HOW TO GET BRIGHT ORANGE HAIR

Let me tell you about one of my favourite hair products, the totally amazing Evo Fabuloso intensifying colour conditioner.

I'm a natural ginger, but I've been dying my hair weird variations of this for years (you can see the various incarnations of previous hairdos here). For the longest time I had ombre/dip-dye hair, going from a bright copper at the roots, through my natural-ish colour to blonde at the ends, but this slowly merged into an obsession for getting my hair a bright copper all over.

Turns out, red hair dye is the quickest to fade (even if it's going over a red base!), so my hairdresser (the lovely Linden from Dean Jones) recommended I tried out Fabuloso  to keep my hair bright between appointments. I started using it, and was pretty quickly hooked - it made my hair shiny, the colour was definitely brighter, and generally my Peak Ginger dreams were coming true.

Fast forward a few months, and I was trying out a lighter peachy dip-dye for the summer (meaning my ends had been lightened quite a bit). On auto-pilot I used Fabuloso for the first time on my light ends and it went ORANGE. AMAZING ORANGE HIGHLIGHTER, QUEEN OF GINGERS ORANGE. So I went back to Dean Jones in total delight, got my hair lightened all over, and am now loving life with super bright hair.

Fabuloso over natural hair | Freshly applied over lightened hair | Faded application over lightened hair

I'm not sure if you can tell in the photos, but it is just SO bright! My hairdresser used a light blonde dye (so no bleach! My hair is in a very happy place), and since then I've just gone back every two months to get my roots done, which are naturally pretty light anyway.

I use Fabuloso conditioner probably once every two weeks, which means the bottle lasts for AGES! The colour really lasts too, and just goes a little peach pastelly when it needs topped up... although I really like that look too, so it's a win/win. Can you tell I bloody love this conditioner?

Nails - Buff Nails

I use the copper shade, which I get from amazon (it's quite a bit cheaper here than the official website), and it also comes in loads of other shades - platinum blonde (apparently amazing as a silver conditioner), caramel, light beige, purple red, mahogany and chestnut.

It's super simple to use too, although they do recommend that you use gloves as the colour might stain your skin (I've used it without before and been fine, but I've maybe just been lucky!). You just shampoo your hair as normal, then towel-dry it, apply Fabuloso all over, leave for three minutes, and then rinse until the water runs clear. It's also a really good conditioner, so my hair always feels really glossy and lovely after I've used it.

I'm sure I'll switch back to the natural side at some point, but for now, I could not recommend this enough! Go forth and be shiny.