Ardell Hair Color Bottle, Unred, 0.25 Ounce

I'm a wig girly so this product is everything that I was missing especially after bleaching the knots you will need it to tone it down

I've been using Ardell UnRed with my box dyes and box highlighting kits for several years. I color my hair light ash brown (I'm naturally light brown, with about 30% gray), and I use a highlighting kit on top of that. Without adding UnRed to my mixtures, my hair always ends up pretty orange. I've never had success just adding UnRed to my shampoo or conditioner, or even applying it straight to my hair. That's never worked for me. Perhaps on a blonde it would work, but on a darker-haired girl, I need the more powerful chemical processes created by the hair color kits to actually have the UrRed take effect.But, the real reason I'm writing this review is to share about Mrs. Stewart's Bluing (which I also get on Amazon). It's the same stuff elderly women have used in the past to rinse their white hair in to keep it from looking dull or discolored. I've heard it's where the term "blue hair" (used to describe elderly ladies) came from.Anyway, if you know anything about the color wheel, blue is the opposite of orange, so by rinsing orange-tinged hair in blue water (made by mixing Mrs. Stewart's Bluing in water), any remaining orange that's not taken care of by the UnRed is really neutralized. As anyone who colors hair lighter shades of brown knows, the orange is REALLY hard to prevent. UnRed is my first line of defense, but on top of that, Mrs. Stewart's Bluing is my life-saver.There are two ways I use it. First, I mix Mrs. Stewart's Bluing with my favorite conditioner to make my own special anti-orange conditioner (I make my conditioner about the color of a blueberry). And second, I fill my bathroom sink with water and add the Bluing, and after each shower and I do a final rinse of my hair in that blue water. It doesn't take out 100% of the orange, but it helps A LOT. I do have to be careful, as there have been a couple times that I've made my water a little TOO blue and my hair has ended up a tad greenish-gray. It's not a big deal though, as it comes out at the next shampoo - just give your hair an extra rub between your palms to help get the unwanted blue out.You'll definitely need to experiment with how much Bluing to put in the rinse water. I would recommend starting out by making your water at least the color of the blue hospital signs you see on the road, and go from there. Sometimes I make my water a very deep dark blue. The lighter, and the more damaged your hair, probably the less blue you'll need. I'm not very scientific about it. I just give the bottle one or two big squeezes into the sink of water. Oh, and be sure to use an old (or dark) towel to dry your hair, as the rinse water will leave temporary blue stains on it.I hope this helps someone the way it has helped me!

Added it to my shampoo and I already see a difference after two washes.

Has "Please Read Enclosed Instructions" written on the box, but has no instructions enclosed....or on the bottle. I added 4 drops to my shampoo and conditioner and it made zero change to my color.

This is a must have for any blonde. I love this to add to any home dye it neutralizes gold tones keeping hair bright and blonde. It also works great to add a few drops in conditioner to keep hair bright and from going gold/orange. It's a must buy, great value and only takes a few drops.

Well, It didn't work for me. I used 20 drops in 1 oz of titanium grey color and 1 oz of condition which was mixed all together. My goal was to get a more Ashy beown color with no hint of red. I left the product in for 25min then hopped in the shower and used a color protective shampoo and conditioner As you can see in the before and after. There is almost no difference. In one of the pictures you can see it almost made my hair look redder! Lol. Anyways I see some people having great success with this product But it just didn't work for me. :(

This didn't really work for me but I think that is because I didn't understand how to use or what it's supposed to help with. I do wish it had clearer instructions. Basically I was using it because I was going from dyed red hair to blonde. I bleached my hair to a sort of orange and tried to use this with permanent dye to cover the orange up. But that's not how this product works. I believe this product is meant to be used with any color dye to keep it from pulling too warm. That seems to be a problem for some people when using golden based dyes or even ash dyes, so this product makes the ash (green) more prominent.By the way, just in case anyone might be reading this and might make the same mistake I did, what you really should do to go blonde is bleach your hair at least to a yellow color and then dye with a semi-perm blonde (you don't need to put yourself through the damage of a perm color if you're just going darker because you don't need the lift), unless you're going platinum in which case you will bleach to a pale yellow and then use a toner.

I had been dying my hair red for years and wanted a go blonde without the red undertones. Worked like a charm!! Definitely recommend!!