Colour b4 extra strength review

I bought mine from Tesco for £8.  Not quite as cheap as bodycare, but still cheaper than Boots.

oooo, may have to take the 1/2 bus journey and 15min walk to tesco

Sorry to bump a topic! but I really want to use Colour B4 but I'm nervous about it. I've been dying my hair with XXL dyes for 3 years. First black, then purple and now Real Red. I want to use Colour B4 to lighten my hair so I can put a brighter colour on it (Nuclear Red or Cupcake Pink). Will it work? I don't heat style my hair, I only use a hair dryer on a cool setting to dry my hair. I also have waist length hair but it's thin, so will one box be enough?

Sorry for so many questions.

Colour B4 will most likely take hair to ginger-ish tones (depending on what your virgin hair colour is--if it's warm tones, it will go ginger, if it's ashy it will go blonder).  So long as you haven't been excessively heat styling your hair, it will work on XXL dyes (I'm proof of that).  Use B4 Extra and let it process for an hour--if not light enough, they advise up to three applications before claiming it hasn't worked.

It will probably get it light enough for nuclear red.  I've currently got cupcake pink in and I can tell you, you need a very, very pale base for it, or it will go peachy (I had white and very light peachy streaks when I put it in because I'd had black/red streaks before I'd started lightening it ... and it went very pale pink with peachy streaks before I had a chance to take out the rest of the orange).

i dyed my hair black for a few months, would colour b4 be able to take it back to my natural dark blonde/light brown colour?
thanks

Unfortunately there's only one way to find out. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. I get the impression that the longer you've been dyeing your hair black the harder it is to shift. If B4 works then that will be great because it's not as damaging as bleach. It'll make your hair dry though but you can try it. If it doesn't work then you can bleach a couple of days later when your hair is in better condition.

Hi all, I have been reading through this thread and have a couple of questions I hope someone can answer!

I previously had white blonde hair, which through a series of unfortunate semi-permanent dye accidents (Directions Pillarbox Red went a delightful fuschia colour. Nice.), the murder of the condition of my hair and work related problems I had to go a natural colour so I went black. Now, I want the white blonde back.

I have been attempting to grow out the black but despite my hair growing at a rate of about an inch a month I am seriously impatient. I haven't dyed my hair since mid-March so I have about an inch and a half of virgin hair at my roots and the rest is faded PolyColor Tint Black, with a red "shine strip". All the original bleach from when I was white before should have been cut out by now as my hair was chin length, I have been black since last September and I got most of my hair cut off in March.

I understand that my hair will most likely be a gingerish red colour, and this doesn't overly bother me as I intend to bleach all trace of pigment out of my hair, but my main issue is how long should I leave before hitting the peroxide?

Depends.

Some of us (myself included) have bleached the day after B4 and it's been fine (probably because all traces of B4 were rinsed in the twenty minute rinsing sessions you have to do).  Others have done strand tests and had it go brown/black because oxidiation of traces of B4 left in the hair.

To play it safe, you're best to wait a couple of days and wash at least once between B4 and bleaching, to ensure all the product is out of your hair.

HI this is great. Where is this stuff sold??

so for 2years i've had blue stained to my hair by shocking blue manic panic (december 09) dyed it with loreal feria black and it came through,tryed bleaching it was grey,then dyed it manic panic after midnight blue mixed with shocking blue,lasted from may'10-august'10,august'10-october'10 tryed bleaching again and it went to a more blue shade,october'10-march'11 i've been trying to force the colour out but it went gray and then it quit washing out,then i saw this post about colour b4 and i ordered some,it knocked the color out and after two miserable years of blue i'm blonde again<3 sadly i cannot post photos because i'm new
the stuff was $27 off ebay shipped to the usa,and it was the best money i've ever spent,to find this tutorial and discover colour b4 was avaiable on ebay to the us i was extremely pleased with the results,i'm sorry about the super long post i wish i could show off my result

This was really comforting because I'm considering dying my hair blue but super worried about the stain!! I'm so glad. This stuff looks like a miracle product. It's too bad they don't sell it in the states but it seems like it's well worth the shipping cost!

I notice everyone saying it smells like rotten eggs, which reminded me of something - Aphogee protein treatment (which I use religiously) has a similar smell to rotten eggs. Maybe Color B4 has some protein treatment-type elements?

Hello everyone 🙂  last year I had black hair and I used colour b4 and it took the layer of black off- underneath it had been dyed many browns and reds.....I used Ex strength and was left with a faded chocolatey colour... I bleached it about a day or two later and it wouldn't bleach it stayed basically the same, eventually I got it blonde but it was too golden...I now realise after more research and my second time do colour b4 ex strength that bleach contains peroxide and hence reverses the colour b4 procedure...

So now I'm in a dilemma, I used colour b4 extra on Friday and on sunday I now have a coppery colour but its too dark to apply a base colour of dark blonde/light brown as I then want to highlight it after so its more of a natural colour (by the way I have been dying my hair every 3-4 weeks with feria plum power- my hair was blonde until December) So it had a lot of colour build up.

Now I don't want to reverse the hard work and money of colour b4 by dying/bleaching for it to reverse ....if i have been washing it with clarifying shampoo since I used colour b4 extra, will Thursday be enough time to start the process of getting rid of the awful orange I chose this week cos my son is on half term...I cannot go to the school on Monday morning with this hair so has anyone been in a similar situation etc pls pls help thanks sorry for the long post I have been reading all the posts by other members thought I may as well ask you guys for help.....(I'm naturally a mousy colour sick of high maintenance red, and rather more natural colour)

Basically when can i bleach ...i know its bad for your hair

Colour b4 only reacts if there's any of it left in your hair. As long as you've washed it well after the treatment you should be fine to bleach it. Make sure your hair isn't dry as I know colour b4 can dry your hair out even though it doesn't damage it like bleach does. Keep up the conditioning before you bleach and you'll be fine. Most people like to wait a couple of days, wash it once or twice a day before using the bleach or dye after using colour b4 that way they know the residues are out.

Thanks Mathurine.....Im very grateful for your replies on here and other posts..:)

Unfortunately this did not work on my blue hair 🙁 neither did bleaching afterwards! But does anyone have any idea how to get rid of the Colour B4 smell? It stinks like rotten egg fart and everytime I move my head I get a huge whiff of it despite shampooing with scented shampoo 6 times and smelly conditioner twice!

ugh this is the problem i'm having right now. I rinsed the colour B4 for longer than stated and used more buffer (I had spare from last time) and conditioned, but the smell was still so bad. This morning when I woke up my pillows stank of rotten-eggy-fart-death so i've put them in the wash. Washed my hair again this morning, shampooed it about 4 times, conditioned, shampooed it again, conditioned again. Dowsed it in smelly hair products and dried it but the smell is still there! I don't want to wash it again yet because my hair is so dry right now. But the damn smell wont leave me alone and it's making me nauseous haha ;[

rotten-eggy-fart-death

Bwahaha! I've never used colour b4 and always wondered what the smell was like, I've heard it's bad. This phrase just summed it all up for me, thanks! LOL!