Hi Vanessa, you talking about hair colour etc reminded me of the time when I decided to colour my hair dark auburn, I really liked the colour on the box so decided to colour my hair. It turned out a disaster! instead of my hair being auburn it turned out a horrible brown colour, it looked like a faded dark brown, like a old pair of brown cords look when the colour starts to fade, can't describe it really, but, it wasn't very nice, had to go round like that till it come out, this was when I could see. From that time on if I want to colour my hair, I go for black, its my natural colour and I'm safe there. I've had my hair spiky in the past to. Senn.