Jumping Aboard The Bandwagon:

I'm a little late with this one :)!

Like many others I was sent the John Frieda Precision Foam Hair Colour to try out. I actually knew all along I wouldn't use it myself - I rarely colour my hair and when I do it's strictly a salon job only - but I knew my Mum would appreciate trying it out :) Stupidly enough, I still chose the shade I would like to have - 5G Medium Golden Brown, not a shade my Mum would choose - something darker and cooler. Head-desk moment ;)

Luckily Mum's a good sport and said I could try it on her regardless and if it did turn out a disaster we could just colour over it, so here we go!

So as you can see the kit comes complete with 4 items (plus gloves but forgot to photograph these). A colour developer bottle, pump, colourant and a rather generous sized tube of conditioner. The gloves are black and rubbery, MUCH better quality than any others I have used with at home colouring kits. (Do not even mention the paper thin type that are stuck to the instruction leaflet)!


To start you pour the colourant into the developer and tilt the bottle 4-5 times to mix. DO NOT shake as you would with regular dyes, a few small tilts is sufficient and will allow the product to be dispensed evenly.

Then pump to release the foam! At first I was looking to press down on the pumo to release the foam but soon realised that actually all you need to do is squeeze the bottle lightly until a golf ball sized amount is released into your fingertips. Apply smoothly throughout your entire hair and massage gently to ensure it is distributed evenly all over.

Application:

Easy! Much easier than regular dyes which I used to find dripped and were slightly hard to spread throughout the hair. With the foam, there is literally no dripping and you can be sure it will stay where applied.
Mum has short hair, but would usually use the entire bottle of dye regardless, but with this we had about half left and literally nowhere needed anymore product. I think one bottle would work well for medium to long hair, but thick hair like mine may benefit from two bottles. Can't vouch for that though as I obviously havn't tried it. Feel free to enlighten me - did you need two bottles?

We left the solution on for 25 minutes as she had some greys we wanted to make sure were covered, rinsed and applied the conditioner.

Results. Before/After:

Glossy bright colour!

To sum it up, a few things I liked about this product:

♥ Ease of use, no dripping.

♥ Barely any scent. None of the breathtaking amonia smell associated with most at home dyes.

♥ Non staining! I can be a little carefree when dying hair (It's only Mum!) and ears and hairline are usually left somewhat patchy, but this one washed right off the skin during the rinse.

♥ Super glossy finish, hair feels very nourished and smooth.

Any cons? Not really, though I will say the colour did not turn out anything like that on the box, but I blame that on Mums original colour. Had it been applied to my light auburn hair as initially planned I'm sure it would have resembled the Medium Golden Brown, and not the bright mahogony based brown we got. But she loves it anyway and has actually since bought two more boxes of this very shade whilst it is on introductory sale.

Love this and highly recommended! It will retail for £9.99 a box eventually, but get it now while it's averaging at around £6 in Boots and Superdrug just to try :)