Review (1/5): This is NOT teal and it fades insanely quickly... fail 🥱👎🏼
I was really excited about getting this hair dye and using it but sadly it was a GIGANTIC disappointment 😭
1.) On the bottle, in the item description, etc it says that the color lasts for 45 washes but I can promise you that it does NOT last that long heck it barely even lasted 10% as long as it claims to (and yes that's even with me only washing my hair in cold water, only washing my hair once a week, using color protecting products, etc). Within only 4 washes the color has drastically faded and there's even some spots where the color has completely washed out already leaving bleach blonde patches. There's a few semi/demi hair dyes i've used that will still stay pretty even when fading but unfortunately this isn't one of them- it's not ugly per say but it's really bland, lifeless and has me wanting to rush to the store to buy some more hair dye so I can fix it ASAP. I never thought in a million years i'd ever find a semi/demi hair dye that was worse then Splat when it came to fading but man this dye takes the cake- with me taking care of my colored hair properly Splat will last me 10 washes before it gets to the "ew ugly it faded I need to do a touch up" stage whereas once again this only lasted 4 washes.
2.) This color isn't teal in fact it's more of a dark blue with teal highlights/shine that you can only see if you're outside or standing directly under a light inside. I bleached my hair beforehand getting it 100% bleach blonde because I wanted it to be as bright as possible and even with that it still came out dark (and even while fading it looks blue have yet to see any green). I can't speak for anyone else but a genuine teal color is the unicorn of hair dye in my world- i've been dying and cutting my own hair pretty much only using semi/demi hair dye for over 10 years now and in all that time I have yet to find a genuine teal color. I've pretty much tried every brand I could get my hands on with zero luck- it's either dark blue with teal highlights/shine like this one, 98% green with 2% blue, green, dark green, blue, etc. I know going to a salon is an option and is probably my best bet to get genuine teal but because of my failings for the last decade i'm terrified of spending a couple hundred dollars just to end up with a non teal color again 😣. What in the world is going on? 🤣 It's not the olden days where getting colors is impossible and we had to make our own colors using rare to find items it's 2022 so surely there's a way to get a GENUINE TEAL hair dye!
3.) I can't speak for anyone else but in my experience this is hands down the thickest hair dye i've ever come across. This wouldn't of been an issue for me had the bottle design been the same as a lot of other semi/demi hair dyes are (a short easily accessible resealable cylinder) but since it wasn't and instead was put into a thick, dark and non flexible bottle it was next to impossible to get all the dye out or even see how much was in there. To get it out you either have to mix in some really watery hair conditioner or cut the bottle open and hope you don't hurt yourself or get dye all over the place in the process. While the design is visually really cute it's not practical- you end up wasting a lot of dye because you can't get it all out, in an attempt to get the remaining dye out you have to risk injuring yourself or getting dye all over the place or diluting it, since the bottle is black you have no idea how much dye is in there when you first get it so you won't know if you've been ripped off or not after getting a lot out you'll have no idea how much is still in there, because the dye is so thick and it's badly designed you end up having to constantly hit the bottom of the bottle/squeeze on it really hard/shake it hard etc just to get it out which after 20+ minutes really hurt my hands, you can't use the dye right out of the container like you can with the other cylinder hair dye containers and finally because you can't store any left over dye- the opening is so darn tiny there's no way you'll be able to get this thick dye back inside to use later on.
4.) This cost me $12.99 plus tax per bottle (it took 4 bottles to do my hair because I have really long thick hair) and when I bought it the price didn't bother me in fact it's pretty much average as far as semi/demi hair dye goes (the cheapest hair dye I use costs $10 a piece and the most expensive I use is $15 a piece so this is right in the middle) but after taking into account that it's not a genuine teal color, how insanely quickly it fades, how unpractical the design is, that I can't store unused dye, how much ends up going to waste and all the other negatives the price is definitely not worth it to me.
5.) If you've used semi/demi hair dye as much as I have then you already know about the notorious staining and bleeding that comes with these types of hair dyes haha but FYI this one is worse then what you're used to. With every other semi/demi hair dye i've used by the second wash the bleeding stops, the staining on my skin and ears has gone away, it doesn't stain my skin and ears while wet, scratching my scalp doesn't result in stained fingers and dye under my nails and my fingers won't get stained while I wash my hair but with this dye all those negatives have continued all the way past the 4th wash. Basically this dye has all the negatives of semi/demi hair dye but NONE of the positives 🤷🏻‍♀️
So all in all I really don't like this hair dye and wouldn't recommend it. Tbh the only thing it has going for it is that it does make my hair feel really soft and doesn't leave a weird coating on my hair like some other semi/demi hair dyes do but that doesn't mean much when everything else was a fail. Now that I think about it though I think this dye would be perfect for people who either only want crazy colored hair for a short period of time (like for a halloween costume, cosplay, an event, etc) or for parents whose kid's want to dye their hair a crazy color because it fades really quickly and isn't bright at all and is pretty mellow for semi/demi dye, as for vets like me who actually want long lasting bright color STAY AWAY 🙏🏼😂