TIGI Copyright Colour - is it supposed to smell so bad?

[AllanJudge]

I want to teach myself how to use it, but also go on a couple of courses. I find it quite a straightforward colour line to follow, I like that.

I bought 3 tubes off Ebay 9/4 and 8/34 and 10/03 ... Also bought the 8.5vol (I think it's that one) activator.
I would never use these on a client, i've got loads of hair cuttings that I use to test colours on.

The smell is literally vile. My sister was a Hairdresser when I was about 5-8 (i'm 30 now) and it smells like that. Proper old school, potent almost as bad as perm lotion type smell.

For all I slag L'Oreal off, their tints have a lovely odour. I'm thinking it's just cause they're off Ebay? I couldn't work with these colours on a regular basis if this is the actual smell of a legit tube of TIGI.

What do others who have used it think?

 

[AllanJudge]

Hello?

 

[AcidPerm]

I used to use it and like it and can't remember it being overly whiffy.
Maybe you've got a knock off product?

 

[AllanJudge]

I think I must have, AcidPerm. I've literally got a headache and the room stinks that I done it in.
Gonna buy some from the wholesalers to compare.

 

[surf girl]

It did stink when I used it (3 years ago now mind) the reds are lush tho be wary of high lifts they stain really bad when you overlap (we turned my training client green )

 

[AllanJudge]

It did stink when I used it (3 years ago now mind) the reds are lush tho be wary of high lifts they stain really bad when you overlap (we turned my training client green )

Oh God, why did you stop using them?

Can you compare them to L'Oreal at all?

 

[surf girl]

Oh God, why did you stop using them?

Can you compare them to L'Oreal at all?

Their not like Loreal at all really, we used Loreal at the time I tried this, I only did the training and used up my training pack with tigi (12 tubes i think) I wasn't impressed tbh just went back to colorissimo after that Loreal was working out too expensive for me

 

[AllanJudge]

How long ago was this? And why weren't you impressed? Sorry for all the questions i'm just curious.

 

[surf girl]

It's ok no one else is answering you lol, It was 3 years ago, I had the rep hounding me while I was doing the refurb so I gave it a go when I opened, I diddnt like the smell, the price was a bit more than I wanted to pay (especially the opening order) & the underlying tone (in my opinion) is green, I found it too fussy to work around the green tinge I kept getting with them, so I went back to what I was used to

 

[jamiereid92]

I remember being trained in this and having to mix together so many colours to make a simple brown haha.

Wella is much more simple

 

[AllanJudge]

I really didn't like Tigi.

It smelt awful and as you say it takes too much effort to make a brown [emoji23]

I bought a shade chart, it cost a lot (we can't say prices on here can we) it arrived and it was so basic. I thought for the price it would have their whole range in it and it only had their permanent shades in it.

The samples were tiny. It was just a big disappointment.

 

[jamiereid92]

Yeah u much prefer wella x