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So, I know I was planning to review this in my “Try It Tuesday“, but I decided that this needs a post of its own. I randomly picked up a box of Clairol Natural Instincts Vibrant at CVS one morning. It took me about two minutes to pick out the color (Vibrant 5, Coffee Boost, Medium Brown) and with only $7.99 gone out of my pocket, I was out the door.
Although dying my own hair doesn’t really scare me, I do make sure I do it when I know there will be someone around to fix it that day / the next day, just in case. And I would never do it right before an important event or if I was going someplace the next day I would be embarrassed to walk around looking all crazy at. I did one dye my hair black. Not on purpose of course. I wanted it to be dark brown and then just left the dye on longer than recommended to make sure it got nice and dark. FAIL.
So the other evening, with nothing to distract me and no where to be the next day, I decided it was time.
Although my hair color doesn’t look too crazy in this picture, I assure you it was. It was looking pretty gross. Lots of dark roots and just dull and icky. And sort of greenish.
I read the instructions (briefly, but I read them) and decided they were the easiest instructions ever and got right to work.
It looks pretty good huh? Clearly I have no internet shame. That should be obvious by now since I post picture pictures of myself make-up free all the time. I waited the 10 minutes (and not a second longer) and rinsed the stuff out of my hair (until the water turned clear). That took forever and was probably the hardest part of the entire process. The next step was to put a color setting conditioner on it for two minutes and then rinse it again. That was super easy. I will admit though, that I was getting pretty nervous about this time since my hair just kept coming out. Like I feared I may end up with no hair after I was done. After a few sweaty minutes, I realized all was well and it just looked like a lot of hair. Phew.
I was pretty pleased with the results. Dark brown hair with a few shades of other colors in there (from my previous highlites). I couldn’t have been more happier. And for $7.99, this gets a total thumbs up from me! I would have spent $200+ at the salon and 2 hours for my girl at the salon do do this. And I spent <$10 and 30 minutes total! Oh, and the package also came with some Color Boost that I need to use in 2 weeks to keep my color free. I would for sure use this stuff again. No question.
A final before and after. Such a change!
Have you ever dyed your own hair? How did it work out? Any horror stories out there?
