L'Oreal Recital

L'Oreal Recital Preference is a permanent hair colour range I've been using every now and then when trying to look for the right shade for highlights across different ranges. It comes in a shiny looking cardboard packaging, with a brown and gold colour scheme. The box includes: a bottle of developer cream, a bottle of colour liquid, a tube of conditioner, gloves and an instruction sheet. The bottle of colour liquid needs to be poured into the developer cream bottle and shaken to get mixed. The consistency and texture of the mixture is a fairly runny gel rather than a cream, and is with some ... more

As a brunette, I tend to get rather bored with the colour of my hair and often dye it black as lighter colours don't show up well and black ALWAYS works. I've tried a variety of different dyes; some smelled lovely but didn't last long, others lasted but took a long time to wash out and then tended to 'bleed' later on - staining my clothes and towels. I usually spend a maximum of five pounds on a dye, but this time I decided to treat myself with my Boots Advantage points (that I had earned simply by paying for my shopping with my Boots Advantage credit card - powered by Egg) and I came home ... more

Red and blonde and purple and brown and pink... I've been them all! Not at the same time obviously, but I've been them all and some more than once. I've been dying my hair since I was 13-years-old and I've done "Wow!", "What have you done to your lovely hair?!", and my personal worst, the silence of your friends when the dye has made no difference whatsoever. Now, I have it sorted though and satisfied my need for the perfect hair dye... My criteria for the perfect hair dye are: * The ultimate shade of deepest purple - which should leave my hair the SAME colour as on the box! * A beautiful ... more

Why do women colour their hair? Why do men colour their hair? I suppose we like to have a change, to improve on what God has given us. I believe we are buying into a dream, a sort of myth, when we hand over our money for hair colourants, as with so many other beauty products. We see Jennifer Aniston and Heather Locklear on the telly with their glorious shining locks on display and we are told that we, too, can have hair like them. ‘Because you’re worth it!’ So we swallow it, hook, line and sinker as we rush to the chemists to buy into the dream. The reality is so often ... more

I was fed up of my hair! I used to be Blonder, but as the years are progressing the blonde is gradually turning into mousey... How can I be a true Essex Girl with mousey hair!?! :oP After months of staring at all the wide varieties of dyes on the supermarket shelves and thinking "Shall I?" I finally took the plunge. Not from a supermarket shelf, but from a bargain bucket n a local chemist. 99p for something that is normally £4.69! How could I resist :o) I looked all over the packet (a gold/coppery box with a very blonde lady on it) to see if there was a sell by date that had expired! Nothing ... more