L'Oreal Paris Casting Creme Gloss - Black Currant Review

This is the first time I ever dyed my hair that wasn't me putting henna in it. I wanted to use something that was semi permanent in case I did a bad dye job or didn't like the color. I heard how good this was and how shiny your hair was afterwards not to mention great for first time hair colorists. Wanting it to show up I picked the most red shade available for dark hair which turned out to be this one. I ran the allergy test 48 hours beforehand and no reaction so with that I nervously but excitedly proceeded to color my hair. I found the bottle with the nozzle tip made it easy to streak the color through my scalp and massage it in my wet freshly towel dried hair. I do have long, fine really dark brown (almost black) hair that almost reaches my waist. I bought two boxes but found out one had one box had enough product to cover all my hair. The dye didn't smell really nice but it didn't smell chokingly toxic like the scent you get walking to a salon with several dye jobs going on. I did detect a slight fruity scent. I left it in for longer than the 20 minutes recommended and instead left it in for 45 minutes as I really wanted the color to soak in and dye my hair as red as possible. Then I rinsed it out and it took forever to rinsed it out of my long hair but I assume it had to do with the lack of a shower hose and the length of my hair, the more I rinsed the more red came out of my hair so I finally gave up and stopped rinsing when the water was just tinted light red. The conditioner was a nice thick creamy consistency and had a chemical sort of fruity scent maybe berry. It smoothed nicely through my tresses and rinsed out well. I then proceeded to towel and leave my hair to air dry. The end result - shiny, glossy locks with a slight nigh undetectable tint of mahogany, it would be visible if I had a light shining from behind my head or over it or better yet a light glowing in my hair in it much like the Touched By An Angel series, except if that was the case it would be more mahogany rather than orangey red like the main angel. You really couldn't see a huge difference in color unless you were looking for it, though if you took a few strands of my hair and put it next to my undyed eyebrows you could see that the hair on my head was more red. The next time I washed my hair lots of red came out and then as time went on less color came out. The red tones started to be slightly more visible. A few months later I decided to use up the second box I had bought even though I still had red tints in my hair from the last application. The results were the same as the first time, then with the first wash and second wash. After a few washes my hair started to have more red tint to it. I think the second time it stood out more. I guess I built on the color from the last application.