Really nice but..
So, I decided I wanted to color my hair dark brown. This is not new to me. I’ve colored my hair several times throughout the years. Especially my ‘go to’ dark brown. Everything went as normal except my tips didn’t reach the desired shade. (I went from blonde) So I knew I needed a toner to fix that. Because I have bought extensions to match my dark brow hair, it wouldn’t be complete if it didn’t blend perfectly.
So, I went to Lyko (store) with a piece of my extensions and checked the color chart. Personally I wanted no 4 because I thought it matched my extensions perfectly, even though the shade on the chart said ‘brown’ and not ‘dark brown’. Here it comes.. But the staff member in the store said that no 3 (dark brown) is the right shade according to her, to match my extensions. I thought it was way too dark, but she settled me with, it will get “neutralized”. I believed her because she obviously is the hairdresser here. I bought no 3 and now my hair is black/brown?! Even though I had wet hair while toning it from my own experience, it almost went black. Not that it isn’t a nice color by itself but it was definitely not what I was going for.
I have now washed my hair 7 times in less than a week and the color won’t budge, my hair is starting to become incredibly dry and I refuse to use a deep cleansing shampoo, since it was one of the reasons I had to cut off my hair last time. I went back to Lyko (store in Jönköping) and explained my situation and the ONLY thing she could “help” me with was to wash my hair and keep me in the sun so my hair would naturally bleach itself???! Even more sadly she said that the shade the former staff recommended was definitely the wrong shade and too dark for my extensions. Well, it would be one thing if I chose the shade myself, so it would me my own fault.. but now I’m stuck with black/brown hair and extensions I can’t use if I’m not going to a hairdresser to lift the color.. I don’t know if I have bad luck with stuff like this but I’m really disappointed.
Great product otherwise!!