I have had black hair all my life. I never dyed, permed nor had any crazy stuff done to my precious locks other than getting a temporary perm for a photoshoot 2 years ago.

this was taken in 2006, my first semester in my diploma days

I’ve had short hair for the past few years, because I kept cutting it and maintaining at a bob’s length, it was only 2 years back that I began letting my hair grow and trimming it twice a year. And now my hair is chest length and I plan to let it grow longer.

So yea, currently my hair is really long and I’ve been religiously using Clairol Herbal Essence’s Smooth Weighty Shampoo and Conditioner together with Liese’s Juicy Shower, Designing Jelly and Hair Cocktail to maintain my long locks. Yes, having long hair means a lot of maintenance because if you have long hair that looks bad, it really looks bad. disheveled is not a look that I like. I like my hair neat, clean and healthy!

I have been tempting to do something drastic with my hair for quite some time, I was thinking getting a perm or dye or both. But I think, better start slow for now. So again I went back to Liese’s products and I purchased the Bubble Hair Colour in Chestnut Brown.

As a greenhorn in hair dyeing, it wasn’t that hard to use!

It was just disassemble the box, mix this with that, wear gloves, tilt the bottle to mix, foam your hair up with the mix and wait for 30 minutes to rinse!

So I basically just explain the entire process in less than 30 words. It is that easy. The box comes with a pair of rubber gloves to prevent staining your hands, 2 bottles of dye mixture to be mixed right before you dye, a pump to dispense the dye and an after dye conditioner/nourisher. Don’t worry if you don’t understand my brief explanation, the box is loaded and equiped with ample of reminders and instructions so it won’t be difficult to use.

One thing I find bad about this product is the smell! The ammonia smell was so bad it irritated my nose and eyes so badly throughout the lathering process. But the foam was thick enough so the plus point is no dye dripping down my face! I might be more adventurous next time and go for a lighter colour.

So be careful to not inhale too much of the ammonia during dyeing your hair, it smells horrible! But the process of foaming your hair could be done quick and easily.

So after dyeing the hair, the colour isn’t that obvious. But it definitely showed up the next day, but it wasn’t an obvious you-dyed-your-hair kinda obvious. In fact it looked natural on me, it matches my brown eyes.

After using the bubble hair colour, my hair doesn’t feel dry like hay, it felt like normal. Plus there isn’t any need for special treatment, my hair was perfectly normal other than being in a different colour. So, after dye care was the usual wash-condition-style routine.

Although this is my first time colouring my hair, I don’t see it as my last. One thing I had to adjust was my eyebrow colour. I don’t have very thick complete eyebrows, so I had to fill them in with a black eyebrow pencil and blend it in with my existing eyebrow hair but now, I had to use a brown eyebrow pencil paired with the black eyebrow pencil because if I were to use brown alone, it would look too fake because my hair isn’t that of a bright brown. So I had to constantly blend the two eyebrow colours together to match my hair. Which for now isn’t much of a hassle, yet.

Looking forward to try a new colour in time to come!

Update: after 2 weeks of dyeing, my hair colour has become lighter, which is not very bright but quite loud for a brown. I’m loving the colour.

♥ Wendy