Garnier Olia Review

I tend to chop and change my hair colour brands, depending what’s on special offer at the time. I always get a similar shade of red though, which is a colour that is notorious for washing out quickly. I find this one lasts well but I only wash my hair twice a week which definitely helps.

I like that this does not contain ammonia so it doesn’t smell too bad or sting my scalp. It doesn’t drip whilst it’s on either so it’s not too messy. Although it is really over-packaged, with an extra plastic bottle to mix it up in, it does mean I can get two uses from this as I have short hair. It covers greys and turns them into sparkly bright red highlights! I also like that it comes with a big tube of conditioner which again, lasts ages when you have short hair. I will definitely use this again as it works out really economical since I can get two uses out of it.

I used to use this dye all the time it smells decent,easy to apply and makes your hair nice and shiny,the bright colours wash out pretty fast wouldn’t be so bad if you could get away with only washing your hair a couple times a week,decent price and a good variety of colours

I've just done my second box of this colour and I'm really impressed.

I've picked it up on special both times for about $12 so excellent value in my opinion, it has everything you need included but my fave is the conditioner which easily gives you a couple washes worth, and the colour only takes 30min to develop. My hair is medium to long in length and quite thick and I'm able to spread one box to cover it all.

After using my hair has been left super silky & shiny and I've always gotten compliments on it. The only downside for me personally was the brighter colours do fade after a few weeks, but the more natural colours last well, dark brown is my favourite.

I always dye my hair at home and have used this brand for about 5 years and my hair always looks lush and refreshed. Also its so affordable!

When I opened the box the first thought I had was this was the best packaging I've ever seen in a box of hair dye. Developer and color crème in tubes, a separate bottle for mixing, a more full sized conditioner tube rather than those silly little sachets, as well as gloves and instructions. You could color me impressed.

In terms of the hair color itself, it's an oil based color and looked quite shiny when applying, it also smelt slightly better than the ammonia colors, but the color once applied was average in it's vibrancy. It did last the 4 weeks and the colored matched the box well on the plus side.

I'd consider it again - especially as I got it on a good special, but I haven't found my holy grail hair color yet.

I've used this hair colour about 4 times now and find it really easy to use because of the nice big applicator bottle. The fact that it's got no ammonia is great too, there's nothing worse than wanting to pass out from the fumes! However, I found that the colour wasn't as vibrant as I hoped the first couple of times, but it has improved the more times I've used it.

90% of the time il go to the salon for my colour. but every now & again il get lazy & do it at home. I found Olia to be a really lush colour & stayed in my hair a lot longer than many other home dyes iv tried. not too strong smelling & gave me soft, shiny locks when dried.

This was the first dye i have used that didn't have an overpowering chemical smell.

However the red colour i used wasn't very bright and didn't seem to last as long as other at home dyes.

The price is also twice or more the amount of other dyes which is less than desirable

Lots of wash out aswell with this colour but as expected with home dyes and a red colour so im not too picky about that as many others do it too.

The package was easy to use and the bottle etc made it easy to apply and not make mess if doing it on your own