L'Oreal Superior Preference LBO1 Extra Light Ash Blond, Hair Dye: Review

I like toying with my hair. From different styles, cuts, and color...my hair never looks the same month after month. Recently I got a new short haircut, and a black hair dye job. I grew tired of it, and wanted to lighten it up a little. I figured adding a few chunks of blond highlights would lighten the look. I went with L'Oreal Superior Preference LBO1 Extra Light Ash Blond, Hair Dye. It was new, and I personally have never really had any tragic results when it came to dye using the L'Oreal name.

The Color:
 
The color is Extra Light Ash Blond. My cousin said I needed the lightest blond available, because it would be hard to color black hair. I was praying she was right, because I didn't want to end up looking like Cruella. I figured she likely was right, and that my results wouldn't be blond, but more or less a strawberry blond, seeing how it is hard to get black hair to take light colors.

Extra Light Ash Blond is the lightest color that the line has to offer, with a platinum blond colored chic on the box. So platinum that one step lighter and it would be white; which worried me.

In The Box:
 
L'Oreal Superior Preference LBO1 Extra Light Ash Blond, Hair Dye comes with the usual hair dye kit goodies. You get your instructions, a pair of plastic gloves, after dye conditioner, the hair dye itself, and the color cream.

I added the dye to the color cream, and I was ready to go.

My cousin helped me add the dye to my hair in a more professional manner by using some specialized hair aluminum foil. She picked some strands of hair out, layed them on a cardboard board, painted the locks with the hair dye, and sealed the colored strands up with aluminum.

This made me nervous because I was not able to see the dye as it began to work. I figured she knew what she was doing, because she dyes her hair more often than I do, and hers always looks great.

Initial Results:
 
After about a half hour, I removed the first piece of aluminum to see what the damage was. I freaked out when I removed it because a strand of pure blond hair came creeping from underneath the aluminum. It freaked me out because it was much lighter than I had been anticipating.

I began removing each and every piece of aluminum from my hair, and each strand was as blond as the next.

I jumped into the shower in a haste. I wanted the dye out before it turned white!

Overall Results:
After rinsing, and blow drying my hair straight, I was impressed. The colored strands were not as bling bling blond as they appeared when I first removed the aluminum from my hair.

The results were in fact really nice. The look was professional, and their were absolutely no signs of streaking, or patchy color. My results were straight up blond strands that were flawless.

Recommended?
 
Yes! L'Oreal Superior Preference LBO1 Extra Light Ash Blond, Hair Dye is an awesome color for adding strands to darker hair, or for those looking to go from dark hair to blond hair without any streaks, patches, or flaws.

All in all I got great colored streaks, in the exact look I wanted.