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Daily Mirror
21 hours ago
- Lifestyle
- Daily Mirror
This £25 hair treatment restores dry damaged ‘straw-like' hair with just one use
If you're on the lookout for a holy grail treatment that's sure to resurrect dry and damaged hair, look no further than this budget-friendly leave-in treatment With temperatures rising and summer kicking into gear, our hair is at even more risk of becoming dry and damaged in the sun. If you're trying to find a solution to "straw-like" hair but don't want to pay a fortune for expensive treatments that may not work, you're in luck. From the cult-favourite and viral brand, Color Wow, this leave-in hair treatment is set to be your new go-to for rescuing dried and damaged locks. The 50ml bottle normally retails for the wallet-friendly price of £12, but can now be added to your haircare routine for the reduced price of £9.60 from Space NK. If you'd rather buy the full-sized (200ml) product, you can shop it at Lookfantastic, Space NK, All Beauty, and Sephora. This Colour Wow tonic is a leave-in treatment that restores colour-treated hair by moisturising and protecting it. This treatment helps replenish silkiness and manageability by delivering a blend of fatty acids and emollients that bind with your hair, creating a 'lubricating film' that mimics the moisturising, natural outer layer of hair that is often stripped away during colour processing. Infused with Coconut Oil, the formula penetrates deep down to hydrate within the cortex for improved strength and flexibility, while instantly transforming dehydrated, straw-like hair into fluid, silky, supple strands. This Colour Wow treatment is set to make a "major difference" with just one blow dry. It acts as a heat protector as it revives dry, dehydrated, and damaged curls. Over at Lookfantastic, shoppers can't stop raving about this hair treatment as it's amassed hundreds of 5-star reviews. One thrilled buyer beams: "I definitely notice the effects of Color Wow Dream Cocktail Coconut after blow drying. My hair feels smoother, my flyaways are tamed, and there's noticeably less frizz. It makes a real difference to the finish of my hair. Love this product!" Another happy customer raves: " Has made a huge difference to my hair, don't need to use much as it goes a long way, wouldn't be without it now." This shopper says: " This stuff is magic. In the short time I've been using it, it's totally transformed my hair. I love it and it smells amazing." Whie another 5-star rater gushes: " This is such a gorgeous product!! Smells amazing and leaves my hair feeling so soft and shiny. Love the colour wow products, haven't been let down yet!"
Telegraph
27-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
As Meghan confesses her box hair dye mishap, here's how to get it right
Her rainbow fruit plates and floral ice cubes may have plumbed a new nadir of unrelatability, but in one respect at least, Meghan Markle has proved she's just like us. In conversation with hair salon owner Kadi Lee on the latest episode of her podcast, Confessions of a Female Founder, the Duchess of Sussex spoke of her dalliances with box dyes, those £5.99 bathroom cabinet staples with which every brunette with a root phobia is all too familiar. 'It was 2020 – it was very much 2020,' she recalled. 'My family had just moved to California. We were staying in our friend's home and, because it was the pandemic, I kept ordering boxed hair dye, and I thought 'I'm gonna look just like she does on the box'. And instead it was this very inky, almost Elvira-esque black hair.' As many discovered during the pandemic, box dyes are not without their issues – and never more so than when you're a very dark brunette. When Meghan went on to detail how she eventually reached out to a local hairdresser to rectify her 'inky' home dye job, rare was the listener who didn't have flashbacks to 2020, a dark time in ways that extended far beyond the follicular. Lockdown may be a distant memory, but for those on a budget, box dyes are still likely to be a part of life. As any brunette going grey will attest, the maintenance required to keep dark hair looking dark is not for the faint of heart or low of funds. For those lacking the time or money to visit the hairdresser every two to four weeks, DIY options are often the only way. This is despite box dyes being a teenage rite of passage whose oft-catastrophic results most adults would likely rather forget. 'My towels!' my mother exclaimed at some point in the late 1980s, upon seeing her pristine peach pride and joys speckled with brown gunk. There came a time in every teenage girl's life when she grew out of Shaders and Toners (remember those? They're probably best forgotten) and graduated onto the hard stuff, aka permanent dye that didn't 'wash in, wash out' but darkened the hair indelibly – along with any surrounding areas. While at-home dye kits have improved exponentially since the 1980s, most users' application techniques still leave a lot to be desired. According to the colourist Zoe Irwin, creative director at John Frieda, the problem isn't so much the quality of the box dye as its cack-handed execution. 'Put any woman in front of me, and I can tell you if she's used a box colour,' says Irwin. 'I do more colour correction on people who've used box dyes than anything else. The damage can be horrific. You might grab a box thinking you're dark brown, but you won't apply the product the way that a colourist does, meaning that when it grows out, you're left with a band in the hair. You're also likely to overlap your existing colour, which will end up making it up to two shades darker.' Rather than using permanent colour, Irwin suggests using a semi-permanent correcting pen. 'A powder-based product such as Colour Wow (£23.60, Marks and Spencer) won't give you any long lasting damage.' Other semi-permanent options include L'Oreal's Magic Retouch spray (£6.99, Boots) and Josh Wood Colour's Blending Brush (£20, Josh Wood Colour). More important than the product itself, however, is choosing the right shade of brunette in the first place – as the actor George Clooney recently found to his cost. After dyeing his trademark salt and pepper locks dark brown for his role as newsman Edward R Murrow in the Broadway production of Good Night And Good Luck, Clooney, 63, was mocked by internet trolls for his 'paint pot hair' that 'makes him look 20 years older'. 'I know it's not good,' he admitted in an interview on CBS Mornings, speaking to host Gayle King. 'And my wife, she thinks it's funny. I'm not used to it. You never get used to it. I started getting grey when I was 25 – I've been grey most of my life, so it's not my favourite look. Honestly, nothing makes you look older than being 63 and dyeing your hair.' While men who are less practised in the noble art of DIY hair dye may be more prone to error than women, the hairdresser and colour expert Josh Wood counsels that age and skin tone are more important considerations than gender, with pale and olive complexions most likely to carry off very dark hair. 'In terms of age, it really depends on how grey you are,' he adds. 'If you're very grey and dye your hair very dark, it can start to look as though you're wearing a wig. The reason George looks weird is because the colour of his natural salt and pepper hair works incredibly well with his skin tone and eye colour, whereas his current dark hair looks completely false.' Wood's foolproof 'Miracle System' at-home colour kit (£28.99, Josh Wood Colour) is one of the best on the market – Telegraph beauty contributor Lucia Ferrari delivers a masterclass in applying it here – but he would always advise anyone wanting a drastic colour change to seek expert care from a professional colourist. 'If you can't go to a salon, a digital consultation is the next best option. Another tip is to look back at old photographs of yourself with your natural colour. Quite often, people believe they were much darker than they really were.' While ultra dark hair might be enjoying a moment, Irwin firmly believes there's a shade of brunette for everyone – even Clooney. For spring, it's all about what Irwin calls a 'starlet brunette' – a deeper, monochrome shade that recalls the classic Hollywood glamour of Elizabeth Taylor. 'It's very impactful – think Kaia Gerber, Camila Morrone, Zoe Saldana or Daisy Edgar-Jones.' Given how vehemently she's turned her back on her acting career, it's perhaps a relief to Meghan that Irwin wouldn't describe her current colour as 'starlet'. 'It's very dark, but there's still a warmth to it. If you look closely, the colour is multi-dimensional. I'd say it's a permanent tint, with a semi permanent tint added through the mid lengths and ends, plus a gloss for extra shine. The result is an 'expensive brunette' that looks really natural.' Sounds like the Duchess won't be flogging box dye on her Shop My page any time soon.
