I needed to tone down my red hair before starting work, and was hoping to get back to the strawberry blonde I had a couple of months ago without using any bleach. I picked up some Colour B4 as usual, but also saw this while I was in Boots:
Colour Restore™ – Cool Ash
For Brunettes & Dark BlondesBanishes Rusty, Copper and Orange tones in coloured hair.
Restores deep ash tones to brunettes and dark blondes
Creates neutral to cool base tones
Restores and replenishes hair without the need for a peroxide or ammonia based colourant.
Could it be?! A toner that worked on orange tones? If this worked, it would be like gold dust! (You'd hope so too, as it cost a rather painful £11.)
So, I gave it a go, and... the results were disappointing. Allow me to illustrate:
The picture on the far left is my initial hair colour. I miss that beautiful fiery shade already :(. (Also, notice how awesome that photo is thanks to 1) my sexy waterproofs and 2) the horse photobombing in the background.)
The middle picture is after the Colour B4 (with wet hair). Decent amount of lift, good results as expected. The picture on the far right is after this magic super duper "colour restore"... cool ash? I think not! I applied it twice, leaving it for half an hour the first time and over an hour the second, using up the entire £11 tube in the process. Not very impressive! Fortunately, I like the colour that I was left with after the Colour B4 and will rock the Pepper Potts ginger for a bit, as my hair is in good condition at the moment and I don't want to undo all my hard work with bleach.
In summary: this would be an AMAZING product if it worked, and the answer to so many of our prayers. Sadly, it's largely useless. The only plus point is that it left my hair feeling lovely and soft.
Ingredients, if anyone's interested: Aqua, Cetearyl Alcohol, Cetrimonium Chloride, Triethanolamine, Methylchloroisothiazolinone, Methylisothiazolinone, Parfum, Basic Blue 99, Basic Red 76, Magnesium Chloride, Magnesium Nitrate.
At least it's not damaging!
Topic starter
Posted : June 8, 2012 12:17 am
That's a shame that the rusty toner didn't work 🙁 But the ginger you've been left with is gorgeous and suitable for work (and the photobombing horse made me giggle muchly).
Posted : June 8, 2012 6:40 am
Im starting to think these new products aren't up to much, maybe with the exception of the new remover.
Posted : June 8, 2012 7:34 am
Yeah, it seems like a case of too-good-to-be-true, unfortunately!
Topic starter
Posted : June 8, 2012 9:20 am
Shame it didn't work! I did see these in my local boots today, and they also had a platinum toner one, and a red refresher one. I snuck a peek at the colours of the products, and the platinum one just looks like a standard violet-tinted product, so would probably work fairly well, and the red one is a very bright, true red colour, presumably just a deposit only pigment, so would probably work well to add into conditioner to keep red refreshed, but since it's something like £12, it wouldn't make much sense to buy it just for that purpose instead of just using leftover dye!
Posted : June 8, 2012 8:09 pm
I also wasted my money on it sick of companys making claims something works when it just doesnt i used decolour remover then this twice result nothing and yet scotts team is on facebook telling everyone to use it after removing colour i think if it works maybe it only works on bright orange hair maybe people could put some more before and after pics up so we can see if it actually works!
Posted : June 9, 2012 12:18 pm
I went looking for that before removing the red on my hair, can't say I'm too disappointed that I didn't find it after reading this!
Also, I read "horse photobombing" as "photo horsebombing" for some reason, and got really confused and had to re-read it. I think I need some sleep...
Posted : June 14, 2012 8:52 pm
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