Would you trust hair color from the 99 cents store?
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free skin care · Sun Apr 01, 2012 2:27 pm

Hi,
A friend of mine said she used the hair color from the 99 cents store to color her hair because her son who is a hair stylist uses it for his clients. She said it is good quality from Korea. Would you trust hair color from the 99 cents store?

Sun Apr 01, 2012 3:31 pm

Certainly not.

free skin care · Sun Apr 01, 2012 4:10 pm

Nope. Which is why I insist on knowing which formula hair stylists put on my hair. I usually do it myself (with professional products, NOT from Sally's budget collection) now, but I once when somewhere when they planned on putting inferior Color Charm on my hair. I walked out.

free skin care · Tue Apr 03, 2012 7:51 pm

Ava with wings wrote:

Nope. Which is why I insist on knowing which formula hair stylists put on my hair. I usually do it myself (with professional products, NOT from Sally's budget collection) now, but I once when somewhere when they planned on putting inferior Color Charm on my hair. I walked out.

You mean there is a cheap brand called Colour Charm?

I used to buy Wella Colour Charm semi permanent hair colour from a actual salon and it is not cheap- like $15 for the colour tube, then you need to get the developper separately.

There is no Sally store where I live and I really do not look at drugstore colour either.

The store/salon I go to they carry at least 30+ brands of professional hair colour and can also order any salon item if they do not have it.
Not sure if their prices are good though as they are not online and do not advertise (but been in same location 25 years...)

free skin care · Tue Apr 03, 2012 7:57 pm

Ottawa Shopper wrote:

Ava with wings wrote:

Nope. Which is why I insist on knowing which formula hair stylists put on my hair. I usually do it myself (with professional products, NOT from Sally's budget collection) now, but I once when somewhere when they planned on putting inferior Color Charm on my hair. I walked out.

You mean there is a cheap brand called Colour Charm?

I used to buy Wella Colour Charm semi permanent hair colour from a actual salon and it is not cheap- like $15 for the colour tube, then you need to get the developper separately.

There is no Sally store where I live and I really do not look at drugstore colour either.

The store/salon I go to they carry at least 30+ brands of professional hair colour and can also order any salon item if they do not have it.
Not sure if their prices are good though as they are not online and do not advertise (but been in same location 25 years...)

LOL. The only Color Charm I know of is Wella, they make permanent and semi permanent products and have been used here in the states by salons for ages.
Sally's does carry the brand here, but that does not make it bad!

free skin care · Tue Apr 03, 2012 11:10 pm

The problem with shop bought hair dye is that it tends to contain far too much ammonia/peroxide (I forget which one) because it is not legal to sell over the counter salon standard hair dye... Or at least in the UK this is the case.

free skin care · Tue Apr 03, 2012 11:15 pm

Moon wrote:

The problem with shop bought hair dye is that it tends to contain far too much ammonia/peroxide (I forget which one) because it is not legal to sell over the counter salon standard hair dye... Or at least in the UK this is the case.

Many professional brands are readily available in the US to the average consumer. Very Happy

Ammonia content will also depend on whether it is Permanent, Demi or Semi Permanent.

If you buy what I am referring to with permanent color you purchase the color and peroxide separately and then mix it your self.

free skin care · Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:59 am

Moon wrote:

The problem with shop bought hair dye is that it tends to contain far too much ammonia/peroxide (I forget which one) because it is not legal to sell over the counter salon standard hair dye... Or at least in the UK this is the case.

I have no idea if it is legal or illegal in my city to sell salon hair dye and products.
I just know the salon my mother used to go to, they do sell everything they stock.
But if you have no idea how to do your hair or seem clueless, they might not reccomend you buy stuff.

-well the salon that sells me the professional dyes they have temporary colour (I used to buy some brand that came in a mousse can and left shimmer in your hair for a couple washes).
But most of what they sell is the hair colour in tubes and the store staff is nice enough to just sell me enough developper for 1 use as I do not want a 1 liter bottle and do not colour my hair much (they usually charge me $2 when I bring my own bottle to fill).

The "problem" with buying salon dye is it is not a kit with mixing bottles and you need to buy every item separately like mixibg bowl,brush,mixing bottle,gloves ect...
*I just got rid of my stuff as it was looking worn out...so not super cheap to do my own hair now...need to buy all new tools.

I also used to be able to get "professional size" jugs of conditioner from another hair supply shop for a very good deal (for stuff they decided not to use...but I know the store manager there Wink

*I used to use Goldwell hair foam
*Sebastian Colorshines/laminates hair gloss (only prob was it costed $60 for a large bottle..but maybe 8-10 uses for me)
http://www.sleekhair.com/1596.html
-it used to come in a bottle when i bought it a few years ago...

**I actually haven't dyed my hair in a couple years. might get back to doing that for the summer though Smile

free skin care · Wed Apr 04, 2012 3:26 am

Moon wrote:

The problem with shop bought hair dye is that it tends to contain far too much ammonia/peroxide (I forget which one) because it is not legal to sell over the counter salon standard hair dye... Or at least in the UK this is the case.

Where did you get this information from please? Too much ammonia/ peroxide for what, given that they are a key part of the chemical reaction? UK salons use anything up to 40 vol sometimes with heat, blistering scalps as a result no box dye is higher than that. In fact I don't think anything but the box pre-lighteners go that high. Some UK box dyes are ammonia free and different products contain different percentages of peroxide. Which specific ingredients are not salon standard?

Natalyn: I would not be concerned about the price because I see many good brands in our pound shops, alongside the low end ones. I would be concerned about whether I can read the ingredients lists, whether I was confident the product had been stored properly, would blend well, if I could check out the brand online (eg. YouTube reviews). If the hairdresser son has been using the product for a while he must be happy with the results. I can't see any reason to be worried about the safety: persulphate bleach, ammonia and peroxide are inexpensive and highly effective ingredients, so there is no incentive for a foreign company to substitute inferior or dangerous chemicals as there is with the keratin straightening treatments.

I've been box dying for 22 years with various brands and never had a catastrophe like hair snapping off. Couple of ill advised colour choices, down to my bad taste and being too lazy to do strand tests!! Laughing

I can't honestly say price had a bearing on the result. I now avoid products containing sulphate surfactants (worse for my skin than the peroxide!) and silicones (fake shine/ softness), instead layering the dye over coconut oil because lauric acid protects the protein core of the hair.

free skin care · Wed Apr 04, 2012 8:59 am

My husband use Revlon Top speed. He said it is good and not allergy his head.
I don't like to use chemical hair dye, so I use henna. It take long time but it is not make me allergy.

free skin care · Wed Apr 04, 2012 11:03 pm

DarkMoon wrote:

Ottawa Shopper wrote:

Ava with wings wrote:

Nope. Which is why I insist on knowing which formula hair stylists put on my hair. I usually do it myself (with professional products, NOT from Sally's budget collection) now, but I once when somewhere when they planned on putting inferior Color Charm on my hair. I walked out.

You mean there is a cheap brand called Colour Charm?

I used to buy Wella Colour Charm semi permanent hair colour from a actual salon and it is not cheap- like $15 for the colour tube, then you need to get the developper separately.

There is no Sally store where I live and I really do not look at drugstore colour either.

The store/salon I go to they carry at least 30+ brands of professional hair colour and can also order any salon item if they do not have it.
Not sure if their prices are good though as they are not online and do not advertise (but been in same location 25 years...)

LOL. The only Color Charm I know of is Wella, they make permanent and semi permanent products and have been used here in the states by salons for ages.
Sally's does carry the brand here, but that does not make it bad!

Oh....guess we are talking about the same brand then?
Colour charm is one of the few brands I have seen around here that had a golden brown colour that has no red and looks really nice on me (when I did use it).

We really do not have beauty supply shops here in Canada that much.
We have 2 large drugstore chains and that is about it.
But the drugstore chain they do sell salon styling products and high end skincare (like Guerlain,biotherm ect...).

Has anyone tried the Fekkai hair dye. All I know is they are around $35 a box and sephora used to sell them.

free skin care · Wed Apr 04, 2012 11:20 pm

Ottawa Shopper wrote:

DarkMoon wrote:

Ottawa Shopper wrote:

Ava with wings wrote:

Nope. Which is why I insist on knowing which formula hair stylists put on my hair. I usually do it myself (with professional products, NOT from Sally's budget collection) now, but I once when somewhere when they planned on putting inferior Color Charm on my hair. I walked out.

You mean there is a cheap brand called Colour Charm?

I used to buy Wella Colour Charm semi permanent hair colour from a actual salon and it is not cheap- like $15 for the colour tube, then you need to get the developper separately.

There is no Sally store where I live and I really do not look at drugstore colour either.

The store/salon I go to they carry at least 30+ brands of professional hair colour and can also order any salon item if they do not have it.
Not sure if their prices are good though as they are not online and do not advertise (but been in same location 25 years...)

LOL. The only Color Charm I know of is Wella, they make permanent and semi permanent products and have been used here in the states by salons for ages.
Sally's does carry the brand here, but that does not make it bad!

Oh....guess we are talking about the same brand then?
Colour charm is one of the few brands I have seen around here that had a golden brown colour that has no red and looks really nice on me (when I did use it).

We really do not have beauty supply shops here in Canada that much.
We have 2 large drugstore chains and that is about it.
But the drugstore chain they do sell salon styling products and high end skincare (like Guerlain,biotherm ect...).

Has anyone tried the Fekkai hair dye. All I know is they are around $35 a box and sephora used to sell them.

I have used Color Charm in a high end salon ages ago, as well as on my own hair.

I have seen the Fekkai products on Sephora, but not sure about the color? I would have to look on the site, however not everything can ship to Canada, just as some products from EDS can't ship to the States?

free skin care · Fri Apr 06, 2012 4:46 pm

I used the "light brown" from the $1 store for my roots. It worked as well as the Feria I use and actually worked better than the Framesi my stylist used that faded horribly. The brand from the $1.00 store (Dollar Tree)was De La Ritz. I get compliments on my hair all the time. No one even noticed I used a different brand when I do my roots.

free skin care · Fri Apr 06, 2012 7:55 pm

Thanks all for your responses and advice!

free skin care · Sat Apr 07, 2012 11:36 pm

To everyone that loves color charm, sorry, I think it's just terrible. It's the OTC version wella makes and it's awful. I'd walk out if a "high end salon" tried to put this On me.

free skin care · Sun Apr 08, 2012 12:08 am

Ava with wings wrote:

To everyone that loves color charm, sorry, I think it's just terrible. It's the OTC version wella makes and it's awful. I'd walk out if a "high end salon" tried to put this On me.

Too each their own. Very Happy

When still practicing as a stylist I could purchase it at all the Professional Only suppliers. I never found it to be inferior in any way, but your experience is obviously very different.

Mon Apr 09, 2012 1:21 am

Not in my case.
where to buy the hair color does not bother me so much, but the ingredients and contents of the hair color sometimes make me to have second thought before i pay for them
I colored my hair several times with chemical ingredients colors, but the results are terrible. My hair dried, dull and very hard to treat and comb......

But what i have now is HENNA AND INDIGO, which go together for my case, they are very good, more than hair nutrition than coloring to me. After using them, my hair became more glossy, silky and strong. Although less colors for choosing, but the results will nearly never turn you down.
BTW, it's a little bit fussy to do the henna muds on hair......

free skin care · Mon Apr 09, 2012 5:24 am

ellac117 wrote:

Not in my case.
where to buy the hair color does not bother me so much, but the ingredients and contents of the hair color sometimes make me to have second thought before i pay for them
I colored my hair several times with chemical ingredients colors, but the results are terrible. My hair dried, dull and very hard to treat and comb......

But what i have now is HENNA AND INDIGO, which go together for my case, they are very good, more than hair nutrition than coloring to me. After using them, my hair became more glossy, silky and strong. Although less colors for choosing, but the results will nearly never turn you down.
BTW, it's a little bit fussy to do the henna muds on hair......

The problem is Henna (although great) is pretty tricky once you have a certain percentage of gray hair (white for some) also the result color wise you wish to attain plays into it's use. Smile

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