What's your favourite Red Hair colour?

Slytherin · Aug 31, 2009

mine is L'oreal 740 made by my hairdresser sister:

Sorry for this pic it's just before cinema ( Inglorious basterds ). It's not avery vintage place

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pumori · Sep 1, 2009

Henna is always a good way to get red hair...as long as your hair hasn't been recently bleached or dyed. Otherwise it can be a disaster. Lush sells a shade called Caca Rouge, it gives a very nice natural red. I think the shade it shows on your hair depends on your natural hair color- I wouldn't know, I've only dyed my hair darker recently. Here's a picture of my friend (face blurred out)...I think her natural color is light brown, and she uses Lush to get it red.

anabolina · Sep 4, 2009

Oh I do love going red, its the getting back to my natural hair color that's hard. This is a mix of Ion 5R and 6R.

Viola · Sep 5, 2009

Ladies, help! I promised in a gesture of solidarity that I'd finally stop wussing out at the last minute and really colour my hair this weekend. Promised! My mother! So you know I have to.

But I'm really nervous and I've never coloured before.

Clairol, Revlon, L'oreal, or Feria? Which should be avoided? Which is idiot proof?

I have Monday off so I *do* have time to re-dye before work (dark red-brown probably if the red doesn't work, or an auburn if the red is just too off) but I don't really want to have to do that!

I'm leaning towards golder, even orange reds. I don't want purple-ish because my skin is too pink. I really need a big sister to hold my hand through this, I am such a baby.

C-dot · Sep 5, 2009

Viola - In one of my last posts, I said that Feria was to be avoided, at all costs!

Seriously - Nobody I know who has tried it, including myself, has had any success.

kamikat · Sep 5, 2009

That's so funny! When I use drugstore color (as opposed to driving out to the shop that sells to cosmetologists only), I always use Feria.

Inky · Sep 5, 2009

kamikat said:
That's so funny! When I use drugstore color (as opposed to driving out to the shop that sells to cosmetologists only), I always use Feria.

I used the black Feria for a long time with much success. I have used some of the red shades and they do fade quickly. Actually, this Special Effects red is one of the longest lasting reds I've ever used and it's not even a permanent color. Go figure!

Viola · Sep 7, 2009

I bought Garnier Nutrisse in "true red" 66. Wish me luck, ladies, it goes on tonight. (I also bought my first eyeliner I swear its like I'm a grownup!

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The eyeliner was shockingly easy (I got the felt-tip liquid from L'Oreal - "lineur intense" in Carbon Black) but if my hair gets ruined I'll cry.

LisaFreemontSt · Sep 7, 2009

Oooo, I had bad results w/ the Garnier True Red...I blame the thick consistency. Just make sure you get it evenly saturated,doll!

Viola · Sep 8, 2009

It came out well! I could get used to this redheaded thing!

Kitty_Sheridan · Sep 8, 2009

Well, I used Feria Intense Auburn on my hair and YUK!!!! It has dried my hair out really badly and the end colour isn't at all what I wanted.

Think I'll try the Live range next time, my friend at work came in with a gorgeous red and it's from the Live by Schwarzkopf range.

Thanks for all your answers ladies!

K

Tigerlily · Sep 25, 2009

I don't know if anyone here has tried it, but L'oreal makes a really nice red. It's sold at Sallys Beauty Supply and it's called Hi-Lights for Dark Hair. I've used it twice on all of my hair and found that it lasts for a long time, longer than all the other reds I've tried. About 6 weeks or so for me since I wash my hair 4 times a week (oily scalp!

). The bad thing is that it only comes in Magenta and Red. Magenta which is the one I use gives you a darker shade of red but it's still VERY intense and I believe the Red is more of a brighter shade and more "true". It has lifting solution in it already so you don't have to pre-lighten your hair before coloring it. You just have to pick what volume of developer you want to use.

Excuse my face.

That's about a week after I colored it. The picture makes it look a little dull but it was brighter! I use a 20 vol. because I like to keep it a bit darker so it's not RED RED, but if I were to use a higher volume it would definitely be brighter because of how well it deposits and lifts.

And the thing with red is that you have to take care of it a lot because it bleeds more than any other color. Part of the reason I'm going back to brown is because I'm tired of washing my hair with freezing cold water!

zombi · Sep 25, 2009

I colour my hair with a 50/50 mix of henna & cassia. I prefer herbal colouring because it's healthier for my hair, but I will admit it is about ten times harder to get the "right" colour you want, and it's a little harder to get used to doing. I'm in love, though, and I'd never go back!

I have used pretty much every box chemical red dye in the book, though lol and even though I was really happy with Herbal Essences for a long time, it killed my hair. To death. Most recently before I switched to herbal colouring, I was super pleased with a Feria colour, and what do you know -- they discontinued it. Go figure! [huh]

Jenniferose7 · Sep 25, 2009

Oh I love my red hair so much but boy do the pigments fade out faster than any other color.

I have mousy brown naturally and I've tried almost every red dye out there. My problem is that most don't "lift" the shade of my hair up much from my natural borwn. I used Feria's Copper Himmer two weeks before my avatar photo was taken and it's quite dark. Feria used to make an amazing color #R75 and they must've known it was amazing because they hastily discontinued it. Boxes of it now go for around $35 a piece. Even when the color faded out, it was still very intense.

One of my friends who turned me on to Feria R75 tried L'oreal HiColor HiLights in Red and it came out super intense. So I ordered some from Amazon and we'll see what happens when I try it later tonight. The only caveat is that you have to measure your own developer. Meh.

Miss Neecerie · Sep 25, 2009

Tigerlily said:
I don't know if anyone here has tried it, but L'oreal makes a really nice red. It's sold at Sallys Beauty Supply and it's called Hi-Lights for Dark Hair.

I used this for years...but I also admit to using the 'highlights' ones as full head hair dye.....and combining them etc.

why yes...I am slightly adventurous...its the former goth do-it-yourself in me..

Inky · Sep 25, 2009

Miss Neecerie said:
I used this for years...but I also admit to using the 'highlights' ones as full head hair dye.....and combining them etc.

why yes...I am slightly adventurous...its the former goth do-it-yourself in me..

ditto for me, I used that as well for all over color and it was a good red and didn't fade too quickly.

but nothing will sway me from special effects blood red and/or nuclear red. for now anyway

CherryRed · Sep 25, 2009

Inky said:
I used the black Feria for a long time with much success. I have used some of the red shades and they do fade quickly. Actually, this Special Effects red is one of the longest lasting reds I've ever used and it's not even a permanent color. Go figure!

I used to used the red Feria all the time and loved it. I don't remember having a fade issue. I love the dimension Feria has. I stick with Loreal colors as much as possible. I occasionally use Garnier or Clairol's root touch up. The worst I have used , as in, didn't even look like I colored my hair when I was done, was Colorsilk, the one that cost about $2.50 a box. Hated it!
I think this is Loreal's lightest Auburn and is very much what my natural color is:

kekecat · Sep 25, 2009

Hi everyone

I have used all kinds of box colours but have found that Lush's Caca Rouge henna is the BEST red I ever tried. Sure, it's a faff to sit with it on your head for 2/3 hours but the colour is very nice. The rouge is more coppery but they do another which is a darker red. It's supposed to be permanent but it isn't that long lasting sadly.

I work part time in a care home for the elderly and there is a lady (who was soooo glam in her younger years - like a filmstar!) who I get my source material from - and she loves it. I feel it's a huge compliment from her seen as she did the look so well first time round.

fftopic: She thinks it hilarious I like to put 'victory rolls' in my hair and wear 40's/50's clothes!

crwritt · Sep 25, 2009

I've always been partial to redheads. I mean the naturally occurring genetic kind. Having an auburn haired grandmother, two curly red brothers, a strawberry blonde sister in law and a strawberry blonde son and a daughter with beautiful pale red hair, I would never dream of coloring my own hair red.
When my husband grows a beard it is red. I could never keep up!

Sydney Loren · Sep 25, 2009

I have to say that I really miss having red hair. I dyed mine black and cut it off a while ago and instantly regretted. I am now going through the process of growing it out so I can go back to red.

What's your favourite Red Hair colour?

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