Blond Brilliance Creme Oil Lightening Toner

7 Reviews

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   adoringEland2

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   I found that if you use the toner with the matching brand developer, your results turn out great. I read that someone damaged their hair by using a 40 volume developer. It recommends that you only use between 5-15 volume of the Blond Brilliance developer. 40 is extreme and damage should be expected. While a toner is a semi-permanent product, you are still using a peroxide cream developer, which bleaches your hair. I highly recommend this product, I’ve used it many times and it’s the best blonde product out there for the price. It’s only sold at Sally’s beauty supply or on Amazon. I use the lilac or platinum toner after bleaching my hair with their Express Level 9 bleach. This bleach will lift up to 9 times! It’s truly amazing. Following directions is key, especially with hair. If you aren’t experience with dyeing your hair, you should most definitely talk to a licensed cosmetologist before doing this on your own.

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   wrathfulBasmati0

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   I used this (violet) 50/50 with regular 30vol cream developer. The lightning toner is not smoother, you have to mix it a lot with the developer (I’m told same thing happens w/ the blond brilliance brand developer, just how the product is). After 15min my head was tingling, 25min it got so painful I rinsed. My hair went from med ash blonde to bright yellow! OH CRAP! So yes it lifted color but did NOT tone for crap! I warned you. And my hair feels damaged so I can’t re-dye right now. I put the Blonde Brilliance ‘cool blondes lathering toner’ on for 3 hours and my hair looks barely lighter than what I started with lol Maybe this “oil lightening toner” is for people starting off with darker/brown hair wanting to go blonde, I do not recommend for natural blondes unless you’re seriously wanting to go platinum and don’t mind damage (because you’ll have to tone and probably bleach twice).

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   pluckyCow8

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   It definitely worked…almost a little too well. I work at Sally’s, and needed to do my roots, so I decided to try this. I have a lot of trouble with my naturally red tinted hair turning orange or yellow, and having to bleach and dye the crap out of it to make it look somewhat decent (usually can’t get rid of the brassiness completely). I asked my co-worker whether I should use the ash or violet one, and she suggested ash. I figured that this would take care of the red/pumpkin orange tones that come about, but that I’d still need to get out my clairol high lift ultra cool blonde blue-violet to tone it some more.

   Well, I used the matching 35 developer of the same brand along with it, and it DEFINITELY did its job. It turned my brown roots white, and the already blonde parts that I got some on a light blue. So if you have naturally dark hair, this will definitely work. And if you’re just doing your roots, make sure not to get any on the already blonde parts. Other than that, it smells great, especially for a bleach (kind of like berries). It’s kind of a weird consistency, very thick when you squeeze it out of the tube, and chalky when it’s mixed, but who cares as long as it works, right? I’ll just have to go back tomorrow and get an all over dye to even it all out again, but I’m still glad I tried it, and will use it again, because rarely does something completely get rid of my brassiness.

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   empathicRice8

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   I used this product in “ash” to get rid of brassy banding from my previous root touch-up. It’s a really odd consistency, thus making it hard to squeeze out of the tube, but that’s probably the only negative thing about it. Another catch was that it tinted my almost-white (processed) hair a slight blue, but it wasn’t a problem because I was going to dye it a blue-based semi permanent colour afterwards.
   I used a generic 20vol developer with this and it worked fine. It got rid of the banding and didn’t turn brassy at all. It was very gentle on my very processed hair, and I recommend it to people who want to achieve white/silver/pastel hair, because this defeats brassiness easily! (although I don’t think it would lift black hair, I used an actual bleach to lift my natural black hair and this product to lift the banding/brassiness from previous touch-up)

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   stressedMallard4

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   This was great for lifting my hair tone. I used a generic brand 40 and left it for exactly 20 minutes on my brown/black hair. I followed the directions exactly and used a foil technique to complete the process. I spoke with a consultant at Sally’s before using. There is no brassiness or orangy tones. It turned out as described on the box for my starting color of dark brown. I plan to go over and lighten a bit more in a few weeks to get to a bit lighter blonde. This was perfect.

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   drearyMallard6

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   I got a box of this as a sample from my work and was planning on bleaching my hair anyway, so I figured I had might as well try it out. I regret that decision.

   Where to start? For one, you can only use the Blond Brilliance Oil Creme Infusion Developer with this, so forget about using that liter of 30 in your cupboard, and you can only really use the Blond Brilliance developer with other products of the same brand. I personally found this irritating. (Originally, I figured that was rubbish, so I used my Ion brand 30 Volume with it, and the entire mixture was a mess in general. Swapped it for a different box and used their developer with it the second time).

   Second, the consistency of this is much thicker than any bleach should be; it’s very chalky as well and just doesn’t mix well no matter what. Because it’s so thick, it’s also incredibly difficult to efficiently apply to hair (even more so if your hair is very thick as well).

   Third? It doesn’t actually tone that well. Despite being a violet toner, my hair still came out banana yellow and orange. I had red in previously so this was expected to some degree, but my very ashy roots also came out quite yellow and they definitely should not have with a toner in there.

   Next, the formula dries quite rapidly, which for me was before I even got all of it in my hair.

   Everything in the Blond Brilliance line also gets quite warm on your hair, at least in what I’ve used, and it’s a bit… uncomfortable. When I say warm, I mean that it gets hot.

   And lastly, it didn’t actually give much lift. My hair is between a level 7 and 8 naturally, with my previous colour being a very faded demi-permanent 4R that was more around a level 6. I also ran out of product.

   This stuff is a disaster; do yourself a favour and get some Wella toner and a proper bleach.

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   decimalMackerel4

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   I picked the violet toner, expecting it to just tone/neutralize my brassy brown hair- maybe lighten it a little bit. It looks blueish-purple as it comes out of the tube, and has a grainy texture- probably a mix of powder lightener and toner(?). I mixed it with 30 Vol and left for 30 mins. Wow, It lightened way more than I expected! I would say I had a tinted level 6 and it went to a level 10. It does look quite yellow/gold still , so I don’t think the toning part worked very well. I won’t buy again because my intent was not to go that light, but I think it would be good as a high-lift for brunettes and/or previously-tinted hair.