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Fantastic colour remover
Reviewer:
Angela Perrin
from United Kingdom Wed Feb 07 2007
Wanted to get the purple out of my hair so i could return to a dark reddish brown. Use part 1 and 2, skipped part 3. Only left it on 20 mins but used a hair dryer to accelarate the process. Took colour out of my hair leaving it a ginger/orange shade. Only left it on 20 mins but used a hair dryer to accelorate the process. Used the new colour I had bought and my hair looks great, good condition and shiny. My only tip would be to buy a really good conditioner and use it every time you wash for the first 2 weeks. I was worried about the smell but its not as bad a perm solution. Will definately use this product again, although not avavilable in the UK but got mine through amazon.
Life saver!
Reviewer:
Karen
from Ohio Tue Feb 06 2007
I've colored my hair for over 30 years. My natural color was mousy brown now mostly salt and pepper. This time I tried to go red and selected a reddish brown that turned out too red and too dark. I was mortified to go out, but looked up color removers and found this web site and product. I also spent a long time reading and looking for similar situations as mine. I opted to remove the color with #1 and #2, took it to goldish blonde after 20 minutes, fairly light, not unexpected based on other color removers I've used. I didn't use the #3, but conditioned with Clairol Metalex (a great deep oil conditioner - used it once a month for years). I then recolored with half dark blonde and half light reddish brown. Yikes! It was once again much too dark and not red at all.
So 3 days later I used the gentle method of 1/4 oz. each of #1 and #2 with 1 oz. of shampoo. Applied on damp hair, worked into a good lather. Only left it on less than 10 minutes, using my hands to keep lathering most of that time, hopped in the shower, and washed with Denorex shampoo (another product I swear by, to lessen scalp itching by using for 2 or 3 days after coloring)
My hair is now a nice light brown with gold highlights. I will not recolor, nor did I use the #3.
My decision now will be what color to use the next time my roots show!!!? But it is a great product, and hasn't harmed my hair, but saved the day!
This is an AMAZING Product
Reviewer:
Lisa
from western Ma Mon Feb 05 2007
I had a horrible hair disaster. My normally dark brown hair went patent leather black. NOTHING would fix it. I searched the internet and LUCKILY found this product. You can either strip ALL of the color out of your hair using all three bottles (have the color you want to change nearby because your color it is stripped to will be orange) or just bring it back to your natural color. I LOVE this stuff! It's safe and not harsh on your hair. My hair was SO healthy & soft when I finished. I am SO, SO happy with this product. I bought 4 packages so I could experiment with other colors. You will be very pleased, I promise.
ADVICE ON HOW TO USE THIS PRODUCT
Reviewer:
Sarah, London, UK
Wed Jan 17 2007
This product will remove DARK colour from your hair, it will NOT reverse bleaching or highlighting. If you have very dark or red dye in your hair you might meed to try it twice to get all the colour out... Don't use it to lighten your hair to an orange colour like a bleach, use it to GET RID of the colour completely (as I said, even if this takes a few goes)...
My hair is mousy/dark blonde, and I have used this product after dying it red, and brown. It removed all the colour, and left me with a very slightly warmer tone of dark blonde. It is very good...
I have also used it after bleaching my hair with a blonde dye that was too warm and went brassy. As I said, it doesn't reverse bleaching, but it did remove the toner/colour that was also in my hair, so that I ws left with a light, highlighted blonde, to either keep, or put a more nuetral toner onto.
If I had used a bleach to get rid of the colour in either of these cases I would have had orange hair! Also, if I had covered all the previous colour with ANOTHER colour, it wouldn't have completely covered the previous colour and would have left my hair heavy and laden with dye (you know - when it goes thick and stiff because of all the colour and bleach)...
Instead my hair was shiny, soft, and flexible again, and I could colour it with a near ientical colour to my own and continue to grow my hair without having to cut off the botched dye, or having a line of colour half way down.
It's great!
It worked really well!
Reviewer:
Tammy Smith
from RI Thu Jan 04 2007
My daughter dyed her hair jet black. I was afraid to play around with otc products due to her hair being "fried" from staightening irons. We both thought all her hair might fall out!! After reading many of the reviews posted I held my breath and gave it a try. Well, I't really worked and it did not add damage to her hair at all. Time is a major factor though when applying this product--so be quick!! And it does smell a bit--but is so worth it!!! Thank you so much for everyones reviews!!!!1
from horror to gold
Reviewer:
Elena M.
from Germany Thu Dec 21 2006
I had a very bad idea to color my blonde hair in lightbrown. After one hour at a hair salon my hair was black with red. A very terrible color...
I was shocked and desperate. I couldn't sleep this night. Every woman knows: if you hate your haircolor, you feel bad and ugly...
One week later I found this produkt. I spend 2 weeks reading all the reviews before I tried it. I bought two boxes (I have very long hair), but I only used 1. After 45 min. my hair was golden! It is not blond, but it is a beautiful goldbrown. I love this color! This is really a great product! And the smell isn't too bad.
The best thing about this product is: after using colorfix my hair was shiny and soft.
No Kidding, It does work!
Reviewer:
Rae
from Texas Wed Dec 06 2006
After Bleaching my Brown hair to Blond for three years I decided to go BLACK! Very Bad decision. I first went to about a ton of salons and everyone said "there is nothing you can do but bleach it." After some research I found colorfix, used it and.. the first day it went back to my blond color.. then in a day it went to strawberry blond and after two-three days of oxidizing my hair was SERIOUSLY my Natural Color. I KID YOU NOT! It stunk for a day, but it was shiny and new.. just like I never died it before. I took it to my hair salon and they now use it on people in my same situation. I RECOMMEND TO ALL! It's no joke.
It Works
Reviewer:
Jenna
from Los Angeles, CA Wed Nov 22 2006
My hair has been dyed dark brown/black for at least 10 years using mainly level 3/permanent colors. I have color stripped it before, but the products were always harsh. Colorfix did the job without the harshness to my hair. My hair is very dry now, especially at the ends, but a deep conditioner will fix it. Colorfix took me back to my natural shade - light auburn. I have extremely thick, long, curly hair and 1 box was more than sufficient; I used the Colorfix 3 times in a row - the box indicated that was ok, and I skipped the lotion based on the reviews here. The product does smell bad - like rotten eggs - but it doesn’t linger as much as some people have suggested. Just make sure you’re in a very well-ventilated room and wash your clothes/towels right away. I’m very happy with the product and especially that it contains enough for very long hair without having to purchase a 2nd box.
did not work
Reviewer:
Pamela Gentry
from modesto, Calif. Thu Nov 16 2006
I had 3 colors on my hair, including highlights, and the colorfix took the top color off, which is brown, and gave me back my highlights, but only now they are very blonde. It did not remove any of the other color, and I am wanting my haircolor back which is dark auburn. I bought the new color but now am afraid to use it because it might wash out back to blonde
This stuff works like a charm!
Reviewer:
Nikki
from Memphis, TN Tue Nov 14 2006
I am an African-American woman with coarse natural curly hair that I had dyed black with Bigen Black Brown. I one used one pkg of Colorfix (omitting step #3) and added a tsp shampoo. I sat under the dryer for 8-10 mins, checking the color every 2-3 mins. When it reached a med-dark auburn, I shampooed and deep conditioned with Aubrey Organics Honeysuckle Rose with 2 tsps olive oil added. My hair is soft and shiny and looks gorgeous. There's no need to proceed to color again, at least not at this point.
What a lifesaver!
Reviewer:
Cheryl Brown
from sydney australia Sun Nov 12 2006
I have used this product many times as I frequently experiment with hair color, and often do not like the results. One n Only colorfix has been a lifesaver on quite a few occasions and it is remarkably gentle to my hair considering all that I've put it through. I was prompted to write a review because I now live in Australia and could not find this product here. In a panic I began to search the internet and let me tell you it wasnt easy to find. I'd highly recommend this to anyone who has a hair coloring disaster!
semipermanent black gone!
Reviewer:
girl 22
Mon Nov 06 2006
I have med/dark brown hair and dyed it black. I used a semipermanent (wash out in 28 shampoos) over the counter product. It looked terrible and i wanted it out. I left the colorfix in for twenty minutes (and never used the processing lotion after reading other reviews). 20 min was plenty and my hair was restored to very close to my natural brown color (with a slight reddish brown undertone). I dont even need to re-dye it. It looks awesome now! I am soo soo soo happy. Make sure to periodically strand test so that you dont over lighten your hair if you dont want to have to dye it again. I would completely reccomend this product. It worked great and the smell that people mention is exactly the same smell as that nair product. Its not that bad and is pretty much gone when you hair dries/one wash.
This Works Great
Reviewer:
whymeee
Wed Oct 25 2006
I am so happy I tried ColorFix. I was a little nervous to remove color, for fear of drying my hair out even more, but after reading all the positive comments, I decided to try it. I'm so happy I did!
It was actually a semi-permanent hair color that messed my hair up, Loreal Color Spa. It was supposed to be medium brown but left my hair a horrid, flat black. (I started out with a medium brassy brown... was trying just to rid the brassiness). We all know these darker brown and blacks tend to stick around for much longer than 28 days!
Colorfix is supposed to work best on permant hair color, but it worked really well for me on the semi-permanent. I just wanted to fade my color, not a full color correct.
I strand tested to see how long I should keep it on. I mixed equal parts of the number 1 and 2 bottles and kept it on my hair for 40 minutes. I skipped the processing lotion, like most of the others. That left me with a nice shiney medium brown color! Just what I wanted. The smell is not the best, but who cares! It's worth it!
I deep conditioned with Aussie 3 Minute Miracle for 45 minutes, after I washed the shampoo out. Put a plastic cap on and run your hair dryer to give yourself a salon quality deep conditioning! Anyway, don't be afraid to try Colorfix!
Highlighted Hair
Reviewer:
Laurie
from Illinois Sun Oct 22 2006
I recently went to a new salon to have my hair highlighted. My hair has been highlighted for many, many years. The young man who highlighted my hair put a "toner" on after highlighting it. I left the salon with green/gray highlights in my hair instead of the usual blonde highlights. Of course, I freaked out, but because it was 7:00 PM I could not get the problem fixed by anyone else that evening. I went to work the next day, wanting to wear a bag over my head, called the salon and informed them that it was the worst highlighting job I had ever had. Of course, they wanted me to be happy so once again, I returned to the salon. This time they decided they needed to make it look warmer, so apparently used a "toner" with redhighlights. After arriving home again, disgruntled and refusing to let them do anything else, I wore my hair with partial red highlights on top with the back still looking green/greyish in color. I then researched Colorfix and decided to try it. I used the 1/4 oz. #1, 1/4 oz. #2 and 1 oz. of shampoo. I left it on for a little over 45 minutes, peridically doing checks. It turned out wonderful. It still has just a hint of the greenish tint (that only I notice) and will put on one more application next week. THe smell is not bad...perhaps using it with the shampoo helped. I also conditioned it very good and it looks great. Before highlighting my hair, it was very blonde with more gray than anything at the roots. Colorfix has left it a nice light brown with great highlights. THANKS SO MUCH
very good product
Reviewer:
Ginny
from Fairfield, CA Tue Oct 10 2006
Well my orginal haircolor is like a dark brown and for years I've been dyeing my hair a lighter brown but last month I decided to dye my hair black because I wanted something darker and I will never do that again because it was so black it made me look so pale. Well then I tryed dyeing it a light brown and it didnt do anything, the black was still there.
I was searching on the internet for a product to take out the black or fix the color and I came upon this product :one n' only ColorFix. After reading all the reviews I went to sally's beauty supply and picked up a box. (IF YOU DIDNT KNOW THERE IS A COUPON ON THEIR WEBSITE (SALLYS) TO GET $4.00 OFF COLORFIX, NOW THRU OCT.31). So, with the coupon I got one box because my hair is short.
I mixed half of part 1 and half of part 2. Left it on for only 20 minutes and right away the black was already disappearing. I washed it out and shampooed. My hair was left with a light orange/reddish brown which I didnt really like and I didn't really feel like dyeing it something else the next day. So even though a lot of the reviews says to not use the processing lotion (part 3) I did. I used the whole bottle on my hair and I actually let it set in for about 10 mins. Washed it out and my hair was a dark brown with little highlights. The processing lotion didn't turn it black like most people said. But if you dont want a dark hair color skip the processing lotion.
All in all it was a great. My hair is no longer back and now more or less back to my orginal hair color a little light though. Thanks! Great product!!!
Colorfix - From Nightmare to Natural
Reviewer:
julien
from Mpls, MN Sat Sep 30 2006
I had naturally dark auburn hair once upon a time in my life. After years of trying to cover the slight hints of grey starting to appear, I went from henna to temp color and finally to perm color. Then this past summer I decided to try going blonde using highlights only. Well, it worked great. I loved it, but by September thought I'd like to go back to my auburn for the fall. I called the a hair color hotline and they recommended a tint-back. Wrong! I ended up with dull ginger colored hair. So, I did a color fix without the processing lotion phase as everyone recommends not using the lotion and conditioned, conditioned, conditioned. After drying it, I noticed there were still a lot of ginger tones on the back. So, I repeated the process and WHOA! I'm back to blonde highlights over my natural dark auburn hair underneath. But the blonde lights have taken on the most beautiful golden tone that now I want to keep them. I did have strawlike hair after the second colorfix, so I did a deep condition treatment then after drying for the third time added my usual styling creme. It looks so luxurious with golden and copper tones and now I'm rethinking going back to my natural auburn. Not yet sure how to get back to the natural auburn aside from getting it cut down to a pixie cut. But, now that I know that colorfix can fix it, I'm free to experiment.
not sure what happened
Reviewer:
adriana
from chicago Tue Sep 26 2006
ok so after changing my color a million and one times over the years and ending up with dark brown/black hair i decided to go back to my natural color - dark ash blond if i remember correctly. i used the whole box on my shoulder length hair and left it on for 45 minutes under a hair dryer. i washed my hair for like 10 minutes with dove clean rinse shampoo and ended up with dirty strawberry blond hair and light red roots. i put on the processing lotion and my hair turned ugly nasty reddish color. so i repeated the whole process again with another box of colorfix. this time i skipped the processing lotion. my hair color was light strawberry blond with red roots. so i figured my hair was ready for the color. i put on ion medium ash blond and left it on for 30 minutes. 5 minutes into it i could see that my hair was turning dark (a lot darker!) but i didnt want to wash off the color because my roots were still really red looking, i was hoping the ash in the ash blond color would start working. after i was done i ended up with unnatural medium brown hair with a red hue to it. which may look good on some people but it makes me look 20 years older. i think that colorfix worked on my hair because it did remove most of the black and dark brown color i think my problem is that there was still some more color left (i should have used the processing lotion the second time) thats why the blond color did not grab.. my advice is that you should make sure all the color is out by using the processing lotion before you decide to dye your hair a light color. so im giving up and going to spend the money to fix my hair by someone who knows what they are doing. good luck
No more black!
Reviewer:
Deidre
from Virginia Beach, VA Sun Sep 24 2006
I have naturally light blonde hair and on a recent whim, used Clairol Natural Instincts semipermanent color to dye it black. After two weeks it was starting to look pretty bad. I called around to some salons and was told it would cost at least $100 to have it professionally stripped! So I came across this product on the internet, decided to trust the awesome reviews it got, and picked some up(along with a plastic bottle, pair of gloves and a cap, which the kit does not include.) I mixed half of step 1 and step 2 together and left it on my hair for 40 minutes, using low dryer heat for the last 10. It definitely took the black out and left my hair a really pretty coppery, strawberry-blonde color. However, I had missed a couple spots that were still black, so I used the last half of the bottles and repeated the process verbatim one last time. I didn't use the processing lotion at all. After shampooing and using Garnier Fructis leave-in conditioner, my hair is not damaged at all and while granted, it is not my natural blonde color, it most importantly isn't black anymore! I absolutely recommend Colorfix...just be warned, it won't take you 100% back to your original color and it leaves a pretty rotten smell in your hair. Other than that, I'm pleased with this product and the results I got from it.
color fix
Reviewer:
amy
from dallas, tx Thu Sep 21 2006
I used this product and was suprised by the results. My hair went from black to stawberry blonde. Actually a rainbow of colors, the lightest being strawberry blonde. I did not use step three. Within 3 days my hair was black again!! Im going to try one more time.
Brilliant, it does work, but strand test every step of the way!
Reviewer:
Erin
from Wales, UK Fri Sep 15 2006
I've been dying my medium brown hair on and off for 14 years every shade between chestnut and black, using semi-permanent, permanent and henna dyes. Then it would get manky and I'd cut off very long thick hair into a short bob and stupidly start again.
This time I was horrified to notice on a recent photograph that it looked awful, really patchy brown and orange and burgundy and black and....eugh, so went out and bought a better quality dye (L'oreal Recital) in a darkish brown to give even all over colour, particularly on my grey.
Which is what I got.
Nice, even, all over permanent colour.
But the clour was BLACK. Jet black. Blacker than the gothiest black I had ever seen.
Aaaarrrgghhhh.....Not good.
Not wanting to go through the bob-thing again I contacted L'oreal for help - if you ever consider doing this, think again, they were rubbish. Rude, patronising, ill-informed and generally apalling. So I thought that I'd check out net-solutions and thus found myself trying fairy liquid etc, which did take the freshly-dyed look away but still left it blacker than black.
Then I read about colorfix, read about a dozen reviews, was impressed, went to order it and nearly fainted at the shipping charge of $37 cos I live in the UK. I contacted Folica who gave me the manufacturers details but I couldn't find this product anywhere over here so finally bit the bullet and spent £40 odd on 2 packs plus shipping. Still cheaper than a salon and I could always still resort to the scissors and time if it went wrong.
4 days later they arrived, quicker than Royal Mail (not hard)!
Having studied the reviews here so hard I could write a dissertation on the subject today I strand tested on a hidden multi-dyed long strip and also seperately onto my once-dyed roots. I used equal amounts of 1 and 2, didn't bother with stage 3 at all. After 20 minutes the long strip was conker auburn and the roots a tad brighter. So, delighted I took the plunge.
After rinsing excitedely 20 minutes later and seeing lowlights I haven't seen for years I used Aussie 3 minute miracle to condition and danced a jig of anticipation around the bathroom.
After drying I had auburn locks with highlights and everything, gorgeous. But my roots were orange. Orange!
Not good.
So I strand tested some brown liquid henna for 10 minutes, this stuff washes out after 4 goes and I thought that it might just tone down the orangina effect. It did, going a nice chocolate, so once again I took the plunge.
My hair came out a lovely chocolate brown at the roots and ends, but the areas which had been heavily dyed were mahogony and black in parts.
Hmmm.
The overall Galaxy look was good though,and the roots were close to my natural shade so I left it and went out.
An hour later it was more than a whole shade darker.
Now I was more Bournville than Galaxy, the exact colour I had been after going when I used the L'oreal.....!
The only problem is, I didn't quite catch all the roots, so if I run my fingers through my hair the occasional flash of furious orange is frightening my horses....... So tomorrow I am going to apply a bit more henna to the missed roots. Unless, in daylight, it looks way too dark in which case I'll be opening the other pack of Colorfix and starting all over again!
My opinion thus far though is that this stuff is AMAZING, you guys in the USA are soooooo lucky to be able to walk into this Sally's of yours and get it off the shelf. Why has nobody told Boots the Chemist over here????? I shall be telling everyone I meet with dyed hair about this site and this wonder-product. And warning them about the shipping cost too.
The smell, by the way, was fine. I rinsed my poor hair copiously with geranium essential oil in the water and it's now very very shiny and doesn't smell at all. Maybe it's worse if you mix the solution with shampoo?
Or maybe I just have no sense of smell.
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