Product Review: Creative Studio Cocoa Blonde Hair Dye

If you've been reading my recent monthly wrap up posts you'll know that I'd been wanting to change things up again with my hair.

I decided I wanted to go a bit darker again. I know, I know... I'm always changing my mind about my hair. Life is too short to have boring hair though. The best part is that if you don't like it you can always change it again.

Anyway, when I went shopping I couldn't find a box dye in the right shade for what I had in mind and so got myself a tube of Creative Studio 6/7 Cocoa Blonde Hair Dye to mix myself with my go-to oxidizing emulsion by VitalCare Professional 20 Volume.

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Review

I'm not going to lie to you, the end result was darker than I'd imagined it being. Then again, going from a very light blonde to a darker shade always feels like it's darker than you think it'll be.

I'm super happy though and actually like the colour more than the colour I thought it would be like. It definitely has more reddish warm tones that I was expecting but that turned out to be what I liked most about it.

Here's the before and after so you can see the change:

Creative Studio Cocoa Blonde Hair Dye before and after

Quite a drastic difference I think you'll agree. This after photo was taken right after dying my hair so this is the fresh colour result.

I've found in the past that going from blonde to darker shades, especially red tones, that the colour tends to fade quite a bit after a few washes.

This is what the colour looks like roughly 3 weeks after dying it:

As you can see, it did lose some colour but overall I'm really happy with the results. I would definitely try more colours in the Creative Studio range in the future.

Do you have any tips for keeping the colour vibrate when going from blonde to a darker red tone?