John Frieda Colour Renew Tone Correcting Shampoo Review
John Frieda to the Rescue
My natural hair colour is a medium brown with a tinge of red. A blend of mahogany and chestnut colour, which would look great if I had brown eyes and an olive complexion.
I don’t. My skin is fair, and my eyes are green and my hair makes me look 20 years older and gives my skin colour a pasty look.
I am sure; there must have been a genetic mix-up and I should have been a natural blonde because that’s the colour that suits me best. A medium golden blonde makes my skin glow and lights up my face.
So, looking in the mirror this Saturday morning these brown roots were screaming out to be dyed again. It was obvious, I was overdue for a new highlighting treatment!
I normally use a Frost & Glow Highlighting Kit (the one with the cap) for my hair, that blends my natural hair with nice blonde streaks for a vivid look.
Unfortunately, this Saturday I was pressed for time.
A trip to the Mall was planned, and I didn’t feel like the regular 30-minute pre-routine of putting on he cap and pulling out strands of hair.
Today I decided it would take too much of my time and since the highlights looked great, why not just put the mixture all over my hair
for a nice uniform look?!
Brilliant idea. Nope! That was the first NO, NO!
With my regular highlighting technique, I leave the colour on 45 minutes to set. But without the cap, the mixture started to burn after only 20 minutes on my scalp.
I checked the colour, and it looked lighter and I told myself, well it doesn’t have to be too light. It surely would look nice just to have an overall medium blonde.
So without waiting the extra 20 minutes, I went off into the shower! Second big NO, NO.
I wrapped my hair into a towel turban, got dressed and ready for the moment to take the towel off.
Always exciting this moment, when you are checking the mirror for your new hair colour right?
I shrieked when I saw my reflection in the mirror. It’s ….. RED!
My daughter came running just to see what the excitement was all about.
She gave me a pitiful glance and agreed it was definitely red!
Trying to make me feel better she said “maybe will look better when it’s dry.” As that did not seem to cheer me up, she offered the advice that
I could always colour it something else Wasn’t blue hot right now, with Nicola Richie sporting a fashionable blue bob?
I couldn’t picture myself as a Hollywood Socialite, so I decided there was only one thing left to do, ask for a second opinion.
We waited for my hair to dry and then I put my husband on the spot.
So here it goes. Me: “What do you think of my new hair colour?”
He looked at me uneasily, not quite sure how to respond to this tricky question.
So he cheerfully replied:
“I think, you have a nice golden colour, Hun, it does not even look orange. Just niiice golden!”
I paused just for a second to absorb this new piece of information. Did he just say ORANGE????
Yep, I went to the mirror again and the dry hair had now most certainly turned into some orange brassy hair colour and
and it did not look flattering at all.
The trip to the Mall was cancelled and left with me pondering my choices. Hiding 2 to 3 months under a baseball cap, or changing the colour again?
I did neither. I decided to wait a couple of days and maybe get used to this new person in the mirror.
I am glad that I did!
The very next day I received my free sample box from Sample Source (freebie), and I happily opened the box to check all the great goodies that were inside. As always the box was filled with fabulous trial offers and I found Quaker cereal bars, tea packages and laundry detergent
And a three-day hair shampoo sample from John Frida called brassy hair correction shampoo.
Wait a second, WHAT???
I couldn’t believe it! Some Good Karma fairy must have been putting this package together for me as I was definitely meant to receive this sample at this very moment!
I read all the information and here is more about the product:
John Frieda Colour Renew Tone Correcting Shampoo With Optical Brightener & Lavender
•The formula, containing Colour-Correcting Technology, neutralizes brassy and yellow tones.
•Results are noticeable after just 3 uses.
•For all shades of colour-treated or highlighted blonde hair
I used it the first day and could not detect any difference at all. It still looked like yucky orange.
The second day after I dried my hair,some of the orange actually looked less orangy and maybe a little lighter. Was this just my imagination?
The third day was the charm!
As I was looking in the mirror, I could clearly see the difference. A miracle.
Although my hair does not have it’s usual blonde, the brassy look has succumbed to John Frieda’s Colour Renew Tone Correcting Shampoo.
If it could fix my big colour faux pas, I am sure it will do what it is meant to do, keep your Blonde hair colour looking it’s best!
Needless to say that I went out and bought a whole bottle of this stuff.
Just in case, because I think red is NOT for me, and orange should be reserved for clowns and maybe comedians like a Carrot Top.
Not even that.