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Review: Excell 10 hair colour

December 6th, 2009

excell10Hey pretties. Just a quick review because I’ve got not much good to say about this hair colourant.  It made heaps of my hair fall out!

Excell 10 is a L’oreal product that colours hair in only ten minutes. It was on special when I bought it and came with a free timer, so I could accurately measure colouring time.

Even though I followed instructions extremely closely (because chemicals freak me out ever since a bad salon experience), from the very first rinse my hair was washing down the drain in handfuls.

Luckily, I’ve got a lot of hair. But it’s still disconcerting watching heaps of hair come out every time I wash my hair.

On balance, it does only take ten minutes. It is easy to apply. Comes with three washes worth of conditioner. And is inexpensive. But I’m definitely going back to good old herbatint.

If you are colouring at home, check out these great tips on totalbeauty.com. Like, don’t wash your hair before colouring, set up a three-way mirror, etc etc.

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Announcing the winners of the Herbatint prize

October 16th, 2008

Thanks to all those who entered the prize draw and shared their stories. Five lucky people were chosen randomly (which was somewhat easier for the shades of blonde with only a single entrant).

I hope you like your prize:

Lisa (dark chestnut)

Caroline (dark blonde)

Ginny (blonde)

Samantha (blonde)

Jenn (light golden blonde)

Winners (that’s right, you are now officially winners), I’ll email you shortly and ask for your mailing address so I can mail out your prize to you. If you don’t hear from me you can always email me: amy(at)prettyprettypretty(dot)com

And if you’ve got any comments about Herbatint after you’ve used it, please send them to PPP. I think it’s great and easy to use, so I’m interested to hear what you think.

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Remember to enter our prize draw!

October 12th, 2008

You could very easily win one of 5 fabulous Herbatint hair colourants. Just click here and leave a comment on the post. Do it now!! And remember to tell us your colour preference. Now!

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Win a Herbatint prize!

October 6th, 2008

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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.

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Review: Herbatint hair colour

August 25th, 2008

Herbavita’s Herbatint is one of the few ‘natural’ hair colourant brands I’ve seen. And I reckon it’s all good. It gets a big pretty thumbs-up from me.

They say:
A herbal based permanent hair colour with aloe vera, no paraben, NO AMMONIA and only 3% peroxide. Herbatint has fewer chemicals in than other permanent hair colours on the market and unlike products which contain ammonia it has no smell once mixed. The absence of ammonia results in little or no penetration of the epidermis and is less likely for people to have allergic reactions.

The Good:

Easy application, you apply to dry, non-washed hair, mix two bottles, spread through hair, wait, and rinse out. No strong smells. Covers grey (don’t ask how I know). It was quite a clean application – the mixture doesn’t splash much and it seems to cling to your hair so doesn’t drip from your hair. And I don’t think it stains the bathroom like other dyes – the couple of drops that did fall wiped off the floor easily even after many minutes.

A few washes later, and my hair is still super shiny and soft feeling.

The Bad: It takes 40 mins to develop colour, but actually I didn’t mind it taking this long at all.

Costs: around $30 from Hardy’s natural health stores.

Oh, and remember to do a patch test first – there’ll be no anaphylactic shock on my watch!!

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