This post was so helpful! I get my hair highlighted every 3 months but I'm starting to have more greys than I'd like and find just highlighting can't handle it anymore haha. My hair is also getting too light and was considering trying to dye it myself for the first time. Seems like semi permanent might be a good first attempt since it will eventually wash out if i don't like it.
OMG I just tried to order the toner kit until I realized they ship only to the UK! NOOOOOOOO!!! I live in the US…In Ohio. Please tell me you know of a solution. This is not okay.
Btw I love this post! Thanks so much for sharing!! 😁
Thanks for the info! I wanted to leave a quick warning for anyone using Garnier Olia...I just used "dark brown" and my hair came out BLACK. So...proceed with caution, and maybe go with a lighter color than you think you need!
Over the years, every hair dresser has advised me that if you do want to use a home dye kit, always choose a shade lighter (or I've found even two shades lighter) than you would think, as they always come out much darker.
Thank you for this review. This has really helped me decide which one to try, having had several past home dye disasters. I've always overlooked Josh Wood while looking in shops (not sure why) but having read your reviews and spent time looking through the website, I'm going to give it a try. My greys are mostly at the sides by my ears, so really obvious when I tie my hair up and a few scattered on top. I'll try lightest brown with champagne shade shot. I'll let you know how it goes. Thank you 😊
Hair dye beauty crisis unfurling! I work with the public and was told by a venomous older lady yesterday that I should enjoy my dyed black hair 'while I'm still young' because once I'm over 50 it will make me look exceptionally haggard! She went into great detail about how 'your haggard, aged skin will look even more aged'. Lucky me. I'm actually 40 already, I told her, so I can't wait to look terrifyingly inappropriate quite soon. I felt better for being smilingly offensive but have been nursing the wound ever since. I have tried so many hair colours (cherry red, platinum, hot pink, rose pink- no stress as I have a pixie cut) but black is my favourite, and yes I have plenty of greys to hide. I was feeling really saucy and hot until that encounter, but now I have been shaken. I want to cite Dita von Teese in my defense, but I'm a plus size librarian on a budget, so am I just lying to myself that it looks good? Or should I stay hardcore black hair dye FTW? I am hoping for the latter, but Anita if you read this, any input from a knowledgeable and very cool stranger would be welcome.
This post was so helpful! I get my hair highlighted every 3 months but I'm starting to have more greys than I'd like and find just highlighting can't handle it anymore haha. My hair is also getting too light and was considering trying to dye it myself for the first time. Seems like semi permanent might be a good first attempt since it will eventually wash out if i don't like it.
Ah I’m so glad. I think the general rule is that dying it darker or the same at home is ok but lighter can be a bit trickier! Xx
OMG I just tried to order the toner kit until I realized they ship only to the UK! NOOOOOOOO!!! I live in the US…In Ohio. Please tell me you know of a solution. This is not okay.
Btw I love this post! Thanks so much for sharing!! 😁
The shrine ones? I can see them on Amazon us? Xx
Thanks for the info! I wanted to leave a quick warning for anyone using Garnier Olia...I just used "dark brown" and my hair came out BLACK. So...proceed with caution, and maybe go with a lighter color than you think you need!
Over the years, every hair dresser has advised me that if you do want to use a home dye kit, always choose a shade lighter (or I've found even two shades lighter) than you would think, as they always come out much darker.
yes I think thats the one i used and it made it darker instead of lighter and ive got brown hair for the 1st time in my life 😭
I personally prefer that, just as at home dyes fair quicker, but totally get that not everyone does! So excellent warning!
Thank you for this review. This has really helped me decide which one to try, having had several past home dye disasters. I've always overlooked Josh Wood while looking in shops (not sure why) but having read your reviews and spent time looking through the website, I'm going to give it a try. My greys are mostly at the sides by my ears, so really obvious when I tie my hair up and a few scattered on top. I'll try lightest brown with champagne shade shot. I'll let you know how it goes. Thank you 😊
Oh good luck! I'm very messy and not great at this stuff either but I found it so easy to use! let me know how it goes. xx
i am naturally a dark blonde and bought a dye kit to lighten my hair and it came out darker instead what did i do wrong
That's very strange! Which one did you buy? xx
Hair dye beauty crisis unfurling! I work with the public and was told by a venomous older lady yesterday that I should enjoy my dyed black hair 'while I'm still young' because once I'm over 50 it will make me look exceptionally haggard! She went into great detail about how 'your haggard, aged skin will look even more aged'. Lucky me. I'm actually 40 already, I told her, so I can't wait to look terrifyingly inappropriate quite soon. I felt better for being smilingly offensive but have been nursing the wound ever since. I have tried so many hair colours (cherry red, platinum, hot pink, rose pink- no stress as I have a pixie cut) but black is my favourite, and yes I have plenty of greys to hide. I was feeling really saucy and hot until that encounter, but now I have been shaken. I want to cite Dita von Teese in my defense, but I'm a plus size librarian on a budget, so am I just lying to myself that it looks good? Or should I stay hardcore black hair dye FTW? I am hoping for the latter, but Anita if you read this, any input from a knowledgeable and very cool stranger would be welcome.