Rid the Red with Colour B4.

Colour B4 is a new product and claims to be the first of it's type - to actually shrink dye molecules on the hair and safely remove them, basically stripping the hair of any previous dye to it's natural state. Too good to be true eh? Well lets just see!

This picture was taken yesterday and I was mortified to see my apparently Chocolate brown dyed hair (L'Oreal Excell10) shining bright red on all of the photos, not to mention the brassy tinge so I concluded I had nothing to loose by stripping my hair using Colour B4 followed by a nice light brown (no red!).

Points about this product:

1. The instruction leaflet is thorough - perhaps a little patronising. The Q&A section was very helpful.

2. There are a lot of steps and atleast 15 mins rinsing time, make sure you have plenty of time (and hot water) before you start the process.

3. The smell ain't good, it's not that overpowering chemical smell but, in my opinion, it's a bit like baby sick.

4. During rinsing I was expecting to see a rainbow of all of the dyes I have used over the years stream from my hair - the water was clear.

5. I was warned my hair would go ginger/orange due to the highlights and red shades I have used over the years, however I don't think it turned out that bad!

So, there was an orange glow but not unbearable. What I wanted from this product was for my hair to be light enough and the red colour to be removed so as to recolour with a nice plain light brown.

I chose to apply Perfect10 in Dark Blonde after the Colour B4 - yes, you can dye your hair again, straight away! I always chose hair dyes a shade lighter than the colour I wish to achieve as the colour is always darker than the boxes lead you to believe.

And this is the end result. Dark blonde? No. Dark? Yes. Happy me? The jury is still out, I wish I had chosen a medium ash blonde instead of a dark to acheive a lighter result and an ash shade would have got rid of the warm tones from my hair that are still apparent. That said, Colour B4 can be used up to three times in succession so maybe I'll try again next week?

What do you think?

Rose x