Review - Transparent Hair Dye -- Ion Brand

Hello again.

I'd like to say that I really hate the way this editing page is setup because I lost a shiz ton of information I put on here! Grrrrrr!!!!

Anyways, on my other post that I made on about taking care of your hair, and tips on how to get your hair to ACTUALLY grow, and I mentioned that I made a post on transparent hair dye. So here it is!

 

Now the one that I use is by ion, and I bought it at my local sally's beauty supply store. It was about... $6 CAD? Somewhere around that price range for me because I have a beauty club card, and this one is a demi-permanent rather than a semi. Unfortunately, they do not have a permanent one because it's just a shine dye after all. It's main purpose is to make your hair extremely shiny for about 20-25 washes I believe, so it does wash out after a while and then you will have to do it again. 

  

As you can see from the photo above, I used a 10 volume developer to mix with the demi-permanent dye. Do not use a volume higher than a 10 volume developer! No matter what the people tell you! Demi-permanent dyes are only meant to go DARKER or refresh the colour you used with a perment dye before. Also, 10 volume is considered "neutral" which is only meant to deposit the colour into your hair, unlike 20 and 30+ volume developers the 10 will NOT lighten your hair no matter what. 

If you mix this dye with a 20 or 30+ volume developer, the developer will "overpower" the dye and in turn not work out. The dye will not appear on your hair. This means, you wasted your money on the dye and developer. 

  

As you can see from the photo above, this is what the tube looks like. Shiny, and in my opinion-- aesthetically pleasing.

 

So this is a picture of me squeezing the dye out onto my bowl. You can see that I had poured the entire content of the bottle out already. This dye is a 1:2 ratio type of dye, as in you mix 4 oz developer to 2 oz of dye. 

 

  

So after saturating my hair with this dye, this is what your hair should look like after applying the dye to all of your hair. I was scared that I didn't have enough dye, because I used up all of the dye even when I mixed it with the entire 4 oz bottle of developer, and I still had some dry spots, which were okay because I gently combed through and covered up all of the dry spots. 

After that, I waited about 30-45 minutes for it to process. You don't have to wait this long, you can rinse it out after 20-25 minutes. Just be sure to shampoo and condition your hair after.  

So this is the end result. I did this application at night, and then waited till the morning when I just took a picture with flash, and in my opinion there isn't much shine... my hair does feel really smooth though, that's probably because the peroxide and the dye helped to get rid of all of the buildup from the silicones that I use on my hair to make it shiny. 

I probably did this wrong too? I probably should have just conditioned first and then shampooed lightly and then conditioned again, and it probably would have turned out a lot better. I don't know. 

Overall, I think this product is "okay" I'd rate it a 3/5 because I don't really notice that my hair is a lot shinier than it was before... maybe next time when I do a shine treatment, I'll condition it first and shampoo and condition again after.