Iridescent Scribbles: L'Oreal Preference Wild Ombres No 1 Review

Late on the trend here but ever since L'Oreal released their new Wild Ombres Brush on Dip Dye hair kit I have been wanting to try out this look. So have been doing some research and watching youtube tutorials and this really couldn't be any simpler. Ombreing, if that's even a word, has always looked quite fiddly to me and I thought to myself if I'm going to get it done I should get it done professionally. Reason being when I used to work part-time at a hair salon I noticed that people with dark hair getting caramel highlights most of the time required a toner in order to get rid of the brassiness. Bright orange ends is exactly what I wanted to avoid when doing it myself as it's not like I have access to toner in my bathroom now. But after reading up on reviews it was clear to me that the ombre kit uses bleach that's a lot lower in % meaning the results are a lot subtle, a gorgeous caramel shade with no toner required as opposed to eye soring bright orange ends that would need emergency salon rescue.

So I decided to take the leap of faith and purchased the Ombre kit in shade No 1 which is for light brown to dark brown hair. I hate instruction manuals and I'm not the type to follow but these steps really couldn't be any simpler to follow.

To prepare make sure you have a tatty t shirt on with a towel and then you just mix the lightening powder and lightening cream in with the developer cream and shake it up.

Next put on your colourist gloves because all you have to do is split your hair into 2 equal sections like you were to have 2 pony tails.

Then get the brush that came with the kit and apply the mixture evenly all over the brush. Application onto hair couldn't be less messier and easier as you simply just brush the 2 sections of hair (From ears downwards, don't brush the top half of your head you want to avoid the roots).

When that's done leave to develop for 45 minutes (I like to wrap each pony with tin foil whilst the colour is developing).

After 45 minutes wash hair with the shampoo provided as it will help nourish and condition the hair as well as lock in moisture and colour. I did 2 shampoos and made use of Lush Daddy-O purple shampoo just to tone down any unwanted brassiness.

When wet you can't really notice anything but when I dried my hair off I was really impressed with the results. Gorgeous subtle caramel ends exactly what the packet claimed to do and exactly what I wanted.

This is a before and after of my ends. It's not actually as light as this, I didn't realise my camera was set to chrome effect so go figure. It's actually more of a Lily Aldridge/ Rachel Bilson Ombre.

Also I ended up ombreing my extensions at the same time as my own hair because ombreing the extensions whilst they're in your own head will make them look a lot more natural when you next go to clip them in as the gradient effect will look the same. If you're brave enough you can have it in 3 layers going from dark to light to really light but I'm just not ready for that, though that does sound like the next step forward as I love experimenting with my hair.

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