The Shade Reviews

Name: The Shade
Address: 23 Milton Parade Malvern VIC 3144, ,, Malvern
Rating: 4.52

4.5 Rating 1,831 Reviews

87 %

of reviewers recommend The Shade

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4.5

Based on 1,831 reviews

Shipping & Delivery
Delivery Methods	Postal Service
Average Delivery Time	Within 5 Days
On-time Delivery	Greater than 91%
Accurate And Undamaged Orders	99%
Customer Service
Communication Channels	Email, Live Chat, Telephone
Queries Resolved In	Under An Hour
Customer Service	4.5 out of 5

About The Shade:

The Shade is Australia's leading home hair colour and hair care company. Our colour is Italian-made, and is free from Ammonia, PPD, Parabens, Phthalates and Gluten.

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support@theshade.com.au

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23 Milton Parade Malvern VIC 3144, ,
Malvern
3144

The Shade 5 star review on 18th January 2025

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“Slightly disappointed as the grey coverage isn’t long lasting for me, even with the extra developer for pre-softening. I’m currently 3 weeks in and I can see most of my greys have returned. Colour started coming off gradually pretty much since the first wash. My colour was Dark Golden Brown, and like most other reviews, I found it to be darker than I expected. Under sunlight though it’s nice. The good thing is because it’s a subscription, it forces me to colour regularly to cover my greys. It also didn’t cause any irritation on my very sensitive scalp.”

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Hi Stephanie, It seems your greys are particularly colour resistant. Please contact one of our colourists here https://theshade.com.au/colourist/ who will be able to help you with colouring your greys. I hope this helps! The Shade team

“I love the product itself. I feel its healthier for my hair than other products. My hair is always shiny and when the roots grow out are still a little blended with the colour. The service itself is fantastic. It automatically arrives every month. Highly recommend”

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“Never received the order”

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Hi Elaine, Once again, we are so sorry you haven't received your parcel. We despatched your order the same day as we received it. The following is the email we sent you on August 7th: Hi Elaine, Thank you for your email. Sorry that your parcel has been delayed. We despatched your order the same day we received it. I really apologise for your inconvenience, and I can understand your frustration and the reason for your cancellation. I will send an enquiry to Australia Post to see if we can locate it. Best Regards, We duly cancelled your subscription as you instructed. Terribly sorry again for the inconvenience. The Shade team

“Excellent service. Beautiful colour, I had a balayage blonde to cover and worked beautifully. So happy with the results.”

The Shade 5 star review on 10th August 2020

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“I was expecting a better outcome to be honest. I used the softener before the colouring process and the outcome was still not very good. The greys are still evident and the color didn’t take to them enough like the advertisements. The shampoo and conditioner smelled lovely. The packaging of products wonderful. I was very hopeful of a better outcome.”

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Hi Tracy, Sorry you didn't get the grey coverage as you were expecting. It seems your greys are particularly colour resistant. Please contact one of our colourists here https://theshade.com.au/colourist/ who can certainly help you with colouring your greys. I hope this helps! The Shade team

“The colour was much darker than it looked on the colour chart and now as a result I am left with really dark hair that I hate. I would love to get rid of the dark hair and try a lighter colour but other than going to the hairdressers which in Victoria I can’t do I am at a loss as what to do. Anything you could do to help? I would love to stay with your product because it left my hair lovely and soft and I do believe if I could get the right colour it could be good. I have written to the help page but no one replied. Ros Nicholls”

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Hi Ros, Thanks for getting in touch. Our colourists received your enquiry on May 19th, and within an hour they replied with the following email: Hi Ros! Thanks for getting in touch and I hope you are well. Yes, Roma 4.3 is a very dark colour, so I would expect that you would get a very dark result from that colour. We do offer personalised colourist support to help with colour selection 7 days a week, so please do ask for help, and it is preferable to ask for help before you order a colour. As you already have colour in your hair, you would need to do a lightening process to lift out the darker colour pigments that are currently in your colour to achieve a lighter colour result, because colour cannot lighten pre-coloured hair. You can lighten your colour by doing a bleach wash at home. This is quite quick, easy and very effective, but bear in mind that you can’t recolour for 2 days and your hair will probably be a bit brassy (lightening does that) during that time. The upside is that when you recolour you will have a lighter base level and you can then comfortably achieve a lighter colour level and the bleach washing process will lift out all the darker pigments which are currently in your hair. We offer Bleach Wash Kits which include everything you need to bleach wash your hair, which will effectively and quickly lighten your base colour. They are $17.95 and include bleach powder, developer, Colour Protection Shampoo and Conditioner and gloves as well as detailed instructions. To add Bleach Wash to your order, go to the Shop page, scroll down until you find the Bleach Wash Kit, and you can then add that to your order. A bleach wash is gentler than a standard lightening process, but it will dry your hair and we recommend that you do some leave-in conditioner or oil treatments before and after bleach washing to restore moisture and condition to your hair. Please bear in mind that sometimes people need to repeat the bleach wash process to lift out all the darker pigments in their hair before they can recolour with a lighter colour. When you lighten your hair secondary tones which are natural present in the hair are always revealed and these can significantly impact the final colour finish, due to the natural contributing pigment. It is best to choose a cool based colour after lightening as the cool tone will counter-act and neutralise the unwanted warmth that is revealed during lightening. We recommend selecting a colour lighter than your colour goal after a lightening process, because you are likely to get a slightly darker colour result as the bleach wash temporarily increases porosity. After you have lifted out the darker colour pigments in your hair with a bleach wash, a good colour options for you would be Montecristo 6.1 Light Ash Brown which has a light brown base colour and cool Ash secondary tones which will counter-act and neutralise the warmth that is revealed during lightening. You can update your colour in "My Account' and if you wanted to add the bleach wash kit, you can go to the 'Shop' page and add that from there. I hope that helps and please let me know if I can help further. Thank you. X I will re-send this email to you as it does contain a few links. I hope this help! The Shade team

“I placed an order on the 17.7.2020 it is now the 7.8.2020 and still have not received anything .Not happy”

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Hi Michelle, We are so sorry you haven't received your parcel. We received your order on July 17th in the afternoon, and despatched it the next day. Tracking details can be found here: https://auspost.com.au/mypost/track/#/details/0307054412143006000996 It seems that Aust Post have lost it, so we will send you a replacement. Really sorry for the inconvenience. In future, please don't hesitate to contact us at support@theshade.com.au The Shade team

“It’s a great product, no more tears. Goes on well smells great and does a really good job 👏”

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“This is a great product. Not only is it super easy to mix up and apply it seems to be no drip. The barrier oil means NO colour on my skin. Even my hairdresser doesn’t manage that. And my hair feels and looks so healthy soft and shiny. So many compliments. And all without the need for an appointment. I’m a convert. And so are the friends I’ve recommended it to.”

The Shade 5 star review on 5th August 2020

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“I love this product. It works great on my long, thick, curly hair and the colour is perfect. I love the fact you can schedule the delivery time to when your hair needs colouring and it arrives on time without me needing to go shopping. As I live remotely this is a huge bonus.”

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“Terrible. Colour darker than shown on web site. Awful smell. My hair turned out almost black when the shade was right brown. Uninterested "customer support". My question about colour being dark was removed from Facebook. Nearly two weeks later and my hair looks disgusting. Dry and fake and black has now faded to dark orange and fark brown. I have never been so disappointed and upset with my hair in my life. I advise anyone reading, please don't consider trying this.”

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Dear Melinda, The following is the email our colourist sent you: Hi Melinda, Thanks for following up. Colour cannot lighten colour, so it can not lighten pre-existing darker colour pigments in your hair. The options are to try the method I mentioned to lift out some of the colour pigments, or to lighten your base colour by doing a bleach wash at home. This is quite quick, easy and very effective, but bear in mind that you can’t recolour for 2 days and your hair will probably be a bit brassy (lightening does that) during that time. The upside is that when you recolour you will have a lighter base level and you can then comfortably achieve a lighter colour level and the bleach washing process will lift out all the darker pigments which are currently in your hair. We offer Bleach Wash Kits which include everything you need to bleach wash your hair, which will effectively and quickly lighten your base colour. They are $17.95 and include bleach powder, developer, Colour Protection Shampoo and Conditioner and gloves as well as detailed instructions. To add Bleach Wash to your order, go to the Shop page, scroll down until you find the Bleach Wash Kit, and you can then add that to your order. A bleach wash is gentler than a standard lightening process, but it will dry your hair and we recommend that you do some leave-in conditioner or oil treatments before and after bleach washing to restore moisture and condition to your hair. Our colour numbering system is the ICC system, which is the same one used by L'OReal and other major brands, so those levels match *eg. a level 3 by L'OReal is the same as our level 3, etc), although the names of the colour may be different. So those are the two options for a lighter colour - not using a lighter colour over your current colour, which unfortunately will not be effective. I hope that helps and please let me know if I can help further. X I'm sorry if you feel our colourist was uninterested. The Shade team

“Love the colour I chose from The Shade, covers my grey well. No stinging scalp, and arrives on my doorstep when I need it.”

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“Love the colour,it’s so easy to use ,it pops and the shampoo and conditioner that comes with it is excellent ,perfect for me thank you”

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“I couldn't be happier with The Shade hair colour! I will never go to the hair salon for colouring again. I usually react with an itchy and sore scalp, but not with The Shade. The process was simply. The colour gorgeous and fully covered all of my greys. Thank you!”

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“What i'm looking for at the moment is a semi-permanent product that I can use between permanent dying. So if i use the permanent dye every 6 weeks, I would use a semi 'root cover up' product at the 2 and 4 week marks. I just moved from living in the US and what I used over there is this product: https://www.madison-reed.com/shopping/root-reboot Thanks!”

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“Delivery was fast but it took me a while to try it out as i had just used a colouring kit from the chemist just before that. I love how the items sent felt like it was a professional colouring kit, came with a smock, an oil barrier for the skin, and a wet wipe to remove colour stains (which was ❤️). No salon smell which was really good and I love the hair mask it came with. Results were super good! I had super soft, shiny hair for days and it completely covered my grey hair! I would probably get a lighter shade next time to get a really lighter brown hue.”

The Shade 5 star review on 4th August 2020

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“This review is literally ten years in the making. As someone with naturally dark-ish brown hair, finding an ACTUALLY NUETRAL dark brown shade that left my hair just a bit darker and dimensional for oomph, but not black, red, or purpley and without the hot roots other brunettes know all about - plus covers the small patches of gray I now have forming without turning them some strange shade of light red orange or oversaturating the rest of my hair in the process of trying to get them to take color - has been a decade of blood, sweat, and tears, not to mention hundreds of wasted dollars in salon chairs and damaged tresses from boxed ammonia. Until *drumroll* enter the happy tears after using the Dark Brown from the Shade. It is, literally, everything I've ever wanted in a hair color. My hair is beautiful - a dimensional (but not overly reddish), glossy, true darkest brown color - dark enough to make my features pop against fair skin but that does not look flat blackish or "plumy" aka purple. Oh and I do not have a single gray in sight nor do I have any noticeable to the naked eye color distinction in the result on my grays. I'm sure if I went searching I could probably find some hairs I could tell were once gray. I'm also blown away by the value in the kit. I tried another subscription box when I was in the states and not only do they charge more for less, the result was so disappointing. My hair looked flat and felt damaged. This kit left my hair in better condition. I even recently tried ordering online the green based brown from Wella - a supposedly good quality color expertise brand - a shade specifically meant to neutralize red tones in an attempt to not get hot roots and it literally left my roots red, barely covered my grays other than to turn them orange, and left my hair damaged. All this to say, whatever magic is in this box is the real deal. Thank thank you thank you.”

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“What fantastic service! Every step of the process was so easy and professional, from choosing your shade to delivery. The kit contains everything you need to colour your hair at home. And the result was shiny, beautiful hair, all my greys gone!”

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“Have been using The Shade colour for 5 months now and am extremely pleased with it. Easy to use and great service from the supplier.”

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“Love, love, love this product!! The results are amazing with no stingy eyes!!! My hair is shiny again!”

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The Shade is rated 4.5 based on 1,831 reviews