Revlon Hair Colour Shades & Price in Pakistan 2026

If you are searching for Revlon hair color shades in Pakistan, the first thing worth knowing is that Revlon does not run one shade system — it runs several, and the numbers on a Revlon box mean completely different things depending on which line you are holding. A "500" in one range is a deep level; a "500" in another is a pure purple-red pigment filter. That single confusion is why so many people in Karachi and Lahore end up with a colour they did not expect. This guide decodes the numbering properly, then walks through the four Revlon Nutri Color Filters shades on BigBasket.pk — what each number means, who each one suits, and what it will realistically do on naturally dark Pakistani hair.

Revlon Hair Color Shades and Prices in Pakistan

The Revlon shades we currently carry are from the Nutri Color Filters line — Revlon Professional's 3-in-1 conditioning colour. These are semi-permanent depositing colours with no ammonia, no peroxide and no developer to mix. Three of the four sit at PKR 3,370 for 100ml, with Violet 200 at PKR 3,950. For current availability across the wider Revlon range, including anything outside this line, check the brand page directly — shade availability moves.

How Revlon's Shade Numbers Actually Work

There are two separate logics, and mixing them up is the root of most bad dye jobs.

The box-dye logic (depth + tone). Revlon's permanent home-colour lines follow the international convention that almost every hair colour brand uses. The number reads as depth first, tone second. Depth is how light or dark the colour is on a scale where roughly 1 is black, 2 is brown black, 3 is dark brown, 4 is medium brown, 5 is light brown, 6 is dark blonde, 7 is medium blonde and 8 and up are light blonde. The digit after it is the reflect — the tonal direction. A 0 or a 1 is ash or neutral (cool), and as the digit climbs you move warmer: gold, then auburn and red, then mahogany. So a 30, a 31 and a 32 are all the same darkness; they simply lean neutral, auburn and mahogany respectively. Once you can read that, you never need the shade chart on the shelf again — you pick your depth, then pick your reflect.

The Nutri Color Filters logic (pigment family + intensity). This line does not use depth at all, because it cannot change your depth. There is no developer in the tube, so it cannot lighten a single strand. It only deposits pigment on top of whatever is already there. The number therefore identifies which pigment you are depositing and how pure it is. The round hundreds are the undiluted tonal filters — 200 is pure violet, 300 is pure yellow, 500 is purple red. The three-digit codes that do not end in double zero, like 512, are blended shades: a wearable base carrying a modified reflect rather than a raw pigment. That distinction is the single most useful thing on this page. If the code ends in 00, it is a strong tonal booster and you should almost certainly dilute it. If it does not, it is a finished, wearable colour.

The Four Revlon Nutri Color Shades Explained

512 Pearly Ash Brown — the safest first buy. The Pearly Ash Brown 512 at PKR 3,370 is the one shade in this group that most Pakistani buyers with naturally dark hair should start with. It is a brown carrying a cool, pearly ash reflect, and ash is the direct antidote to orange. If your hair has been bleached, highlighted, balayaged, or simply sun-oxidised into a brassy copper by a Karachi summer, this is what pulls it back to a cool, expensive-looking brown. It is also the most forgiving: because it is a blended shade rather than a raw pigment, a heavy hand does not turn you into a cartoon.

500 Purple Red — the sunlight reflect. The Purple Red 500 at PKR 3,370 deposits a deep berry-mahogany. Be realistic about what this does on unlightened black or dark brown hair: indoors you will barely see it, and in direct sunlight you get a rich red-violet glow through the hair. That is a genuinely beautiful effect and it is also the entire effect — it will not make you a redhead. On pre-lightened hair, highlights or balayage pieces, it goes vivid, and on those it fades fastest. Warm berry reflects flatter wheatish and tan skin particularly well, and look striking against deep and brown skin too.

200 Violet — the toner and the bold one. The Violet 200 at PKR 3,950 is the only one of the four at a different price, and the most misunderstood. Violet sits opposite yellow on the colour wheel, which means its job is cancellation: a few drops mixed into conditioner is a stronger, more controllable purple shampoo for killing yellow brass out of lightened hair. Used neat on very light hair, it is instead a bold violet. Same tube, two completely different outcomes, decided entirely by dilution. On dark unlightened hair it does close to nothing.

300 Yellow — for blondes only, and we mean it. The Yellow 300 at PKR 3,370 is a pure gold filter. On lightened or blonde hair it warms up a flat, over-toned, ashy result and makes highlights glow. On naturally dark Pakistani hair it is essentially invisible — yellow pigment has nothing to grip on a dark base. This is the shade most often bought by mistake, so we would rather say it plainly than sell you one you will not use.

What These Shades Do on Naturally Dark Hair

Most hair in Pakistan is level 1 to 3 — black to dark brown — and this is the honest constraint of the whole Nutri Color line. No developer means no lift, and no lift on a dark base means the pigment can only add a reflect, never a colour change. Anyone showing you a dark-to-bright transformation from one of these tubes has bleached first. What you can expect is depth, shine and a tonal shift visible in sunlight — which, for a lot of people, is exactly the low-commitment result they wanted.

The upside of that constraint is that these are among the least damaging colour products you can put on your hair. No ammonia and no peroxide means no cuticle lifting, and the conditioning base actually leaves hair softer than it started. They fade gradually over roughly four to ten washes depending on dilution, porosity and how hot you wash — Karachi's hard water and daily washing sit at the fast end of that range. Support the colour with a colour-safe shampoo and conditioner, and wash cooler than feels natural in a Lahore summer.

How to Apply Nutri Color Filters

Start with clean, towel-dried hair — not soaking, not bone dry. Wear gloves, because these pigments stain skin and stain a bathroom sink even faster. For a wearable result on dark hair, mix a small amount into a dollop of conditioner rather than applying neat; this is normal practice, not a way to cheat the product. Neat application is for pre-lightened hair or for someone who genuinely wants maximum intensity.

Work it through in sections, comb for evenness, and leave it for three to twenty minutes depending on how much shift you want, then rinse until the water runs clear. Always strand-test on a hidden section first — porosity varies enormously along one head of hair, and bleached ends will grab pigment several shades stronger than virgin roots. Then wait 48 hours before judging: the colour settles. Because the range is semi-permanent, a result you dislike is a problem that solves itself in a few washes, which is a large part of the appeal. Browse the wider hair care range for the colour-safe products that keep it looking right.

How to Spot Fake Revlon Hair Colour in Pakistan

Revlon Professional products are a common counterfeit target here because the genuine article is expensive enough to make faking it worthwhile. Start with the tube: authentic Nutri Color Filters packaging is cleanly printed, the shade number and name appear together and match the carton exactly, and the batch code on the tube crimp should be crisp rather than smudged. A shade number on the box that does not match the tube is a hard stop.

The product itself is a thick, creamy, conditioner-like mass — not a runny liquid and not a grainy paste. It is intensely pigmented; if a "500" barely tints a white towel, it has been cut. Watch the price, too. Genuine 100ml tubes sit at PKR 3,370 to PKR 3,950 on BigBasket.pk, and a Karachi seller offering the same tube for a fraction of that has either got a fake or expired stock that has separated in a hot warehouse. We import our Revlon directly, sell 100% authentic product, and ship with Cash on Delivery across Pakistan — so you can check the tube, the seal and the shade number before any money changes hands.

Common Mistakes

The single biggest mistake is expecting lift. If you buy a Nutri Color Filter hoping to go from black to caramel, you will be disappointed, and no amount of leaving it on longer will change that. The second is applying a round-hundred shade neat when you wanted a subtle result — 200 and 500 are boosters, and dilution is the control dial. The third is skipping the strand test on hair with bleached ends, which is how you end up with a two-tone head.

The fourth is buying 300 Yellow with dark hair because the shade name sounded interesting. It needs a light base to show at all. The fifth is washing hot and daily afterwards and then complaining the colour vanished in a week — semi-permanent means semi-permanent, and heat accelerates it. And the sixth is buying by the number alone without reading the shade name next to it. On Nutri Color Filters, the name is the operative information; the number is just the filing system.

The Bottom Line

Revlon hair color shades stop being confusing the moment you know which system you are reading: depth-plus-tone on the box dyes, pigment-family-plus-intensity on the Nutri Color Filters. Of the four we carry in Pakistan, 512 Pearly Ash Brown at PKR 3,370 is the safest and most useful on naturally dark hair, 500 Purple Red gives a sunlight berry reflect, 200 Violet at PKR 3,950 is a toner first and a bold colour second, and 300 Yellow needs a lightened base to do anything at all. None of them lift, all of them condition, and all of them wash out. See the full Revlon collection and the rest of our hair care and treatment ranges on BigBasket.pk — 100% authentic, imported directly, with Cash on Delivery in Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad and nationwide.