Hair Color – Page 2 – Forty, Flirty & Fabulous

New Hair Products For Fab Fall Looks

Looking to update your hair this fall? Try a new, darker color, a new color-enhancing shampoo, or a fun hair extension. Below are some fun products that will help you look fabulous!

Kelly Van Gogh MASTER BLEND Multi-Dimensional Luxury Hair Colour Kit ($49.00 USD) — Kelly’s proprietary cold pressed caviar oil delivery system is rich in omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin A, C, and D, and amino acids. Combined with amino acids and keratin proteins, the formula also replenishes weakened hair fibers and stimulates collagen growth needed to grow and strengthen hair. Available in ten shades, the hair colour delivers 100% gray coverage with an ammonia alternative, MEA, which is very gentle on the hair. The MASTER BLEND Multi-Dimensional Luxury Hair Colour kit is simple and easy to use for a goof-proof application. The result is glossy, healthy hair with a beautiful and youthful shine. Available at www.kellyvangogh.com.

L’Oréal Paris Féria Midnight Collection ($9.99 USD) — Féria introduces the new Midnight Collection to reinvent black hair color by revealing the nuances and undertones of this iconic, seductive shade. Custom-blended by master colorists, each shade shimmers with its own unique highlights and combines delicate tones and hints of tint to be visible, even on the darkest hair. Available at www.lorealparis.com and chain drug, food and mass market retailers.

TouchBack Plus is the FIRST total system of interlocking formulas for color renewal, maintenance, and gray root touch-up to keep hair looking perfect between permanent colorings. Unlike at-home dyes,TouchBack Plus lets you customize color vibrancy by choosing your perfect combination of Shampoo, Conditioner and Leave-In Conditioner in Color or Clear … without harsh chemicals. No ammonia, peroxide or sulfates. The collection includes:

TouchBack Plus Color Shampoo($29.95): Cleanse hair and revive dull color with sulfate-freeMicro Foam™. Each wash adds a layer of shiny color to both natural and color-treated hair, while protecting hair from UVA/UVB damage, oxidation and fading.

TouchBack Plus Color Conditioner($29.95): The perfect blend of hydration and color, this conditioner adds color to both natural and color-treated hair.

TouchBack Plus Color Leave-In Conditioner ($29.95): This unique, patented Micro Foam™ treatment colors and conditions natural or color-treated hair anytime, anywhere.

TouchBack Plus Clear ($24.95): Shampoo, Conditioner and Leave-In Conditioner can be alternated with the COLOR products to maintain your optimum color level, while providing superior fade protection, hydration and shine.

Available in eight shades: Rich Black, Dark Brown, Medium Brown, Light Brown, Ash Blonde, Golden Blonde, Light Auburn and Dark Auburn. Visit www.touchbackplus.com to learn more.

POP Clip-In Animal Print Strips ($10.00 USD) Extensions that let you embrace your inner tiger. Celebrities on and off the red carpet have been spotted sporting theseason’s must-have hair trend: animal print extensions. Take a walk on the wild side and try out the trend cruelty-free with POP Clip-In Animal Print Strips, one-inch clip-in extensions that give hair a fierce effect. Each bright strip offers 16 inches of color that pops for standout hair that gets noticed.

A part of POP’sFreestyle Collection, Animal Print Strips are made with Tru2Life ® Heat-Friendly hair. The versatile strips can be curled or straightened with thermal styling tools just like your own hair, complementing any style you create. Choose from six fun and ferocious patterns or mix and match multiple to express yourself through your hair.

FANTASY COLORS: Ginger Tiger, Pink Tiger, Blue Tiger, Purple Tiger, White Tiger, Red Tiger

WHERE TO FIND IT: ULTA, ULTA.com and JC Penney Salons

Color Your Hair Safely With Surya Brasil Henna Cream

Surya Brasil Henna Cream ($11.99 USD) is renowned as the #1 selling semi-permanent hair coloring system in Brazil. It comes in 15 exciting shades that will last up to seven to ten washes!

Henna Cream is touted as the safest way to color your hair and can be used on chemically treated and color treated hair. Packed with essential oils, this Henna Cream will keep your hair structure intact as it locks in moisture and leaves your hair smelling deliciously fresh!

What I think: The first thing I noticed when I colored my hair was the scent. It is light and herbal, but not chemical smelling AT ALL. Seriously. I also liked how easy it was to use. There was no combining products — this is just one liquid that you apply with gloves that are included. It took a little bit to get used to because it dripped a bit, but once you rub it in, it stays put. The product also includes a plastic hair cap to use while you are waiting for the color to work. Nice!

My results were pretty good. The color is great. I use dark brown which matched my natural color. It covered well, but a few of my grays are still showing. But, for a natural hair color, it works very well.

Availability: Whole Foods Market nationwide. Enjoy!

Brighten Your Hair With Clairol Natural Instincts Vibrant

Do you know that besides the physical benefits of coloring hair, freshly colored hair can do a lot to a womans self-esteem? Clairol has recently held a survey regarding the emotional benefits of coloring hair. The survey reveals 93% of women who color their hair agree their day instantly improves directly after coloring. Women feel confident and on top of the world with freshly colored hair, but as color starts to fade, their confidence and mood drop. This cycle of emotional ups and downs can be described as a “hair color rollercoaster.”

Now Natural Instincts with new Week 2 Color Refresher has a solution to love. The Week 2 Color Refresher replenishes the tones your hair color loses first and can simply be applied two weeks after coloring to give hair a color boost.

The color boost is included in the traditional Natural Instincts demi-permanent as well as the new permanent Vibrant formula. Now you can get up to 8 weeks of vibrant, healthy-looking hair color from Natural Instincts. New Natural Instincts Vibrant is a 10-minute formula that delivers stunning color with 100% gray coverage.

What I think: I have used Natural Instincts before and liked it, but because it is semi-permanent, the gray coverage never lasted long. The vibrant color is permanent and so lasts a very long time. I also love the idea of the color boost. I applied it after two weeks and my hair appeared brighter and my color looked fresher. Awesome!

Natural Instincts is available at mass market retailers near you. Enjoy!

Join Me in The John Frieda At Home Hair Colour Challenge!

Hi All! I’m looking for five readers who want to join me in trying John Frieda’s hair colour. I will send you a box of hair color in the shade of your choice, and all I need is before and after photos to include on my blog. Here are the details:

Recently John Frieda® launched their first-ever permanent hair colour –Precision Foam ($12.99 USD). Easy to apply, the non-aerosol foam formula spreads evenly through hair, saturating every strand completely—even the back of the head, roots and hairline. The 20-shade palette collection was developed in conjunction with the John Frieda® Creative Colour Director, and sought-after U.K. colourist, Nicola Clarke, who is responsible for some of the most iconic hair colours in Hollywood. With an array of options for blondes, brunettes and redheads, the collection brings a salon shade spectrum home.No mess, no drips,no stains—just gorgeous hair from every angle. The revolutionary colour even provides 100% grey coverage and vibrant shine with long-lasting results, offering salon precision at home.

HOW TO USE:Squeeze the center of the bottle to dispense foam into a gloved hand and apply directly to hair. Simply massage foam into hair with fingertips to thoroughly cover each strand from root to tip. The foam easily coats even the most hard-to-reach areas, including the back of the head. Let stand for 20 minutes (30 minute for grey coverage) and rinse with lukewarm water until water runs clear. Apply conditioner and leave in for 2-5 minutes before rinsing.

I can only accept readers from the United States and Canada.

Are you interested in trying it? If so, leave a comment or email me at lorena.emerson@gmail.com telling me if you want to color your hair to cover greys or change your color (I want a selection for the review). Also let me know what shade you would like to try. If I choose you, I would need you to color your hair within a week of receiving the product and I would like before and after photos that show your transformation that I can use on my blog. I would also like your thoughts on the process.

Find your perfect (or super fun) shade at: http://www.johnfrieda.com/en-US/homecolour/shade-selector/

So let me know if you wat to join me in this challenge!

Clairol Nice ‘n Easy Color Blend Foam

: Clairol Nice ‘n Easy Color Blend Foam

I usually cover my grays at home. Of course it is much less expensive than going to a salon, but these days new formulas make it fairly easy, too!

This year, Clairol Nice ‘n Easy is making this even easier for women who color at-home with a new formula. Nice ‘n Easy Color Blend Foam ($8.00 USD) offers women a breakthrough usage experience, alleviating many of the application burdens associated with at-home hair color while maintaining the same dimensional color result they know and love from Nice ‘n Easy. This new, easy-to-apply hair color formula begins as a liquid, then applies as a foam. And it puts dimensional hair color right at your fingertips

Like traditional colorants, the tint and developer come separately in liquid form, but they mix and combine easily in the custom-designed foamer bottle. To produce the foam, simply shake the mixture with the cap on. Then using the foamer top, squeeze the foam into your gloved hand. The unique foamer bottle helps ensure control and consistency of the foam throughout the coloring process. When you squeeze it from the bottle, it stays in your gloved hand without dripping. Then simply use your fingertips to work it into your hair for ultimate precision.

Color Blend Foam gives you six times more product volume versus a traditional liquid or crème colorant, offering effortless and complete coverage. With Color Blend Foam, it’s easy to cover every strand over your entire head. Once it is applied to your hair, your hair’s natural oils collapse the foam. The resulting liquid is drawn through the hairs, allowing the color to penetrate hair quickly and evenly from root to tip. Color Blend Foam will not begin to collapse until it’s applied to your hair.

I really liked using this formula. Once I combined the tint and developer, I shook it up, then squeezed the bottle and the foam appeared. I then applied it first to my scalp and then all over with my gloved hands. It was very fast and easy. I then wiped the excess away from my hairline and temples and it stayed in place for the 25 minutes it took to develop. After I rinsed it out and dried my hair, I was left with a rich color that entirely covered my grays!

You can purchase this fab hair color at a drugstore or mass market retailer near you. Enjoy!

U Color by Umberto Beverly Hills

Yes, I am very cheap. Ever since I moved to Kansas City from Portland, OR (and left my friend and hair stylist), I have been coloring my own hair. I realized fast that without my half-off friend discount, salon color and highlights are very expensive. So I am always looking for an effective way to color my grays.

Umberto Beverly Hills U Color Italian Demi Color ($12.00) is the all-in-one color, developer and equalizer in a sachet packet system ready-to-apply directly to hair. Available in 12 hair color shades.
Kit includes:

2 Sachet Packets, each with Color, Developer and Equalizer

Latex Gloves

Mini Detail Brush

Illustrated InstructionsThis hair color is so easy to use. Fold the packet so that color is sandwiched between the developer and equalizer. SNIP (cut along the dotted line), SQUEEZE (directly onto dry hair), SMOOSH (as if you were shampooing)! Distribute evenly through hair, process for 25 minutes. Rinse, shampoo, and condition as usual. You can also use the traditional bottle or bowl methods.

What I think: The shades seem to come out a bit darker than what’s in the package. I tried the Light Chestnut Brown which matched my dark brown hair well and my teenage daughter colored her strawberry blond hair Light Copper Gold and it turned out a bright Auburn. It is a very pretty color that is even all over.

I think that this is a great bargain for the quality. Try it, your hair will look gorgeous!

Give Your Hair A Little Color With Streekers

Want to do something wild with your hair without making a drastic, permanent change? Try Streekers ($10.95 USD) hair colors. Created with advanced technology, Streekers instantly bonds liquid hue to your hair. The formula looks and acts just like permanent hair color, so you can brush your hair without dulling the shade or risking color flake-off.

Streekers is available in Red, Pink, Blue, Purple, Green, Yellow, Orange and Ultraviolet. Apply Streekers directly to dry hair from mid-length to tip, in long strokes. Allow Streekers to dry and style straight.

What I think: Streekers are really fun and so easy to apply. My 10 and 15-year-old daughters have been using them as a fun look for school and do not have trouble applying them. They will also be perfect for Halloween. The only thing to watch is that these do not work on dark hair. My hair is dark brown, and they didn’t show up. But if you have light to medium colored hair, they will work fine.

You can purchase Streekers at select salons and cosmetic specialty stores; ULTA; or www.streekers.com.

L’Oreal Paris Root Rescue 10 Minute Root Coloring Kit

Root coloring kits are so wonderful because they cover the gray (making me feel better) in only 10 minutes! Also, using color only at the crown instead of all over is so much better for the hair!

The latest kit I tried is the L’Oréal Paris Root Rescue 10 Minute Root Coloring Kit ( $7.99 USD). The description of this product is:

Do more than touch up your roots – rescue them. Introducing the next generation in the root touch-up market that merges color with care and convenience. With a breakthrough applicator, guaranteed shade matching and a conditioning formula, covering grays and roots has never been so precise or easy. Just mix and color your way to seamless coverage – all in just 10 minutes. Featuring a unique conditioning low-ammonia formulation that rescues strands with a revolutionary, flow-through, self-contained root applicator brush, eliminate the mess associated with the standard at-home color bowl and brush. The ultra-caring color gel pampers every strand as it covers every root with seamless, shade matching color. Available in 12 shades.

What I think: I have dark brown hair that really shows the grays. My color is Dark Brown #4 and it matched perfectly with my hair color. Plus 10 minutes was just enough time to completely cover the grays while looking natural. The applicator brush worked pretty well, but it was kind of bulky and hard to get in the roots. I had to wriggle it in there. But since the coverage was great, it worked out okay in the end!

You can purchase this kit at drugstores and mass market retailers near you. Enjoy!

Oscar Blandi Pronto Colore Root Touch-Up and Highlighting Pen

So being of a uh, certain age, I’m starting to go gray…shhhh…don’t tell anyone. Actually I have been coloring my hair for a few years now. First just for fun, but now if I don’t do my roots in a while — the wiry, witchy grays come a callin’. When I heard about Oscar Blandi’s Pronto Colore Root Touch-Up & Highlighting Pen ($23.00 USD), I was really excited to try it. This is a very portable little pen, about the size of a tube of mascara, that is easy as to use as it is to carry. You twist the pen until the color saturates the brush, then brush it on the roots or squeeze some onto your hand and dab it on your hair. I like to brush it on then blend it with my fingers.

The pen comes in the following shades: -Beige Blonde: for pale to light blonde hair that’s natural, single-processed, and/or highlighted
-Light Golden Blond: for medium blonde hair with natural or highlighted gold or caramel tones
-Neutral Brown: for medium brown hair with natural or highlighted neutral tones
-Warm Reddish Brown: for medium brown hair with red tones, brown hair with red or auburn highlights, or red hair with natural or highlighted brown tones
-Dark Brown/Black: for dark brown and rich black hair that’s natural or single-processed

I own this in two different shades; Dark Brown to match my hair and Warm Reddish Brown to add fun highlights. To do this, I separate a strand of hair and “paint” it with the brush. It is fun to do and looks great on. This is fun for a night out or just to mix up your look.

I like that this is a safe product, even pregnant women can use it. The formula is also free of ammonia and peroxide. For convenience sake, it is fast drying and washes right out.

You can purchase these fab pens at www.oscarblandi.com or at your local Sephora. Enjoy!