Josh Wood Hair reviewed

Celebrity hair stylist Josh Wood plans to overhaul the "aisle of death" - which is how professional  hairdressers refer to the hair colour aisle in supermarkets.

He has spent two years creating a range of products to reinvent do-it-yourself hair colour. There are hair colourants (ammonia and PPD free), special conditioning treatments, shampoos and conditioners, "Shade Shots," a colour touch-up tool and a tinted dry shampoo.

Josh became a Redken Global Colour Creative Director in 2017 and has a (very expensive!) hair "atelier" in London where he looks after the hair of Elle McPherson amongst others.

I am not the best blogger to try hair products, it must be said. I am too impatient to use products which take time. I dislike dry shampoos. I seldom use hair masks or conditioners.

I have my hair coloured in a salon, and it's in fairly good condition. I find, like a lot of you I expect, that most conditioning and styling products are too heavy for my fine hair.

Colour Shot

The first step to using the Josh Wood system is the online consultation which creates your "prescription."  My hair is predominantly blonde  (thanks to the bottle) and occasionally needs a violet reviver if I swim in chlorinated pools or spend too much time in the sun. Josh Wood Colour Shots come in four variants, two for brunettes and two for blonde hair.You mix the colour shot with the Everything Mask, which as its name suggests, is a conditioning treatment. I chose the "Cool me Down" colour shot.

I was expecting the Colour Shot to be one treatment - one shot - but it comes in a tube and there's no guidance on how much to use, except to mix it in equal quantities with the Everything Mask. I would prefer the instructions to indicate how many treatments you're supposed to get from the tube, because you don't know if you've used too much or too little.

You have to leave it on for a while, and it's a semi permanent gloss that in the case of Cool me Down, counteracts unwanted brassiness.

It worked perfectly well, leaving my hair colour a cleaner blonde, and shiny, and it lasted for several shampoos. I was too impatient to wait more than five minutes, but I seemed to get a good result at five so no need to wait for 10.

Everything Mask

I coloured my hair at home for many years when it was dark  (I mostly used reddish brown colourants) and I remember how "crispy" the hair became and how flat and monotone the colour would look. This was one of the reasons I chose to go lighter, because there's nothing worse than the unconvincing helmet of too-dark hair. As we get older our colouring changes: not just our hair but our skin and eyebrows as well, and dark hair is often unflattering.

I reckon the Everything Mask would be great for home coloured hair, anyone who's had too many highlights or bleaching, and those with thick, long hair.  I don't use a conditioner every time I wash my hair - it becomes too soft and floppy - and it was thus with the Everything Mask. Sorry Josh!

The packaging of the range is excellent, as is the quality of the products, and it's good to see a top colourist creating a range that addresses the needs of the millions of people who colour their hair at home and deserve brilliant results.

Find the range online at Josh Wood Colour  or at Boots.

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I was gifted with two products from the Josh Wood Colour range. 

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