John Frieda - Beach Blonde DISCONTINUED??

PixiePie

Buttonbear wrote: »

Nope - sorry! Sheer Blonde is their standard range....Beach Blonde was originally brought in as a special sumer edition and it stuck around until around 2007.

The new one in the yellow and black tube is called Sheer Blonde Go Blonder and is a lightening shampoo - the Beach Blonde stuff was a minty, anti-chlorine shampoo called Cool Dip and was available at the same time as the Sheer Blonde shampoos in a squeezy tube. It didn't lighten the hair and the whole range could be used by any shade of hair really apart from the Lemon Lights Gel which probably wouldn't've worked on anything darker than a light brown.

Sheer Blonde is the original range and they have only kept this one on. They've also got one in a purple, black and white tube which has a violet pigment for colour correction....sorry I sound obsessive now don't I?! :rotfl:

Thanks though xx

I'm confuzzled lol - why can't we all just use fairy liquid, eh? :rotfl:

Buttonbear

PixiePie wrote: »

I'm confuzzled lol - why can't we all just use fairy liquid, eh? :rotfl:

Haha tell me about it!

As to the safety of the Go Blonder stuff I took a look at the ingredients and from what I can see it's just chamomile and lemon in concentrated amounts - pretty much like the Timotei Golden Highlights stuff which I think has disappeared too - it had a concentrate called chamomille in it....

Chamomile was used by the Romans so i think we're safe - Sun In used to be the hair rotter but it contained peroxide so it actually bleached the hair when in sunlight - the Go Blonder just seems to lift the colour naturally over time.

caretta32

i miss this product so much, when it started to "disappear" in chicago I bought like 10 tubes and just finished them
I am addicted to it, so much cheaper then a stylist and easier!!

A_little_stressed!!

Ohh, were like a little army of Blonde wannabe's! I had to buy some sun-in to cover my roots, but my roots do now have an orange tinge! Also its hard to direct the spray as well as you could the gel!

PixiePie

A_little_stressed!! wrote: »

Ohh, were like a little army of Blonde wannabe's! I had to buy some sun-in to cover my roots, but my roots do now have an orange tinge! Also its hard to direct the spray as well as you could the gel!

I really recommend a semi perm, natural dye product for that - it's a purple toner by a company called special effects - I get it from a company called Beeunique online (no referral or anything, but it's hard to search for online due to special fx = film effects as well lol). Manic panic do one as well I think (called virgin snow), but I'm using the Special effects one (just called toner/mixer) and it took most of the orange out of my peroxided previously dyed red hair (it was soooo orange at first due to the red being impossible to bleach out without totally killing your hair).

Its natural so really good conditioner for your hair as well I find.

Hope that helps a bit
Me x

caretta32

i found 8 tubes of this wonderful stuff on ebay with the seller e-addict. they are kinda expensive but if you are addicted like I am you will pay it...lol

I already bought one of them!

caretta32

caretta32 wrote: »

i found 8 tubes of this wonderful stuff on ebay with the seller e-addict. they are kinda expensive but if you are addicted like I am you will pay it...lol

I already bought one of them!

tried it today and it worked!!!

MoaningMyrtle

I have used all John Freida products for blonde hair, I don't rate the new blonding shampoo and conditioner at all. The colour glaze was awful on my hair too, made it really weird. The Beach Blonde stuff was good, I managed to get some when it was reduced but have used it up now.

Flutter

I'm wondering wether to buy the 'Go Blonder' shampoo and conditioner. There's so few reviews for them and they're pretty pricey.

Not many reviews for the Avon one either.

Argh, i don't know what to do!:o

hairnut

Hi Everyone,

I too was driven mad buy the discontinuation of the beach blonde gel. I asked my hairdresser if she knew why and she told me it had been discontinued in the UK because it contained harmful cancer forming substances (I think ...high levels of aluminum or copper!) and was subsequently removed from shelves immediately. America followed a year or so later. This seems to make sense to me because it was such a successful product and the company have never explained why or have produced a product any where as good!