it’s quite expensive in my opinion. I was glad I got the Dphue on sale because it’s normally $30 a bottle and not worth it for me personally.
Thank you so much for all these suggestions - I so appreciate them 💜 I am using cover up sprays more often than I used to prolong between dyeing - but they are not ideal as they do leave a residue. Wish I could land on a food that would return my grey hairs to brown!
Careful as anything that contains vinegar ( doesn't matter if it's apple cider or made of wine) it strips colour dye from your hair. I always do a rinse with water and vinegar if I overtone my blonde hair with purple shampoo or purple mask.
Anyway, great review.. I went platinum blonde at 37 because I have a lot of grey hair and it's the only way I can blend them, as I have natural medium brown hair.
If you find something that actually works in blending greys, please let us know, as I would love to be able to go back to my natural hair colour.😅😊
Thanks so much for that shout out about vinegar - it should have crossed my mind! This may actually work for you - I have really dark brown hair but if you are lighter, you may be happy with the results. If you decide to try - let us know how you get on!
Hi! Cracked me up, "2 minutes felt like an eternity",... know what you mean.
I like your hair with the lighter bits, but as u say each to their own. My daughter was encouraging me to embrace my grey during lockdown, and I couldn't even contemplate it at that point, but something switched 18 mths ago. It was a bit of a shock setting a pic of myself in the summer, looking quite grey, but most of the time I'm ok about it. But i have been wearing my hair down more, as I'm most grey on my hairline! Thanks for your review I wish this had been the solution you'd hoped for, but I'm glad you have the home hair dyeing to a tee. How many women will relate to your comment about the designated dressing gown for dyeing hair, I certainly do! I think the only thing I don't fancy about this product is the rest of my hair getting darker. As you intimated in a prev reply to one of my (many😂) prev comments...I'd prob quite like the coppery/ginger effect on my greys!
Absolutely- and I don't think it makes your already brown hair any darker - I certainly did not notice that. Thanks so much for watching xxx
I like the golden colour your greys have gone.
@@555police1 Why thank you 💜I just thought it made my roots/greys more noticeable 😭😭
@@SelfcareKaren I think you’ve shown that it doesn’t fully cover greys so will save a lot of people disappointment if that’s what they’re looking for. You’ve inspired me to give it a go however as i have dark brown hair with a large scattering of about 2 years growth of bright whites and I’m hoping it will tone them down a bit. Golden would be great. I’ll let you know how it goes!
@@555police1 Oh yes please let us know! Are you in the UK? If so I am happy to post you my half full bottle? Just email me at manifest@selfcarekaren.com and I can organise that.
Hi I’ve got dark hair too and the greys do my head in. Haven’t dyed my hair properly for years as I’ve discovered a coloured hair shampoo from dexe and sometimes use bigen which is a henna powder dye which you mix with water. The dexe has been purchased from Amazon and Temu and the bigen was from Sainsbury’s. Hope this helps 😉
YES! This helps! Thank you SO much for your suggestions!!!
Could you give more details about dexe please. Also bigen please. Thanks.
@@Minerva-b6h I have not used the Dexe shampoo but it is sold on Amazon - so you can learn more there: amzn.to/4dUM6rX Bigen is also sold on Amazon - here is the link: amzn.to/406jGrP If you do try either of them, please let us know!
I use Daniel Field water colour dye. I had to stop getting roots done at the salon as every other dye to cover greys was irritating my scalp way too much.
A friend suggested DF as its got no harsh stuff in it. I use half Chestnut Brown & half Chestnut Darker Brown. It's powder, so easy to mix like this with zero waste. 50 minutes on the roots. Then I put a little water on my roots to work the product all over my hair & leave for another 30 minutes. Wash off with shampoo & condition as nomal. This works a treat for me.
I do this every 4 weeks or so & use L'oreal root touch up spray in dark brown inbeteeen colouring. It's the best I have found.
WOW! Thank you SO much for this suggestion - I will definitely give this a go :)
I use DF too, or Gentle Hair Dye, which is the same thing. It's great!
Does your mixture come out very red-brown?
@@alicejwho was this a question to The Jelly Baby?
@SelfcareKaren oops, sorry! Yes!
I’ve tried the brown one first on my roots that gave me orange so I was hoping for a darker result from the dark bottled one. It’s got the same brown colour inside maybe different igredients but gave me the same orange result😂
Thanks for sharing your experience. I think this product would work better on lighter brown/red hair - my natural/non-grey hair is too dark and this just does not go dark enough.... Obvs if orange roots were "on trend" then this shampoo would be a winner 🤣🤣
Does this lighten colour. Have very dark brown hair with some greys, don't want the dark brown to get lightened
@@surose7506 this shampoo did not lighten my dark brown hair but the greys never got as brown as my non-grey hair.
@SelfcareKaren thank you. Did the greys go a lighter brown
@@surose7506the greys, on me, went light to red brown.
dont you have to wet your hair first?
Yes I think so - and that is what I did for a good while. I used it as a shampoo. Then when that did not work, I used it on dry hair - like a dye. Have you tried it?
I think you would suit a lighter hair colour. Going too dark is ageing.
Thanks for this suggestion. I think I might try going lighter when I have more greys to cover - right now I am reluctant to put any bleach/lightening product on my hair - it is damaged enough already.
Are the ingredients toxic ? I use henna as the harsh chemicals can cause cancer
Well it scored 25/100 on Yuka... which is not great. The most toxic (moderate risk) ingredient appears to be Phenoxyethanol.