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This is a bit of a mixed review – there are some definite up-sides to this product, but I’d have to say from the out-set that unless you are very experienced at dyeing your own hair, there is potential for things to go wrong.
The Schwarzkopf Color Mask itself is really easy to use – in fact, from my limited experience of other brands, it’s the easiest dye yet. You simply put the colour into the activator, shake the pot and you’re ready to go. The best thing about it is that it is thick – like a mask – so it doesn’t splatter everywhere (my bedroom carpet still retains the evidence of a thinner formula and a badly timed head shake). The smell is not strong, but there is that ‘dye’ smell there (unlike Olia, where there is more or less no smell) but it doesn’t seem to hang around in your hair, like others can do.
I opted for the Dark Brown colour and left on for half an hour as instructed. The colour guide on the packet doesn’t really resemble what happened to my hair – it’s almost black which I really wasn’t expecting (you can see the colour – I’m calling it Bad Cher – in my You Tube video HERE) so that was something of a shock. However, the shine on it is immense! So, wrong colour, right shine level. The other shock is that despite the fact that I used balm around my hair line to avoid any marks, I still got dye marks in and around my hair line – 24 hours later one of them is still there, right by my ear. I’ve used oil remover followed by exfoliator but I can see it will go in its own sweet time and not before.
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I’ve only ever used Olia and Nice N Easy before – if I am to compare to either of those, Schwarzkopf Color Mask is a mid-point between the two, low odour but more than Olia, an exceptionally easy formula to apply and remove (in fact, that’s a high point – it rinses away like a dream) and way more user friendly than Nice N Easy, but it’s not for the inexperienced, as my brown marks and black hair prove. Schwarzkopf Color Mask gives the highest level of shine of the three (I’d love my hair to be shiny like this every day, in fact) but I need to work on taking the intensity of colour out (Ree over at Reallyree.comadvises sleeping in a weighty conditioning mask which is apparently the enemy of colour). Meanwhile, Schwarzkopf need to work on better colour charts and better guides to avoid staining.
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I just bought this dye a few days ago… now I’m scared!
I bought this earlier this Summer and liked it. No problems with skin staining although like you, the colour finished darker than I wanted, but only a little. My only complaint was the same one I have all home hair colour these days; not enough product in the package.
If you want to remove colour a good way to do it is with a tea tree shampoo – a friend of mine found this out accidentally just after she’d had her hair highlighted and her kids got nits at school!
As an amateur at these kinds of things I will have to stay clear of this product, I was actually considering buying it before reading this though so thanks :p xx Emmi
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Wash it with some head and shoulders.. let it in for like 5 mins… it will be lighter … 🙂
I actually found the application process of the dye left my hair patchy. You can’t section and apply to roots then ends as usual, the instructions basically tell you to slap it on and comb it through. My hair is pretty fine so someone with thick hair would really struggle to get an even colour.
I actually love this product! I am really bad at doing my hair (usually end up with multicoloured hair in patches that I have missed!) and also have ombre at the ends so struggled to find a product that didn’t drip and run on to the ends. I agree that it does stain skin quite badly, but the second time around I managed to rub it off quite easily to avoid bad staining. It is really easy to use and covers greys REALLY well. I used the dark brown as well and the first time around it was much darker than I was expecting but now really like the colour and it gives a great shine!
I literally just did the same thing with the exact same product & colour. I thought it would be a dark brown but it came out practically black on me too… Right before being a bridesmaid. Luckily I can get away with very dark hair, but a lot of people can’t. Their colour charts are really quite shocking.