It was bound to happen eventually, those pesky black roots began to show and the inevitable fate of semi-permanent hair colour began to rear its faded head.
In short I needed to touch up my hair.
I went to the only known store that I knew had
Adore hair colour in Hot Pink only to find out that they were all out. That's small countries for you. It seems everytime I find a beauty product that works for me it magically disappears from the country forever and ever. And ever.
So I decided to try a new brand. A common brand here is Jazzings by Clairol. I found a bottle with the shade "
Fuchsia Plum" which looked close enough to "Hot Pink".
I did my research on
MakeupAlley which had review ranging from very bad to very good. However, it seemed that the trick for getting this dye to work well was to process with heat. This is something my previous hair dye recommended but something I never needed to do.
So I got my sis to lighten my roots (she's my official hairstylist) and then tried the dye. My first impression was that it was very thick. This was good because it didn't drip when applied.
It looked like a medium purple when applied and I held it under the blow-drier for about 30 minutes (10 more than recommended) until it was nearly dried.
Went to wash it off and within a couple seconds the bathroom looked like a scene from a murder mystery. Normally some dye comes out but then the water runs clear. This time though, the dye just kept coming out!!
I had to actually stop myself from rinsing because the ends of my hair were beginning to look blonde again. Some dye did stay and the colour looked quite nice. What I realised though was that the dye didn't stay on the freshly bleached parts at all.
End result is quite a disappointment 1/5 because of the thickness and the parts that did get coloured matched the picture on the bottle. It sells in other countries from $2-7 but it cost me $20 here.
And so the hunt continues....
