True Herbal Essence smelling dye-weird!

Advantages: Doesn't smell chemically, leaves hair soft
Disadvantages: Doesn't take to red hair very well

...the packaging, and this brand is far more exciting to look at on the shelves than the others. It has purple sparkle, the expected picture of the model loving her new colour, list of its advantages and ingredients, nothing out of ordinary, it simply looks nicer than all the other boxes. In the box you get the dye, bottle of mix which the dye is mixed with, a 6 week treatment conditioner and 'posh' feeling gloves. These feel much better standard than most given in the home dye kits. There is also an instruction page which suggests testing for allergic reactions and the strand test. I would advise doing the strand test as this will determine how long the dye stays on for. Herbal essence recommend 20 mins at least, but it can go up to 40 mins if you wish, the strand test gives indication of how long your hair will need. Mine is about 35 mins...

nikki14 15.05.2005 · Read review
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Review of Clairol Herbal Essences Permanent Hair Color

Recommended Hair Colourant

Advantages: Nice smell, glossy hair & nice resulting colour
Disadvantages: Fading a little bit after only 4 weeks

...A couple of years ago I ditched the blonde and went back to my natural hair colour. The only problem is, that no matter how long I leave it or keep cutting it, the ends remain blonde, almost as if my natural hair is starting to grow blonde about half way down my neck. I've dyed it many times to make it go back to being dark brown but the ends remain stubbornly blonde looking. Anyway, after leaving it almost a whole year now since my last attempt, I thought I would try again. This time I picked out a shade from the Herbal Essenses Fearless Colour range (i.e. Chocolate Velvet). I didn't even know they did hair colour at the time and I selected it simply because I love their shampoos and conditioners. Anyway, the process was simple enough, just put on the colour leave for 25 - 40 minutes and rinse off. This is then followed up by...

lolly1981 03.01.2007 · Read review
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Review of Clairol Herbal Essences Permanent Hair Color

Anyone for mud coloured hair

Advantages: No horrible smell. Easy to use
Disadvantages: Resulting colour not as expected

...As a queen of hair dye and many years of shoving chemicals on my head every 4-6wks, I decided to go back to my natural colour which now turned out to be a very nice medium to dark ash blonde. However, the colour was a bit wishy washy and I wanted to enhance it and make it a bit more ?brilliant?. So I was pleased when I came across the colour ?Brilliant Dark Blonde? in the Herbal Essences range. It looked like a nice soft, dark ash blonde. I did notice however that the model on the box did seem to have a few light blonde highlights in her hair which kinds of defeats the purpose of modelling a colour! This brand also appealed to me because of the more natural ingredients and no ammonia, which doesn?t give you that awful smell and stinks the whole house out. It also comes nicely packaged in a sort of squashed round box to give it...

Evep 22.02.2002 · Read review
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Bye Bye Dry Hair, Hello Herbal Essences

Advantages: Works wonders on dry and damaged hair
Disadvantages: Nothing!

...Initially I was drawn to the Clairol Herbal Essences range of hair conditioners through their seductive adverts preceding Desperate Housewives. Normally advertisements have little effect on my purchasing decisions. In fact, I usually press the mute button in defiance when adverts blatantly interrupt my TV programme. However, something about these adverts, with those women erupting into ecstatic convulsions while using Clairol Herbal Essences, had a positive influence over me. I was further persuaded by the Clairol name. I thought Clairol might be a wise choice because I use the Clairol hair colours and have done for years. Included in the box along with the colouring lotion is a little tube of Clairol conditioner. This conditioner works better than anything else I've ever tried, so much so that one day, over 10 years ago, I...

sagitaria 30.10.2008 · Read review
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Review of Clairol Herbal Essences Fruit Fusions Condtioner

Herbal Essences - Hello Hydration (new range)

Advantages: Lovely smell, great results
Disadvantages: Not keen on packaging

...I got this as a sample in the post after a free samples link went round at work. I?ve never used Herbal Essences shampoo before but had noticed it more since the new packaging that came out this month. (Although I?m actually not that keen on the new packaging) The samples came folded into a nice envelope with loads of details about the new range printed on it. Despite not being that keen on the new bottles I did like the presentation of the samples I received, everything looks really bright and fun and it is eye catching and suits the range which I known for being really fruity and fresh. What it promises? ?Quench thirsty hair with our moisturizing shampoo fused with orchid & coconut milk. Essential moisturizers help replenish your pretty, parched head with hair that is silky and supple.? Usually I go for volume...

yazoo88 30.03.2009 · Read review
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Review of Alberto Balsam Herbal Essences

Herbal Essences is a great brand at a great price!

Advantages: Smells lovely, does what it says
Disadvantages: Can't think of any

..., and people became more aware of what they were using, and making sure it was natural and organic. But, because of its success, an increasing population of non-organic buyers started using these products. Whether or not these shampoo and conditioners are completely organic anymore, I don't know, but what I can tell you is I certainly feel the product is natural and inartificial and is worth buying. They come in different categories of essences, such as herbs and botanicals, rainforest flowers and fruit fusions, and also are grouped depending on what purpose it supplies for your hair, to restore it to its full potential. The different hair types are dry/damaged, normal to oily, coloured and herbal essence manages to provide shampoos and conditioner in order to aid you when washing your hair, and making it look the best it possibly can. You can...

saralovesciao 02.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of Clairol Herbal Essences

Herbal Essences Fearless Hair Dying Fun

Advantages: Fun to Use, easy method of highlighting, aftercare shampoo included
Disadvantages: Poor packaging (check everything is included), requires someone else to apply

...Having sat an watched endless TV over the Christmas period I obviously was subject to quite a large amount of TV advertising. Whilst lolling about with some friends an advert for a hair highlighting kit using some kind of comb came on. One friend kindly offered to do my hair with it. In a bored state of mind I absentmindedly agreed. I forgot all about it until one lunchtime she called me up and said we were heading into town to purchase the produce. Needless to say when present with rows and rows of hair dying products we couldn't remember which one we had seen on TV. I quite like experimenting with hair colour (after all if it goes badly wrong you can always dye it again) and so opted for the most fun looking highlighting gadget and one of the most vibrant colours. In my experience the colour on the box is always fair more "lively...

tigletty 08.01.2006 · Read review
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Review of Clairol Herbal Essences Highlights

  Unmentionable Greys

Advantages: Yummy-Looking Red Hair
Disadvantages: 5 Minute Rinse Process

...by the time we got there, so, the car it was. While browsing the Health and Beauty aisle of Morrisons, I came upon the hair colour section. As I was in the market for a new colour, then I decided on RED again. I Love it when my hair is red, it just makes me feel warmer inside, and it makes me feel happy. I spotted on the bottom shelf, in among the array of boxes professing to be the best colour a well-known brand of hair care product, Clairol. The Product = Clairol Herbal Essences Fearless Colour Permanent Hair Colour. The Shade 44 Deep Red Radiant Ruby It is ammonia-free too, which is good, it doesn't sting or smell bad. On the box, there is a label which says "RUB HERE to release the refreshing fragrance", which I automatically did. It smelled really nice, which is a bonus, because hair colour usually...

Aussieme1106 16.09.2007 (11.10.2007) · Read review
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A Fragrantly Herbal Hair Experience

Advantages: Leaves hair feeling soft, silky and shiny
Disadvantages: None

...Clairol’s Herbal Essences Protection Conditioner for coloured/permed/ dry/damaged hair contains natural organic thyme, wheat germ oil, and vitamin E in mountain spring water. It comes in a pink plastic bottle, which has a green fliptop lid for easy use, and contains 250ml of the product. The Product ----------- This conditioner has a rich thick creamy consistency with a pleasant light aroma, which reminds me of the fragrance of wild strawberries. The end result of using this conditioner are extremely good – it leaves my hair soft, silky, very shiny and healthy looking, especially as I often colour my hair so it needs just that little bit extra moisturising –Clairol’s Herbal Essence conditioner lives up to its claims and I highly recommend it to those readers who may suffer with dry hair obtained from...

Shekera 02.04.2002 · Read review
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Review of Clairol Herbal Essences Conditioner Coloured/Permed/Dry/Damaged

Colour Me Bad..

Advantages: Smells fabulous
Disadvantages: Made my scalp irritated and dry

...At the moment, my hair is dyed black. I use a box dye which is cheaper than having it done professionally but I'd still like it to stay put for as long as possible without becoming dull and faded. I decided to step away from Aussies for a while and try the newly packaged Herbal Essences 'Colour Me Happy'. I can overall say that I've been left with an irritated and itchy scalp. I never suffer from dry skin, nor am I sensitive but Herbal Essences has surely left my scalp irritated. I have since visited the salon and am still scratching away flakes of dry skin. It wasn't so much 'oh, oh, oh!' in my shower routine, moreso 'ow, ow, ow!'. Herbal Essences is used by a lot of my friends but I know I didn't get on with it at all, and it didn't prevent my colour from fading, either. I still watched in dismay as black water drained in...

Sephs 02.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of Clairol Herbal Essences Colour Me Happy