Rated 5 out of 5Â by Jule PERFECTION!
The BEST blonde hair color out there!! Never any brassiness or damage. This coloring system beats my salons every time. The color is amazing, the quality is superior and I have NEVER had any brassiness, like you get with other blonde hair kits. Been using this for years and would panic if they no longer made it!!!
January 16, 2013
Rated 3 out of 5Â by Haeun Ok..
I had dyed my hair dark red at a salon. This time I wanted to lighten my hair without paying the expensive salon. I knew that it would turn out exactly as it shows in the picture. I just wanted to lighten it as much as I could to dye it light brown. I was expecting a light orangey color. Which was far from what I had in the results. i had a medium orangey brown color.
My roots seemed to take alot of the color because they were like 2 inches long.
I will not buy this product again.
A good thing is that the conditioner made my hair feel SO AMAZING. I wish they sold that separate!!
October 24, 2010
Rated 5 out of 5Â by Happy Used for years and love it
I have light brown hair and have used this product for at least 15 years with out any problems or odd color hair. 22 minutes on my roots every 5 weeks and I am always a lovely ash blond.
July 25, 2009
Rated 3 out of 5Â by EricSF Not as
I was surprised at the lack of reviews for this product that I could find, so thought I'd write a detailed description of my experience. I successfully lightened my hair from brown to blond with this product, but it was a lot of work. I definitely think the most important factor to consider when buying this product is what color is your hair Really and do you have any artificial dye/color in your hair presently? (I'm amazed by the number of people who think the instructions don't apply to them and then complain when they don't get the result exactly like the box shows.) Honestly, this product will not give the results shown on the box if your hair is brown, black or red. Even light brown is a stretch for this high-lift dye I think. My hair is normally a medium brown with a strong red base. I'd been using a demi-permanent light blond color to tone my 25% gray hair and the hydrogen peroxide in it lightened my natural color to a light coppery brown. I decided to go ash blond as much as possible, but I was reluctant to bleach my hair. (It is short and fine and I was afraid it and my scalp couldn't take the damage.) I purchased the Blondissemes LB01 Extra Light Ash Blond hoping the "cooler" ash feature would minimize the red/copper base and I wouldn't have to retone it later. It is listed as high lightening up to 3 levels. The box says it works on light brown hair and that red hair will result in blond with gold tones, but don't believe it. If you have dark to medium blond with little or no red base, this will probably work best. My hair was in good condition, so I applied the color to the darkest area; the ends, first and then put a processing cap over my head to intensify the heat processing. After 20 minutes I took off the cap, massaged the dye gently through my roots and replaced the plastic cap. The color was a reddish copper by then, so I then applied heat from a blow dryer a few times to accelerate even more and checked it again after 15 minutes...now light copper/orange, so I massaged through again, reapplied the cap and applied heat again for 10 minutes to equal the 45 minute processing time listed in the instructions. I didn't want to over process, so I removed the cap and now my hair looked kind of a pale orange/yellow. I hoped it was only the fact that it was still wet and had product in it, so I rinsed and dried it and sure enough, I had orange hair with blond highlights. Not a terrible Bozo the Clown neon orange thank goodness, but more of a strawberry yellow blond. It wasn't awful, but sure wasn't the color on the box and it sure wasn't ash blond and it didn't look "natural" per se. I have a reddish tone to my skin, so red hair looks awful on me and this wasn't going to do. I contemplated bleaching, but my hair did feel a little dry after the process, so I decided to buy another box of the same Blondissemes since it had lifted about 2-3 levels I hoped it would lift 2-3 levels again to a light ash blond.. (b.t.w what's up with that name? hard to spell and remember...and I speak French!) I waited 24 hours and made sure not to wash my hair again to keep the protective oils on my scalp. (Sidebar: The first run through didn't seem to affect my scalp or skin at all and my hair did feel pretty good after a deep conditioning unlike bleach which always burned me in past attempts) So, round two. I mixed and applied about 1/2 of the bottle to the "orangest" lengths of my hair first using a toning/color brush and put the plastic cap back on my head. I waited 25 minutes while applying heat from a hair dryer then checked it; looked pale orange almost a caramel, so I massaged it through the entire hair and reapplied plastic cap and blow dryer heat for another 25 minutes and by then it still looked like a medium caramel color with blond roots. To make a long story shorter, I ended up keeping the solution on my hair under a processing cap for a total of 90 minutes (double the recommended time) and applied heat about every 10 minutes for a total of 2 hours and 15 minutes over the two applications. By this time my hair looked like a pale caramel on the ends with pale blond roots and by now my ears and scalp were really starting to feel burnt. (I actually had some white hydrogen peroxide "dots/burns" on my ears, so thought it best to rinse it off ASAP and deep condition the heck out of it for 20 minutes..) Once out of the shower my hair looked a yellow/gold blond with a hint of pale bronze/caramel at the ends. After it dried, the ends lightened up a little and I now have a metallic yellowish/gold blond color which looks a little darker and more intense than the picture on the box. (more like an actual piece of gold rather than the frosty blond that I wanted.) Also, under some light, there is still a pale bronze/copper hue to the tone. Overall I will still need to go to the beauty supply store and purchase a blue-violet base toner tomorrow to help reduce the orange/yellow tone and make it more ash pale blond, but I think after that it will actually look pretty cool. (Don't get me wrong, it does look kinda cool right now, but a little too intense for my skin tone and a tad unnatural.) In the long run, I won't purchase this product again because it really doesn't lift and tone light brown//auburn hair as much as it claims to or is shown on the box in the recommended time. Considering the 2+ hours I spent to apply it twice, the light damage/drying it did to my ears, scalp and hair and the fact that I have to still buy a toner to neutralize the copper/yellow brassy undertone to make it look more "natural"; I should have just purchased a 30 volume bleach and a toner to begin with. I think the bleach would have lightened to a pale yellow easier and faster with one application as I hoped this would have. I hope this "overly detailed" review helps anyone who may be contemplating a high lift blond as opposed to a bleach and toner option for any shade of brown hair. Good luck! ;8^)
October 22, 2008
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