L’Oreal Preference Mousse Absolue Natural Dark Brunette 400 (LATE & LONG WINDED BUT ALL TRUTHFUL)

For the last 6 months I had been just about coping with my wishy-washy colour id been left with after a few years of not taking care of my locks. I’d had the ends chopped a few weeks back and I was contemplating between visiting the hairdressers or box dying back to dark brown.

Box dying my hair has never been easy as the very reliable for others ‘nice&easy’ ‘L’Oreal’ and ‘Garnier’ never seemed to do well for my hair. But then the uproar hit for the new preference mousse in a gold can that you could re-use.. and I was sold.

Due to previous experiences I was wary of going back to my luxurious dark brown after the many accidents of crossing the border of black. Doing my research I read up on some reviews and tips from other bloggerellas and people seemed to be enjoying it. That’s all except one. I came across one home hair dyer http://photo-jenn-ic.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/loreal-mousse-absolue-or-absolute-mess.html who mentioned a plastic like residue left on her hair and made it rather greasy. I gave it some thought and as I’ve never been one to suffer from greasy hair I thought I’d be fine. So off I trotted on my lunch break to pick up my new hair colour.

Excited to get home and get that colour flowing I set up my little station, newspaper over dressers and floors to save my mother the stained wood flooring  horror.

Following all instructions my hairline was first to take the hit, roots shortly to follow. Then the rest of my hair took fall. The size and product was very sparing and so it should be for a reusable hair dye so I went on to attack my clip in human hair extensions. I’d just finished the last one as the mousse cap started to hiss.. I was out.

One full mid length head and 20 clips worth of hair extensions, thank god id done it.

A good scrub leaning over the bath the mucky brown water was draining down the plughole but not actually running any clearer. After long minutes of scrubbing I jumped in the shower to give my scalp a rest and started on the extensions.  After skipping back and forth between the two I was getting horrible thick dark clumps of dye getting stuck under my talons they call nails. Then when I had a scrub behind my ears it seemed to get worse. There was a thick tar like product build up behind my ears which took numerous amounts of shampoo to get it to budge.

I’d had enough, what was supposed to be a quick treatment had turned into over an hour and a halves work.

Went onto do a quick blow-dry to check that the colour wasn’t as disastrous as the ritual itself. I was relieved, not to black not to red, the colour was perfect and the extensions to match. But as I continued to blow dry I had been left with a wax like coating covering every piece of hair. My not normally greasy hair was covered in a greasy layer almost that off an afro Caribbean sheen spray product. Sure it was shinning but not in a way any girl would want their hair to shine. It’s now been two days since my grease up and my hair is finally starting to feel like normal, however my extensions haven’t been so lucky to survive this.  

Now torn between a gorgeous colour I like and a product I don’t want near my hair again I’m back on the quest for the perfect box home hair dye.