Quick Update | L'Oreal Preference Glam Highlights

Today's post is just a super quick update on my L'Oreal Preference Glam Highlights (first applied here and then updated again here) experience. It's been a few months and I've been topping up here and there. Since my November application, I have used three more boxes every 6 weeks or so as I slowly brighten back up to blonde.

As always, the dye itself is perfect for my intentions and blends so bloody effortlessly that I'm impressed every time. Even when I think I might have royally messed up, I'm always happy with the results and how well this stuff blends. Here's a quick view of the highlights:

You can see my natural colour in the back blending nicely plus some white-blonde almost platinum pieces threaded through too. I've been using the comb that comes with the box as well as my tinting brush and bowl set to apply.

My hair feels softer than ever so I'm happy. I usually have quite course hair and I think the bleach has really helped to soften this up a bit. Plus it's so very shiny all the time!

I love this dye kit and will continue to use it for touch-ups and further highlights. 10/10 would recommend forever :-)

Tabitha 

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Review | L'Oreal Preference Glam Highlights

I've said in previous posts that I love to dye my hair - so it shouldn't be any surprise that I've done it again!

I'll preface this by saying that I've used this kit before and I absolutely love it. Their ombre kits are amazing which gave me the confidence to try this for the first time when I did. Well, that and the fact that Blake Lively was sponsoring it - we all know of my love for Blake. My hair was a lot lighter when I last used this kit though so I was a touch nervous on how the colour would turn out now. I have to say - I am so impressed yet again!

This is the front and back of the box. I chose No1 which is the lightest shade as my hair is still fairly light. I think I could have gotten away with No2 as well but I'm trying to lighten up again gradually.

Here you can see the contents of the kit. You can see the Expert Brush which I'd recommend using if you're new to highlights or haven't used the kits before. I personally opted for my tinting brush and bowl set as I was trying a more balayage technique at the bottom.

I chose to concentrate the formula at the bottom of my hair and the front section keeping the product light at the roots so that it will blend nicely as it grows.

Here's the finished look! As you can see, even though I applied it super-stripey above, it comes out really natural looking and blends perfectly!

I thought a pout might make the no make-up semi-acceptable :-)

I've had lots of compliments on my blonder looks since applying this and have been recommending this kit to anyone that is looking for a similar effect.  

Definitely give this one a go! 10/10 for colour, formula, application and result! I bought mine on 2 for £11 at Boots and used just one of them for the result above. I'll be applying the second one in a couple of weeks to lighten even more.

Let me know if anyone has tried No2 and No3 and if they're just as good.

Tabitha

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This post not sponsored by L'Oreal - I just love this product and wanted to share :-)

Review | Superdrug Vibrance Mango Copper Burst 7.4

I love to dye my hair and have tried a dye from most brand ranges and shades. Recently, I've been sticking to my blonde summers and auburn winters.

But the problem with auburn, as any bottle redhead knows, is that it can fade so very quickly! I was so disappointed when my Nice N Easy auburn shade washed out in just three weeks. Keen to get my auburn back, I ventured into Superdrug to see if I could find the perfect copper-red shade.

 I'll be looking for the perfect shade forever, but I did find a close second. This is the Mango Copper Burst shade from Superdrug's Vibrance range currently priced at £4.49 a box:

Linked here in case my apartment's lights aren't doing it proper justice. Now, according to the back of the box, my hair was going to go quite a bright orange.

However, knowing how quickly red fades, I figured I was better to go stronger with my shade choice now and have it fade to the warm copper red I'm looking for after a few washes. I'll admit, I felt severe intimidation when I mixed it up in my Primark tinting bowl.

This is two boxes worth of dye as I have long/thick hair

It's a distinctly tomato soup shade.....but I'm a daring woman when it comes to hair dyeing so I thought I'd put it on. 

Initially, it had a strong dye-smell but it wasn't as eye watering as previous dyes I've used from other brands and once I started to apply it, the scent was barely noticeable.

It goes on very orange but that helped me to see where I had and hadn't applied it. The formula is quite thin though, and even though I used two boxes, it really didn't go far. My hair is quite thick and goes down to the middle of my back, but two boxes is usually enough for me in other brands. I found that by the time I reached my top section, I only had a trace amount left in the bowl. I definitely couldn't saturate my hair which was disappointing and led to panic hair massaging to try and disperse the product (semi-successfully).

The dye has to stay on for a pretty standard 30 minutes and continues to be a bright (and scary) orange while it's on.

I did get dye on my skin but it washed off with soap and water.

You do have to use shampoo when you're rinsing it out according to the instructions which felt a bit wrong but the conditioner it came with was pleasant smelling and left my hair in good condition.

Here are the results:

Before (left) and After (right)

I'd say the result I had matches that of the box pretty well (for once) and I have to say the colours blended well with my natural highlights. 

There were some areas where the colour is weaker in the top sections but it's definitely not patchy. My colleagues actually thought I'd put in highlights as well because it was the top-section that suffered the lack of dye and it actually blended to look deliberate (so lucky it did!).

Shine-wise, this product could do better. Other brands tend to produce a high shine result where this on definitely didn't. 

Summary: 6/10 - Love the colour but so disappointed at how little product there was. If you're thinking about buying this dye, get one extra box than you think you need and then maybe another one for safety. I'd say that if you're the type of person (like me) that has to use a palmful of conditioner just to get all of their hair, you're definitely going to need 3-4 boxes of this dye. 

Tabitha

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