Hair Color

MakeUpAlley.com does not sell products at their website, but provides a forum where registered users can rate beauty products on a scale of one to five. There are 222 hair-color products listed and most… only get a few reviews, although the major brands sometimes attract more than 200 reviews from those who've tried the products. Comments are extremely helpful, involving ease of use, the quality of the resulting color, odor and more. Of those hair colors with the most reviews, Revlon Frost & Glow, Garnier Nutrisse, L'Oréal Excellence, Ion Color Brilliance and L'Oréal Preference Shine Extending Color rate the highest.

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Shape magazine editors, beauty professionals and nearly 5,000 Shape readers test beauty products in order to find the best for the 2008 annual Shape of Beauty awards. Both Clairol Perfect 10 and John Frieda… Luminous Color Glaze earn top spots in the hair-color category. It's not clear which other products were tested, and editors don't provide any of the kinds of details about testing that would bolster credibility.

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Eileen Conlan documents her at-home highlighting experience for Marie Claire magazine. She enlists the help of stylist Rita Hazan, who shares expert advice. Hazan recommends taking a strand test before… starting the process and wrapping hair in plastic wrap before blow-drying the highlight application. Hazan suggests two of the products which Conlan ultimately uses, but no other products are mentioned or compared.

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We couldn't find this Good Housekeeping video on the GH website, but it's posted at YouTube. Editors test Color Oops and find that it works to restore hair color when you're dissatisfied with a dye job.… They suggest getting a glaze to restore "lifeless" hair and recommend John Frieda Luminous Color Glaze for do-it-yourselfers. The Roux 'Tween Time Touch Up Stick is also recommended for temporarily covering roots.

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Editors of the Canadian magazine Flare list winners of the 2008 I Recommend Beauty Awards, the results of an annual survey performed by Cosmetics magazine. The trade publication surveys approximately 200… beauty pros each year in order to find the best beauty products in 12 categories, including hair care. Clairol Perfect 10, Just For Men and John Frieda Luminous Color Glaze take top honors for hair color.

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This slideshow spotlights TotalBeauty.com's top 15 reader picks for at-home hair color. Picks include both hair-color highlight and single-process products, most of which are reviewed upwards of 70 times.… Those with the highest ratings and highest number of reviews include L'Oréal Paris Excellence Crème, Clairol Herbal Essences Colour Me Vibrant, Garnier Nutrisse Nourishing Color Cream and Clairol Natural Instincts.

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Drugstore.com sells many drugstore items, including at-home hair-color kits, and allows consumers to post reviews and rate products on a scale of one to five stars. Although the reviews are not as easy to… navigate as those at MakeUpAlley.com and most product ratings vary from one color to the next, we still found the reviews to be useful in showing which brands are most popular. John Frieda Luminous Color Glazes receive high ratings overall. Revlon Color Silk Root Perfect and L'Oréal Color Spa do not receive nearly as many reviews, but are rated highly as well.

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This unnamed blogger says that you can't go wrong with Clairol Natural Instincts hair color and claims to have tried several shades after a coloring mishap in college kept her away from at-home coloring… products for years. She states that since the color is temporary, it's safe to experiment with your color. The included conditioner is worth the cost of the kit in itself, she says. No other products are discussed.

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