Colour Freedom Metallic Glory in Silver Blonde Review

I don't think it's any shock that one of my most popular posts of all time is a hair dye review, a Colour freedom review to be exact, that shade however was in Silver grey which you can find below, if you're interested in that colour too!

Read: Colour Freedom, Metallic Glory in Silver Grey Review

But seeing as the amount of success I had with the previous one, I decided to give it another go. I had previously used the graphite grey on my hair, which sent it green. So please be careful, assess your porosity and always always please please do a strand test before putting all over your head!

So my hair was black this summer. But it was killing my hair. I know, you would think it would be the opposite, but I'm naturally quite fair haired anyway. So constantly topping my black hair up was doing more damage than good.

So I made the terrible decision of trying to lighten it. Which ended in a terrible trip to the hairdressers. But hey ho. A few months later, a few bleach baths and some sad looking hair, I finally thought I would be light enough to tone.

I had gone pink to cover up the mess I had created underneath so I had some extreme warm tones going on, which I just couldn't really shift. So I thought this toner would do the trick.

I bought it in silver blonde this time, as the last one in 'graphite grey' sent it green. This is probably because my hair wasn't light enough. (and I didn't do a strand test and ended up with green hair) Here was my hair before any toner.

Beautiful I know, but as you can see, there's so much red tone there, I just couldn't get rid of it by bleaching.. I used Bleach london's big pink.. so I have no idea what was in it, but I just couldn't shift it. I've never had any trouble getting out pink shades, so don't use that brand if you plan on getting blonde again easily.

To tone, I tried the Colour freedom silver blonde to see if I would have much success.

I always do a strand test now and test a little piece of hair to see what colour it will turn and also how long to keep it on for.

After finishing the strand test, I was pretty happy with the strand result, so it was time to put it all over!

And this was the finished colour! As you can see it's much much cooler than it was, making it much more of a ashy blonde colour, which I was really happy with! I kept this colour for a month or two before finally bleaching again to go grey. 

It's a hard colour to achieve, so patience is really the key. Also doing strand tests ensures you don't ruin the whole of your hair if it doesn't turn the way you wanted it to. This toner does still contain a small amount of peroxide, so just be aware if your hair is mega damaged like mine :( - keep an eye when developing, as damaged hair can over-process.

I would really recommend this product as I did the last one. Even after having a bad experience with one of their colours, this was because my hair wasn't light enough to be toned. Also I didn't do a strand test.. which is super important when dealing with toners and any other hair dyes.

Hope you enjoyed this review! I will update you guys soon with my current hair dye situation!

Happy and careful hair dying! <3

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BLEACH LONDON 'THE BIG PINK' REVIEW

It literally feels like forever since I've done any sort of hair dye related reviews or something to do with actually dying my hair. My previous "BLEACH LONDON" post has probably my most amount of views ever, which is strange because in my opinion their hair dye is more about the sort of trend and marketing they have behind their brand as opposed to the actual formula of the dye itself, but I guess that's why its popular!

Also I think some of their colours absolutely suck. Not sure if they changed their formula's in some of them, but the undertones in their violet skies one used to send people's hair green, not nice. They thought they would fix this by releasing a rose shampoo to claim you can shampoo it out.. instead of fixing their crappy formula.. anyway that's another story! Back to the review..

SO I'm dying my hair pink.

It's obvious I change my hair a lot, which is probably why you're reading this, I'd say I'm pretty good at hair colours mainly because I've quite a lot of experience with colours such as vegetable based dyes. Peroxide dyes are a completely different story. But Bleach london and all those sorts of dyes usually contain no peroxide and a lot of them are vegan friendly!

I hear you asking.. "Emily, why are you using bleach london if you don't like their formula so much?"

Well, my hair is extremely porous. Which means my hair has been very over-processed, which isn't surprising considering what it's been through this year. This was down to a lot of peroxide and chemical based colours I've been using this year. So my hair takes to colour really well, but it also clings onto it quite abit (especially at the ends) and because of this I didn't want something really with a lasting colour because it will take forever to wash out.

I'm also trying to not bleach my hair at the moment, so when I want to change colour I can do it easily by fading the colour out by using simple shampoo and not putting any chemicals on my damaged hair. 

So what's actually good about Bleach London semi permanent hair dyes?

- They're pretty good at fading. If you're after a colour that will fade quickly, this dye will. However if you're looking for a long-lasting bright colour that won't happen with these dyes.

- They smell amazing. That is one thing I love about their products is that they smell incredible.

- They're easy to apply, the formula is quite creamy and not runny at all so it's so easy to apply this all over your hair. I recommend applying on damp hair, it makes application a lot easier.

This was my hair before, I had previously used rose on it, which left it in this weird pinky colour, my roots were a strange blonde colour but I'd washed it for so long and I was fed up with it (tehe) excuse my pyjamas..

(^ my hair before)

My hair after!

It's now a bright pink colour, which has a little hint of purple-y in there, which reminds me of the XXL Live pink colour that they do, I much prefer the flamingo pink colour from La riche Directions, but its alright! I'll see how it goes washing wise and let you guys know what the upkeep/fade is like after a few weeks.

One thing I did notice was it is extremely messy in the shower. Like everywhere, I was squeegee-ing around as I went along, and it will stain your white pillows!

But thanks for reading as always and I'm hope you found the review helpful.

Let me know if you would like to see more posts like this!

Update:

I had this colour for a few weeks, it was nice, but started fading obviously. When I bleached my hair, it was VERY RED TONED. It was almost orange as though I had bleached dark hair... So my guess is that this is a very red based pink. I used this as a temporary colour because I thought it would fade out easy and be easy to remove. I was wrong. I never have any trouble with pinks but it was the hardest pink I have ever had to remove. The colour was nice while I had it, but was hard to remove. If you're looking for a better pink and not red based (in my opinion) I would recommend Flamingo pink by La riche Directions.

Return of the Colours

THEY ARE BACK. I repeat they are back! I have missed them so much.
Aside from being able to wear whatever the hell I want to, I really missed those crazy I don't give a crap what my crazy hair looks like days, and I'm happy to say that my crazy colourful hair will be staying for a little while.

This decision came after I just became fed up with 'natural' looking colours. I went black a few months ago to cover over the blue/green tone that had stained my blonde hair, I wanted a more natural colour so I could wear different clothes that would go with my hair. But after being black for quite some time I got bored of it and wanted to go grey again, little did I know I had been putting silicone in my hair from the XXL Live colour black I had been using.

Cutting it short.. (no pun intended) after trying to tone my hair multiple times, going to a hairdressers twice.. my hair was some super damaged, nasty gross green tinge colour. I was a true swamp girl. It was making me really unhappy and I didn't really want to leave the house, nothing I did worked, violet shampoo and all that stuff but what I really needed was to put warmth back into my hair.

I was patient and didn't just chuck the first colour on my head, which probably would've been black and caused more damage, which I'm so happy I did, because I had bleached and damaged my hair and it was actually blonde underneath the colour. So to limit the damage to my hair, today I put a colour remover on which removed most of the toner, and I'm back to using the vegan conditioning, non-peroxide dyes I know and love.

Although bleach london aren't my favourite hair dyes in the world, they don't last very long, which is why I'm using them in case I have a colour disaster and it doesn't work.. at least it will fade out fairly quickly. I chose orange/pink to try and neutralise the green tinge I have from putting too much ashy tones in my hair and if it works, who knows maybe it will stay!

If you've been keeping up on my instagram or twitter you'll see I've been documenting the process today on my insta story for anybody who is interested.

Now to go wash my head!

Thanks for reading as always,

How NOT to dye your hair

How not to dye your hair, a post I thought I would never write.. but look at where we are. It's not really a surprise I can hear most of you saying.. How long could this crazy woman go about dying her hair left right and centre. Well my friends, the time has come where I have and sadly admit that I have quite frankly fucked up my hair.

It all started when I went to university, I had previously rebelliously dyed my hair bright pink, but sixth form made me change it so I never really experimented with my hair apart from the odd toner here and there as I was always a blonde, naturally and dyed. So it was bound to happen, the moment I was set free from the chains of parents I went a little mental.

Blue, green, pink, pink and yellow, orange, red, purple I'm pretty sure you could name a colour and I've probably been there. I think it all comes down to the fact I'm pretty proud of my hair, so it always has to look on fleek, or it makes me all irritated and sad. So I was constantly topping up my hair.
The crazy bright colours were ok because they don't contain peroxide, its just vegetable dyes which was great for my hair and it would soak it all up and be all delicious.  But I used to change my mind and get bored and try a new idea.

The pain started when I decided to take a chill pill from my insane colours. (*I was blonde over Christmas and I stupidly decided to go back to crazy colours because I'm an idiot so I had to fix it)

I've always bleached my hair, it's been through a lot with me (strokes hair lovingly) but I wanted to go a natural colour because I got really annoyed with not being able to wear certain colours (burgundy I'm looking at you) and it was just so frustrating to see all these cute autumn outfits and I was constantly stuck with a black wardrobe because my hair changed so much.

So after trying to bleach the crap out of my hair and go blonde it was stuck green. GREEN. Experience has taught me that blue/green shades just don't come out of my hair. No matter what. Ketchup, toners, I've been on holiday for 2 weeks in Turkey.. super hot, super chloriney and it still never came out.

So I went black.
and I got bored.
and I wanted grey hair.
it went green,
and I spent a small fortune trying to get it fixed at a hairdressers.

So here I am.
a stupid girl with a frizzy damaged mess.
and here's my lesson from this story..

Please don't use box dyes on your hair.
They are full of crap. Because customers have such different hair they have to ramp up the peroxide so it will lift and may people don't need such a strong amount on their hair. I also found out that some box dyes are also full of SILICONE. This is so it stays looking nicer for longer, less fade etc, but guess what, that crap is PLASTIC. SO whenever you use heat, straighteners etc, that gross stuff is melting into your hair. yep.

MELTED PLASTIC HAIR. which a lot of hair removers can't get out.

So please please look after your hair, and be careful when changing colours. Use professional colours when you're dealing with bleach and/or peroxide and if you have any doubts or you know you probably can't fix it, then do a me and hold your hands up, admit defeat and go see a pro ;)

Colour Freedom, Metallic Glory in Silver Grey Review

Phew! What a mouthful. After deciding I was bored with my blonde hair, which to be honest it has been a while for me! I wanted a change that was different, but I didn't really want it to be bright and I knew I didn't want to go super dark. It took alot of effort to go to blonde and I wanted to preserve my efforts.

Review & How-to // Directions Turquoise & Manic Panic Electric Lizard

I decided to make a little video this week as I get so many questions about how I dye my hair straight down the middle.

My roots were pre-bleached the day before, ready for dying. If they weren't they wouldn't take as well or brightly! It's pretty simple, so check it out!

Review | Avon Moroccan Argan Oil

Review | Avon Moroccan Argan Oil | £3.85

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As a girl who constantly dye's her hair, my hair often gets dry and crispy. I use loads of Avon's hair products and I love them, I might do a review of those soon too. But I've been trying out their Moroccan Argan oil, to see how this could help my hair out from its shriveled texture.

Review | La Riche Directions, Violet

It's been so long since I've written a blog post.. I've just been so caught up in settling for university and stuff I haven't had much time to blog, or find the time to blog.

So yesterday I had such a huge urge to dye my hair, I've been wanting to go purple for a little while now, as I was kinda getting bored of the blue. I even got my nails done purple, which kinda convinced me to do it.

Again I used La Riche Directions but this time I used the violet. I was so scared of using this because its so dark in the bottle! eek! I also bleached my hair beforehand and I was super scared that it wouldn't take properly :(

I have been loving direction's hair, the turquoise had literally lasted me ages, barely faded.

When I first dyed it, it was a little patchy.. I literally covered my head in this stuff, I find that purple is hard to get even anyway but yeah. I did go over certain bits again. If you're doing this I would recommend getting more than you think you will need!

I will eventually get round to editing the video but here's the colour!

(so sultry lol)

So yeah, this is my new purple hair! It looks really nice in the daytime, not so sure of night. I do however prefer the blue - I don't think this will last as long..Will put the video up soon :)

Review | Cliphair.co.uk hair extensions

I've dived into the world of youtube right now and I literally cannot stop making videos!
For this post I did a review on hair extensions from cliphair.co.uk, I think it was quite a positive review, but honest.

I'm loving having new hair extensions, I can get back to being the mermaid I was supposed to be.

Review | La Riche Directions Turquoise

Hi guys,
Sorry I haven't been blogging much, I've had some deadlines at uni which I have had to complete before I go off for christmas (yippee) But now all my work is done I've had abit more time on my hands and I've started a youtube account! i already used mine to subscribe to people but never posted anything..

So here's my first video :) Be nice!

So this is the final look!

I really love this colour, its more vibrant than the bleach london, and it's way cheaper aswell.

I'll give an update in the next few weeks to see what the upkeep is like!

I hoped you liked my new video, it was really nice to try something different - made me realise I do need a new laptop haha.

I hope I can start to make new video's soon. 

Thanks for reading!