New hair - John Frieda's precision foam colour in 4BG Dark Chocolate Brown

Hi Guys!

So........a while back I said that I was going to grow grey gracefully. And then I just had too many grey hairs in the worst places. On first glance I don't think anyone would notice I had a lot of grey hair but on closer inspection I had a lot of short sticky up grey hairs at the front of my hair line and then loads of grey hair along my parting. Do greys like fresh air or something?!

This was a total impulsive decision. At 5.30pm when I was leaving work I hadn't decided to dye my hair, and by 8pm that night I was head down in the bath trying to dye my own hair.

I was on the search for M&S pistachio cookies in Liverpool Street station (omg amazing mmmmmmmmmm) but they were sold out *sadface and so I ended up in Boots looking for cotton wool pads and somehow I ended up in the hair dye aisle and there was money off John Frieda's precision foam colour and.....yeah. 

I think RRP is £9.99 and I paid £6 something, definitely under £7. 

I wanted a colour as close to my natural hair colour as possible a dark dark brown, and I wanted to avoid a red tint for sure so I went for shade 4BG, Dark Chocolate Brown.

I don't know which moron designed the packaging. Why is the model pictured in black and white? I know they show the hair colour but I'm always interested in seeing it on a person. Anyway. 

The reason why I also went for this is because I was interested in the foam aspect. When I was younger I use to dye my hair quite a lot but my mum always did it for me and I didn't think I would be able to manage. In retrospect I probably could have used a normal hair dye as I have about 70% less hair - damn it in length and thickness - than I did 10 years ago!!

This was easy to use in all aspect. Pop 2 into 1 and slowly tilt the bottle a few times (instructions are much more specific!) 3 is the conditioner so you can forget about that until the end. 

Replace the screw lid withthe foam spraying thing.

Put on the sexy scary black rubber gloves. (Smear your hairline and ears with vaseline first and put on something old first!)

The product in the bottle won't look foamy. Don't panic. DO NOT SHAKE!

You kinda squeeze the bottle and thats how you get the foam. 

My body and bathroom floor didn't come out of this impulse decision too good. Luckily make up wipes sorted out the body dye. Unfortunately, my bathroom floor now has suspect brown stains on the floor....

And then you put the foam in your hair.

The main reason I decided I was going to go grey gracefully was due to my hair loss. I've spoken about this loads here but in case you're new, I'm losing hair like a MOFO. I'm running out of ways to part my hair because from ear to ear it is so thin now :(

There is no scientific proof that hair dye contributes to hair loss but in my mind, the less crap I put onto my scalp the better right?

So I did take a bit of a risk doing this, but like I said, last minute decision....

When I put it on my heart was racing. I was ready to wash it straight off if it didn't feel good but after about one minute of tingly and that horrid hair dye smell I felt like I had a hair treatment in my hair!

I left it in for.....30 minutes? When I was younger I use to leave dye in for maybe an hour due to my 'asian hair' but I decided that I wouldn't take too many risks and tempt the fates and jumped into the shower.

I was pleasantly surpirsed at how conditioning the hair foam was. Instead of being a tangled rat nest I could actually run my fingers through my hair as the water rinsed out the foam. Also, just so you know, it gets all lathering like shampoo when you  wash it out which was nice.  I then used the conditioner that came in the box. It was so crap that I actually gave up half way through and used my own normal hair conditioner.

And I was done. Dyed and not totally bald. But was I still grey?

I dried my hair roughly with the hairdryer but at this point it was nearly 10pm so into bed I went.

Well. There is a colour change but only one that I can see lol so I guess I did a really good colour match when choosing a shade? Too bad I'm not so talented when picking foundation to match my face!!!

#Selfie while I'm walking down the street lol #noshame

I like my new hair but honestly, my greys are still there. Now they are just a caramel colour. Bit annoying and maybe I should just go grey gracefully after all?

I'm really glad I gave this a try though cos the situation was bugging me.

The product was really easy to use and left my hair in good condition (doesn't feel dry at all), so no harm no foul right?

It is really tempting to try again with a normal dye to see if I get better grey coverage but I honestly don't think that will be worth the risk.

Have you used this product or a similar foaming colour before? Any good? Just out of interest, any recommendations for great dyes to cover grey?

Have a great day xoxo

Girl gone wild (ombre) again!

Hello hello.....so we meet again.

A total impulse move but I decided on Thursday that I wanted my ombre to be lighter. I had V sleeping over aka live in hairdresser.

There was a 2 for £10 deal in Boots on Jerome Russell products (so I saved about 10p!) soI picked up the blonding kit in medium lift [above picture] and a colour toner [picutred somewhere below]. Sorry about the box - V is an animal :) She did tell me to google image a nice box but I thought that I would keep it real. 

So we brushed out my hair and V mixed up the blonding kit and put it on my hair where it was already ombred, she then wrapped it in foil and she pinned it up to keep it out of the way. Not sure if I mentioned it last time but keeping it wrapped keeps things hot, and heat helps the chemicals to really do the business.

No pictures cos it gets a bit icky but after 30 mins V removed the foil and I rinsed my hair using the conditioning shampoo supplied in the box. We could already tell at this point that my hair was Barbie blonde. V's reaction was "holy f**k!!!".

[above - colour toner]

I towel dried and brushed my hair again and then V plopped the colour toner on my blonde hair. 

V wrapped my hair in clingfilm and I blow dried the cling filmed bit for 5 minutes and then left it for....I can't remember....maybe 20-30 mins? I then got back into the shower and washed my hair using my normal shampoo and conditioner. The best news at this point is that my hair wasn't feeling all melted and dead and weird. 

So erm....yeah.....this is my hair. The blonding kit worked!!! This is blow dried not straightened; not sure if my hair csn take 230 degrees heat at the moment.  (Sorry abut my nightie!! lol)

Friday morning I was still blonde and I was still scared to straighten it so I did a fishtail braid. I had people pulling at it thinking it was a clip in plait. I had people ask if I had extensions. And I had a lot of looks at horror.

I honestly don't know how I feel about my hair as a whole. I'm really happy with the colour just for the fact that I never thought I could be this blond. I'm really impressed with the products used. As a whole? It's not ombre at its best is it? Oh well. It's only hair!

Girls gone wild (ombre)

I didn't learn my lesson the first time after having to chop off my hair last time I decided to ombre and I  purchased  Loreal's Wild Ombre (kit 1). 

So I parted my hair and slopped on the mixture making sure to comb it through  my hair. I tried hard to make it  straight since that was a major problem last time. In regards to the actual product - it is what it is - can't really complain for £6 ish and Asian hair. I wrapped my hair in foil because a) it's just less messy b) the heat supposedly helps the colour develop).

Left it in for about 90 mins (which is waaaaay longer than the instructions say but any Asian knows that this has to be done) and then washed out the day. 

The pony was done to show the contrast of colours. It's obviously  lighter - and in natural light it's bright  like woah. But it's no way near blonde and it is frankly, orange. 

Hair is still wet so you can't see that the ends are yellow from the bleach from  before. Within a few days the ends snapped straight off and that was about as close to blond that I think I will get. Happy that the 'ombre line' is pretty straight.  A million times better than last time that's for sure!!!

My hair was a mess so had to get it cut. The front is horrid (and not ombred at all as I clipped  the front bits up when I was dying it). Do you like my dressing gown? lol And can you see my greys?!?!?! Holy moose poo!

Ombre hair

So I've been a bit bored with my hair lately. Colour is blah and cut is blah. Can't be bothered with any kind of fringe and still wanting it to grow longer so scissors = trim only, no layers, no nothing.

I can't really dye my hair because frankly and honestly, I am losing my hair. It's been happening for a while now (like maybe 2 years?) but now it's reached a point where I can't ignore it and some people (tactless from the shock I guess) have pointed out that I am going bald. Yes I am.

It's sad and scary. I need to see a doctor but I find all that jazz scary too. And plus, pills or special shampoo isn't really going to work miracles otherwise they'd be no bald people in the world!!!

This whole hair thinning thing is what made me decide to do the hair lenting thing. Unfortunately, less styling does not help the hair loss so......*shrugs*

Also, I'm trying to disguise the thinning (FFS the only thin part of me!!) by changing my parting about but it's not a great tactic as the thinning is all on top so eventually........... :(

FUCK. Typing this is making me want to cry. *deep breath in out in out in out*

Erm, so the actual point of this post: OMBRE HAIR!

I don't want to dye my whole head because I don't want to make things worse (not that there is evidence to suggest hair dye would make things worse but better to be safer then even more sorry!).

So I thought I could jump on the ombre hair band wagon. Loads of pro's to doing this:

• I'll only be dying the ends so no scalp stress
• As above, will only need to purchase one box of dye as opposed to two = save a bit of money
• Don't need to worry about roots coming through (because it has taken me ages to grow out my colour)
• Maybe I can try to go blond (.......or maybe not!)

Realistically I will probably end up with orange ends as per usual with any colour box dye but hey, orange is good. At least I'll get the 'want' out of my system!

If you aren't sure what I'm going on about please google image ombre hair. I don't want to post pics of celebs 'just in case'.

A lot of the images show a few inches of 'root' and then lightened hair but I am thinking most root and then colour from whatever hair is past my shoulders. I think that this will be easiest to do (tie my hair into a pony tail and dip the ends) and it will be easiest to upkeep.

I'm still in the thinking stage so.........we'll see, I'll keep you guys posted.

xoxox