Red Hair Update… Directions Pillarbox Red

After dyeing my sisters hair less than a week ago she wasn't happy with the colour and that it wasn't 'red' enough. Read the post here…

Instead of using another permanent hair dye on top of her current hair dye, I decided to use a semi permanent hair colour from Directions in the colour Pillarbox Red.

As you can see from the picture it is super bright and very red. 

Even once I mixed it with conditioner, the colour remained the same intensity. I used an equal amount of the hair dye with an equal amount of white conditioner. 

She applied the whole amount to her hair and left it on for 2 hours. 

BEFORE

AFTER

Garnier Olia Intense Red - Review + Before & After

Around 2 years ago my sister dyed her hair using Garnier Olia in the colour Deep Red. You can read my review with before and after pictures here.

This time around she chose the colour Intense Red 6.60.

I would suggest to buy more boxes than you need as it's alway better to have too much than running out half way through. 

My sister has very thick, corse hair which requires 3 boxes of hair dye. 

The application is pretty straight forward, you mix the developer with the colourant and then evenly spread through all the hair. I do want to mention that it doesn't spread very well as the mixture is quite thick. Apart from that it is great it even smells good and doesn't have that awful toxic chemical smell.  

She left the dye in for 30 minutes, rinsed out her hair and then used the conditioner.

BEFORE

AFTER

Garnier Olia Deep Red - Review + Before & After...

A couple of weeks ago my sister decided to dye her hair red, we went to superdrug looking out for any offers, as my sister has incredibly thick hair which requires 2-3 boxes of dye. 

Being a reasonably new dye she bought Garnier Olia Permanent Hair Colour in Deep Red 4.6. 

Inside the box there is, instructions, gloves, an applicator bottle, cream developer, cream colourant and silk & shine conditioner.

I put on the gloves and mixed the cream developer and colourant together. I did notice that there was no chemical smell that there usually is with hair dye and it actually smelt quite pleasant. While applying it through her hair I found that it was quite hard to spread as the consistency is quite thick. 

She left it in her hair for 30minutes and rinsed it out using the conditioner.

Before 

After 

About a month later it is still as vibrant as when it was first coloured and hasn't faded at all.