Me: *a natural brunette with no real reason to watch this video as the subject matter doesn’t necessarily pertain to me….* Also me: *watches entire video and is entertained the whole way through because Mel is just that good at what she does* 😝😍
I really adore this colour on you! I have brown hair and have been thinking about getting subtle highlights, like what you have atm. I wanna get that DIMENSION.
Haven't dyed my hair in a long time. I generally prefer red-orange tones. I have had a lot of people including stylists be surprised that my hair holds the reds for quite a while. And that was even before I had a better understanding of how to preserve hair color. Will be nice in the future next time I dye it to see how long I can keep it radiant!
Great information! You explained this so well, I was, as a non-stylist, able to understand what mistake my stylist made on my hair that resulted in flat, muddy locks. P.S. your hair is just gorgeous!
You look gorgeous with the darker color. I love ion products. Been using it for years. The after color treatment is fantastic. I also use their pre color treatment.
I have leftover blonde but my hair is same curls and texture as you Mel. I saw you do a cool tone brown in your video going over the winners of 2021. I really want to achieve that but have it last longer. Super excited for this video before my service
GREAT VIDEO!! 👍🏼 I can raise my hand 🤚 to most every hair color mistake except for the green. LOL 😂 I have definitely been every shade of brass 🥴😂. I quit the DIY route and let the professionals do my color now.
Hello Mell, The Color on your Hair looks so Good and Beautiful also Vibrant thank you for those Advice you Awesome, again Thank You, for another Texture Tuesday,for our Beautiful Curly Hair💃❤️💙💚🧡💃🌸☕️🌸☕️🌸☀️🌞☀️🌞
🤦♀️ I would deliberately wait and not wash my hair for 2 weeks to make sure that the color takes. Lol no wonder it didn't always work. Lol I'm naturally multicolored so that could have been part of it as well. I have light brown, dark brown, black with red and blonde natural highlights with natural grey, white and silver hair as well now. I love the Ion dyed and line and also Sally Beauty. Thank you for this Video, been thinking about dying my hair again and you gave me some ideas of a better way to do it now.
Now see I am a natural dark brown and here is where I stump everyone. My undertones is actually blond. Most stylist are quite shocked by it. One actually didn't believe till then took my hair down a level and found out I was blond.
Great video! I definitely see why you need to go to school for this. You literally blew my mind about washing and treating your hair before a color. I also just got the curlsmith hair dryer and it is so amazing. The diffuser is so big!! I used it for the first time today and I thought it would be easier but it’s been a long time since I got a hair dryer and I’m going to need a Manes by Mell tutorial!! Love you guys so much. I look forward to your videos. ❤️❤️❤️
I NEVER leave comments - that said, since I dye my hair red (which Mel points that the molecules fade the quickest) I recommend making a diy overtone conditioner when your color fades and you need to deepen it. One part manic panic/Arctic fox or Adore with 2 parts non silicone conditioner. Although my hair is red this can also apply to darkening hair with a brown tone. This way I also keep my dimension (highlights). This may not work as a permanent solution BUT if you want to experiment with darkening your shade it is also a safer (non damaging) BUILDABLE semi-permanent way to try it out. Since transitioning my fried super porous hair about a year ago I have only colored the entirety of my hair with chemicals once and my hair is just as vibrant as it was when I was refreshing the color with chemicals every time I retouched my roots. You can also use this method to warm up ash tones. Hope this made sense 😂 Just a suggestion ♥️ Mel your hair looks frickin’ incredible (as usual) ♥️
Ion’s been one of my favorite brands for the last few years because the products make my Sicilian fro so soft and shiny, it smells amazing, and their toners have greatttt color payoff. Plus it’s cheap af compared to anything else in the same league. Their Agebeautiful ultra bond conditioning treatment is better than any Olaplex treatments I’ve used. High porosity, 3C, dry ass, longggg hair so if anyone has that going on maybe their stuff will work for you🤷🏽♀️. Great as a deep conditioner if you wash your hair 1-2X/week too. Can’t believe more people don’t mention it on here. So happy you got into it💃🏽!!
I love the ion after color treatment I use the duo kit to make a conditioning mask for my hair and leave it on for 30 minutes to an hour it makes my hair super soft
Where was this video 10 years ago when I was inadvertently dyeing my hair green?? 😂 As always thank you for all the wonderful info, I don’t color my hair anymore but I do have a daughter that forces me to experiment with her hair 😂 Also this color looks absolutely gorgeous on you 💕
Good evening Mel, this video was very helpful. I want to know if this tip will work by using plant base hair coloring? I've been using Inspired by Nature Ammonia free by Ion for the past 4 years and I love it especially the dark colors. Have a bless night and God bless you and your family.
I got pintura highlights 2 years ago and it was so god damn difficult to keep up with the different porosities in my hair. I can't even get consistently good wash days now with the porosity I have 😂 but you're right the dimension was beautiful. I'm loving the brown on you, do you miss the blonde at all?
hey mell, i was wondering if you could make a hair colouring vid when you’re dying your hair the ‘fun’ colours like blue or purple because I don’t know what sort of colour level it would be. love you 💜
I personally love the brunette trend dk if is cuz makes me feel better abt my natural color which is very dark but i’ve been told by everyone to only get highlights cuz my natural base is stunning so ig i should like it more also idk why i think dark hair makes everyone look better cuz blond can wash u out
If I knew all this when I decided to go back black after being blue I wouldn’t be apart of the curly girl community. After that mess I had to do the big chop and restart my hair journey.
Mell, can you give me all the tips for maintaining brown hair colored red? I'm constantly battling going back & forth between the colors! Is it ok to do that? Any tips you have will be greatly appreciated! Curly love from me to you!❤️➿️❤️
Thanks Mel! I recently coloured my hair (to dark red rather than dark brown) but some of the tips were still super useful! Do you have any recommendations for colour depositing products? (Leave ins etc)
This was really fun to learn! Thanks! For products after color, is there anything specific I should try for orange/red? I get a good 3 months out of it. Real color very dark brown with grey & white. I’ve been a 7OR for years with varying shades of blonde highlights. I let my stylist/friend have fun with those. In 10 years, there were only 2 I wasn’t crazy about & I agreed in advance. (Thin “sun kissed” lights and low lights.) This also makes me appreciate her even more. The first time she did my hair was a color correction. I wanted natural red highlights. My then stylist showed me the fire engine color red he thought would be fun & kept trying to talk me into. I specifically said no & showed him the swatch. I didn’t want to need to bleach it. I didn’t realize what he did until he said how the bleaching made it pop. The lighting conveniently changed a bit & I couldn’t see it that well. Then he did a fun up do for free. When I got home & took out all the pins I saw the fire engine red streaks & the uneven cut. A stylist friend 900 miles away said try a clarifying shampoo. It was then neon orange. I found someone with an opening 2 days later. It took 4 hours, but she made my hair look amazing & I had a new stylist. No one touches my color but her.
I just went w a natural black to cover my copper'y brown. I didnt wnat to do my roots (most natural hair on my head\shows growth) buut i diiid attempt to cover some grays for now just to see how it looks\if it takes. Hoping for no green lol. & Used "ethnic" well i assume it was it was a purple box dye... Yeah DARK & LOVELY FAD RESIST! Hair already feels good (conditioner on) & dye smelled good!
I don’t colour my hair but have been thinking about going lighter blonde. I was thinking of trying out the john freida products. Maybe you have already done a review that I am not aware of but would love to know what you think of them! Thank you for an informative video as always 💕
Can I apply the same steps if I want to change my highlighted curls to a deep navy blue? My hair is about a level 5, VERY fine, and the color is what i would describe as grey brown, and the highlights range from level 8 to level 10 -it was all rinsed at the same time so different sections had different processing times-. I want my navy blue hair to have dimension, and I sometimes wear my hair straightened, but mostly curly!
I think the brown looks spectacular on you!!! You can truly wear both, and have them look equally lovely.💜
Thank you lovely 😘♥️
This is so helpful! I went from strawberry blonde highlights to auburn this super helped for maintenance, thanks Mel!
So glad to help😃
Me: *a natural brunette with no real reason to watch this video as the subject matter doesn’t necessarily pertain to me….*
Also me: *watches entire video and is entertained the whole way through because Mel is just that good at what she does* 😝😍
omg ily ♥️♥️ thanks for watching xoxoxo
I really adore this colour on you! I have brown hair and have been thinking about getting subtle highlights, like what you have atm. I wanna get that DIMENSION.
Curls need dimension IMO!!
I'd like to see about coloring gray hair darker and getting good coverage 👍
Pleaseeeeeee
It's "what's good" Tuesday! Hi Mel and Amanda! I would love to see ya'll both try the Curlsmith or As I Am gel colors.
Hello!! Been there done that 🤪 check it out here: th-cam.com/video/IPPo5qYesRk/w-d-xo.html
Your hair looks so good brown. Your best color yet in my opinion. 🙂
I liked you as blonde better, but you look pretty too. Greetings from Spain!!!
I just love all your hair tips. Could you give us that are going grey tips on how to care for those pesky wire-like hair, thank you so much.
Can you do a video on options for covering/hiding your gray hair?
This video confirmed that I will leave my hair color to my amazing stylist!! Thanks for all the tips Mel!
Never colored my hair before but this was so interesting to watch!
Hahahha on the SpongeBob “porous is he” reference 😂✨✨
Haven't dyed my hair in a long time. I generally prefer red-orange tones. I have had a lot of people including stylists be surprised that my hair holds the reds for quite a while. And that was even before I had a better understanding of how to preserve hair color. Will be nice in the future next time I dye it to see how long I can keep it radiant!
Love this! Would love ideas/tips on hiding/blending premature grays on dark brown hair.
My respects for you who was able to do all this process on your own hair and by yourself 😯
Great information! You explained this so well, I was, as a non-stylist, able to understand what mistake my stylist made on my hair that resulted in flat, muddy locks. P.S. your hair is just gorgeous!
I love how “darkest brown” was shown darker looking than black on the scale
Thank you for making this video. I follows these steps a few years ago and went blonde again and am ready to dark again!
As a natural brunette how do i change my hair color without adding blonde or Carmel highlights??? I want to be a brunette
but want some dimension
hi mel! i have your same curl type and last week i colored my hair from blonde to brown, too!
Thank god- been waiting. I personally never thought blonde suited you, no Offense
You look gorgeous with the darker color. I love ion products. Been using it for years. The after color treatment is fantastic. I also use their pre color treatment.
you seem to always post exactly what i need when i need something. wow.
Very useful ! But I honestly haven’t dyed my hair for 6 almost 7 years :) but still loving these learning videos❤️❤️
I’ve personally also gone from a medium to dark reddish blonde to a dark chocolate brown with dark honey highlights. Thank you for the education!
This color looks so good on you !!!!
I have leftover blonde but my hair is same curls and texture as you Mel. I saw you do a cool tone brown in your video going over the winners of 2021. I really want to achieve that but have it last longer. Super excited for this video before my service
Your so beautiful love your hair and makeup what the best curly hair product
There isn't one,it depends on your hair
Oh i missed the bloopers last week 😂 i always enjoy the bloopers 😂😂❤️ looking awesome Mell 😍
I’m going back to natural color next month at a salon and I really hope it will last!!! I’ve been a blonde for about 3-4 years now
LOVE YOUR HAIR. BECAUSE OF YOU I HAVE MANAGED TO KEEP MY HAIR CURLS ON POINT.
GREAT VIDEO!! 👍🏼 I can raise my hand 🤚 to most every hair color mistake except for the green. LOL 😂 I have definitely been every shade of brass 🥴😂. I quit the DIY route and let the professionals do my color now.
I love the brown on u!! 👍🏾
Because this makes zero sense to me i always go to a professional, but thanks for the thought out explanation.
Hello Mell, The
Color on your Hair looks so Good and Beautiful also Vibrant thank you for those Advice you Awesome, again Thank You, for another Texture Tuesday,for our Beautiful Curly Hair💃❤️💙💚🧡💃🌸☕️🌸☕️🌸☀️🌞☀️🌞
This explains so much of what I’ve done wrong to my hairs😆 Absolutely love your videos! 💜🕉
🤦♀️ I would deliberately wait and not wash my hair for 2 weeks to make sure that the color takes. Lol no wonder it didn't always work. Lol I'm naturally multicolored so that could have been part of it as well. I have light brown, dark brown, black with red and blonde natural highlights with natural grey, white and silver hair as well now. I love the Ion dyed and line and also Sally Beauty. Thank you for this Video, been thinking about dying my hair again and you gave me some ideas of a better way to do it now.
You looked awesome with your blond but there is something about this brown that makes you glow. I really like the color on you.
That hair color is stunnning on youu
Mell, Mell can you please do a video on glossing curly hair, and a video on the Rezo cut 🥺
@ 14:19 twins!!!! I seriously love your hair colour really suits you 😍 x
Could you make a video on how to go from black hair to brown?
Now see I am a natural dark brown and here is where I stump everyone. My undertones is actually blond. Most stylist are quite shocked by it. One actually didn't believe till then took my hair down a level and found out I was blond.
Great video! I definitely see why you need to go to school for this. You literally blew my mind about washing and treating your hair before a color. I also just got the curlsmith hair dryer and it is so amazing. The diffuser is so big!! I used it for the first time today and I thought it would be easier but it’s been a long time since I got a hair dryer and I’m going to need a Manes by Mell tutorial!! Love you guys so much. I look forward to your videos. ❤️❤️❤️
Your hair actually looks better, healthier and shinier brown. Your curls also look juicier
Just in time.. I really want to dye my hair, going brown. I haven’t dyed it in years 🥹 But I need to detox my hair 1st and get it healthier.
I NEVER leave comments - that said, since I dye my hair red (which Mel points that the molecules fade the quickest) I recommend making a diy overtone conditioner when your color fades and you need to deepen it. One part manic panic/Arctic fox or Adore with 2 parts non silicone conditioner. Although my hair is red this can also apply to darkening hair with a brown tone. This way I also keep my dimension (highlights). This may not work as a permanent solution BUT if you want to experiment with darkening your shade it is also a safer (non damaging) BUILDABLE semi-permanent way to try it out. Since transitioning my fried super porous hair about a year ago I have only colored the entirety of my hair with chemicals once and my hair is just as vibrant as it was when I was refreshing the color with chemicals every time I retouched my roots. You can also use this method to warm up ash tones. Hope this made sense 😂 Just a suggestion ♥️ Mel your hair looks frickin’ incredible (as usual) ♥️
Love this color on you. Beautiful!
Happy Texture Tuesday!! Much love and happiness!!! Xoxo 😘 💜
Same to you!
Im a hairstylist so I already knew all of this but I still watched all of it just because I love Mel 😂💟
thank you!!❤️❤️❤️
Love love love the color on you 👍🏼
Loving your hair this colour! 😍🤎
I hope you both had a ton of fun on vacation!!!
I love your hair color 😍😍 p.s. I’ve had the green hair experience thanks to a horrible salon experience.
Mell speaking another language here!😂I color my own hair at home...but I get it already formulated for me! I wish I was as smart as you!
Ion’s been one of my favorite brands for the last few years because the products make my Sicilian fro so soft and shiny, it smells amazing, and their toners have greatttt color payoff. Plus it’s cheap af compared to anything else in the same league. Their Agebeautiful ultra bond conditioning treatment is better than any Olaplex treatments I’ve used. High porosity, 3C, dry ass, longggg hair so if anyone has that going on maybe their stuff will work for you🤷🏽♀️. Great as a deep conditioner if you wash your hair 1-2X/week too. Can’t believe more people don’t mention it on here. So happy you got into it💃🏽!!
Lets go!!!!!! Texture tuesday!!!!!
My natural hair color is your current shade, but I've been going lighter because I started growing grays since I was 23 😅 Got the best of me.
Yes I'm finally first. Love you 😍 💗 💓
Love the color!!!! Looks amazing!
That color really does look great on her 🥰 So pretty!
Thank you Amy😍
Yessss, gorgeous!!
HAPPY TEXTURE TUESDAY ❤️
I love the ion after color treatment I use the duo kit to make a conditioning mask for my hair and leave it on for 30 minutes to an hour it makes my hair super soft
Where was this video 10 years ago when I was inadvertently dyeing my hair green?? 😂 As always thank you for all the wonderful info, I don’t color my hair anymore but I do have a daughter that forces me to experiment with her hair 😂 Also this color looks absolutely gorgeous on you 💕
This made my head spin, I might come to TO for you to color my blond hair dark brown lol Grazie nonetheless !
love the eyeliner the whole look ...looks amazing you~
Good evening Mel, this video was very helpful. I want to know if this tip will work by using plant base hair coloring? I've been using Inspired by Nature Ammonia free by Ion for the past 4 years and I love it especially the dark colors. Have a bless night and God bless you and your family.
I have green and purple hair 💜 😍
I love a good demi! Your hair looks beautiful.
I got pintura highlights 2 years ago and it was so god damn difficult to keep up with the different porosities in my hair. I can't even get consistently good wash days now with the porosity I have 😂 but you're right the dimension was beautiful. I'm loving the brown on you, do you miss the blonde at all?
Mel, I love it!
I was thinking of going black perfect video
Such pretty results! 😍
Your hair looks beautiful 🤩 I love the updated look 💗
Great idea to keep your highlights, I did this a few years ago with a red tinted brown and turned out great!
Loveeeed the video, and your amazing color ♥️
Happy Texture Tuesday 💜
Awesome video Mel !..
What would you use to cover grays, basically at the hairline?
hey mell, i was wondering if you could make a hair colouring vid when you’re dying your hair the ‘fun’ colours like blue or purple because I don’t know what sort of colour level it would be. love you 💜
I absolutely LOVE ion products for coloring - it's been my go to for years!
Good to know!!!
I personally love the brunette trend dk if is cuz makes me feel better abt my natural color which is very dark but i’ve been told by everyone to only get highlights cuz my natural base is stunning so ig i should like it more also idk why i think dark hair makes everyone look better cuz blond can wash u out
Can you review raw sugar products please
Your new hair color looks beautiful.
If I knew all this when I decided to go back black after being blue I wouldn’t be apart of the curly girl community. After that mess I had to do the big chop and restart my hair journey.
Mell, can you give me all the tips for maintaining brown hair colored red? I'm constantly battling going back & forth between the colors! Is it ok to do that? Any tips you have will be greatly appreciated!
Curly love from me to you!❤️➿️❤️
Thanks Mel! I recently coloured my hair (to dark red rather than dark brown) but some of the tips were still super useful! Do you have any recommendations for colour depositing products? (Leave ins etc)
I can’t remember all of that. Can I just book an appointment to have you color my hair?? Lol
Hey Mel! I went ginger some time ago and I want to go back to my brown. Would you say it’s similar for this process?
This was really fun to learn! Thanks!
For products after color, is there anything specific I should try for orange/red? I get a good 3 months out of it. Real color very dark brown with grey & white. I’ve been a 7OR for years with varying shades of blonde highlights. I let my stylist/friend have fun with those. In 10 years, there were only 2 I wasn’t crazy about & I agreed in advance. (Thin “sun kissed” lights and low lights.)
This also makes me appreciate her even more. The first time she did my hair was a color correction. I wanted natural red highlights. My then stylist showed me the fire engine color red he thought would be fun & kept trying to talk me into. I specifically said no & showed him the swatch. I didn’t want to need to bleach it. I didn’t realize what he did until he said how the bleaching made it pop. The lighting conveniently changed a bit & I couldn’t see it that well. Then he did a fun up do for free.
When I got home & took out all the pins I saw the fire engine red streaks & the uneven cut. A stylist friend 900 miles away said try a clarifying shampoo. It was then neon orange.
I found someone with an opening 2 days later. It took 4 hours, but she made my hair look amazing & I had a new stylist. No one touches my color but her.
I just went w a natural black to cover my copper'y brown. I didnt wnat to do my roots (most natural hair on my head\shows growth) buut i diiid attempt to cover some grays for now just to see how it looks\if it takes. Hoping for no green lol. & Used "ethnic" well i assume it was it was a purple box dye... Yeah DARK & LOVELY FAD RESIST! Hair already feels good (conditioner on) & dye smelled good!
your definitely better as a brown :D ;)
❤❤GREAT VIDEO!! I needed all this advice!!
Do you use the "pigtails cut" on your hair. 😀 your hair shape is so pretty.
Yes I do!❤️
OMGosh! You look so good brown! 💕❤️
I don’t colour my hair but have been thinking about going lighter blonde. I was thinking of trying out the john freida products. Maybe you have already done a review that I am not aware of but would love to know what you think of them! Thank you for an informative video as always 💕
Favorite after care oils available at Sally’s?!
I don’t know why I préfère the first hair coloré lol I love that blond 🤦🏻♀️
Love it! You look like an italian beauty!
Absolutely LOVE the brown
Can I apply the same steps if I want to change my highlighted curls to a deep navy blue? My hair is about a level 5, VERY fine, and the color is what i would describe as grey brown, and the highlights range from level 8 to level 10 -it was all rinsed at the same time so different sections had different processing times-. I want my navy blue hair to have dimension, and I sometimes wear my hair straightened, but mostly curly!
Great information as always. Beautiful brown.