Today I'm trying a product I've never used before: Color Oops!
Previously when I've gone from black to light brown hair I've used a combination of Rusk's Elimin8, and Manic Panic's Flash Lightning.
The red dye I've chosen is also from a brand I've never used, but had solid reviews: Vidal Sassoon's Pro Series.
The red is '5RR' which is a beautiful, vibrant dark red. I know very well that red hair fades the fastest, I read reviews for this shade where multiple people state that it didn't fade nearly as fast as other reds.
Color Oops: It smells. Which shouldn't sway you from buying it, but it smells bad. They include a plastic cap, which is great, because the consistency is not what I expected. It is pretty watery and runny. I have shoulder length hair and I questioned if I would be able to cover my entire head with the product, but it turns out it was just enough. If you have anything longer than shoulder length hair, you'll need 2 boxes.
Before Color Oops:
Dark Brownish Black Hair!
After Color Oops:
Holy crap.. my natural hair color!!
Also, excuse my fluffy hair. I have naturally insanely curly hair!
I DID NOT EXPECT COLOR OOPS TO WORK!! I had literally forgotten what my natural hair color had looked like, I have been dying my hair since I was 13. When I got out of the shower I was swearing with excitement! I was really skeptical about this product, but now I am a massive supporter! I could literally go on for hours about how well this worked! But I realize I need to shut up and get to the actual redhead part.
Vidal Sassoon 5RR: The steps are easy, combine bottle 1 with 2 and shake. When I was putting the dye [bottle 1] into bottle 2, the bottle got a hole in it and it took me 3x as long to put the dye in. It was also extremely messy. So, If you buy this brand, be careful on this step.
When combined the dye is really creamy, and it doesn't drip. However, I barely had enough dye to cover my head. I don't have long hair at all. Using other brands, I ALWAYS have extra dye that ends up being thrown away, there was literally no extra dye this time.
That being said, this dye is horrible. Horrible horrible horrible.
My hair was very light after using color oops, light enough to definitely get a solid red color, but here is what happened:
From far away it looks deep brown, if you stand under a light and look closely it is super dark red.
I understand that dye goes on dark at first and lightens with washes, so later that night I washed my hair a few times and although a ton of dye kept coming out, it made no difference. The worst part was the two toned-ness of my hair. This is what my roots looked like:
My roots were a nice vibrant red! It looked like my scalp was bleeding compared to my hair.
I also dyed my hair about 2 hours before I had to go to work, and didn't have time to fix it. So I put my hair up and wore a giant headband.
I got off work at midnight and drove to a 24/7 Walgreens for another box of handy dandy Color Oops!
So my hair now looks pretty much the same after the first time I Color Oops'd it. The roots are a little bit lighter. But I'm going to live with it and stop messing with my hair for a while!
Tips:
Although the box of Color Oops says you can recolor the same day, I wouldn't do that. I recolored 2 days later. Your hair colors better when it is dirty, because of the oils in your hair. Also, after using Color Oops my scalp was a bit sensitive. It was broken or damaged, just a little sensitive.
I wouldn't recommend Vidal Sassoon. Not only did the dye not work for me, it was incredibly messy. My bathroom looked like a crime scene, my skin was covered in dye that was really difficult to remove, one of the bottles I needed to combine with another ripped and made it difficult to combine the 2 bottles.
The 1 good thing that came out of this was discovering Color Oops and how much of a miracle product it is, even though the packaging looks like its from the 90's.
