L'Oreal ColorZap Haircolor Remover

Not effective in any way

I have a confession: I messed up. I was over confident doing my own root melt, and let’s just say it looked home-spun! I refer to Behind the Chair a lot and that is where I heard about ColorZap. (I also researched Color Oops, but went with this brand.) I was going for a level 7/8 ash brown but, because I’m NOT a licensed or professional colorist, I turned my roots to a drab dark brown. Anyway, I let my hair rest a few days, pre-treated it with K18 then went to town as directed with ColorZap. After 20 minutes I could see the color changing! I rinsed it with warm water for quite awhile, washed and used Apogee Balancing Moisturizer Two Step Protein Treatment. When my hair dried I was ready to try again with success! I wish I had before and after, but I didn’t think to take them, sadly.

I had dyed black hair that I was trying to get back to dark brown. I'd been dying my hair black for about two years, so it had a lot to combat. The first time I used Color Zap I only used one box, and it was not enough to cover my medium/long hair. I left it on for about an hour, but it dried up and didn't do much to change the color. I walked around for a month with red roots and black hair. Gorgeous. So I figured out that it needs to stay wet (things I wish the box had told me - that you'll need a shower cap or a plastic shopping bag to wrap your head in so it doesn't dry out, and you'll need to buy your own plastic gloves. There are none in the box. Probably one of those applicator brushes would have been nice too.)The second time I tried was a month after the first attempt, and I used two boxes. It removed the color, but not as well as I would have liked. I had some black patches - so be sure to cover your head well, and put it under a cap after, so it stays wet. The product heats up while it's working... I was pretty alarmed by it, but I guess that's normal?It turned my hair orange red with yellow roots after about 25 minutes. Very scary. My hair was VERY dry. You have to wash out the Color Zap, and then dry again before you can dye it. I would advise letting it air dry. I blow dried, and I think that was a mistake. My hair felt like straw, and combing it out was a nightmare. It felt like every strand would snap off. They didn't, but I was very gentle.I dyed it dark brown immediately after, and it was still pretty red. I liked it, but YMMV. I was pretty excited to not have black hair anymore, so I think I would have liked anything. When I colored again a month after it was much darker (I used the same color both times.) I still have some reddish tones in my hair. I'm going to try putting in some highlights soon so the lighter/darker patches aren't so obvious.My hair was pretty fried after all this. I cut off about 4 inches at the ends, because they looked awful. I've always had really silky hair, so it was kind of distressing to have hair that felt like straw. I've been using John Frieda's repair shampoo and conditioner ever since to try to get my hair back to normal, and I think it's better now.I know this reads like a hair nightmare, but it wasn't terrible. If I needed to get color out of my hair again I would use Color Zap again, only I'd do better next time.If you're like me, and reading every review you can find before you do this to your hair, I found it really helpful to watch YouTube videos of people using Color Zap and the like. I had no idea what I was doing, as I'd never tried to lighten my hair before, and it was helpful to get more info and watch tutorials so I had a clue as to what I was in for.

Be careful with this stuff!! I does what its suppose to, but it will also bleach your hair even though it states theres no bleaching in it!!!! It did strip the dark color which is what I wanted. I went from brown colored hair to an auburn. So after the brown was stripped my hair was left orange(y) looking. Which is fine since I was going for ginger red. But in a few spots I had yellow!!! Thats the bleaching!! Be careful guys!

It works .. sort of I’d rather Just use color oops witch I did after using this product . I didn’t realize it was a bleach product but didn’t damage my hair luckily . it only lighted my hair a little bit from black turned brownish orange and did nothing for my roots witch I liked (I didn’t want light roots and dark ends) . Also it didn’t come with gloves and the directions are on the inside of the box instead of paper very cheap product .

I decided to try this product. In the past I have used others that were a lot higher in price. I wanted to remove not only the color I used on my hair but my natural color on my roots. Although the description tells you it will not remove your natural color, it does do it. Other products that I have used have also.Does a very efficient job. The only downside to using this as well as any other is it does make your hair feel like straw afterwards so I would highly recommend that you purchase a very good aftercare conditioner to use. I wouldn’t recommend anyone to use this unless your hair is healthy.