John Frieda • Precision Foam Color • Hair Color

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*TOP REVIEWER* Ronnie_Aran on 6/9/2012 9:10:00 PM more reviews by Ronnie_Aran

Age: 25-29   Skin: Acne-prone, Medium   Hair: Brunette   Eyes: Brown    

By far this is the best color kit i´ve tried. It´s super easy to apply, it smells very nice, and the color is very accurate and long lasting. It didn´t friy my hair. I used 5A.

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Courtsicle on 6/8/2012 4:02:00 AM more reviews by Courtsicle

Age: 19-24   Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium   Hair: Brunette   Eyes: Blue    

I would not recommend this hair dye for anyone with dark hair. I have dark brown hair, and used this product in the Deep Cherry colour. I followed the instructions exactly, but it was almost a waste of time and money. The only time the colour in my hair is noticeable is when I am under bright lights or direct sunlight. I am quite disappointed, since this product is very expensive in Australia. The only positive for me was how easy the foam was to apply.

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*TOP REVIEWER* roarwoman on 6/6/2012 2:01:00 PM more reviews by roarwoman

Age: 36-43   Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Neutral   Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Medium   Eyes: Green    

I purchased the Deep-Brown-Black color last night at London Drugs for $12.95. I'm always looking for an easier way to apply hair color and the foam application caught my eye. It was easy to apply and the color came out as expected, dark brown/black. The promised 100% grey coverage is totally not true. I had about half an inch of salt and pepper roots going into this dye job and my roots are still visible and still grayish in color with a bit of brown now mixed in. Brown-Grey?

My hair texture was really rough, even after applying the condition for 10 mins post procedure. I put Macadamian oil in afterwards before I styled and my hair still felt rough and I had a hard time getting my brush around my hair while styling with a blow dryer. End result did not produce any shine or softness at all.

Bottom line, product is expensive, limited color range, average results. I wouldn't purchase again.

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emilieb8b on 6/4/2012 11:28:00 PM more reviews by emilieb8b

Age: 18 & Under   Skin: Sensitive, Fair-Medium   Hair: Blond   Eyes: Other    

i have tried over 5 box dies mostly from L'Oreal seeing that there have been lots of great reviews. i have long, thick, curly, naturally light brown hair and its taken me about a year to get it my desired color of medium blonde. the john Frieda precision foam color is quick and extremely easy to apply. my darker roots are fully covered and my hair has no patches or unevenness. I leave the conditioner that comes with it overnight and my hair is soft, lightweight and silky. the color lasts a long time if you use products from the John Frieda collection. i like the Full Repair line because it manages my frizz and leaves my hair completely restored. i use a blow dryer, curling iron and flat iron constantly and i have not had my hair trimmed in over 3 months because of the john Frieda products. my hair has never felt better! =D

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chaneal on 6/4/2012 3:13:00 AM more reviews by chaneal

Age: 19-24   Skin: Oily, Fair   Hair: Brunette   Eyes: Brown    

HATE THIS. I bought the shade #6G which is supposed to be a lighter golden brown color. My hair had already been dyed and faded to a color similar to the box so I thought I'd get the same color (roots were horrible) I left the dye on for about 30 minutes but when I did the strand testing, my hair looked completely black with a slight brown tinge in light. Left the dye on for another half hour and when I washed it out, the color was super dark! After it dried, it was at LEAST a few shades darker than the box. I wish I'd spend the few bucks more for my typical asian brands...they worked way better than this stuff! The only good thing was that the smell wasn't as bad and that the color is at least even enough.

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Elise999 on 6/1/2012 6:36:00 PM more reviews by Elise999

Age: 19-24   Skin: Sensitive, Fair, Cool   Hair: Blond, Wavy, Medium   Eyes: Hazel    

I have finally found the perfect hair colour for me. 9N is simply lovely, such a warm, natural nuance of blonde. I also have some highlights, and that always helps achieve a great colour. It is super easy to use, during the first day it's a bit too blonde but then it becomes the great colour I fell in love with.

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mrtaxitaxi on 5/31/2012 4:50:00 AM more reviews by mrtaxitaxi

Age: 19-24   Skin: Dry, Olive, Warm   Hair: Black, Wavy, Coarse   Eyes: Black    

This might be suitable for light hair, but I wouldn't recommend it for brunettes. The foam is easy and it doesn't make your hair smell/feel bad, but I felt the color wasn't that great. I noticed only a slight change in my color so I'm giving it two lipsticks. Won't buy again.

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number1sister on 5/28/2012 10:35:00 PM more reviews by number1sister

Age: 56 & Over   Skin: Very Oily, Fair   Hair: Blond   Eyes: Green    

Its been years since I have bought hair color at Walmart or Target. I usually use the Ion from Sally, and have found that to be reliable and generally a good product. I bought this on a whim, and just tried it. I was kinda skeptical because everyone says its darker than what it shows on the box. Well, I bought 8N which is what I usually get in Ion and it works beautifully. I did add a red/gold corrector from Sally, because if I don't, I sure will come up with a strawberry red no matter what brand of hair color I use. The color was true to the color on the side of the box, my hair is shiny and there certainly is enough conditioner to last more than one application. There was plenty of product in the color to cover my hair which is shoulder length. I hope it lasts and doesn't fade, because the color is really pretty. I would certainly buy this again.

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marsha28 on 5/28/2012 2:05:00 PM more reviews by marsha28

Age: 36-43   Skin: Normal, Fair-Medium   Hair: Blond   Eyes: Green    

I love this product! I have fine blond hair and dye it just to get more volume and this product make my hair much thiker and give it a lot of shine. Also my daughter using it all the time. I will never use any other product again. I fyou stay close to your own colour it will give you wonderful results!

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SuzieQ1976 on 5/26/2012 9:09:00 PM more reviews by SuzieQ1976

Age: 30-35   Skin: Oily, Fair-Medium, Neutral   Hair: Blond, Straight, Coarse   Eyes: Green    

I just colored my blond hair and dark brown roots with this product in 10N (Extra light natural blonde) I did not expect my roots to go as light as they did without pre-lightening them first! My hair looks amazing! I kept a plastic bag over my hair while the color was processing and after 20 minutes I removed the bag and put the remaining leftover product on my hair again and left it on an additional 10 minutes. Then I rinsed it well and kept the conditioner on my hair for 3 or 4 minutes because it felt a bit dry. It looks so good! I love everything about this product, from the packaging, the foam, and most of all, the results! Beautiful!

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Skye99 on 5/26/2012 12:33:00 PM more reviews by Skye99

Age: 56 & Over   Skin: Oily, Fair, Neutral   Hair: Brunette   Eyes: Brown    

I should have read reviews on this before buying. It does NOT cover gray hair - even though the box says 100% gray coverage. I left it on for the entire 30 minutes, and I can still see gray at my roots. Don't get this if you're expecting to cover grays.

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SoCalChic10 on 5/21/2012 5:13:00 PM more reviews by SoCalChic10

Age: 18 & Under   Skin: Normal, Fair   Hair: Brunette   Eyes: Green    

I have been dying my hair for a while now, but I always had my friends help me dye my hair. However, I wanted something that i can do on my own for my long hair. So, I did my research on these reviews and had a 50/50 shot of it working, since some reviews were good and some were bad. This is by far the easiest hair dye ever. I read on here that it gets a couple shades darker than the box, so following that, i found the box color i wanted and went up one shade lighter. And it came out the exact box color that i chose in the first place. I love the shine and the ease of coverage. It took me a while to dye, because my hair is a little below the middle of my back, but it worked perfectly in the end. I have no bad things to say about this product, it took less than 5 minutes to wash the dye out and the conditioner is AMAZING. will definitely be my permenant hair dye brand, especially since i only needed one box, when i usually need 2 or three of my other brand. (loreal feria) although i loved loreal feria (the shine was fantastic) im more pleased with this product.

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*TOP REVIEWER* trackypup on 5/18/2012 12:52:00 AM more reviews by trackypup

Age: 44-55   Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium   Hair: Brunette   Eyes: Blue    

I love this stuff. I'm on my third box, all deep cherry brown. I'm a natural brunette and find this just gives me a nice mahogany colour. It couldn't be easier to apply, no mess, no drips. I find some of the reviews baffling. My mom is a colourist and it seems like blondes have the biggest issues with home coloring, seems to be the same way with this product. I absolutely love it and will continue to use it.

There have been a couple of comments on greys. It covers mine for about a month before starting to fade. A colour protecting shampoo and conditioner are a must.

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mrslisa on 5/9/2012 1:49:00 PM more reviews by mrslisa

Age: 36-43   Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Neutral   Hair: Brunette, Straight, Fine   Eyes: Hazel    

I use this on my daughter. She has LOADS of hair! Very long and thick. She buys just one box and it completely covers all her hair. We have tried others and have had to consistently buy 2 boxes because they wouldn't cover all her hair. The color always comes out gorgeous!! Never drips or stains and it very easy to apply. She always gets compliments from her friends on her hair color!

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k1mb3rlyAnn on 5/8/2012 11:50:00 PM more reviews by k1mb3rlyAnn

Age: 19-24   Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium   Hair: Brunette   Eyes: Hazel    

Generally, I search reviews of products before buying and trying. I wanted to color my hair, just a smidge different and I wasn't devoted to any brand (My hair stylist has constantly put the fear of box dye in me, which I hadn't ignored until now in desperation!) and just like your average consumer, I saw the ad for this color in a magazine as well as on tv, said it was new. Browsing in Bed Bath & Beyond, I found, I remembered the ad, I said, Hey, for $12 what could go wrong?

My friend and I dissected everything about this color. It asks you not to shake it more than 5 times (weird?!), it's foam, it says to palm feed it to the hair, not bottle feed. What the hell is with all of this? Those are the cons. THOSE.

The Pros: I have long hair and this dye COMPLETELY covered all of it with an eighth of the bottle left. We thought it may have not covered each piece of hair, the foam looked kind of dry after a while, but testing the texture, my hair was drenched. This dye did NOT DRIP AT ALL, true to what it claims on the box, there was not a single dot on my floor, or on my neck at all (sweet!), and last but not at all least, the COLOR covered ALL of my hair, no weird patches where the dye did not seep into, precisely covered my whole scalp! AHH!

I WILL buy this again, I recommend this to ANYONE, I don't understand how anyone could write an awful review on this stuff, it was easy, and it didn't LIE not a bit! I LOVE THIS PRODUCT!!!

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fromstarstuff on 5/6/2012 2:12:00 AM more reviews by fromstarstuff

Age: 25-29   Skin: Sensitive, Fair, Neutral   Hair: Brunette, Straight, Coarse   Eyes: Brown    

I have to say that I was very disappointed in this hair dye. My hair was dark brown and had not been color treated in several months. I purchased shade 3VR - Deep Cherry Brown for around $13 at Target.

The packaging is very nice and consistent with what you'd expect from a John Freida product. The black gloves were very nice, and you get a lot of conditioner. The foam was probably the best of any that I've used. It stayed frothy and was easy to apply everywhere. One box gave me plenty of coverage with a good bit left over. It didn't smell bad at all.

As it was processing, I started looking on here at the reviews (which I should've done first, of course) and noticed that the majority of users said that the color pulled very dark. That panicked me, so I ended up washing the color out after about 15 minutes. That's where the trouble started.

It took forever to rinse the dye out of my hair. I am not exaggerating when I say that I was in the shower for over half an hour. I shampooed my hair twice. Eventually I just gave up because the water was long since cold. My towel had red all over it. My pillowcase turned red, even though my hair was dry by then. It took three or four washes after this to stop seeing red in the water. It stained my skin pretty badly, as well as my shower.

The box shows it as a nice, blue based red. I know that the results can vary a lot from the box, but what I ended up with was nowhere near what I expected. It wasn't even red - it was orange. Bright orange. But only on the top half of my hair. The ends didn't look like they took the color at all.

The conditioner that comes with it is very nice. It's also very heavy, and there's a reason for that: this dye was very damaging. I expect damage when I color my hair, but this was like I had put bleach in my hair and left it for too long.

I ended up in the salon a few weeks later to get the color fixed, because as I washed my hair more, it just turned more orange.

I was really surprised by how badly the dye worked for me, and I won't be purchasing it again. I can get a much gentler dye that gives me the result I want for $5 less at the same store.

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rachelleanita on 5/5/2012 2:28:00 PM more reviews by rachelleanita

Age: 25-29   Skin: Combination, Fair, Warm   Hair: Brunette, Straight, Medium   Eyes: Hazel    

I have very, very long hair that is thin stranded but extremely dense. I was scared to try color at home again because it is so difficult to try and get everything evenly covered for me, even my colorist says how time consuming my hair is for him to color because of the density. Cremes have always left blotches no matter how well I think I did it.


Now with that in mind, this product is amazing! One box covered all of my hair even though I bought three just in case. It was so easy to apply and massage in, and there was extra left over to really saturate it all. It wasn't messy at all and any drips on my skin and counter wiped off very easily with no staining. I loved the packaging as well, it made me feel fancier doing an at home color, haha!


I returned the deep brown black and got dark chocolate brown instead and left it on for 30 minutes, which actually made it that really dark rich almost black brown. If you leave it on just 20 minutes you will get that more chocolate color. I think that this type of color will get very dark if you don't pay attention to the time, I just happened to want it to look that way. But be cautious. Anyways, lI don't think I need to go to the colorist any more!

UPDATE: I still love the product and continue to use it, but I have found that it leaves my blonde roots visibly lighter after one or two washes. What I do now is first color just my roots with Colorsilk (brown black) because it really stains those roots and doesn't let go for many washes, and then I do an all over the next day with the John Freida color.

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violet616 on 4/28/2012 4:01:00 PM more reviews by violet616

Age: 25-29   Skin: Normal, Fair   Hair: Brown   Eyes: Green    

I purchased 3N Deep Brown Black to get back to my natural color after being a dark auburn shade. The applcation was easy, the smell wasn't bothersome (the nicest smelling haircolor I've tried, if there is such a thing) and my hair didn't feel too wrecked afterwards. My results with foam have been differed (SAMY was decent, Garnier didn't seem to do a thing but leave my hair feeling dry) so naturally I was nervous about trying this. I was afraid I wouldn't have enough foam even for my medium-length, fine hair, but I definitely did. Even though I knew I was coloring my hair a super dark shade, I didn't want it to turn out jet black, but it was through the first three washings. Now it's lightened up just enough (even though I use color-saving shampoo and conditioner) to the point where it looks natural. I'm very pleased now, a week later and would probably repurchase.

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gingerooney7 on 4/27/2012 5:44:00 PM more reviews by gingerooney7

Age: 44-55   Skin: Dry, Fair-Medium   Hair: Blond   Eyes: Blue    

I purchased this hair color in the lightest blonde (the official name escapes me right now, but it was #10). After I purchased it, because it was on sale for $5.00, I then looked here for reviews, and I must say, I was very nervous about trying this brand. But try it, I did, and I am over the moon with the results! It is the prettiest shade of blonde I have ever had, and at 53, having colored my hair since the age of 18, that is saying something! I added some Gray Magic from Sally's, as well as some Unred, also from Sally's. I feel absolutely gorgeous right now! Hands down, this is the BEST brand of color I have ever used. I do not think I could feel more lovely than I do this minute. Swear to God, my whole face has been lit up by this color, and I look several years younger...who'd a thunk it?

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scruffmuffin8u on 4/22/2012 9:16:00 AM more reviews by scruffmuffin8u

Age: 19-24   Skin: Acne-prone, Fair, Cool   Hair: Blond, Straight, Fine   Eyes: Green    

My natural hair color is dark blonde. I wanted to lighten it up a bit because I used to always dye my hair a lighter blonde and wanted to get back to that color instead of sticking with my boring hair color. Anyways, yesterday I went out and purchased the 8N Medium Natural blonde color because I thought it looked pretty and natural. I followed the instructions very carefully and was surprised when one bottle was enough to fully saturate my hair! (usually I always bye two boxes). So I let it sit for 30 minutes and WTF! It didn't do anything! I know that sounds crazy but my hair was the SAME color as before. My boyfriend and I laughed because it looked the exact same. SO, disappointed, I decided to try a lighter color in hopes it would bring me the color I wanted. I bought 10N Extra Light Natural blonde, read the directions carefully, left on for 30 minutes and...WTF! It barley did anything! My hair is blonder I guess but it looks like a caramel color! So I don't recommend this to anyone wishing to go blonde out there because it simply isn't strong enough to lift any color! I am really disappointed because now, my hair is left really dry and my scalp itchy from dying it too much in one day. I can say that when I buy a usual box of hair dye, although it takes two boxes, the results are always some shade of blonde. This, was not even worth it! I guess I have to wait a while to try and dye over it but what a pain and waste of money.

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