L'Oreal Paris Wild Ombre Preference Kit REVIEW

I'd been thinking about an ombre dip dye for a little while as I had always liked them and I heard about this product by L'Oreal called the Wild Ombre kit and decided to try it out.
The kit comes in three different shades and the intensity depends on the natural colour of your hair (No1 for light to dark brown, No2 for dark blonde to light brown, and No3 for blonde to dark blonde) it is important to choose the right one for your shade of hair so your dip dye looks fairly natural and well faded. I went for No1 as this is my current hair colour.....a natural dark brown that I dyed red a bit over a year ago and is now a medium-ish browny red.

At first I thought I would have to dye my hair a medium shade of brown before using the dip dye because I was worried it wouldn't work on red hair, or it would look weird or....i might go ginger (dun dun dun!)
But in the end I thought YOLO I would just got for it and recently the tips of my hair have kind of faded into a more brown colour and the red tends to be more prominent further towards my roots so the ombre colour should turn out okay.
So other than that my main worry was that my hair would be irreversibly damaged by this colour because it does contain some lightening agents like Hydrogen Peroxide as well as Ammonia and I was mainly worried that it would damage it so much that it would no longer be naturally curly, but I researched this and as this is only the second time I have permanently dyed my hair the damage shouldn't be too bad.

The dye kit comes with a rectangular brush to apply the colour and it is easy to use. The kit advises starting the colour between the ear and chin but as my hair is quite long, I opted for further down and mine starts just under my shoulder -I really think where you begin brushing it in should be determined on an individual basis by how long your hair actually is.
After brushing in the dye, I added more the tips using my hands to enhance the ombre effect and faded look.

This is the final result and it turned out quite well! It is a noticeable change yet still a natural look that is easy to achieve!

its still good for making moustaches!

As you can see the tips are noticeably lighter than my roots so overall I am pleased with the result from this snazzy dye kit and would definitely recommend it if you are looking into a home dip dye!

Hair Chalk!

Okay so we used to be SO not into dip dyes or coloured hair but we started to see how cool and indie they are and wanted a non-permanent one-wash type way of doing it where it still looked snazzy!

Some of the chalks

So we looked into it and found these "Kevin Murphy Colour Bugs" which are basically like chalk in round cases and you use it with water to rub into your hair and temporarily colour it. This is the link to the website "http://www.kevinmurphy.com.au/products/newstuff_productdetail.php?id=143"

Louise and her pink dip dye

But because we couldn’t agree on colours and wanted more variety of colours, these would end up too expensive and at the moment Kevin Murphy only sells pink, purple and orange colour bugs. So we searched generally for hair chalk on the internet and found a box of 12 small rectangular ones for £10. Ours were from eBay which have a big selection.

Erin with a blue dip dye (and a snazzy hat)

You use them by spraying water onto your hair from a bottle and rubbing the chalk into your hair. We have tried it with a few coloured streaks on their own which looked good as well as full dip dyes with one colour.
They were fairly quick to do and they looked really snazzy but we did find them kind of awkward to apply and quite messy on your hands but it does wash straight off with water so it was fine.
So one morning we both used the chalk to "dip dye" our hair (Louise's pink and mine blue.) I found that some of the colour came off on my clothes, it did wash out but my clothes were dark; and I think white would probably stain! Although before we went out Louise sprayed her hair with "Label M Protein Spray" (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Create-Label-Protein-Spray-250ml/dp/B001W9SIPW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1352317703&sr=8-1) over the chalk. The spray is meant to even out porosity and protect hair/hair colour but it seemed to stop the chalk going onto her clothes.
I really liked the dip dye, once it was done it looked jazzy. It did come out within one shampoo, although Louise's hair which is blonde held the colour for a few washes.
Overall, I would say go for it! YOLO :)