Colour B4Extra - Colour eraser “Packaging may vary”

Update a week or so later, hair appears lighter again than previously (and definitely more than) in pics. Only washed a couple of times since remover was used. Still pleased at condition of hair.Update - 1st wash in and hair still feels fine - but I did pre condition it before just washing the roots (normally just wash roots) Also hair has gone lighter - less red.So I did some research before hand - like not washing your hair for 48-72hrs before using this product and made sure I kept my head wrapped in cling film and a towel turned to help activate the colour remover. I mixed both lots of product really well - for a good minute each time. Rinsed super well too - as instructed. I also used 2 pks as I have a lot of hair. It felt like had enough in it. Hair felt a little dry after the process but I put in a good quality leave in conditioner afterwards - and as I never use heated appliances or hair dryers, that's as good as it'll get. So I did the remover thing yesterday. First signs seemed positive on my wet hair. I've home box dyed my naturally very dark brown hair for years, with various red based colours. The last one being a dark rose violet colour. I'm left with a pleasant smell in my hair today - tbh I don't think the product smells bad - no worse than an ordinary hair dye. Hair feels fine condition wise and I'm planning on not dying at (again as advised) for a while as my hair is naturally porous anyway and the hair shaft needs time to settle. Obviously using red hair dyes that have sneaky peroxide additions in them will have lightened my hair, but the sun also takes colour out my hair anyway in the summer. Taken a few photos and managed to find an older pic (not great but only one I can find!) with hair coloured with the dark rose violet colour. IMO, I think it's done a pretty fair job of removing the colour. I try and not overload colour when dying my hair but invariably i tend to put it on anyhow! As I'm getting more greys, I'm trying to go a little bit lighter brown from my natural colour, to hopefully blend things in a bit - never easy with dark hair! I'll stick with semi or temporary wash in tonal dyes for the moment until I have decided on the colourway I'm going for....Which isnt the end of the world as I only wash my hair 2 - occasionally 3 times a week. DO get enough packets for your hair. I was happy with 2pks, but only because ive recently had more length chopped off. If in doubt get more than you need. DO follow the instructions to the letter. All the bad reviews I read in doing research, obviously cut corners or failed to read the info sheet properly - and read them thoroughly first! DO Use a timer - v important. Keep bathroom and hair warm. Make sure you leave lots of time to do this with no interruptions. I set aside a couple of hours and start to very end was 1.5hrs (product needs 1hr to 'bake')I'll admit I didn't do a patch test(my bad) I'm very allergic to many chemicals and fragrances (as hospital tested etc) etc, happy to say this was a green light for me as a product. No scap irritation or burning etc. Of course please do a patch test yourself!I'm planning on applying a little more leave in conditioner at some point but otherwise my hair feels pretty OK to me, not as dry as I feared. Would I use again? Yes I would. Am I pleased with the results? Yes I am, the end result colour was what I was expecting (re info sheet!) And I'll live with it for a bit, as dying it again too soon could leave me with very patchy results. Oh and i suffered no hair loss - apart from my usual. Maybe if your hair isn't in great condition - get it into a healthier place so there's minimal damage to your hair. Before photo is the mirror one, the one with wet hair is after rinsing thoroughly. The after photo is one with a blue face and an orange top. To match my hair...😉😂

Ive always been one for changing my hair ever since I was young, and this usually consists of trying to reverse the blackest of black hair with a high strength bleach and loosing all my locks in the process!This time round though, and much less spontaneously I decided to look into finding a new way to get rid of my raven black permanent hair color. I went from bleach blonde, to bright red to black about 2 years ago now and had been black ever since (black over black many times), or I should say I've been an array of different types of black also (blue black, purple black etc). My hair now looked totally muddled and unhealthy looking and I felt "washed out" by the depth of the black color on my hair. I thought I would have to put up with it until it grew out!Then I found this product and became intrigued by some positive reviews and also after having watched some before and after videos on the internet I figured I had to try it! Even though I already new that it states it may not work if you have used UV hair dyes such as blue black which I had! I thought it would do nothing...I would like to stress right now (and I can't stress enough!) how important it is to read the instructions very VERY carefully and you MUST read the instructions more then once before you mix the products and start the process! Ive dyed my hair so many times I am so used to skipping instructions and just diving right in, but this product is different and you need to use it absolutely correctly for it to work!Before using the product I washed my hair thoroughly with a deep clensing shampoo (tresemme clense and replenish deep clensing shampoo) twice and no conditioning.As reviews have stated, the product smells bad, but not as bad to me as some reviews have made out! It is some what like egg and something else I can't put my finger on, more chemically! I was worried at first the house might smell for ages after but thankfully it didn't. I got used to the smell quite fast and it didn't bother me much.I wrapped cling film and a towel around my head and made sure I was in a warm place and blew the hairdryer on my head a few times just to make sure my head was nice and warm. Just before rinsing when I took the towel off my head I could already see a change! My hair from the roots looked very light ginger/light brown!The rinsing part is a pain, but you have to time your rinsing to be sure to rinse for 10 minutes between each process (first rinse, buffer rinse and then second buffer rinse) so you do have to put up with about 30 minutes of rinsing but I figured since my hair was so so dark in the first place I had to do it to the max! Even whilst wet I could tell my hair had lost the "blackness" and the tips looked more dark brown/copper colored whilst wet.Then I had the joy of drying my hair to see my hair get lighter and lighter the dryer it got and still in fabulous condition! I was overwhelmed by the results! It certainly didn't get rid of ALL the previous color (as it states you'll never achieve fully natural hair results if you have previously used bleach/hair lightener) but it made my hair a good couple of shades lighter, jet black to copper brown/gingery. The color was also very even to my surprise as I was also concerned the color would look crazy like really light roots and really dark tips but this wasn't the case. I would recommend this product to anyone who is unhappy with their hair and who wants an alternative to bleach! I will be using this product again at some point and I MIGHT use bleach after this but its a relief knowing I can use a much weaker bleach if I want to later on as this product has lightened my hair so well!The only thing I would say is, after my hair was dry my hair didn't smell like the product, but when I used my hair straighteners the smell suddenly came back off my hair which wasn't pleasant but after straightening no one said they could smell anything bad thankfully but be prepared for the smell to maybe linger slightly after using this product.