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| Liese - Red Velvet |
Okay. To be
honest I have been wanting to get my hair properly dyed for a while, but never
really had the money nor the chance to. The past 2 years, I have had my mother
who worked in a hair salon in her younger days dye my hair for me. Being a
regular Asian mother, she wouldn’t ever let me dye the so-called ‘crazy hair
colors’. She would dye my hair brown, or at most a lighter shade of brown.
Never completely either, so that when my hair grows out the black-brown line in
my hair wouldn’t be too distinct.
Meanwhile, I
wanted purple, blue, red, a mix of all three in ombre or ashy color…
Basically,
the ‘crazy hair colors’.
After moving
out from my parents’ house to stay nearer to the university, permission became
less of
Then now I’m
at work, starting to earn for myself. I realized that I’m now 22 and if I don’t
go try out new things now I will look ridiculous as an auntie that dyes her
hair in weird colors not suited to her age. I still needed to save money
though, RM300+ for a hair dye session was too much for me. So, I bought Liese’s
Creamy Bubble Color Red Velvet instead, as recommended by a colleague. There weren’t
any reviews of this color online though, so here’s my 2-cents.
My hair was
already slightly brown-ish before I tried this product. Under good lighting, it
would look like this photo right somewhere right below here:
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| Before the crazy-hair colors |
I did the allergy test, but only for barely an hour and after seeing no signs of itchiness or rashes, I continued with the process. Instructions were pretty straightforward. Pour contents of the first, smaller bottle into the bigger one, tile it upside down gently several times, and put the pink color foamy applicator thing into the bigger bottle. Squeeze a little onto the gloves to see if it’s foamy enough, then proceed to apply it like how you would with hair shampoo or conditioner.
It didn’t
give my hair a foamy appearance at first, but halfway through the bottle my
hair was already covered in purplish foam and when I finished using the whole
bottle’s contents, I was at the peak of foaminess. The ammonia smell wasn’t as
bad as I thought it might be, but it sure stings my eyes a little when I dye
those pesky little hairs near my eyes! No, they didn’t get into my eyes. The
fumes are enough to make you feel that urge to shut your eyes though.
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| Foamy foamyy |
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| Piled-up foam |
The foam
stuck easily to my hair, and I combed through the mass of it every now and then
while adding more foam. When I was done, I just kind of put my hair in a heap
on the top of my head and waited around 20 minutes. There were recommendations
of keeping it there for 30 minutes of even 45 minutes, but since it’s my first
try I didn’t want to leave the foam in too long. Washing it off took a while,
but that extra rinse-off treatment was so good! My hair was softer than any
conditioner had helped it to be, tangle-free and smelling flowery.
I dried my
hair off to see how it might look in just the simple room lighting, and it
turned out to be ... mediocre. I couldn't see any colors. Is it black? Did my hair even change?
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| Office Lighting |
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| Room Lighting |
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| Yay |
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| Eyebrows' existence sacrificed for this photo |
I wonder if
Liese will come up with blue-ish colors in the future. That would definitely be
worth a try too.
