You know how everyone says once you dye your hair, you’ll never stop? Well, it happened to me. My virgin locks are actually a really pretty shade of brunette with natural highlights throughout. But one fateful day freshman year of college, I took to a deep shade of box-dye and never looked back.
Since then, I’ve never really strayed too far from my original hair color, going ombré here and getting balayage highlights there. But I seem to have come full circle from my dark box-dye days, and the past year I’ve re-learned the joys of the single process. My inspo? Carrie Bradshaw’s chocolate brown “eff you, Big” hair color in the first Sex and the City movie.
As someone who is *very* into low-maintenance hair color, I assumed going deep brunette would be even easier. But I was so wrong. For the first time ever, I had roots! And brass! And fade out! Meaning I wound up at the salon every six weeks to freshen it up with a gloss. It was the very antithesis of low maintenance. My wallet was crying and to be honest, so was I. Dramatic, yes. But then I thought, can’t I just do this myself?
That’s when I found dpHUE Color Boosting GLOSS+ Deep Conditioning Treatment. It’s technically a gloss, but you apply it in a way that’s way less scary than it sounds. Instead of mixing potions, this one is suspended in a conditioning treatment for easy use at home. It costs $30 for a whole bottle (one that lasts months), which is three times less than one salon appointment was running me. I was sold before I even tried it.
