Ive used this product three times in the last 4 weeks. First on my eighteen year old daughter who went a firetruck , candy apple red color. Secondly, on my sixteen year old daughter, who went a lilac purple color. Lastly, on myself, i used two boxes, one red toner, then a medium brown, as i was making a huge change from bleach blonde to my naturalish brown. I was completely blown away by how evenly this color worked on everyone. Also impressive is how long the color is staying vibrant. I love how soft the hair is after coloring with this product. We all ended up with exactly what we were looking for, and trust me, I've used a lot of hair color and this one is by far my favorite. I tell everyone to try it out!

I love love love this product. I have been dying my hair for a very long time and this product is the best one that I have used. I love that they provide you with all you need...the brush and dish and not just the colouring products. It was very simple to use and it took the same amount of time as the one that I usually use.The colour was great. I really like how you apply it to the roots first and then after a set period of time you add the serum to the remainder of the dye and then do the remainder of your hair. I love how the colour was even throughout.

LOVE the new salonist!!! just like going to a salon but faster, better and cheaper with all the same great results !!

First off everything that’s in the box makes it look pretty intimidating, especially for someone like myself that has only just started dying my hair on my own a few years ago. There are two different steps of mixing solutions together, not just one like any other dye’s I’ve used and two separate wait times in between each application step. This dye also doesn't come with anything to protect eye glasses and I need mine to read. Not being able to wear my glasses made reading the instructions very hard for me to fallow them.
The gloves are the nice thick gloves that not many other hair dyes come with and they went on and fit nicely. However when it was time to take them off after the first step was done, I didn’t like them as much. I found them to be way too hard to take off and put back on. I almost had to ask for help to remove them and I was afraid I was going to put a hole in them while I was trying to take them off, which is how tight they really are.
I also found the tray that you’re supposed to mix both colouring solutions that are numbered one together in to be fairly unstable. The tray would move around while I was putting both containers into. Even after I poured bottle one of the liquid solutions into the tray and putting the empty bottle aside, I still needed both hands to squeeze the stuff out of tube one into the tray. So you can't hold onto the tray with one hand and place both of the coloring solutions into the tray at the same time. Because of all this I can see some people knocking the tray onto their floor while they're trying to do this step, as I almost did a few times.
I also found the smell of these two solutions to be fairly strong. I had a stuffy noise at the time and I could still smell it and my husband who was in the other room could also smell it, so it wasn't just me. This was just one more thing about this hair dye that turned me off.
Once you have the two numbered one solutions completely mixed you only use 3/4 of it and it does shows you a line in the tray to help you to know just how much ¾ really is, witch I found a bit helpful.
When you begin it says to first make a one inch part down the center of your hair and start there. I couldn't get this step to work for me at all because my hair would just fall back into place. This became pretty frustrating so I gave up on that step and just started applying it to my roots down the center of my head at my natural part. After that you apply it all the way around your hair line, front to back, than make half inch even vertical parts all the way up the back of your head, applying the solution as you go.
I couldn't get the vertical parts step done and done evenly like they show in the instructions picture and I can't really see anyone else doing it that evenly on their own either. After this is done it says to go back to the top of your head and make half inch or so horizontal parts along each side of your center part and apply the solution to each part as you go. I also had a hard time making these parts even, but I'm not sure if that was just me, or if anyone doing this on their own would also have a hard time.
Once you have 3/4 of the solution on your head you're supposed to wait for 20 minutes. When the waiting time is up you put those awful gloves back on and mix the package that's numbered two into what was left of the first solution mixture, witch mixed up fairly easily for me. Than you're supposed to scoop it up in your hand and massage it through out your hair, making sure to soak your hair from the top all the way to your ends. Than you have to wait another ten minutes for this step to take effect.
Now this next step really surprised me because I've never heard of doing this before. It says to shampoo your hair with a color safe shampoo than rinse the shampoo and dye out. I thought I'd be there forever waiting for the water to run clear, but that wasn't the case. After I shampooed my hair like I normally do there was no sign of the coloring, making me think all I did was just washed all my hard work down the drain. You than apply the deep conditioner that comes with the hair dye. I found no difference in this deep conditioner than any other deep conditioner that comes with a hair dye no matter the brand. You use it in the same way and it make's your hair feel like silk, but this feeling didn't seem to last for me. Once my hair was dry it felt dry and ruff and it also seemed to make my oily hair turn greasy a lot sooner then usual.
As for my color results, a friend of mine gave this hair dye to me to try and it was a light natural brown shade. I thought I would have red hair by the time I was done because the shade this didn’t contain ash and if I don't use a dye with ash in it my hair usually turns red no matter the shade I use. This wasn't the case, it just made my natural red high lights stand out a bit more than they usually do. How ever the rest of my hair didn’t look any more or any less brown than it did before I started. My grey hair has always been hard for me to cover no matter witch brand I’ve tried and this brand was no different. I can even say it was worse. I can still see grey hair down my part and through out my hair. When it comes right down to it, I found this Vidal Sassoon Salonist Hair Colour Permanent Color at home hair dye to be pretty disappointing! There are too many steps and to much waiting time for very little results. I can use, say the L'Oreal root touch up, for my roots and get much better results for a lot less work and a lot less money. Perhaps people with a lot more experience with at home hair dyes would like it, but for those like myself I wouldn't recommend it and definitely wouldn’t buy it no matter what the price was.

I highly recommend the VS Sassoon Salonist hair color. It says on package 100% grey coverage and its True.
The instructions are easy to follow, it comes with all the tools (mixing bowl, application brush and good gloves) to do all three steps effectively so that you get great grey coverage and all over hair color..
I used meduim neutral brown, first step is to apply to your roots, leave for 20 mins then mix up second application to cover remained of your hair, and leave on for 10 mins.
I have medium length hair and there would have been enough mixture/hair color for someone with at least shoulder length hair