For Colored Girls Only (Hair Coloring Support Thread)

I wanted to come in and vouch for the shea moisture color system.
i have used all kinds of products to color my hair (been doing it since high school), but this kit is truly one of the best. my hair did not feel robbed of moisture at all and the color was very vibrant. i love the shampoo and conditioner included. there was even a little applicator brush. I love little details like that.

the whole thing was just so well put together.
i will definitely repurchase, it is worth a few extra dollars.
 
It definitely worked. So now I need to see if I can get it to last 3 weeks. If so I will use the following regimen.

1. Protein treatment at least 3 days before
2. Mudwash to remove build up
3. Ion Precolor treatment
4. Apply color. Either use heat or just baggy for 45+ minutes
5. Rinse with cool water
6. Ion After color treatment
7. Rinse with cool water.
8. Use leave-in and styler but no oil immediately after color..

Here are my results. Even though I used the Ion black, it looks just like the darkest brown on my hair. It still has a reddish tint.

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flyygirlll2 said:
@Rocky91 Thanks for the review. I bought the SM Color System in Jet Black and I'm excited to color my hair. I only purchased 1 which I hope will be enough to cover my hair .
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yay! You will like it, I am sure.
And I felt there was enough product, maybe more than in your average box color, but i have hair that is not very dense at all.

I was really impressed. My hair felt better than it had with some salon-quality colors. It really seems to maintain the integrity of the hair strand. :yep:
 
I think I'm going to wait until summer to color my hair. I'm going back to my wigs this week so there's really no need to color. Now I just need to take these next 5 months to decide if I'm going to a lighter blonde or red. My other thought was to just do my usual Shea Moisture color every 4-6 weeks and by June it should be the shade of blonde that I really want.
 
I'm giving this another go. My hair has finally recovered from the Henna (never again!). About two weeks ago I attempted to use the Natural Instincts dye with no results. I went to Sally's today and the employee helped me out. I had an excellent customer service experience there. She explained to me that I was using the wrong color, that I needed to pick a brighter red so that it would show up more in my dark brown hair. Ideally, my hair will look like the deep red shade with the brighter color.

I bought the Color Charm Demi in 6rv and the Salon Care 10 developer. I hope it works. After I color my hair I will post the results here.
 
Anonymous53 said:
I'm giving this another go. My hair has finally recovered from the Henna (never again!). About two weeks ago I attempted to use the Natural Instincts dye with no results. I went to Sally's today and the employee helped me out. I had an excellent customer service experience there. She explained to me that I was using the wrong color, that I needed to pick a brighter red so that it would show up more in my dark brown hair. Ideally, my hair will look like the deep red shade with the brighter color.

I bought the Color Charm Demi in 6rv and the Salon Care 10 developer. I hope it works. After I color my hair I will post the results here.
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Good luck.
 
Do you have a link?

PlainJane said:
1. Form of color (semi, demi, permanent, etc)
- Demi Clairol Natural Instincts

2. How often you color
- around every 4 months

3. Your color regimen if any
- I haven't had to change anything with my regimen by using color

4. How long you have been coloring or your coloring history
- don't even get me started on my coloring disasters that happened pre-hair journey :nono: idk how I kept the few inches of hair I had left smh but I've been *safely* coloring my hair for the past 5 years

5. Anything else you would like to share.
Right now I'm doing jet black because it's shiny and always looks healthy and silky on me. However, I want to try highlights eventually.

Also, has anyone noticed that the conditioner that comes in the coloring box is the best conditioner in the world!? They take it out the box and sell it on eBay and I'm considering purchasing it and using it exclusively after I finish transitioning.
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My apology for the misunderstanding. I'm referring to your comment below.

Also, has anyone noticed that the conditioner that comes in the coloring box is the best conditioner in the world!?

PlainJane said:
1. Form of color (semi, demi, permanent, etc)
- Demi Clairol Natural Instincts

2. How often you color
- around every 4 months

3. Your color regimen if any
- I haven't had to change anything with my regimen by using color

4. How long you have been coloring or your coloring history
- don't even get me started on my coloring disasters that happened pre-hair journey :nono: idk how I kept the few inches of hair I had left smh but I've been *safely* coloring my hair for the past 5 years

5. Anything else you would like to share.
Right now I'm doing jet black because it's shiny and always looks healthy and silky on me. However, I want to try highlights eventually.

Also, has anyone noticed that the conditioner that comes in the coloring box is the best conditioner in the world!? They take it out the box and sell it on eBay and I'm considering purchasing it and using it exclusively after I finish transitioning.
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I cowashed tonight and my color held up pretty well. The color is starting to fade on my edges but it is holding up otherwise. If the color can hold up through 6 washed that would be fabulous. But so far so good.
 
I am very happy to report initial success with my hair dye.

Last night I washed my hair. I used Shea Moisture JBCO Shampoo, and then I deep conditioned with Shea Moisture Restorative Conditioner (just used a plastic cap and left it in for half an hour). I didn't put any product in my hair. I just put it in very large twists and went to sleep. This is what it looked like before:

Before hair color .jpg

This morning I wet my hair and applied the dye. I used my Gold N Hot Soft Bonnet Dryer on Hot/High. I kept the dryer on for like 15 mins, so total processing time was probably close to 20 mins. After I rinsed the dye I applied the Clairol Color Treat Conditioner. This is what my hair looked like after (still damp):

After dye .jpg

The color deposit is very subtle, but it is definitely present. :clapping: I don't think that my camera does the dye justice. My hair has a very nice reddish highlight to it without being too over the top (I am in the military).

I am definitely going to do this again. I think I will be coloring my hair probably once every three months.

For reference, I used the Color Charm Demi-Permanent Haircolor in 6RV/Fiery Red. I used the Salon Care 10 Volume Creme Developer.

A few things I will do in the future:
  • I won't be purchasing the Salon Care Developer again. I find it a too runny for my liking. If anyone has a suggestion for developer I will take it. :)
  • Next time I am going to allow my hair to dry a bit more prior to applying the dye. Or maybe I will just spray it with water as opposed to using the shower.
  • I need to start doing protein treatments consistently and using heat in my deep conditioning routine. Oh how I wish Sally's didn't stop carrying my beloved Jheri Redding Natural Protein Conditioner. I will probably go back to using Aphogee 2 Min.
 
Has anyone use Loreal hi-lites (the red colors) with just developer?? If you have, did using only developer keep the health of your hair better? Or is it just as damaging as bleach?
 
This is wash 2 after applying the semi-permanent. It didn't run at all today. I am very pleased. The color is fading on my edges but it is not very noticeable. 1 week down and 2 more to go.
 
I may start using the Ion color seal as a final rinse after my weekly wash and dc. My blue is fading to a deep shade of violet. It's beautiful. Once it fades some more I am going to use a bold red over it. I'm too impatient to let it fade completely and I'm too scared to use Uncolor/color oops.
 
I read somewhere that vitamin c tablets mixed with shampoo can help remove unwanted hair color, but it can be drying...

I guess I could use this concoction as my first lather and do a really good dc afterwards.
 
L.Brown1114 said:
Has anyone use Loreal hi-lites (the red colors) with just developer?? If you have, did using only developer keep the health of your hair better? Or is it just as damaging as bleach?
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The Loreal hi color? I used only 20 volume developer. I just followed what the directions said wasn't thinking about health really
 
I had to step away from the colour ladies! I've been trimming it for almost 2 years now! I have about 1-2 inches left in some places. My ends are dry rough split if you look at em and feel like velcro. I'm gonna make it do what it do and see how it goes without colour for a few years. My natural hair colour is blah, but I will learn to love it cause it's blah but healthy!
 
I really started neglecting my hair last year. And now ive got the breakage to prove it. My dyed ends dont look good. Although im growing them out, i still need to be nice to them. And i havent been. Maybe I'll go back into my wig for awhile. Give my hair a break from the weather and my hands. I keep messing with it, removing knots
 
@ajargon02 I still haven't used it yet. I think I might hold off on using it for now just because I'm itching for a reddish color lol. I used to color my hair red all the time years ago and loved it. If I end up using the SM Jet Black, I will definitely leave a review though :)
 
I'm trying my Ion semi permanent color again. This time I cowashed versus using shampoo. This is a long wash day.

I used Olaplex #3 for 15 minute and then did the entire TVO regimen.
--Protein treatment with TVO Quinoa protein for 40 minutes.
--Carmeltini for 2 hours
--Mudwash for 30 minutes
--Apple Cowash

After rinsing out the cowash I towel dried and spritzed with the ION Precolor treatment.
I used a brush and applied the color concentrating heavily on my front edges.

I now have on 2 plastic caps, 2 metallic conditioning caps and a lined shower cap to create some heat. I'm too lazy to pull out the dryer :ohwell:

My last color lasted for 2.5 weeks but I think I might color every 2 weeks to keep the gray off my edges. Or I may play around with doing just the front every 2 weeks and figure out a time schedule to do my entire head.

If this works, I am going to be very pleased.
 
This wasn't a fail but it didn't turn out as well as the 1st time. It seemed OK on the original rinse but when I applied the After Color treatment and rinsed the color really started to bleed. Perhaps my water was a little too warm. Perhaps I don't need the after color treatment and I can just spritz my hair with cool water..

I will do what I did last time and not wet my hair or oil my hair for 4 days to let the color set in. Then I will see how it goes.

Over time perhaps I can really simplifiy it once I rule out what doesn't work. I may try just a mud wash, followed by a color application and a cool water rinse. If that's all I need then I'm good. I need to try that before I go to Sally's again.
 
I'm going to stick with the semi-permanent. I will hold onto my permanent color until the summer though to see how it goes. And I will just keep my regimen simple before a color application. I will do a mudwash, the ION Pre-color treatment, apply the color and really try to use heat. I will keep the rinse simple and rinse with cooler water than I wash with and then spritz with cold water. Then I will make sure I don't touch my hair for 4 days to let the color set. I will probably have to color every 2 to 2.5 weeks.

I can live with that. Hopefully my hair will become healthier with this change. I'm going to stock up on some ion color, a new color bowl and brush and maybe 1 or 2 pre-color treatments when I catch a sale.
 
Anonymous53 said:
I'm giving this another go. My hair has finally recovered from the Henna (never again!). About two weeks ago I attempted to use the Natural Instincts dye with no results. I went to Sally's today and the employee helped me out. I had an excellent customer service experience there. She explained to me that I was using the wrong color, that I needed to pick a brighter red so that it would show up more in my dark brown hair. Ideally, my hair will look like the deep red shade with the brighter color.

I bought the Color Charm Demi in 6rv and the Salon Care 10 developer. I hope it works. After I color my hair I will post the results here.
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@Anonymous53 What did the Henna do to your hair? I'm still on the fence with Henna. I purchased several boxes of Henna a few months ago and I'm terrified to use it....some people get good results, but then others claim it ruined their hair and they cant color over it. Don't know what to do.
 
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