THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED.
We’ve another prize to give away! This time you could win one of five fabulous Herbatint permanent hair colourants.
You might remember the glowing review I gave Herbatint a while back. Well, we managed to track down some Herbatint to give away to you.
All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on this post telling us your hair colour preference (we have dark chestnut, light golden blonde, dark blonde, and blonde to give away) AND a good/bad hair story.
As an example, here’s my real life hair-horror story (which is also part of the reason don’t like hardcore, chemically hair products). A few years ago, I had my hair chemically straightened with a product called Glatt. The product wasn’t applied quite right, and in the days that followed the treatment, my hair snapped off at the roots leave patches a bare scalp. Though the hairdresser (Cut Above on Lorne St, Auckland) gave me some free moisture treatments to remedy the effect, they never gave my money back for the treatment. Afterwards I spoke to many hairdressers about Glatt, and many had similar stories about it. It’s not a nice product.
So leave us your colour preference, and good/bad hair story. Five winners will be chosen randomly (but sorted by colour preference first as we only have one of each colour and we wouldn’t want to send you a prize you can’t use.)
Winners will be drawn Wednesday 15th October 2008.
I don’t really have any horror stories per se…. I’ve made messes in various bathrooms (wait… that sounds horrible… with the hairdye I mean…). I shook a bottle as I was dying my friends hair in her parents newly painted bathroom but there was a hole in the top and it squirted on the wall. Oops. One of the more recent times when I didn’t wanna bother my flatmate I tried to dye my long hair by myself and managed to rip the glove and had no others so ended up with a nasty looking bruise like glow on my hands.
Sigh.
DARK CHESTNUT!?
Worst bad hair day (more like couple of months really) – getting a spiral perm in the eighties when they were all the go. My hair was quite long, and this involved around 120 perm rollers and about 3 hours at the hairdresser. Result: large bruises on the back of my neck from too long at the basin with a head full of heavy perm rollers, and a hairstyle that was more Sideshow Bob than Nicole Kidman in BMX Bandits (obviously the look I was going for!). Plus it looked like crap once it started to grow out. I ended up chopping it all off and going for an Annie Lennox crop instead (but that’s another bad hair story … the eighties were not a good hair decade).
I’m a dark chestnut girl too!
i have cut my hair a few times and its never good but i haven’t learnt from it still (it is really fun, i think thats why). i cut my hair about an inch short all over when i was 18, it was quite long before that, and it looked ok when id finished but the next morning i had to make an emergency product-run cos the top stuck right up but the sides sat flat and it made me look like a conehead i looked so silly! i cut my hair with nail scissors on holiday a month ago too because it was starting to want to dred up and it really hurt to brush. but that wasnt disastrous, just funny and choppy and odd-looking, and my lovely hairdresser fixed it for me when i came back. yay for hairdresser friends, i would have been so scared to take it to a stranger hairdresser i think some of them disapprove of that sort of thing and resent having to fix diy messes.
o and im prob going for dark blonde
Oh dear, another “dark chestnut” girl here!
Bad hair story: for my mother’s civil union earlier this year, the hairdresser decided to curl my hair with a GHD iron. The curls looked great … for about ten minutes (and it wasn’t even a particularly windy Wellington day!). We went back later for our makeup appointments, and they re-curled my hair, and wouldn’t you know it, the curls just fell out again! My hair isn’t hard to curl, and not to mention that the curling process hurt and yanked out a good handful of my hair. I was highly annoyed!
Actually, having perused their colour charts, apparently I’m a dark blonde! Will wonders never cease.
Dark chestnut is the colour I used and it was a little darker than my natural dark, dark, dark brown hair. So when they say dark, they mean dark. (isn’t ‘dark’ a funny word when you write it heaps?!)
dark chestnut please! =)
One time, my friend dared me to color my hair by myself. I’ve never done this before ever, and she hasn’t as well.
we made such a mess out of my sink! the worst thing was that i had patches of color ON MY SCALP! eeeccckkk!
i never dared color my hair since then.
(there’s always a pseudo-first time, right? like now? =))
Well this is a recent story, my hair is naturally blonde, I then thought it would be a fab idea to go dark for winter, but alas I wanted back to my flaxen roots. Hense my hairdresser has made my hair orange!! Im super embarressed and starting to regret this whole chemical dying saga!!
Blonde pls.
Love Sam
how bout having to have black colour stripped from dark blonde hair? it took 4.5 hours & stings like buggery! Then they still wanted to give it another go! I said no!
I would be keen to give blonde or dark blond a go! X
hmm.. i have a few hair stories. once i went to get my hair dyed by a friend who was an apprentice hairdresser. it took about 6 hours, and instead of being the strawberry blonde i requested, it was grey. he became a chef shortly after. i still had to pay full price.
then, a little later i got dreadlocks, and instead of using hairdye i used to just used a hair decolourant to make them white-blonde (never was silly enough to use bleach tho). the end result was good but gave me a wickedly sensitive scalp ever since. didn’t have to use a hairdresser for 5ish years which after the above experience was fine with me!
when i decided to get rid of the dreads (so i could get a real job) i brushed them out. it took 8 hours, 4 combs, a bottle of wine and two understanding girlfriends. after that experience though i now look forward to going to the hairdresser!
(my choice would be light golden blonde of course!!)