I Put Box Dye To The Test (Is It Really That Bad?)

Hi Beautiful! Today I put box dye to the test. I have always been curious if this stuff actually works. Doing a direct comparison to professional color felt like the only way I could really uncover the truth!

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Hello there beautiful. How are you doing today? You were looking stunning as always, today this every hair stylist nightmare. We have box dye in my house today and I'm horrified who have I become for this YouTube channel. Who have I becoming? I don't like it we'll be putting this to the test. Today. This box dye will be competing with this professional hair. Color we're gon na see who ranks supreme. I will be giving this box dye a very fair test and I will not sabotage it on purpose, but I will be looking closely for flaws now. We all know how I feel about box color, not good. There'S been a lot. A lot of hair fail videos that include box dye, and that is one of the reasons why I despise this stuff. But there are a lot of other reasons why I despise it and we're gon na get into that today. We'Re gon na talk about the risks that come with using box dye and also I'm going to be using the same exact color in both box dye and professional colors on two separate heads. Once I had the two heads colored I'll be rating. The final results on 5 different categories, I'm giving each category and 1 through 5 rating and those categories are category one - is price: how cheap or how expensive is it category two its usability? How easy is it to mix this color and apply to the head category? Three is shine and lust you to file a is this color. Is it shiny or is a doll? Number four is odor and toxicity? Is it bad? Can you do this in your home without actually dying of some kind of chemically induced illness, because sometimes it's bad? It'S really bad and number five is predictability. Does the color you see on the box or the swatch come out too the color that you want on the actual hair that you're coloring? So those are the five categories that I'll be judging today and I'm really excited to put both of these colors to the test, because listen, there's a possibility that the Box color might be great. But I do know that there are only certain times when you could really use box color and is on virgin hair. If you virgin hair out there box color is not the absolute worst idea. However, you've ever touched your hair with color within the past five years. Please just stay away from the box side because it is gon na react completely different to colored hair I've actually never used box color in my entire life. I grew up in a salon. My dad always had a hair color around I'm very interested in seeing what happens when you use it and how easy it is to use. So. First, I had to go to a drugstore to buy box color, which was very nervous about it. I was hoping I wasn't gon na see a subscriber of mine and have to explain myself - okay, it's very nerve-wracking, so I went to my local Duane Reade and walked in and saw the Boggs color aisle, the vio, the scary box, color aisle and I have never Walked in me bar and I avoid like the plague, so I was in that aisle and I'm not gon na lie. I was a little disoriented. There was a lot of options, a lot of different brands. I didn't know what one to go with um, which ones did different things. I don't know they really all seemed pretty similar um. Even the pictures on the boxes were very similar. There was nothing really catching my eye. Someone need to work on their marketing on those boxes, because it's bad, so I wanted to pick a color that was gon na show you guys as much life and vibrancy as possible on the dark hair that I'm leaving coloring today. So I decided to use a violet red sort of like a level 3 very plummy, red color. I thought this would be the perfect color to show like intensity and vibrancy and just how much pigment they put in box die so that I walked on the street to Ricky's, which is my local, professional hair care supplier. Oh, you can also go to Sally's, whatever kind of beauty supply store you have around you. I didn't want to order my own color, though, for this video, because I thought it'd be nicer. If I went to a store that was also accessible to you guys. So if you did want to do something like you saw in this video, you could go out and buy the product yourself, and this was a little bit less complicated for me as a professional, I sort of knew. What was what and I wanted to bury again. The vibrant violet red - I also didn't want to over complicate the formula, so I picked just one color that way again, if you guys want it's not too complicated for you, and also I wanted to compare just one tube of color to one box ID. So I picked 3v, which looks very similar to the box color that I picked out with that all said. You guys why don't we get it started? I'M gon na bring my clients in now and let's apply some color. So today we have Tammy and Rebecca my lovely clients / today. Aren'T you guys all ready for this? Don'T worry, I'm gon na still. Have you guys looking like twins, you both should get the same hair color. If I did this right, which is debatable so we're gon na see what happens, you're gon na get in the Box dye and you're gon na get a professional color, I'm sorry, okay, Rebecca! Was it Rebecca? This is Tammy or you can be Rebecca. You guys. Look too much alike for me great! Let'S do it all right, so my girls are now ready. We have Rebecca over here with the box dye, I'm sorry girl and we have Tammy over here with the professional color and today I'm using a color Tango by Ella. In the color 3 V mixed with the developer that it recommended on the box, which is the color Tango 20 volume developer, the 20 volume is gon na offer us one to two levels of lift, and then it will deposit the color into the hair follicle. You guys didn't already know this. The higher you go up with your developer, the more levels of lift you'll get today. I'M not gon na be using anything over 20 because her hair is already at a level 5 6 and I'm bringing it down to a 3. So I'm not really trying to lift her hair at all, but I do want to get a little bit of lift that way when the pigment is deposited later, it gives it more vibrancy. So I have my scale here and I'm gon na measure this color out make sure it's all perfect and calculated precisely to the mixing ratio provided here it is a one to one mixing ratio. So equal parts developer two equal parts, color, not in 79 grams, any grams of the color of a developer. I meant perfect now, typically on a virgin color application. I would start at the mids and ends and then do the roots after because you get heat from the scalp, but today it doesn't matter because my client is plastic, perfect all right, so let's go more out and start applying some color. So I finished 3/4 of the back of the head so far and I just ran out of color. I'M definitely gon na. Take this into account. When I talk about pricing, definitely spikes up the cost, we're using so much color on one head. So hopefully this lasts. The rest of the entire head and mix it up and keep applying it the color there's. Definitely some fumes coming from this. Also, it's gon na be like a little bit of a headache. I'D also have very good ventilation in here, so I can really smell it, but it's not killing me and it's not burning my eyes. So that's definitely a good sign. So some of the things that I love about professional color is that it's very customizable so say if you want less lift use 20 volume use tenderloin, depending on what you're going for there's always different ways to mix the formula, and you know exactly what you're gon Na get typically, I mean, depends on the person's hair black imperative box, color, which you don't really know exactly what the results gon na be because you don't know what is actually in the color I'll get to a little later, once we do the Box color, but That is sort of the reason why professionals use professional hair color, because it's an art form because it takes a lot of schooling, believe it or not, to get really good at this craft. I'M also going to say that the consistency of this hair color is very nice. It'S very creamy, it's not watery, doesn't drip on the floor and get really messy, but also distributes to the hair very easily. I really like that about this color and yeah. I'M just gon na finish this off and going as fast as I possibly can. I mean not right now, I'm talking, but I am going as fat that possibly truck coats get it on her face, because this never comes off of these mannequins. So I just finished. Applying the color on this day right here her face, is a little bit of color on it. I'M sorry I was rushing okay, just don't call me out for it. Okay, so the directions say to leave this color on for 45 minutes. So that's exactly what I'm gon na do and in the meantime, I'm gon na start coloring miss Rebecca over here. Look at you! You looking cute honey you've jealous of your sister yeah. You jealous well you're about to get this on your head, so we're gon na now move on to the dreaded box dye. I am excited actually to use this. Oh okay. Well, I got two boxes, thank God because there is literally nothing in this box. Don'T understand how this is gon na cover her entire head. You guys this is the color, so it comes with a little shampoo and a little conditioner. Probably nothing use it, but it's reached interactions cuz. I don't know what this is. Okay, we have our directions here. Okay, here we go comes with gloves, you're wondering so it says: okay, unscrew, the lid on this one pour this in here. Okay, this is pretty easy. Alright, so we have that in there and then it says, Oh to put the serum inside. I don't understand why this isn't just pre-mixed inside the color already, but we're gon na go with it and now it says carefully open the color booster, which is this tiny thing right here and we're gon na put this in here: fun: fun: fun, okay, okay, okay, 25 minutes, apparently this only has to be on the hair for 25 minutes. I'M guessing that's because there's such a high level of ammonia, that it doesn't need to be on the hair ever very long, because 25 minutes is an absurdly short amount of time for hair color to be on a head, but we're gon na see and I'm gon Na try to apply it with just this bottle, because that's how people at home we're doing it. This feels wrong. But, okay, I don't even know how to start this. I guess just start pouring out whoa. That'S some red color, like this kind of fun, I'm gon na show you guys the front. Oh no. This is really weird like this. I'M like like shampoo, okay, I mean it's very vibrant. Don'T trip? Don'T trip? Don'T trip, don't draft! Oh my god! This is difficult! Okay, so bad definitely smells a lot less. Oh, my god! It'S getting really dark! Oh my god, I'm gon na be so high, but in this video this also seems like a lot more red. So I hope we get a good comparison over here because hey I hate this so messy. No, I want this to be over. I make a mood swing. It does look really pretty like Apple color, please you guys do this an event area if you're gon na use box color, I'm actually surprised, though I am. I don't think I'm like halfway out of this bottle yet and I nearly covered the entire head. Okay, so that's the end of the bottle. I'M gon na like try and comb this through. It'S like lathering, like shampoo, it's kind of funny, but the main reason why I don't like box tie is because you literally have no idea what the formula is. This is probably has a lot a lot, a lot of ammonia in it, which is not healthy. If your cuticle, when you could just long we're customizing that color to fit your exact needs, Wow, oh, no, no! No! No! That'S! Pretty good image and clean up her face a little bit, I'm so sorry, oh all right! So I have Rebecca and Tammy all finished, with professional color and box dye color they're, looking like two very different turquoise, but I can't really see honestly looking very pretty and in 25 minutes, both their times will be up and I'll print out full for them and Blow-Dry them for you guys and then we'll do the final comparison to see which one is prettier. So let's wait. 20 minutes rinse it out blow-dry I'll, be right back alright, so I just finished washing both of them. I already see kind of a massive difference between the two colors umm. Again, this is the professional hair color, and this is the Box dye. Let'S get started blow-dry alright, so I just finished blow-drying our professional color girl. She is off-camera right now because I will show you the results when I'm all done blow-drying my baby over here and then you guys will see the direct comparison in the box color to the professional hair dye. Let me keep would right now. Okay, so I just finished blow-drying both and now, let's judge them, let's judge the crap out of them on the criteria I talked about before. First up we have the box. Are you ready? Okay? So I'm guessing. You can't really see much on this camera, but I have close-ups that I'll show you now overall, I'm not that impressed, I'm not that unimpressed, but I'm definitely not impressed. I was actually really rooting for the Box die. So, let's go down the list under the criteria that I want to inspect. Okay, so first, let's talk about price. The price for this box die is $ 13. That to me is a really good price, but you also have to think about how much time it's gon na. Take you to apply yourself. Time is money and if you can't do work while you're getting your hair done, like you're, really wasting a lot of time. So, for that reason, 1 out of 5, I'm gon na give this a 4 okay. I'M gon na give it before it's a good price. It'S a pretty good price. It'S pretty low! Okay! Next category is usability. Now I was a bit skeptical about using this bottle. In here, but it seemed to have lathered really really well and kind of was easy to apply, except it did drip all over my floors. My floors are completely stained so for the reason that it dripped a lot, I'm gon na have to give it a bullion. This it was definitely easy to use, but also created an entirely new best that took me ages to clean up okay. Now, let's get into the juicy stuff which is shine and luster. This completely failed. You guys, I'm sorry. There is literally less shine than before. I colored it. It was really shiny and now it's looking extra dull, it is not lustful. It'S definitely like right in certain lights, but this is definitely not very shiny. Um. I'M gon na have to keep this open being nice um. It definitely changed the color, it just doesn't look like vibrant or like Oh, like it doesn't have that that thing to it it's it's just kind of like dull and boring okay. Now, let's talk about odor and toxicity, the box diet was definitely stronger and and seemed to be a lot more talks. It could definitely give me a headache fast. This set was like okay, it wasn't like atrocious, it was a nice kind of fragrance, but it was strong and for that I'm gon na give it a two and now for the last category, which is predictability which is: does it look the same as it does? As its supposed to on the package here, that looks nothing like I'm looking at something right: okay, predictability: it's gon na get a 1 from me because that was not predictable, as I expected, so the total score for the box dye color is 12. So now, let's move on to the professional color: let's move that away! I'M gon na grab a decline here, oh right, a ax. Now that is purple, I hope it's showing on camera. This is a lot more purple than the last one, not perfect. I will tell you guys the things I don't like about this: I'm not trying to side with the professional color on purpose, I'm genuinely going with what I see and what I feel so for price. Two packs of these and 20 volume developer costed $ 19 and again the box dye costed $ 13, which is a $ 5 price difference which really is not much so if you're going based off price to pick a hair color to use you crazy, because that Isn'T not much more expensive than using a box tie from your local, the store so for price for being professional? Ah, I'm gon na have to give it hair color. But again you can't work well getting your hair done because you're not in a salon. So it's kind of dumb and now for usability. Is it user friendly, I'm gon na, say hell, yeah? Okay, if you know how to measure things on a scale, then you probably know how to use this color. It'S not very hard. You mix it together. You weigh it and you put it on the head and it's quite creamy, so it doesn't drip all over the place. So, for that reason, I'm gon na give this one, because it didn't you trip on my floor and the other one did okay and now for shine in lustre. Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah! This was shiny, much more shiny and than the bogs color. Think now would have been really awkward for me, it was like the opposite. It is definitely a lot more shiny and a lot more vibrant by like ten levels. Okay, this actually looks purple to me. It looks much more shiny than when I started with, which is always a good sign, because color should actually make the hair look healthier when you started typically so for shine and luster, but it looks amazing, okay, odor and toxicity. This did smell bad too. It wasn't very good, it was definitely not one of the more pleasant haircolor lines I were used. It was a little gross so for that I'm gon na give this worse, though, to a nap and lastly, predictability: is it coffee same as in the box? Well, didn't show you the box, but it had a swatch which I'll show you in this video. It said 3v. This is definitely level 3 mmm, honey, no level 4 ish and it's definitely violet. So therefore, I'm gon na have to give this a 5 out of 5 because looking very violet and look in the other 3 ish. So, therefore, you get a 5 which brings our final score for the professional hair color to a 19 and a half which puts it in the lead by 7 and a half points which makes Timmy the winner of this competition. Congratulations, Tammy! You can go brag to your twin sister now about hookers prettier. That is it to you guys get out. So is this comparison perfect? No, because there's all sorts of color lines you could use and they're all different going in as a person who's never used box head before and like a common person who would go into a store to clear their hair. I think that's a pretty fair judgement on box dye and do I absolutely hate it? No, you guys, I don't absolutely hate it. It'S just very uncontrollable and usually use in the wrong way. There'S just no way predicting. What'S in the box, what it's made of it. Just wouldn't be what I would recommend wan na get an actual beautiful, professional, rich, looking color. So please just stay away from box. Color just go! Get your hair done! It'S not even that much more money! You can get a single process, color like what I did today for around $ 40, depending where you live, and up from there, depending on how nice the salon is and how experienced the person is, go, get it professionally done, pampering yourself and feeling good and make Yourself, more productive for life after that, because you're all relaxed, and it's just it's just you know what it's an investment on yourself and I think is a very good investment. Maybe you learned a thing or two. Hopefully, if you guys enjoyed today's video, please give it a like follow me on all my social medias. Don'T forget to live your extra life and I will see you next time.

Brad Mondo: Who's the shit? You the shit.

Persephone Black: Professional dye is for planned hair dyeing, box dye is for a mental breakdown

Nicole Burdick: there are two types of people in this world: those who were born in box dye households and those who were born in salon households.. and it shows

Nicole Lockwood: I don’t care which he likes better. I came to see how he applies the color.

Devin Bush: He totally mixed up the heads so he actually likes the shine,luster,and look of the box dye better

Karina Bryan: i love how he totally switched them cause he didnt want to admit box dye is better

Arianah Rza: Brad Mondo, a professional: "Box dye is so messy and hard to use" Everyone who's ever had a mental breakdown ever: "Weak"

SparkleKitty: Activate: He could've easily used a brush to apply the box dye instead of trying to act sloppy. It's just like a corny infomercial. You've just convinced me to use the box dye.

Victoria Meskill: I love how he said that the salon dye costs just as much as the box dye. Like yes, TECHNICALLY the actual product cost about the same BUTTTTT the $300 in labor makes for a BIG difference. I don't have an extra $300... so box dye it is!

Anesha Elizabeth: I find this test interesting, because I used a “professional” dye from Sally’s and it did not take at all. I used a box dye from Walgreens and the color is bright and it’s weird because my curls seem healthier. I could tell which mannequin was the box dye, because the scalp was stained so I’m not sure how he managed to mix the mannequins.

Malikah マリカ: You can tell it was switched because the box dye scalp was more red and when he rinsed it he switched sides and pretended like the box dye was bad

Liz Miller: All of us box dye girls know if it says 25 minutes, you do 35-40

AJ: I have dyed my hair at salons and from boxes, every colour apart from platinum, and ALWAYS preferred box colour. salons cost so much and I never leave happy. the most compliments I ever got was on an espresso colour with red tones that my stylist wouldn't do because she didn't think it would be flattering. the box never judges you like that...

Internet Explorer: You switched the mannequin heads to make it look like the professional hair dye worked better. Also nice classism Not everyone can afford salon haircuts and hair dyes and people shouldn't be shamed for using box dye.

Susan Jennings: The hair dye dripped because of the user not the dye

Country living with April and Matt: He completely switched the heads. This is why no one can trust people with their own hair or even on here. Ridiculous.

Miro: plot twist: brad was caught by a fan buying box dye so he had to make this video as an excuse

Jennifer M: $85 for me to get my hair professionally done......$20 for me to do it myself

Betty Lamp: Oh, come on, Brad. You didn't use the conditioner after the box die. Makes a HUGE difference.

Sapphire Flame: "I won't sabotage this on purpose. But I will be looking closely for flaws." Me approaching relationships

JeanesCharms: As a person who has been coloring her hair longer than you have been alive, I can say that I have tried all three ways to color. Box, professional, and getting it done by a professional. My hair is long. I mean down to my butt long. (until 2 days ago so it is about 10 inches shorter now) My original color is that gross old lady gray, you know, like the gray color of the undercoat of a cat, with some strands of silver here and there. I actually started turning gray when I was about 17. That sounds bad but my male cousin started going bald about that age and it is much cheaper and easier to color than to get hair transplants. So, with my long hair it cost about $120 with a trim and color. It looked great, it felt great, it was super shiny... and then I washed it. I ended up with my regular hair minus $120 and 2 hours of my life. I decided about 15 years ago to start using professional hair color that I bought at Sallys. 2 boxes of color, 1 bottle of #20 and a bottle *GASP* a bottle? It was about $25 but I only used some of the #20 and a total of 1 1/2 of color.so we'll say $20. Good color, easy to use, just as smelly. Then, the dreaded box color. $8. I didn't have to buy anything else so... $8. The box and Sallys was the same application. The color almost identical as the box. I use a conditioning mask after each color which is almost the same cost of the box so add another $7. My main point (yes, there is one) is the application. You don't just blob it on. You draw a line of color through each part then use your fingers to spread the color instead of a brush. You're right. If it is your first time it may surprise you, but after that first time you figure out how to use the box correctly or end up going to a salon. I'm good with the box.

Naomi Portlouis: Many people are talking about whether brad switched the heads or not but has anybody noticed that the box dye wasn't even designed to be used on darker hair? The swatches on the side of the box dye show results on light blonde to dark blonde/light brown hair. Of course your'e not going to get as vibrant results on darker hair. This test was totally biased. Sorry Brad, even if you didn't switch the heads, it wasn't the fairest of tests.

Jane: Box dye has always made my hair healthier and last longer than professional. Professional color never stopped running in the shower and it left my hair dull and brittle. The colorist was professional and had good results but consistently I have the same results from professionals.

sissawissa: Well I've been using temporary box dye for years and I've enjoyed it. It's fun to change my hair how I want, when i want rather than have to pay for it. Stop being classist, you swapped the mannequins

Robi Solovjov: WOW. I used this EXACT Feria box dye 2 days ago and I got the EXACT results seen on the Professionally Dyed head here... My hair is SO VIBRANT and violet! If the heads weren't accidentally switched, you must be terrible at using box dye, somehow. That's probably good? To not be skilled at using a cheaper, more damaging product with a crazy bottle applicator .... But what the hell Brad Mondo!!! I'm an average joe compared to your skills and my color is POPPIN! Literally POPPIN! From BOX DYE lol but seriously, I think the heads were mistakenly switched, and I can only say this because I am actual living proof, of the results, being on my own brown-headed head. Love you Brad Mondo! I'm going back to binging your videos and maybe I'll see you testing another product I've used before, or testing a product I have yet to try

Claire-Louise Loader: Some of us can't afford to have our hair professional dyed Brad. ❤❤

Gracie B: Just wanna say the professional hair color dye is also in a box

Were2Baby: Why are stylists so snobby about "professional " hair dye? Most of use can't afford to drop $150 every other month

Duncan: "pros" always bad mouth box dye because they want your money. You do have to use a toner with it or it goes brassy but still cheaper than a salon. Once I started getting hard core gray I had to upgrade to professional dye, it covers it a little better.

redinsc69: I use that Feria, and you really need to use their shampoo and conditioner after you color, which isn't normal, but it's SO strong, you've gotta wash it. Mine comes out shiny, soft and comes out the perfect Auburn I like!

tgreak: Been using box dye for almost 40 years. It's easy, it works, usually buy on sale for eight bucks. I use a brush and bowl with a fancy cape. My hair is white AF and roots need dyed every three weeks. I'd be broke.

LLAMA QUEEN: In my opinion ( as a broke student) boxed dye isn’t as bad as people think. It does a pretty good job for coverage.

Jessie Brown: I dye my hair about every 6 months, covering the gray, with a dye that matches my natural color (garnier nutrisse light natural copper). It comes out shiny and beautiful. If you read the directions in the package you won't make a mess.

Maud Buchanan: As someone who doesn't want any chance of damaging their hair, I really like using semipermanent hair colours from companies like Colorista (I think), because they don't leave lasting damage, are easy to use, and actually do a pretty good job. Maybe for a different video, Brad should try using semipermanents?

Vivienne Campbell: I really love box dye. Some of my friends have used it and looked so good and did not hurt their hair. I also highlighted my hair with box dye and loved the results. Not sure why he is do determined to hate box dye, I love it and its so affordable.

Helena Ballentine: I will say, I genuinely love the conditioner that comes in that box dye. I've been looking for it without getting the colour because I love it so much.

Erica Finley: Box Dye Never Did Me Wrong. But A Professional Stylist Actually Fucked My Hair

Janelle Justine Mason: I have to add when it comes to the professional hair color, you have to account the cost of things like the application brush, bowls and gloves. I know that people who use box dye don't usually have those on hand (which is one of the factors to get a box kit) compared to people who regularly use the professional stuff, so that's an added expense to consider.

Crystal Huizar: I've dyed my hair for 25 years with box dye and they always look amazing and always get compliments. People ask where I got it done and I say I used a hair dye and it leaves my hair so soft ! Love the box dye and it's never damaged my hair , also color last a very long time . The smell is strong but I'm used to it

Jessan Espinosa: I used Loreal box dye to enhance my hair from getting professional hair color and it's shiny compared to the prof one. the conditioning balm works great and it made my hair feel virgin again after blowing dry. lol

Elizabeth Davis: Heads were switched and I used this exact color and brand yesterday. And it’s a beautiful deep red/purple. And I love it.

Sabrina Gunion: As someone who uses that exact box dye I agree 100% with everyone saying he switched them

Chelsey Jianni: I love ya, but I've used L'oreal a ton of times and those are definitely mixed up. When I went through my red phase, my red was L'oreal box dye, which is the one you're saying is the salon dye mannequin. I don't know if you accidentally mixed them up, but I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt on this one. Maybe write a nice big "1" and "2" on their foreheads next time. Really it isn't what dye you have, it's how you apply and maintain your hair afterward. I've done box dye to ombre my ends a lighter blonde and it's always very affective. When I used a lot of color in the past, I did both box and salon dye and had varying results with both types. It is what it is. Personally, I haven't gone to a salon since I was thirteen because I never recieved what I wanted from anyone else. When I do it myself, it comes out exactly the way I want it to. Take that as you will. Maybe it's because I've been doing it for over a decade and had enough trial and error to know better, who knows. Also, most box dye has the formula on the inside of the box, and many of them are made without ammonia. Fun facts.

Celia Degraw: I use that box dye all the time.... I know what it turns out like and he definitely switched the heads. Hair stylists hate box dye because they don’t wanna admit you don’t need them and can do it yourself cheaper

Alexandra Ghanem-Latour: For the box dye, did you use the conditioner that goes with it? Because usually that’s what helps to add the shine.

Nini Cookie: so, back as a broke teen, i used to box dye my hair without exaggeration a different color every month, going from color to color and it worked fine, i did have to remove the colors once or twice with color removers, and after that my hair picked up the box dyes great again :3

AMBER JOERS: I have dyed my hair with cheap store “box” dye for 20 years. When I go to hair dressers they ALWAYS compliment my color and the healthiness of my hair. When I tell them I use store dye and do it myself they are always shocked. My hair is one of my best attributes.

Saving Sane: Honestly, I’m about to use box dye to ombré my hair so.... yeah..... wish me luck! Edit: sooo I did it and my hair is perfectly fine but in some time I’m gonna do it again to get more blonde!

Cieara Kimberly: I went to a salon ONCE for blonde highlights (I had REGULARLY bleached my hair at home and had nearly white hair in HS) and she fried my hair for $130. It was literally breaking off and I had to cut it all off

Cheezy: I’ve dyed my hair with that exact box dye for a few years. I really loved it.

LunaChick Fringe: I've always lucked out with box dye from the drugstore. I've been generally pleased with the resulting color, the shine and softness of my hair and the price point. I went to the salon to get my dark brown hair dyed a dark purple. They lifted (bleached!) my color, then applied a color that didn't make my hair purple, but more of a fuchsia. My hair had no shine, and forget the softness; it was dry...even when I washed it. Rinsed out the shampoo and it was dry! Had to use extra conditioner and treatments to remoisturize. Also, the fuchsia tone had started to lighten and my hair was soon the same color as my face, with a tan. I waited ~ two months, then put a semi-permanent color on it. More pink than purple, I was not impressed. So a few weeks after that color, I used a box dye-- I used Schwarzkopf in Rich Caviar. I was much more pleased with that color (which has lasted twice as long as the salon) and will go back to box dyes, which brought me shine, softness, color and permanence. Great video, tho.

Em: I'd like to see you do a battle of the box dye! Compare all the major drugstore brands and find out which is worse/best. You could really (nut) milk it too and do like a whole video per colour group like blacks, blondes, brunettes etc and just end up spending the whole video just reading them all to the ground!

XxaftonpuppetxX: You inspire me! I’m getting my hair professionally dyed tomorrow, because I’ve always been using box dyes for years, my hair has horrible regrowth and I have a gold color with a tint of green from swimming so I’m getting like a platinum blonde or icy ash blonde, btw I’m 13

Venus Gin: As someone prone to mental breakdown dying and also just using box dye bc salons don’t carry fun colors, I can tell you my faves. Splat has AMAZING fun colors even if it kills your hair (if you have short hair that grows out at crazy rates then it doesn’t really matter? Also I use hair oil if my hair gets dry) and for more “tame” colors I think Garnier works really well(I used Fiery Burgundy Red 2 times. One time on orangish and the second time on itself after my roots grew out a lot(my roots are BLACK) and it made my hair really even?? and also beautifully shiny, like seriously cool) so I think it depends on what you want. Sure you can’t anticipate it perfectly but personally I just prefer getting myself some box color. I’d love it if you tried like several brands/types of box dye bc they definitely are not built the same. Also garnier smells like peaches and I adore it for that. Splat stinks not gonna lie, but Garnier Fiery Burgundy literally smells like Haribo peaches I swear- (I have also used a black blue box die but I can’t remember for the life of me what brand (i used it for 2 years and last time I used it was 2 years ago so-) but it also smelled like Haribo peaches)

Anglynn74: I've been dying my hair for many yrs (I'm almost 50) and a few months ago I used a Schwarzkopf boxed dye on my hair, first time using that brand. I thought I was going to be overcome with the fumes. I was supposed to leave it on for 25 min. I barely made it 15 min, more like 10 min. After around 5 min it felt like the strong odor was inside my nose, then I felt like I was tasting it, then felt dizzy. Had to rush back into the bathroom & rinse it out asap. None of that has ever happened to me with any box dye, they're all strong smelling but not this bad. After rinsing it fried my hair & my hair is still like hay months later. Not sure what it is about that brand but it was rough & I'll never forget it, and wiull never use that brand again. I had an easier time with foam dye colors.

mimivomi: Yeah no.... u gotta measure that shit out, get a separate developer, ran out halfway through but yet the box dye was harder to use???? This was super biased :/ also, was the developer factored into the price? I don't think it was, but that would make it even more expensive.

Rilassamento: Brad: the professional was $19 The box was $13 That’s a $5 difference Me: Brad has his own kinda math. Home boy it’s $6

Jamey: Honestly; I've gotten some gorgeous color jobs using box color. That's what I grew up using. I've helped my grandma dye and highlight and cover her gray for probably close to 20 years now. We've used the cap highlighting situation, I've done foils and a brush (she has shorter old lady hair, maybe 3.5 inches long from the root and naturally an ashy kinda of dirty blonde but she gets gray frequently and has to cover it) She has told me a few times that she feels like she gets better results when I do it rather than when she goes to the salon. Maybe she's just blowing smoke up my ass or we've gotten lucky. Lol. Or she just hasn't found her correct hair dresser yet. As for me I've always had dark chocolatey brown that's always been extremely thick. Generally fairly healthy. I've bleached and dyed every color of the rainbow. I've done every normal color as well. Anyone remember about 13 or 14 years ago, the big emo/scene years, when we'd bleach the underneath part of our hair, leave or dye the top dark and then sometimes bleach our bangs or put the big chunk pieces up front? Oh I rocked that lol. All through my first two years of highschool. And I always did it all myself from home. And sadly I didn't even know what toner was! Never used it before! ‍♀️ But I've also been to quite a few different stylists. From close lifelong friends to stylists I've never met and i usually end up leaving unhappy but I used to be too shy to say anything except "Thank you, I love it!" and just go home and cry or try to fix it so I was comfortable at least. Idk, sometimes people just need to keep searching for the stylist and/or colorist that they vibe with and that they can work with and discuss what they want that they know understands what they're wanting. But it's very, very possible and not hard to get a killer hair color yourself at home if you're willing to put the work in! ️

mamabear.970: I highly recommend applying Vaseline to open skin areas to repel the dye. Also baby wipes work wonders for wiping it off.

Dena Nebergall: I have been dying my hair using box dye for 25 years and I gotta say watching you use boxed dye for the first time was as hilarious as watching someone change a diaper who had never done it before. LMAO!! THanks for the laugh!!

Linda Rutgers: Hey Brad?!I've been using box dyes since we've been in lockdown.. here in Ontario Canada we had like a 3 week window before they closed the salons again. I don't find my hair is dull. I have curly hair so I condition it and use argon oil. When I blow dry it straight I use an anti frizz serum that gives it lustre. Everyone always compliments me on my hair. Sooooo... Maybe if you'd used the shampoo and conditioner in the package? I'm not sure. But I love my hair and I get lots of things done during the time I use to dye my hair!!

Alexis Kerns: i normally don’t comment stuff like this, but it’s a BIG pet peeve of mine how he’s acting like the box dye is so hard to understand, a scam, ridiculous, dangerous, etc. when that’s the only way MANY women have ever done their hair.. some people don’t have the money to get their hair professionally done, and they honestly don’t see a need to. not to mention the fact that he switched the heads, so CLEARLY the box dye wasn’t nearly as bad as he thought... lol what a joke.

Alanna: I've only colored my hair 5 times within the span of 3 years due to some greys. The only box dye i've used is John Frieda's foaming dye. It comes with a little bottle of after care conditioner too.

Praise the Most High: Thank you for this video. Im new to hair coloring and still get confused a little with the science. But I REFUSSSSEEEE to let it defeat me after coming from a baking background. After watching this i must admit I had to rewind a couple of teachable moments several times and look at the hc section of my cosmetology book from skool so that I can really understand what your point was and it helped a lot. I think if it wasn't for "my" past career experience, this would seem soooo complicated for me. But thankfully I'm catching on. Now.... I just have to learn how to create the math for formulas and tint backs and gray coverage (Hint hint) thanks

selena hale: I've always used box dye and my hair is DEFINITELY not virgin hair<3 and it's always fine

kaniki rose: It’s funny cause I use the same brand he picked up for the box color and I apply like he does the professional(but without the brush just my hands) and it usually looks great

Megan Young: I love how you say “Just go get your hair done” as if the average middle class person has the money to spend $80-$200 on getting their hair colored. Some people just can’t afford it!!

Emmalyn Beckman: I’ve exclusively dyed my hair with box dye, save for a few times when I couldn’t find a bright enough pink for my breakdown and resorted to the nearest sallies, my hair is PERFECTLY FINE!! If you take care of it and use the right shampoos, your hair should be perfectly fine . Dye on y’all

DawnaH1973: I've used both of those exact colors and honestly I wasn't impressed with either. I add Olaplex to all my color, so all my color comes out shiny. I've had success with both box and salon color.

Marina Sconzert: i have used probably close to 10-15 different box dyes on my hair since 2018 and i can say the only time ive been dissapointed is when i used box bleach

pinkjenStewart: Thank you for testing products! I love you and your channel!!! Xoxo

Yasmine Shateri: Could you do this again and do a different box dye colour every time? Like one time do a bleaching process vs a box dye bleaching process? This could be a good series!

Adrian Maxwell: I've mostly used box dye my entire life - only time I use brands at sallys is if I'm using an unnatural colour (firetruck red, green, purple, ect.) I've never had any issues. Only time my hair gets really dry and feels damaged is when I've been doing a lot with it (bleaching and unnatural colours, usually.) It's a *bitch* to get out, though. I'm not sure if professional colour is as hard to get out or not.

Courteney Nichols: I was told by my hairdresser that box dye will come out 1-2 shades darker than the picture, I also think the developer given is like a 20 or 30 but i don't actually use that developer i use my own unless I'm doing black or dark brown

Jaislyn Greene: I like box dye. My mom has used it to dye my hair for years and it has never done me wrong. I just dyed my hair recently all by myself and I love the color

KatNicole: I've always use that specific box dye colour. I've always had compliments, even from hair stylists. In my profile photo, I have box dye hair colour and received so many compliments from it. I knew automatically that it was switched. You should've admitted you liked the box dye or admit you messed up before people called you out on it as you just dug a bigger hole and had people question if you are legit or not.

Nadine Strain: I loved this color! With the darker hair color it twice. Personally the color worked well for me I kept doing this color for a year. Loved the conditioner they give you. Lots of compliments with V38. Negative is getting the red out. Even had a professional color my hair and still could see a hint of red until I cut it off.

Alicia Deadly Daisy: I actually think the shampoo and conditioner they provide in the box dye really helps make your hair shiny and soft!

graftoaj: Whatever works for you girls! You're all beautiful and I say if you got the box you flaunt it! ☺️

Crow: I bought the exact same loreal box dye, dyed my hair, and am watching this as it is sitting in my hair. Hopefully it turns out okay!

grey: You know, we can tell that he wasn't lying about what he thought of each color because he accidentally switched the heads without knowing it, so he actually said bad things about the professional dye...

Rochelle Robinson: When I had less disposable income I would dye my hair at home. I used Loreal Feria and it looked really good. The first time I tried it and visited my salon, the stylist got made because he thought I had my hair done by someone else. One tip he gave me was to use two boxes so your hair is completely saturated.

Heather Fett: I actually use that exact brand and color lol. I love it! And I save so much money doing my own hair

Chelsea Riddle: I currently have the same exact box on my head and hair extensions and it looks great on me you should start with lighter hair it looks great on me!!!

Katy Sidra | Crystarlline Visions: And yes! You have to comb through your hair when you use box dye. I have long thickish hair and I use ONE BOX every single time no matter brand or color and I never miss spots.

Mrs.Estrada •: Wow! You actually switched the heads... I was hoping the comments were wrong but it’s so obvious! The stains were a clear giveaway and so were the colors! The “professional” hair dye was much darker and you even pointed that out in the beginning of the video. Why lie and not just admit that you were wrong and actually preferred the box dye? The “professional” dye looked terrible and you knew it. You know what they say, never judge a book by its cover... especially if you clearly don’t know what you’re talking about.

SinginginD: I used that exact box dye on my hair two years ago. It. Was. Awful. It looked burgundy if anything in the light, and inside I just looked like Morticia Addams. So bad. No bueno lol. It was over my fairly dark hair that had been dyed with a warm lighter brown because my hair naturally has lighter strands. There was zero Violet by the time I was done. It was so bad. I was impulsive. I was real stressed out. It’s fine.

Friendlyneighborhoodhomo: Y’all be supporting him and praising him but he clearly switched the heads. You should know which is professional and which isn’t.

Sarah McCann: I have a long history with box dye and salon dye. Anytime I want an all over color, I use Feria (if not for the conditioner alone!) Anytime I want more than a single color I get mine professionally colored and my stylist is always updated with what I have used. She studied under Guy Tang and has no issue with box dye as long as you have some ability and keep your stylist informed. Also and this is the most important- I dont know anyone that used just the bottle to squeeze on the hair. Everyone I know uses a bowl and brush just like he did with the pro dye. It's so difficult and messy otherwise for either. Feria has always given me such shine and body and the conditioner is almost worth buying the dye just to get it lol.

Sora Sanchez: Such a fair and unbiased review. Love your videos ❤

ophidance ophidance: yes heads switched. first i could tell the colors he picked weren’t the same and actually there were some better matching colors either more violet or more brown at each store he could have chosen. the salon color is much more flat on the picture and less metallic than the picture on the boxed dye. i agree with messy application. If brad had ever used box he’d know that you dye your own scalp, and he would also know that your water runs red for quite a few showers as the dye that didn’t stick originally comes out. that is why the redder box dye looks so vibrant initially and why he likes it better (and we like it better!) I have used this exact color.

raomega8: I appreciate all the videos he does about home dye because my hair is super long and I've had salons try to charge me over 200 for a beach wave perm, mine may not be the best but you do what you can with what you've got

Alyson: Him: *pulls out box and cringes* Me: *smirks because I have used this box dye in my hair before*

Maria Glover: L'oreal prob was one of the best choices as I'm sure you know, they also have a professional color line aswell Some of my fav deep reds are 06R rocket fire shades Eq + Guy Tang's magic magenta and crimson red direct dyes together. Ohhhmannn you need to try ittt. It's gorjasssssDarrrrlin

anna ortega: i love how he chose two completely different shades of the violet and also had extreme bias box dye has never done me wrong. professionals have fucked up my hair and also are way too overpriced for what they do ‍♀️

Lizzy Sheldon: I'm about to use a box-dye bleach on my light hair so I can go lime green. I've never used box bleach, but it was my only option right now so I hope I still have hair after. HAH. Love you Brad thank you for all your videos!

Katheline Luong: “I don’t understand why this isn’t alway pre mixed already” Me: because it will expand in the bottle and explode which is what happened to me when I use to dye my hair or bleach it

HirrientHum: He chose the same exact color I used for the longest time dying my own hair, but because of it I was also incredibly anxious about him getting dye on his black leather(?) jacket. Because that happened to me.

LJ: If you carefully look at the time 4:27 at the beginning of the video. Notice the swatch he points out on the salon color 3V. Notice the color on the box color. Its definitely not the same color. The box color is more plum. Shiny and vibrant. Towards the end of the video he describes the salon color as shiny vibrant. He describes the box color as dull no life to it. Well when you see the salon color swatch it really is dull totally not the box color. The swatch is a dark brown. Why did he have to send both mannequins off camera. Bringing them back on camera. Revealing the colors. Box dye suddenly becomes dull not vibrant and shiny no red tones at all. Which the salon color had in the beginning. Suddenly the salon color was red, vibrant, shiny. So the switch is clearly evident. So the constant bashing of box color has proven to be better than the "salon" color. So BB.....BOX BETTER!!!

22thetho: Proof he *did* switch the mannequins:  At 9:39, go full screen and look at the "professional" hair colour (on the right). You can faintly see a mark on the lower part of the chin. The other doll does not have this mark. At 16:50, Brad is still claiming this is the "professional" hair colour. (You'll have to pause before the chin get's covered by hair) But there is no mark on the chin. At 19:35, you can see the chin mark on the now "box dye" hair colour. So, I guess box dye is better than professional after all.

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