Beauty

[Good4u]

Beauties,

It has been over six months since I applied my first product from Revlon Buttercream Colorsilk hair color box formula. What I love…when I first applied the scent it is beyond divine. Wonderful to not die from the ammonia. That is a true plus.

The thing I hate…even though I bought the supposed neutral tone shade (Light Brown - neutral) it STILL pulled red tones which is something I was trying to eliminate! Arrrgh! It is now worsened and is on the brassy side of red now badly, after six months. I know brown shades have a light of red in them anyway and the pitfall of box dyed brunettes shades.

So, I guess because I'm going to have to go back to golden browns. I think my next adventure will be to mix the light golden brown with the medium golden brown box shades and see if I can come out with something less than red and hopefully, well after six months of not dying my ends that I won't have a shade of orange! Oh please, God! Not that! I'd rather have the ugly brassy red!

What have been your experiences with the Buttercream formula in brunette shades? Anyone?

[Liz123]

I was wondering about this new line. I usually use the root erase in medium brown, but it is practically impossible to find anymore. It is also a revlon product, and I think the brown is fine, very close to my normal hair color.

Do you naturally have red in your hair? I wouldn't want red tones as it isn't my normal hair color, and the medium brown has been fine.

[PurpleCow]

I have not used this but thank you for telling us ""neutral"" pulls red :-( that's not good!

[Good4u]

On 1/5/2014 Liz123 said:

I was wondering about this new line. I usually use the root erase in medium brown, but it is practically impossible to find anymore. It is also a revlon product, and I think the brown is fine, very close to my normal hair color.

Do you naturally have red in your hair? I wouldn't want red tones as it isn't my normal hair color, and the medium brown has been fine.

I'm not really sure anymore it has been so long since I've seen my natural color now that I have so much grey. Time has a way of erasing details. But one of the posters on here was a colorist did tell me that brunette shades do have a lot of red in them as a base color so that may be the culprit anyway.

I try not to do my entire head but only twice a year for reducing chemicals in my scalp. This when I tend to change brunette shades at that time. But I may be stuck with either red or gold as a result of using brunette shades because the neutral shade she suggest really didn't work and I will just have to pick. I guess it is back to gold to see if I like it better. What a merry go round!

As far as the Revlon Root Erase touch up product, I hear ya. Drugstore.com was the last place I could find it and all their stock has been depleted in all colors. Such a shame! The BEST touch up root system on the market and it is no where to be found. I finally emailed drugstore.com today and point blanked asked them if they intended to restock this product. We'll see what their response is to my inquiry.

[Liz123]

I emailed Revlon about the root erase and got a generic response with no real answer.

So I've been trying regular hair dye and just using half of the bottle. I really have very little gray hair at the top roots, but seeing a few just isn't fun. Guess entering my 30's has a down side. Didn't know that browns have red in them, good to know.

[scatcat]

I thought I read that "golden" colors turned your hair brassy. But, you haven't colored your hair in 6 months? I wouldn't expect a hair color to produce results 6 months later. I have my hair colored in an Aveda salon with Aveda hair color for boo-koo $$and hope to get 10 weeks out of it. If box colors are lasting 6 months, then slap my a&& and call me Sally.

[Good4u]

On 1/5/2014 scatcat said: I thought I read that "golden" colors turned your hair brassy. But, you haven't colored your hair in 6 months? I wouldn't expect a hair color to produce results 6 months later. I have my hair colored in an Aveda salon with Aveda hair color for boo-koo $$and hope to get 10 weeks out of it. If box colors are lasting 6 months, then slap my a&& and call me Sally.

I do have to amend and say that I use a pre-color spray treatment as a porosity equalizer ensuring that I have even color from root to tip. But yes, box color does fade and soften and for me that is good as I don't want the flat, dark, severe shade look like you do when color is first applied.

But even so, three weeks AFTER I applied the light brown natural, I had a pro photo session. When I saw the proofs, I was surprised at how "red" my hair was even after being freshly colored in less than a month with NO grey roots showing! That is NOT what I was expecting at all! It has only gotten more red tones than I desired and now, I want to try gold. There are only two choices red or gold as a brunette. If you plan on being brunette, pulling red is what you will have to contend with in Buttercream line that I have found in my experience.

I must be the lucky one as I don't have issues with hair color as long as I do touch-up fairly regularly so six months works for me. But by six months, it really does need freshining up. But I still have two more Root Erase boxes to go before it is a full head again in color. I'm not wasting them.

[kcladyz]

I like the trueness of color of this product but it rinses out fast for me. Washes out 100% on 3-4 shampoos

[Good4u]

On 1/5/2014 kcladyz said:

I like the trueness of color of this product but it rinses out fast for me. Washes out 100% on 3-4 shampoos

So your saying you are back to your original color in 3-4 washes? Is that right? Did I understand you right?

[cassiem]

I used a neutral blond shade and it pulled red on me, too. I had the same problem with the original color silk. For some reason, Clairol is the only brand that doesn't pull red on me, every other brand (L'Oreal, Revlon, Garnier) pulls red on me.