My Cheapo Hair Dye Routine: Garnier Nutrisse Color Reviver in Copper After Sometimes Lazily Using Garnier Olia 7.45 Copper
Publishing this info so my fave products don't get discontinued. You uwillj use them and make sales soar, thus, I will keep using them.
When I had social media, a good amount of my hate mail in the DMs or my management inbox was about my hair being fake, presumably expensive, high maintenance strands. I was sooooo shallow getting this “expensive” hair! Followed up with insane details. People, you could spend time writing a paragraph plus on my hair, or you could read the free public domain books online on your iPad. Pick the beneficial one. Gain some literary sense, all right? 🤦♀️
Let’s put this hairy gossip to rest. I am not:
sitting in a hair salon
paying $10,000 for hair care and extensions every season
having people take my credit card to not do what I want; has happened enough times: “You wanted your sun kissed hair more enhanced into Barbie reddish blonde, but I thought this single process hideous shade of dog poo brown wiping out any of your sun highlights would go more with your complexion.”
“I’m just cutting a snip!:” lady who proceeds to give me Twiggy bangs I never asked for and hacking off half of my hair
sitting in foils for skunky highlights; my hair is not a Thanksgiving turkey
Garnier Color Reviver in copper is sort of a mild toner with orange meets conditioner. How strong it is on your hair at home, I have no idea. I use mine on faded out hair so I blend my roots with it.
Sorry, I didn’t brush my fancy hair I allegedly spend so much money on to show you what it looks like freshly applied after a shower. You apply it with heat in the shower for a while, like 15-25 minutes. Or you could sit with it all day. Heat is what activates this conditioner and makes your hair really soft.
What I really love about this product is it provides this lowlight, highlight look with a dark subtle pumpkin blonde. If it’s depositing the darker or lighter tones in my hair, I have no idea. Use this product every so often, and you’ll get this result. You could go wild and comb it through so it reaches different points. Get creative.
This is my workout hair about a few months out from dying my hair with the permanent Olia dye. I could retouch. Because I’m lazy and don’t feel like it, and because messing with your hair too often breaks your hair into pixie town, I do this.
Garnier Olia Copper 7.45 is the dye I use whenever I want. In the United States, that shade is called Dark Fire Ruby.
The real post dye shade is like a light auburn red velvet cake, with medium auburn in some areas. My natural hair has always been lighter in the front with these dark blonde-y skunk streaks like Lily Munster’s white streaks. You can guess that picks up lighter when this starts washing out. Anywhere your hair gets lighter on its own or in the sun, that will be fine.
The shade is intense.
Warning, it will streak everywhere a bit when you towel dry your hair for a few washes until the Kool Aid looking drips come out. That’s OK. The hair dye is doing its job because you need that coppery depositing. The toner on that mixed into the dye is really, REALLY, REALLLLLLLLLLLLY RED.
I look like a cupcake red. After a few washes, it starts fading out into this sort of ombré with the darker red on top, and my lengths lightened, before becoming that pumpkin tint I mentioned above with the help of the conditioner.
Yes, I am well aware how I smile like a gopher. Why do you think my primary work photos are all serious? 😄
Olia is really nice because all the other brands I tried put a brown fade out over my virgin hair that naturally has a reddish tint. The darker at first on the roots thing isn’t my top choice. The end result is. I love the pumpkin latte vibe this takes on that never fades, easily matchable to the roots with some conditioner.
When I want to tidy it up again because it could use a red lava boost, I hit up that Olia.
And now you know. 🌈☀️😊