Colour B4 Hair Colour Remover

Ive always been one for changing my hair ever since I was young, and this usually consists of trying to reverse the blackest of black hair with a high strength bleach and loosing all my locks in the process! This time round though, and much less spontaneously I decided to look into finding a new way to get rid of my raven black permanent hair color. I went from bleach blonde, to bright red to black about 2 years ago now and had been black ever since (black over black many times), or I should say I've been an array of different types of black also (blue black, purple black etc). My hair now looked totally muddled and unhealthy looking and I felt "washed out" by the depth of the black color on my hair. I thought I would have to put up with it until it grew out! Then I found this product and became intrigued by some positive reviews and also after having watched some before and after videos on the internet I figured I had to try it! Even though I already new that it states it may not work if you have used UV hair dyes such as blue black which I had! I thought it would do nothing... I would like to stress right now (and I can't stress enough!) how important it is to read the instructions very VERY carefully and you MUST read the instructions more then once before you mix the products and start the process! Ive dyed my hair so many times I am so used to skipping instructions and just diving right in, but this product is different and you need to use it absolutely correctly for it to work! Before using the product I washed my hair thoroughly with a deep clensing shampoo (tresemme clense and replenish deep clensing shampoo) twice and no conditioning. As reviews have stated, the product smells bad, but not as bad to me as some reviews have made out! It is some what like egg and something else I can't put my finger on, more chemically! I was worried at first the house might smell for ages after but thankfully it didn't. I got used to the smell quite fast and it didn't bother me much. I wrapped cling film and a towel around my head and made sure I was in a warm place and blew the hairdryer on my head a few times just to make sure my head was nice and warm. Just before rinsing when I took the towel off my head I could already see a change! My hair from the roots looked very light ginger/light brown! The rinsing part is a pain, but you have to time your rinsing to be sure to rinse for 10 minutes between each process (first rinse, buffer rinse and then second buffer rinse) so you do have to put up with about 30 minutes of rinsing but I figured since my hair was so so dark in the first place I had to do it to the max! Even whilst wet I could tell my hair had lost the "blackness" and the tips looked more dark brown/copper colored whilst wet. Then I had the joy of drying my hair to see my hair get lighter and lighter the dryer it got and still in fabulous condition! I was overwhelmed by the results! It certainly didn't get rid of ALL the previous color (as it states you'll never achieve fully natural hair results if you have previously used bleach/hair lightener) but it made my hair a good couple of shades lighter, jet black to copper brown/gingery. The color was also very even to my surprise as I was also concerned the color would look crazy like really light roots and really dark tips but this wasn't the case. I would recommend this product to anyone who is unhappy with their hair and who wants an alternative to bleach! I will be using this product again at some point and I MIGHT use bleach after this but its a relief knowing I can use a much weaker bleach if I want to later on as this product has lightened my hair so well! The only thing I would say is, after my hair was dry my hair didn't smell like the product, but when I used my hair straighteners the smell suddenly came back off my hair which wasn't pleasant but after straightening no one said they could smell anything bad thankfully but be prepared for the smell to maybe linger slightly after using this product.

I have dyed and bleached my hair for many many years. I have added bright colours to slices of bleached hair and I have dyed over it to "correct" I have had the infamous khaki effect from colouring bleached hair brown and I have had the over processed ends that are soooo dark they lack any depth of colour. So I took it upon myself to use colourb4 and to honest it didn't expect much because of what I have put my hair through. I applied the product and wrapped in cling film and then waited an hour. I could see after this time that some colour had lifted and I started the rinsing process making sure I followed the instruction times to the letter. My hair felt fine until I added the buffer and then it started to feel very rough and tangled, I continued to rinse but I didn't try to untangle the hair I just let it rinse through. After I had finished the rinse I did add a little conditioner just to the ends and It immediately smoothed out and I could get my fingers through no problem. The colour is admittedly a little brassy and slightly gingery but I did expect this but I have to say that it is evenly stripped and although it is a little darker at the ends it has almost summery highlighted effect to it (I'm thinking Isla Fisher colouring) it looks healthy, it looks natural and it has made me happy. I will probably use a wash in wash out ash blonde colour but only to tone the brassyness out but I'm honestly not in a rush as I don't feel my hair looks too bad. I am fully aware that even dark hair dyes have an element of peroxide to them and this contributes to the gingery effect after stripping but even so I can't fault colourb4 it has done everything it said it would do. I would add that there is an eggy smell to the product but nothing much worse than hair dye produces and it is bearable. All in all I think this product has made my hair look so much better and I am so pleased with the results.

I'd like to preface this review by saying I have dyed and bleached my hair constantly since I was about 14, have had perms and used colour remover before. My mum is a hairdresser so I've used a LOT of products over the years (I'm now 26). At the time of using this product, I'd been using semi-perm home dark brown dyes for about 10 months. I naturally have dark blonde hair and the bottom half of my hair had been bleached some time ago and was in the process of growing out. This product managed to lift my roots (that had only been dyed using semi perm a handful of times) a decent amount - probably 3 shades lighter. It didn't do much to the rest of my hair, which I pretty much expected as it was previously bleached then dyed over 10+ times. HOWEVER... nothing, and I mean NOTHING could've prepared me for how bad the smell would be and how long it would linger. As I mentioned, I've used a different colour remover before so fully expected the sulphur rotten egg smell (perm solution also smells like total trash, so I thought I'd handle it well), but this was next level. Like many who will read the reviews, I was thinking 'pffffft... these weaklings! I can handle a stinky do if it works!', but I thought the smell would last a couple days max. It's been over 2 weeks now and the stench will just not give up :( It seems to be worse when it's wet, so immediately after a shower or getting caught in the rain.. even if I do exercise and sweat a little! I have washed my hair around 20 times in desperation and it's made my clothes, bedding and furnishings stink. THANK GOD I did this during lockdown when nobody needs to be in my presence - if I had to go to work like this, I'd be mortified. I've finally resorted to scouring the internet for home treatments and will be buying baking soda and lemon tomorrow in the hope it rids me of this smell once and for all! Would highly recommend using a different colour remover - I've used ones in the past that are much more pleasant and just as effective.