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9 Best-Selling Shades of Semi-Permanent Hair Colors

If you're not ready to pull the trigger on a permanent new color, these best-selling semi-permanent hair dyes will help you discover your signature shade
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Back to Black
Should you pick up the Wella Demi-Permanent Hair Color in Black, you'll get a gorgeous color similar to this. One piece of advice? Don't leave the hair color on for longer than the recommended process time, and don't necessarily use all of the product. "Always make sure you have enough color, but you don't need to saturate every hair strand," Papanikolas says. "Applying more color to the hair will not make it darker."

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Star Hair Color: Blue Ruin

Clearly, the rebels have come out to play this year -- Good Dye Young's best-selling hair color, Blue Ruin, can't be restocked fast enough. Originally created by pop-punk artist Paramore, the vegan and cruelty-free brand aims to provide gorgeous semi-permanent hair color that speaks to any and every personality, without frying hair with ingredients like peroxide and ammonia. If you're looking to jazz up your strands with some fashion hair color, rest assured this vibrant, semi-permanent hair dye will give you lasting results without wreaking havoc on your hair. They also carry shades in red, orange, hot pink and yellow.

As with any fashion hair color, non-traditional shades are most vibrant when applied over pre-bleached strands (which you should definitely have done in the salon). If you'd rather not bleach your hair, fret not. The dye will still add a blue tint to dark hair.

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Beautiful Blue
Love this vibrant head of hair? To achieve this glowing blue, you'll want to make sure you've lifted your hair pretty close to platinum level before applying the Good Dye Young semi-permanent hair color. If you want a deeper blue-black color, leave your strands dark or lift to a copper level for a little more drama.

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Star Hair Color: Warm Blonde

When it comes to hair color at home, the more low-maintenance, the better. That's where John Frieda's Colour Refreshing Gloss comes in. After shampooing, simply apply a dime-sized amount to strands, let the gloss sit for three to five minutes, and rinse. While the hair gloss is just as good for brunettes and redheads, this semi-permanent hair color is a favorite among blondies who are looking to get rid of brassiness, brighten highlights and add a bit of shine.

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Prim and Proper
If your once-gorgeous ombre hair is starting to disappear, John Frieda's Colour Refreshing Gloss is the perfect solution to toning out brassiness, warming up your color and adding shine. It deposits nice, even color into strands but isn't heavy enough to make your ombre an all-over even color.

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BY JESSICA AMARIS | MAR 24, 2017 | SHARES
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