Jerome Russell Bblonde Maximum Ombre Kit No.1 Review

Hi there, today I have a new post for you which is a bit different to my normal reviews, I am testing out a hair colourant product, which yes is risky but I love a good challenge so bring it on !

 

The company I will be talking about is called 'Bblonde', which is a brand that focuses on hair colourants for blondes (or blondes to be). The creator of this brand is Jerome Russell, and all of the products are created by him, with the customers in mind.

 

The product which I tested out was the Maximum Ombre Kit No.1, I'm not normally a fan of DIY ombre kits as there is a huge risk of it going wrong easily, but as I have already used this brand a few times before, I trusted them to deliverer me great results.

Three years ago I used a bleaching kit from Bblonde and went from a vibrant but dark red, to honey blonde and with people telling me it wouldn't work, I proved them wrong and the results were great. I completely trust this brand even more now that I have tried there Ombre kit as I had brilliant results which I will show you very soon.

 

Seven months ago I coloured my hair from my natural light brown to a more darker brown, and as lovely as my hair looked, the brown was getting a little bit to boring for me who likes bright and funky hair. I was then contacted by the Bblonde company and they said I could give there Ombre kit a go, which was great timing ! I have had so many hair colours since being a teenager that my fear of it failing gets smaller every time and I enjoy experimenting with my hair !

 

I received a package a few days ago and was mega excited to discover that it was my Ombre kit. I was expecting the kit to have quite difficult instructions to follow, but they were so straight forward that I just went for it !

 

 

[Can I just point out how pretty the packaging is]

 

 

Picture above: This is what was included inside the box, it looked pretty similar to the products I used three years ago, so I felt a bit more relieved that I may actually know what I'm doing !

 

With a bit of help from my teenage sister, who helped me with the back of my hair, we applied the product onto the ends of my hair, working from the back to the front (following the instructions). Development time took a while, as it is completely up to you when you want the colourant out, as it depends on what shade of blonde you want to achieve, for example; the more you leave it, the lighter it will go and the less amount of time you leave it, the more natural/darker it will look. I wanted to achieve the exact same colour as seen on the box (honey blonde) therefore I left it as long as I could and rinsed it off after about 40 minutes, hoping that the colour would be what I desired.

Sure enough I achieved the colour I wanted and was more than impressed with the finished results. My hair now has a lovely blonde shine to it and looks ten times better than my previous boring brown hair.

 

The only negative thing I would say about this product (I like to be as honest as I possibly can be) is that the blending lotion seemed to work on one side of my head but not the other, bearing in mind that this was most likely my fault for not applying the blending lotion well enough, I will now know what to be more careful with in the future if I was to use this product again. For anyone who is unsure of what the blending lotion does, it helps the Ombre effect look more gradual, rather than having a straight line of blonde, making it look more natural.

 Apart from that I am thrilled with the final look, and here are the results..

 

 

I feel a lot more confident with my hair now and cant wait to show it off !

Thank you to everyone at Bblonde who gave me the advice and help I needed in order to achieve a beautiful finish ! I would be open to trying out any other product of there's in the future and this experiment has made me so much more desperate to go fully blonde, but for the time being I will be rocking my Ombre hair !

 

Thank you for reading.

O. x

Hair chalks a waste of money?

Have you ever wondered what it's like to try out the latest hair craze, hair chalks? That feeling of trying out all the latest bright colours but being able to wash it out at the end of the day, well look no further, BUT are they really worth the money you pay? 

I had been looking around on youtube for a while for the best hair chalks but then I came across an awesome and cheap idea which I tried out for myself, this was to use normal chalks that you would draw with and I was very skeptical at first but I realised what a great idea it was in the end. 

So here is the final look, remember I only used artist chalk which cost me about £2.99 for a pack of 16 which included various colours.. (Bought from the works). 

                     

I have tried the pink look out before but I much prefer the blue as it's more edgy and different to anything I've tried before, this colour was done using a medium blue chalk which I just ran up and down my hair. At first it looks abit all over the place but after you brush it through it will blend in looking just like you used hair chalk or a dye even, if it is to dry then wash your hair after but this may make the colour lighter or even wash out fully. 

For an individual hair chalk it can cost around £8 from a decent brand but don't be fooled by the brands and pretty packaging, unless you are willing to pay more then go for it but for someone like me who doesn't like to waste money on products I may not like I go for the cheap option first and in this case I will be sticking to the cheap option.

I hope this made some of you think and want to have a go at this, please give it a to go it's so easy but I will say that if you put a lot of chalk in it may take a few days to wash out completely which is why I do it mainly in the holidays to give my hair time to wash out the colour. 

How I got blonde ombre hair!

Good afternoon girls, I am very glad to announce that I am getting better after being ill for three weeks however I'm still not 100% myself so I have turned to my blog to cheer me up!

 

Today's topic will be on my hair..

A lot of people whether its online or in person ask me how I got my hair the way it is now which is like this..

 

 

And the simple answer is nothing. If I were to ask anyone what style my hair is colour wise they would say ombre, which is correct to an extent.

Two years ago I bleached my hair from bright red to blonde and trust me when I say I would not recommend bleaching your hair and then going over it with a blonde dye straight after as it WILL make your hair so dry and unhealthy. Luckily enough for me the blonde turned out fine but after a while I got bored of it and I decided to grow it out, which is where the ombre part comes in. I have been growing my blonde out for over two years now and at first it looked a hot mess but now its grown out so much it just looks like I have added the blonde ombre effect to the bottom. So when people ask me who did your hair this is what I have to explain. So do you have blonde hair your bored of? Then give this a go, I did not grow my hair out with the intention of it looking ombre but it just seemed to work with me (AND I DIDN'T PAY A PENNY TO GET THIS LOOK).

 

I will continue to let it grow as I will be sad to see my blonde be cut off but once my hair is long enough I will be saying goodbye to the blonde so for the meantime I am embarrassing it.

 

Has anyone else had this experience, If so let me know.

Thanks for reading and happy hair day!