15 Best Hair Color Products

Save your money and get great hair color at home with these reader-approved finds

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We all love getting pampered at the salon, but when we have to spend $15 for someone to wash our hair, $80 for the color and another $50 for a blow dry … we've got to consider that there may be better ways to spend our money, agreed? Our philosophy at Total Beauty is -- if we can do it at-home for a fraction of the cost, why not try? In the spirit of that thought, we combed through our thousands of reviews on at-home hair color to discover the products you, our loyal readers, deem topnotch. These winning boxes boast colors that are brilliant and true, long lasting, capable of fully covering grays, and best of all -- they leave hair shiny and actually soft to the touch. These are truly a new generation of at-home hair color products because we no longer have to sacrifice the health of our hair to have a gorgeous new hue.

See the 15 best at-home hair color products now.

Once you select your ideal hair color product, follow these simple guidelines so that your beautiful, affordable at-home hair color experience doesn't turn into a messy disaster -- one that might cost you even more than the aforementioned salon price tag.

1. Stay within two shades of your current hair color. Don't try to go platinum if you're a brunette, please. Keep the heavy-duty dramatic changes to the professionals. At-home hair color products were not chemically designed for this type of transformation.
2. Keep in mind that semi-permanent colors won't lighten your hair -- they can only make it darker.
3. Test your new color on a strand of hair underneath your top layer before coloring your whole head. This way, if you don't get what you expected, you can easily cover it up.
4. Apply a thin layer of petroleum jelly along your hairline and behind your ears so as to avoid staining your skin with dye.
5. Follow the directions on the box to a tee. This includes recommended times. You don't want to end up with green hair, do you?

Now that you're armed with a few no-fail tips, go check out the reader-selected 15 best at-home hair color products.

By Sharon J. Yi

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