Hello my beautiful
shopaholics!! Since we are all smart shopaholics, it is important to spend our
money wisely on products that work.
So
today I am gonna review the ColourB4 Hair Colour Remover for you guys.
A
bit of background on why I
wanted to remove my hair colour. I naturally have very dark brown hair (I am
Chinese) and I have been colouring it to a lighter brown for about 6 years (in
a salon or at home using the Liese bubble hair colour). Recently, I have been
wanting to be slightly more adventurous and dying my hair different colour like
a dark red/ purple etc. I know many people have told me because my hair is too
dark I have to bleach it in order for those colours to show up, however we all
know how damaging that is to our hair. So I kinda ignored it and dyed it
anyway. First time I went for a dark plumy red (by John Frieda). The result was
that the colour did show up in my roots but it was very faint on the dyed part
of my hair. After a few washes the purple in my roots was more obvious and I
loved that colour. However the dyed part of my hair had gone back to the light
brown as it was. Then I have also tried some other hair dye in similar colour
but the light brown part of my hair have always failed to take up the red dye
So I thought if I could remove the light brown dye on my hair and then
dye it dark red, the red dye should work like how it did on my roots. I started
doing some research on the internet and found that there is a product that can
remove hair dye and that is the ColourB4 hair colour remover. Before buying it,
I watched some review videos and it seemed to work quite well. Still there were
a few problems that I thought about. First it was meant for people with
naturally light hair colour e.g. blonde, who have dyed it to a darker colour
e.g. brown. However, in my case I was trying to remove brown hair dye from my
naturally dark brown hair. Secondly, I have dyed my hair so many times, the dye
build up is probably impossible to remove? I could not find any reviews of the
product on those who were removing a dye lighter than their natural hair colour
(but that could only be it’s not meant to be for that purpose…). The theory
behind how this product work:
‘Colour B4 shrinks the artificial dye molecules
embedded within the hair, enabling you to simply wash them away. Colour B4 does
not affect your natural hair colour, meaning the result following use is the
shade which lay beneath your artificial colour.’
This told me it should work regardless to the original colour of your
hair? Please comment below and let me know if I have completely misunderstood
that lol. And also I went for the extra strength one because I believe the dye build up in my hair must be pretty bad...However, there was a normal strength one, another one for those who frequently uses hair colourant at home and also one for removing more vibrant colours like red.
So I thought I would give it a go. It was retailed for £11.99 but
it was on offer from SuperDrug for £9.99 (after Christmas), BARGAIN!
Inside the box there were three bottles labeled A, B and C
Here is
how I used it (I just followed the instructions given in the box)
Step1: Pour A into B.
Step2: Apply to dry hair then wrap the hair in cling film as
demonstrated below…That’s because it is very important to keep the hair warm in
order to let the product works on the hair.
Step3: Spend 60 minutes of your life with cling film on your head lol (30 minutes
for the normal strength)
Step4: Rinse off the product with warm water for 5- 10 minutes (It’s
important to rinse thoroughly to allow the shrunken dye particles to leave your
hair)
Step5: Apply half of the contents in bottle C, lather up and leave in
for a minute
Step6: Rinse it off for 5- 10 minutes
Step7: Apply the other half of bottle C and shampoo how you normally would.
The hair colour removing process can be repeated up to three times.
Here is the final result…it became slightly less obvious at where the darker roots meet the lighter hair? However it was not a miracle product for me.
I would not repeat the process because it smells so so so so bad like
rotten eggs!! And that smell stayed in my hair for at least two days…The
process was quite complicated and the recommended rinsing time was actually
very long that I ran out of hot water in the shower. It’s like 10 degrees in
England so I did not enjoy the cold shower. The good things were that it didn’t damage
my hair at all as it claimed (no bleach no ammonia) and it was so fun wearing a
Sainsbury’s bag cape and having cling film wrapped around my head.
Overall it’s like I didn’t do anything to my hair except made it smelled
like rotten eggs for two days. However, this could just be because it's not meant for people with naturally dark hair trying to remove a lighter coloured dye or the dye build up in my hair was just way too much. Hope you found this review useful. Please
comment below or chat to me about this product or anything else.
Love you all
Mwah Mwah Mwah~~
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