I’m going to try to make this review as informative as possible so you know everything you need to know about this product. I used this product for my Ariel Halloween costume and it worked great!! I’ve never dyed my hair before so I was hesitant to even do anything to it, but decided to go ahead and try this temporary hair color conditioner—and I’m glad I did. My process: - I washed and shampooed my hair really well and let it air dry completely (I stayed home and didn’t do much while it dried to ensure my hair and scalp stayed clean). - I sectioned my hair off and applied this conditioner little by little with my fingers, trying to be careful not to get too much on my scalp (I still got a lot on my scalp so that’s unavoidable). - I clipped up all the sections and little buns to sit. The bottle says to wait 5-10 minutes but I probably honestly did about 30-45 minutes before rinsing it all out. - I bent over the tub and just alternated between filling up a cup of water from the faucet and pouring it over my head and just putting my head directly under the faucet. I used my fingers to scrub my scalp and mess around with my hair to get as much of the extra conditioner off. I used cool water for this but I’m not sure if the temperature matters. I didn’t not use any shampoo or conditioner in this step. Just water. - After I felt that I got most of the conditioner out, I put my hair up in a towel wrap for a few minutes. - I then brushed my hair out and immediately started blowdrying it to eventually style it. Please look at my attached pictures. The first two pictures are from the day I dyed it and styled it. By that point it had been about 8-10 hours since I had the dye in. Very good color—much better than I expected. The second two pictures are how my hair looks now after two showers and 6 shampoos with rigorous scrubbing (I’m trying to get the color gone). And the last picture is what my normal (styled) hair typically looks like. That last picture is from a year or two ago so my natural hair is a teeny tiny bit darker now but this is the best reference picture I have. My natural hair texture is wavy/curly and a thick/fine mixture, and I have a lot of split ends. Things I noticed about this product that I think are important: - This product did absolutely no damage to my hair. My hair felt totally normal to the touch, the only difference was the color. - It’s not really noticeable in the pictures, but I have two natural white streaks of hair. Those streaks came out hot pink from the dye instead of red. So if you have super light colored hair, you might not get the same red that I did—it will probably be more of a pink color. So just be aware of that. - I would definitely recommend using some kind of gloves to apply this to your hair. I used my hands and they totally got dyed too. But the good news is it came off faster than I would expect normal dye to. It’s been a few days and I’ve washed my hands a bunch and shampooed my hair a thousand times so at this point my hands are pretty much normal. The only thing is my nails are still hot pink. So again I would recommend gloves for this. - The longer you leave it on, the stronger the color will be. That’s pretty intuitive, but I didn’t leave the conditioner on as long on the bottom section of my hair, and it definitely wasn’t at red as the top. - I used about 1 & 1/4 bottles of this conditioner to achieve the color you see in the pictures for the amount and length of hair that I have. I will say I definitely think that I could’ve used the whole two bottles but I got lazy on the bottom section of hair because I was running out of time. So just be mindful of how many bottles you will need. - When rinsing my hair out in the tub/shower, as long as the water was running, the dye coming out of my hair just went straight down the drain. My white tub is not stained at all which is amazing. But if you leave the dye sitting on an area of course it’s going to stain. My counter tops have a few splotches now but I’m sure something can get it off. - The price for one bottle wasn’t my favorite—especially as a college student. But I had a gift card that covered one of the bottles so it was okay. - When putting my hair up in a towel after rinsing, my wet hair did leave a lot of red/pink all over the towel. But I put all my towels in the wash today with cold water and all the pink and red came out. So that was amazing. - No matter how many times I showered and washed my hair, color was always dripping out of it. So just don’t be surprised if it doesn’t seem like the water will ever run clear because it won’t - After my hair was dry styled, there was absolutely no transfer of color on any clothes, pillow, or skin or anything. Loved that. - Forgot to mention, after the multiple shampoos and scrubbing my scalp, the dye came off of my scalp so that was great. Wasn’t able to get that effect when I dressed up as Ariel but maybe if I was more careful and scrubbed my scalp more when I was just rinsing it would’ve come off better. - The color definitely loved my the ends of my hair the best. As I said, I have a lot of split ends and breakage near the end so I guess that part was just much more susceptible to the color seeping in. So I’m sure I’ll have some red down there for a couple weeks. - This conditioner definitely wasn’t as temporary as I was initially hoping, but I got it washed out enough to where I think it kinda looks cool and I’m fine with just having it slowly fade out rather than forcing it out. So if you have a formal event in the near future, I probably wouldn’t recommend this product if you want your normal hair color back soon. But if long lasting is what you’re looking for—get this!! I think that’s all I can remember. Sorry this was so long, but hopefully this was helpful to someone out there trying to decide what hair coloring product to get.
