Colorsilk Color Effects Frost and Glow Highlights, Honey, 1 Count

After dying my hair, I look like my power level is over 9000.

My hair is naturally medium/dark brown (and now with a little gray). I have been using this kit for years to get nice honey blond highlights. It works well and I have never gotten red. The secret is don’t be afraid to leave it on for the full 60 mins if your hair is dark. I’m very pleased and my results have been better than what I got at a salon. The blonde is enough to make me look younger and definitely disguises little grays creeping in. (I don’t enjoy pulling hair through the cap but it does get me the most predictable results and worth the time to pull all the hair through that you want lightened.

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I have a naturally medium brown that leans auburn in the sunlight, but I like to intensify the red. Before COVID, I would get my hair lightened and colored in the salon, because every at-home dye kit consult I had told me you can't really lighten hair with kits, just add color. Darn. Wanting to DIY and needing easy, I've been using Overtone and have been thrilled with the results, but now that it's been so long since the salon, my salon-lightened ends have grown out and the red looks less noticeable. Being an absolute beginner and too scared to bleach all over, I thought this highlighting kit might be a good way to dip my toes into hair lightening. I did a lot of research, watched Youtube tutorials to avoid frying it off , and decided on this kit to use for my first attempt. The first picture is my before color. I first did a strand test (second picture) and this is after about 40 minutes of processing time. I was pleased with the amount of lightening, so I decided to keep going. The kit comes with a plastic cap with printed holes on it. You can either use every hole for an all-over look, or every other one for a more scattered look. I decided on every other. There is a little hook included that you use to pull strands out through the cap, so that the hair underneath doesn't get lightened. Well, this is where I ran into trouble. My hair is REALLY fine, and I just could not get ANY hair hooked on that darn thing. I tried for probably half an hour until my husband took pity and said he'd give it a shot. Somehow he was better at it (maybe the angle is easier to get if you're not looking in a mirror? Or he used more pressure? Not sure), so I let him help me pull strands through all the circles. I might need to use tweezers or something next time. You may not have this issue though, if your hair isn't insanely fine and slippery. I recommend using a comb to lightly brush against the cap after and make sure you don't have any tangles or loops that didn't quite make it through. I used a combination of my gloved fingers and a hair paintbrush (don't know what they're really called) to coat the strands with the mixed solution. It went on pretty easily. Then I set a timer and put the included plastic cover over the top. I checked it every 10 minutes, and when it looked like it had processed to where I liked it, rinsed it out. I also did the shampoo and conditioner included, which helped make my hair feel a lot softer. Overall, I really like how it turned out! My hair actually looks ginger just from this kit alone. It looks very natural; my sister who is a natural redhead looks like this in the summer. I'll still probably add the Overtone Copper Kit to help blend it into the exact shade I like though. I'll come back and post the results of that after I do it. If you are going for more true blonde strands, you'll probably need to leave it on longer (a few strands on my bangs processed to yellow) or possibly do a second bleaching. A toner might make it less orange leaning. But this definitely gives a nice lightening effect on brown, and for someone who wanted to go to the coppery side anyway, it's perfect!

SUPER HELPFUL INFO!! PLEASE READ! I was super impressed with this bleach kit on my black hair. I chose To do a few highlights beginning from the scalp of my head. I used foil to cover my bleached hair strands. I also brushed a thin coat of bleach on the foil to make sure the bleach saturated the top and back of my hair strands. This makes it so that the bleach on the hair does not dry and you get maximum lift from the bleach. I wish I bought a hair gloss or semi permanent hair dye that did not require mixing as the final step to tone my hair. Instead I used wella 8nw hair color to tone the brass. Super good but wella products are very potent smelling of strong chemicals. FYI I did use garnier 1B1 prior to the revlon frost kit to see if it would lighten my hair a bit. No. It didn't. It just lightened the hair at the top of my head ( gave hot roots) but even then it wasn't super brassy. Like if this review helped!! Also this is a bleach kit, that comes with a bleach powder packet and developer. This is not a hair color dye. You have to add toner or hair color after using this kit. Good luck. I would get this kit again. ****UPDATE***: I added a pic of the top of my hair after using about 4 bleach kits total and dyeing my hair over the bleach. It took this many kits because I started with black hair. This is the result after 3 months of lightening my hair. I only used the bleach hair cap once, then i freehanded my highlights with a brush and foil. This is in indoor lighting. It looks copper red but I'm in natural lighting it looks more honey/ strawberry blonde after using wella hair color.