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Colorfix process
Reviewer:
Michelle
Thu Jul 26 2007
I have used this product several times, and it is excellent. I have noticed many customers, in their reviews, state that they do not use the toner solution that is included with the product because they've heard it will turn their hair darker. I have used the toner solution each time in order to complete the process(my hair turned a much more natural shade), otherwise you will end up with very fake, reddish strawberry blonde hair. Your new haircolor, if you plan to recolor, will not turn out the right shade if you do not use the toner. In order to get the best results, you must go through each step and use all the bottles included with the product. I definitely recommend this product to anyone who wants to remove old color. Make sure you have a developer bottle, shower cap, or plastic mixing bowl. And perhaps a friend or mother to help you!
OMG This stuff WORKS! YES, I'm back baby!
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hypokrit
from Denver, CO Mon Jul 23 2007
I went to Mexico this weekend and had my hair cut and colored. It turned out GREY and WHITE and VIOLET, I looked like a 50 year old skunk. I then purchased some of the Bigen semi-permanent dye (Light Chestnut) in an effort to get it a color that naturally occurs in nature. It turned pitch black. It was awful. After bawling all weekend, I came back to the US and all night Sunday I tried to wash the color out with clothes washing detergent (like 5 times), and also a alcohol and mineral oil mixture (4 times) it really didn't make a difference. I looked up info on the net and skipped work Monday to work on my hair. There was no WAY I was going to sit in my Monday morning meeting looking like a GOTH CHICK! I Ran to Sally's and picked up this Color fix. Mixed just the 1 and 2 bottle. (I have long hair so I mixed the full bottles together.) After saturating my hair with the mixture, placing a plastic shower cap over my hair and less than 20 minutes, MY HAIR WAS BLONDE AGAIN. OMG! I tried all night long and all it took was this stuff in 20 minutes! It came out a wonderful buttery blonde color with cool highlights. I have a couple of dark streaks in my hair. I could just mix another couple bottles to get rid of the black streaks but my Boyfriend said he likes the dark highlights. I am so PUMPED! WOOHOOO!!!!!
TOTALLY worth the money. Whomever this product didn't work for, I don't know what you could have done to mess this up it is so EASY! AND it does work on semi-permanent color and premanent! All i had to do about the dryness of my air was moisturize with a nice protein conditioner and It is great. MY HAIR was so damaged cause of over processing and this product did not cause any more damage. It stinks tough. I dont care! It works.
Too bad the strawberry blond color didn't stay
Reviewer:
Annie
from Chicago Sat Jul 21 2007
Colorfix took the dark brown dye out of my hair and turned it a beautiful strawberry blond that I loved but after several days it got much darker and now it's a medium brown (original hair color). It's too bad it doesn't hold the color that you get right afterwards. I also skipped the 3rd step. It's a great product though for removing a dark dye. I'm not afraid to experiment with color now because I know I can always get it out with Colorfix.
Amazing! It actually works with NO damage!
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Melissa
Tue Jul 17 2007
Ill save you my long story and tell you what not to do. I would not use the step 3 processing solution. Wait for at least a day or more before recoloring. Even if you choose a color lighter than the previous one, it will revert back to the old color. Almost as if it reactivates the old "color molecules" that do need time and many washing to be removed completely from the hair. After the color removal process I was left with a reddish hue; this is apparently normal and expected. I did not choose to recolor, but instead used a violet blue toner from Clairol which I purchased from sally. The results? From dark and drab with my highlights gone to a verrrry natural medium blonde hair void or any red and my highlights are a lovely light blonde with no gold. And the condition of my hair is actually BETTER than when I started this whole ordeal. A++++
Happy, Happy, Happy!!!
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Mandy Mcleod
from Yorkshire, United Kingdom Sun Jul 15 2007
My hair is naturally medium brown with auburn highlights (if I can cast my mind back to the last time I saw my natural colour!)I am 41 and have been dyeing my hair since I was 19 due to early grey hairs. I began dyeing my hair close to my natural colour but did what a lot of people do and went onto the "darkest browns". After a few years of these darker brown colours my hair looked more black than dark brown. This was fine when I was younger but as I got older it began to look very harsh and as I have quite pale skin I developed that "morticia" look. Not very flattering at 41!!! I didn't want to carry on like this but was very worried about using bleach on my already abused hair. I use straighteners practically every day and didn't want to stress my hair any more than was necessary. I live in Yorkshire in the UK and I could find nothing here to help me. I found Colorfix on the internet. I sent for two boxes as I have quite long hair and waited. The shipping charges were pretty expensive but to be honest if this stuff worked then I didn't care! I had read all the reviews and it all seemed very impressive.
When The Colorfix arrived a couple of weeks later I was so excited but very nervous too. I bought a new hair colour to re dye my hair with. Just in case it all went horribly wrong. I used the shampoo method as it seemed a kinder way to tackle my hair. This stuff does have a slightly chemically, rotten egg smell but no where near as bad as I had expected after reading some of the reviews. What I did was to use the shampoo method a few times. I left the mixture on my hair for about 5 minutes at a time and raised the colour slowly by degrees each time. I felt I could control the lifting of the colour better like this as I felt it was very difficult to strand test as I went. When hair is wet it is quite difficult to see the subtle changes going on. In total I repeated this precess 4 times. The last time I applied the mixture only to the mid and longest lengths of my hair as they were slightly more stubborn. I could probably have stripped it all out in one go with the total correction method but felt more in control doing it the shampoo way. I did not use the processing lotion. After 4 goes, my hair is miraculously returned to a mid brown colour that is the nearest to my natural colour I have been for a long time. When the sun catches my hair I can see all the auuburn highlights glinting! Welcome back to old friends! This stuff did leave my hair a little dry but if you condition really, really well for the next few washes as I have done, your hair soon reverts back to it's usual state. It just feels a little brittle and dry for a while. The chemical smell only lingered for a couple of washes. To, be honest, when you are desperate to rid yourself of a problem like mad hair colour, a bit of dryness and a chemical short term smell are a small price to pay. When your hair is "wrong" it just affects you so much. I am very happy with the softer mid brown colour I now have and I will only ever colour the grey roots as they come through, NOT the whole of my head as I have done in the past and I will never use a harsh brown shade ever again. If anything I suggest people go a couple of shades lighter than they would wish to be because the hair is left quite porous and "sucks" the dye in, so I will be very careful never to make the same mistakes again. Only one thing left to say really and that is "Why ,oh why, have Colorfix not started supplying the UK?" There would be a real hungry market for it I know! Good luck to all who try this marvellous magical potion.
Orange, Orange, and more Orange (oumpa loumpa)!
Reviewer:
Margo Quilley
from Boston, MA Sat Jul 14 2007
Okay, so months ago I let my friend "cheer me up" with cocktails and hair dying. I had sworn off hair dying a couple of years ago and had been enjoying my plain ordinary dirty blond hair for two years until... I opted to lighten it with non-permanent Natural Instincts instead of something drastic and it came out orangey. The more I tried to correct it the more red and orangey it got until I gave up and decided to just grow it out. All fine and dandy until you have about an inch and a half of roots. I read all the reviews of this stuff before I bought it. I figured it was better than nothing, and I really don't want to dye my hair EVER again. Well, after two applications, which is all that I'm willing to put myself through in one evening, I no longer have reddish hair (which is nice) but I do still have the orange, which surprise, is even more orangey. So now I'm stuck with strawberry blonde/orange hair. Not even close to my dirty blonde natural color. At this point it's either shave it all off and start over or dye my hair. I guess I was expecting too much. I am truly dissappointed. Also, my hair is really curly and dry due to humid Boston summers; this stuff left it feeling like straw. On the brightside, half of it got pulled out while trying to brush it.
Worked like magic!
Reviewer:
Ktwirls
from IL Fri Jul 13 2007
I colored my hair with loreal excellence creme dark brown and it made my hair look very black! I was so upset. I came on here and found these great reviews but surely thought it probalby won't work for me or would be too hard to try and figure out how to use the color fix. I waited 48 hrs after I colored my hair to try color fix since I was afraid of messy it up. I only bought one box and then got home and saw that you may require more appilcations. But thankfully even with my thick and shoulder length hair one box was enough. The color came right out. I did leave it on a little bit longer than they suggest like 8 minutes. I was so happy that I didn't have to live with black hair.
Bright red highlights gone!!!
Reviewer:
Missy
from Cincinnati, OH Mon Jul 09 2007
I had originally bought color zap, but had not opened it yet. I had searched for color remover and came across this site. I had my sister use loreal (I can't remember the name) but the one with the highlighter too and it retails for $18 anyhow, the base color was fine, but the hight lights were supposed to be golden they turned out bright red yikes!!!
And my base color deposite the color too dark. So thank god I found color fix. I went to Sally Beauty and returned the color zap and purchased the color fix and some gloves and a protein filler so the new color I was going to put on would take better.
I did do a strand test on two strands one on my darkest hair and one on the new bright red highlights. I was amazed at how well it turned out. I used about 1/4 bottle 1 and 1/4 bottle 2 and shampoo and did my whole head after strand test. My hair which is normally dark brown came out strawberry blonde wow did I look weird. So I put on the protein filler next after putting on a deep conditoner.
I dried my hair and did a strand test with my new color. I figured out that I only needed to leave it on 7 minutes I have been leaving my hair color on way too long and that is why my hair was always so dark. Also I think the protein filler really worked great to make the color deposit much better and my roots looked awesome I have gray in my roots no grey and my hair looks really good. I think it is still a little red but I may not have left the color on long enough maybe next time 10 minutes tops.
I love this product so glad I found it. It really saved my hair. Good luck with yours
ColorFix made me happy again!
Reviewer:
Lisa
from Texas Mon Jul 09 2007
ColorFix is a miracle and should be in every hair salon, although it's easy enough to use yourself.
I've been highlighting my dark brown hair for quite awhile and decided to go back to my all natural color (aside from those little natural "highlights" of gray - lol). I knew I should put on a color 2-3 shades lighter than my natural color, but didn't - I put on Dark Brown. Made me look like I had a Halloween witch wig from Walmart or had thrown black shoe polish on my head. Went to a salon to get it trimmed and she tried to lighten it with shampoo and conditioner (didn't work).
I'm a member of a website for those with natural wavy and curly hair and got to reading about some of the haircoloring problems solved on there. ColorFix was highly recommended and indeed had fixed everyone's hair who had tried it. I went immediately after work to Sally's and purchased a box. (Tip: be sure to get gloves and an applicator bottle as there are none in the box.) I also purchased the color I should have put on my hair just in case I needed to.
I mixed equal parts of the first two bottles and saturated my hair with it. Left it on for 45 minutes while I read the reviews here. Washed it out and saw that it was a little too red/orange for me. So, despite the previous warnings not to use the last bottle (peroxide), I went and put a little bit on my hair (ended up doing it twice) to bring back just a tad of the darkness.
My hair is still damp as I type this, but it's looking wonderful and I look like myself again. I still have some of everything left in case I need to do it again if it turns out too dark. If that happens, I'll lighten it again and then put on the hair color I bought.
As for the smell - yes it's smelly, but it's worth it! I will deep condition my hair later after I see what the true color is and hopefully that'll take care of it.
My hair also feels great. The dark color had left it dry and none of my hair products - gels, mousse - would work. My hair feels like it did before I colored it.
I will, without a doubt, recommend this product! Thank you to the makers of ColorFix!
This stuff is absolutely amazing
Reviewer:
Nataliya
from Toronto, Canada Mon Jul 09 2007
I've been dyeing my hair from very dark brown to black for about 6 month using semi permanent natural instincts colors (before that I was dying every shade of red possible), when I got bored and decided to go back to my natural hair color witch is dirty blond to light brown I thought bleaching was my only option. Then I found this stuff… I put it on my ends first since they were the darkest, then after about 10 minutes I applied it to the rest of my hair. After 40 min I washed it out and it turn out a little to brassy for my liking so I used the processing lotion even though many people said to skip it. I only kept it for about 2 min and washed it out it did darken a little but it give it a more natural look. I am absolutely amazed……. My hair is almost my back to my natural color, or as close as I can remember.… This stuff is great, and the smell that everyone complains about is not even that bad. They should teach about this product in every hairdressers school.
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ITS A MIRACLE!!!!!!!!!!!
Reviewer:
KIKI
from Nevada Wed Jun 20 2007
So, I was stupid and dyed my bottom underneath black, well I got it professionally done and it looked fine, I mean I loved it but after about 6 months, I was like nah nevermind. I bleached the heck out of it 6 months ago and it turned a freaky orange brassy like the color of my mom's brass bed lol. So I got it done professionally again, I told her I wanted it OUT its done. She was like there is no hope, so we dyed the bottom a weird light auburn color. After a few months of that, I wanted it to be blonde, like the rest of my hair. So went professionally again to someone else, this was about 2 weeks ago. My hair turned pink. A reddish pink. She was like sorry can't do anything about that. The WORST part of it, was it was only the ends, I mean like Christina Aguilera kind, my roots were blond because I wanted to grow that crap out. I loved my hair and didn't want to chop it off. Well about a few days ago, I interviewed for a local model job here in town, I got hired...on one condition...fix my pink hair. I was like ha ha, thats so easy!!!! In my mind I was freaking out, how the heck am I going to do that???? So, I bought colorfix...I used step 1 and 2 just now, no step 3 and OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!! MY HAIR IS BLONDE!!!!! GOLDEN BLONDE!!!!! I am shocked!!!!!! The only thing I reget is I *WISH* I would have taken before and after pics to show you guys!!! ITS AMAZING!!!! I am still freaking out, the pink has been in my hair for 2 weeks, and its GONE. GONE!!!!!!!! If you want to save your hair do it!!!! ITS WORTH IT!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow, how pathetic.
Reviewer:
Jessie
from Georgia Tue Jun 19 2007
Hah, I used this product and same for my friend. It did not do ANYTHING. All it did was make our hair smell like eggs for a week and dry out our hair. I would not reccomend it.
YAY!
Reviewer:
Danielle
from los angeles Sat Jun 16 2007
So, i have naturally light dusty brown hair, and i've been dying it red (natural instincts 24 wash out). but then, stupidly, i wanted to go black - jet black. so i dyed it using natural instincts again which is NON PERMANENT. but, 3-4 months later, it was still in my hair! and my roots were growing and i looked so pale and drab! so i looked allll over the internet finding something to take the color out and all the other products had so much more bad comments and ratings compared to one'n'noly color fix. so i bought it and the first time i used it it got really light! but then i used step 3 and it went to a dark brown color. the next day i used the other box and left it on for longer and didnt use step 3 and now its a beautiful auburn!! and it naturally creates lowlights and highlights so it looks more natural, not all one color. however, my hair is dry but i naturally have sensitive hair so im deep conditioning it frequently.and it smells but it's worth it! it wasn't anything that will fry your hair, its very light! i recommend it
And they said nothing could take balck out
Reviewer:
Tori
Tue May 15 2007
I've been coloring my hair (Naturally light ash brown)blue black for many years. Not out of a box, though- I always mix it myself. I got bored with it, go figure. I wanted to go blonde or brown, depending on how much color I could remove. The chick at Sally suggested this weird stuff. I took the bait, bought two boxes. Four treatments later I have medium Auburn hair. So much for black not coming out. I also had a bad habit of re-dyeing my entire head when I did my roots!
I'm impressed. Also, I have only some moderate dryness, no real damage- and I didn't use step three. My head does reek of Photo finishing chemicals, though.
I was dubious
Reviewer:
kjm
from dc Tue May 08 2007
Like others, I was sooooo hesitant to try this. I'm writing this in the off chance that it helps someone like it helped me. I've been coloring my (what was golden brown)hair for the past 15 years and am at least 50% gray. I've never strayed too far blond or too far brown. I've never been thrilled spending $ at the salon for a color that is only about 15% better than what you can do on your own so I started dying my hair again at home. It's usually not a problem for me, but this last time, I went too red in trying to subtly darken (ironically buying a golden brown). I knew that when the sun took its turn with my hair, I was going to be VERY BRASSY in no time. I simply hated the color and knew what was coming.
Not wanting to go back to my salon (b/c you should never apologize to anyone but yourself for your hair), I did some researching. I actually first bought L'Oreal color zap but when I looked into the box, I saw it was a packet of bleach and some developer. I took it back to Sally's and got Color Fix. I can't tell you how hesitant I was to try either product b/c I've had my hair stripped out (at a salon) before and it's horrible. It's shocking. I thought there was no way I could do this on my own. However, I read the posts on this site and it gave me courage so I got Color Fix and I'm glad I did. This is what I did:
full corrective, left on for 25 minutes ( I was about 1.5 - 2 levels too dark)
rinsed, conditioned, examined
decided to use step 3 since my hair was waaaay too light now-- too orangey -- left it in for about 4 minutes. It darkened a wee bit, not enough for my taste.
Dried with hairdryer
recolored with permanent l'oreal excellence dark ash blond. Left on for 6 minutes only, shampooed, and conditioned like mad.
Results? Unbelievable!!! I feel so empowered!! My hair color is exactly where I wanted it to be and in another few days, I expect that it will look even better. The bottom line is that if you hate what you've done to your hair, take the time, read the reviews and the tips here and you will be able to fix your mistake. I'm so glad I did it. Good luck. You can do this.
Oh and the smell? THEE slightest problem in what I'm sure is a string of problems if you're here.
Golden girl again!!
Reviewer:
Laura
from Aurora, Ontario, Canada Thu Apr 19 2007
I have been dying my hair for the past 25 years - since I was 9 years old, so I know my way around hair dye. But even make mistakes sometimes, and boredom can be very dangerouws...with all of those lovely colours to try and so little time.....anyhoo, my story goes like this: I HAD cornsilk blonde waistlength hair. Why change it? Yes I know, I'm a fool. Spouse suggests go red. I think about it for a few weeks... haven't been red in many years, but I do know that red plus light blonde = PINK. So I decide to go to a professional, who said he could do my hair so I would not have the normal, difficult and expensive 'upkeep' redheads require....he 'fills' or pre-pigments it with a blackcherry primer. Then he dyes it overall a dark blackcherry - guess that means he dyed it twice. It was nice... for a day - until it washed out PINK! PINK waistlength hair! I bawled and called in sick to work. I had him strip it twice, damaging my hair and turning me electric apricot. Then he bleached it and it all snapped off, in some spots were only two inches long where they were once waistlength. And it was still electric peach coloured! I was going to throw myself off a roof. I had to cut most of it off and found another colorist who made it cornsilk blode again and also gave me extensions. I grew out my hair for a year and it was starting to look normal again so I took out the extensions. Spouse suggests red again. Ya right. Well I did it anyway. And it took 6-7 applications over 2 months to get it to stay red. but in some places it was pink, so I had to cut more off. Spouse and friends told me it was too harsh and that I was better as a blonde.. I had to agree. I found this site and read reviews going back to 2004. I decided to give it a shot... anything had to be better than my last experience! Well let me tell you that in one application of this magic potion the black cherry hair went to a lovely ginger colour. The second application brought me to a pretty golden blonde colour. I am thrilled I did not have to recolour. It really does stink - family complained for days and I smelled it on my hair all the time... recommend deep conditioning right afterwards to relax the hair's cuticle. Don't bother with step 3 as I read in past reviews it isn't necessary. Beware though that people claim it didn't work for them... I believe it didn't because of 2 things: they used semipermanent/gradual fade colour which a different chemical makeup than regular permanent colour. This product is meant to react with the latter, not the former. As well it is possible that they did not follow instructions properly. If you're thinking about it, give it a shot. I wish I'd known about this product 2 years ago... I lost 5 years of growth because of what that guy did. But I'm happy now!(if ever I make another mistake I know what to do!)
worked on my nearly black hair
Reviewer:
sarah
from New York, NY Sat Apr 07 2007
I had been dying my light brown hair darker for several years, including having it nearly black for over a year, so I was extremely skeptical. But it worked! Here's what I did. I did three rounds of the full color correction (using half of each bottle the first time, a quarter of each the next two times), leaving it on each time for about an hour, adding heat every now and then. I put it all over my hair the first time, and then just on the still-darker parts the second two times. It was very easy to monitor what it was doing to my hair while I had it in.
My hair all turned out a light strawberry blond. I was going to dye it dark ash blonde, but I did a strand test (make sure to do this!) and it turned out very dark (I'm sure because I had the Colorfix on my hair so long). So I used the processing lotion for about 3 minutes, since people said that had darkened their hair. It darkened the strawberry color to a pretty, natural looking light coppery brown that is still light enough to get close to my natural light ash brown. It looks okay, but I will probably try to tone down the red with a dye in the next couple days. I used a deep conditioner each time I rinsed out the Colorfix, and then did a hot oil treatment when I was all done, and my hair is in as good a condition as it was when I started. Overall, Colorfix worked great!
it actually worked!
Reviewer:
sarah
from New York, NY Sat Apr 07 2007
My natural color is dark blond/light brown but I have been dying my hair for several years. I was very skeptical about Colorfix, because my hair had been dyed very dark, nearly black, every couple months for about a year.
Here's what I did. I did three rounds of the full color adjustment, mixing equal parts of the first two bottles in an applicator bottle (about half of each bottle the first time, the a quarter of each bottle the next two times), and then leaving it on anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour, adding heat every so often. It took three applications to get the longer parts of my hair to match my roots, but eventually it was all a very light strawberry blond color. My goal was really just to get all the dye out and start over and that definitely happened. I was going to dye it dark ash blond, but I did a strand test and it got pretty dark (I'm sure because I had the Colorfix on so long). So I just used the processing lotion, leaving it on for just about 3 minutes, since people said that had darkened their hair. And the processing lotion darkened my hair just a little to a very natural looking light coppery brown. I may try to tone down the red in the next couple weeks but it really does look natural so I'll wait and see. Each time I rinsed out the mixture I used a deep conditioner, and then I did a hot oil treatment when I was totally finished, and my hair appears to be in just as good a condition as it was when I started. I'm very happy with the final result!
Colorfix
Reviewer:
ColorElla
from mpls, MN Wed Mar 28 2007
great - product did what it said it would do , also left hair perfectly ready to color. Did not notice ANY damage kinda strange since its taking color out . Had blonde, then burgendy after salon screwed it up and couple boxes of auburn over that did the job. Got sick of it, Red is hard to remove so Im very happy with this product. Im leaving my hair alone now ....back to ash blonde with highlights at least till next month :).
worked for me!
Reviewer:
michelle
Wed Mar 28 2007
I have dark blonde hair with a lot of brassy red undertones. It turns red unless it is really bleached with highlights. I decided to try and dye at home - what a mistake! My hair was really orange at the roots. I had used semi-permanent and even though colorfix says that it is not for semi, I tried it anyway. It turned it a light strawberry blonde which was pretty, but I was not used to it. Now I have just put some high and low lights in to break up the red. It really did work.
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