My natural colour is a very light brown colour with natural blonde tones, 3 most recent colours it has had were twice auburn and then blonde (in attempt to get rid of the red tones in my hair).
I then bought L'Oreal coleur 'exprete', absolutely daft name, as there is nothing expert about this colour that's for sure.
Yesterday I did a streak test, I cut a full length streak right from the root and applied the colourant, once I had left it the time stated I washed the streak and had a look, I was in shock as nothing had actually happened, apart from the roots getting lighter! So I decided to give
it another go, convinced something miraculous must start to happen sooner or later, I left it another hour!
When I finally rinsed out the streak test and look at it the roots looked lighter and the main hair itself looked darker.
I spent most of last night convincing myself that I should give the colour a go and what's the worst that could happen...big mistake!
So this morning I applied the colourant to my roots first as stated, making sure they were all covered. Then I applied to the rest of my hair. I must point out that the smell was AWFUL at one point during the begining I was gasping for breath, then I heaved, it is very overwhelming! After last nights experience I decided to leave the colourant in for a full hour, then I went to wash it out. As I looked in the mirror the colour looked even all over and quite nice, I was impressed and congratulating myself on deciding to colour my hair.
Tip:Don't be too optimistic when coluring your hair!
Anyway, this colour was washed out and then I continued to read the instructions.
I mixed the powder and liquid as stated and began picking out where I wanted the streaks, they include a little brush, just like a mascara brush, to help with applying the mixture to the streaks.
So, they tell you not to sttreak right down to the root, I don't know why, but I listened to what they were saying, so I started applying the mixture to my first streak, after about 10 seconds of using this mascara wand on my wonderful harmonised highlights I noticed I had a little problem, my hair was twisted and trapped inside the bristles of the brush!!
What a disater I thought, I had mixture all over my gloves and it was extremely fiddly to get the hair off the brush, but I finally managed it (thank god). I then realised that if I just let the streak hang down with the rest of my hair I would have patchy lights bits here there and everywhere so I ran downstairs to get some tin foil, and wrapped it up into that, that made me feel a little better!
After my experience with the first streak I only managed to do one more before realising my hair was drying and I didn't like the look of the colour that was emerging.
So I wrapped the second streak up and went downstairs for a much needed break!
After checking on my highlights after around 15 minutes the roots looked platinum blonde, I was impressed, though me being a sceptic I unravelled the rest of the tin foil and lo and behold the rest of the streak was ginger!!!!!!
So I decided I would leave it aother 15 minutes, finally, fed up with waiting and damaging my hair I decided to go upstairs wash it all out and have a bath!
After being out of the bath for around an hour now my hair is virtually dry, I have looked at the colour under natural and un-natural lights.
My roots have gone a very lovely light brown (the colour the rest of it should have gone according to the pack)
The top of the highlights (around 3") are a gorgeous platinum blonde, unfortunately they look very odd as I was told NOT to dye right down to the root, and boy do I wish I did, the rest of the streaks are ginger! And...the hair that has been coloured on top of hair that has already been coloured is a mix of browns, reds and gingers.
I look like a freak show!
The only experience I gained from this was DO NOT BUY L'Oreal Couler Experte!!!!!
All I can do now is dye my hair VERY dark brown or platinum blonde!!
Absolute disaster.
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It gets worse! The next day after colouring it looked even worse, it was so bad I considered doing a britney! I have had to get a proffesional hairdresser to come here and tell me what she can do, its going to cost me £75!! OMG! And I have to wait till Thursday which means I'm stuck in for another week lol :( Really angry .
nic63 06.03.2007 17:45
Good review, these two step colours are very difficult to use, especially to yourself. I tried doing it to my daughters hair and said never again!
Advantages: Glossy colour, shows up well, good price Disadvantages: Very strong smelling & messier than all other dyes I've used (probably due to the fact you need to dampen hair)
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