Keracolor Color + Clenditioner 3-in-1 Color-Depositing Conditioner, Gently Cleanses & Conditions, Semi-Permanent Hair Color, 23 Shades, 12 Fl Oz

I have never colored my hair before, but I got even more tired of my natural color fading than I did the gray that is showing up in it. In my youth, it was new penny copper, and I miss it. So I got this stuff, which looked like the least hassle to use of the things that I looked at. First I tried just the cinnamon, and got compliments on my pink hair. Okay, next try. I got some mocha latte and mixed a little cinnamon with it. Better. I got some copper and mixed that in with the mocha latte and the cinnamon. Best. Approaching my former natural color. Now I just got to get the formula down right. As far as my statement regarding not using it as instructed: when I first pumped it out it frightened me because it was so intense. I was afraid it would stain everything it touched and make my hair look like it was painted. I do not know if that would have been the case, because I came up with the idea of mixing it with conditioner. Bingo. I don't have to do anything special at all except put on the colored conditioner and leave it a little longer than I normally would, but not more than 5 minutes because I don't have that much patience. It gives me a perfectly satisfactory color in that time, and stains absolutely nothing. Not my hands, not my scalp, not the tub, not my fiberglass tub surround. Rinses right off everything except my hair. It and the conditioner I combined it with also leave my hair really nice. Soft, and I think feeling a bit thicker. I used to have fine hair, but a lot of it. Of course the amount of hair is going to get less and less as I get older, so I'm happy to have something that leaves it feeling nice yet a bit thicker. If you haven't gathered by now, I freaking love this stuff. I've been considering coloring my hair for a while, but all the things I looked at until this seemed like way way too much trouble. I'm sure it's not exactly non-toxic, but I hope it's as close as you can get. Oh, gray coverage. It does not cover, but at least on my particular hair it minimizes. My hair is shot through with silver strands, nothing drastic, just some, and it colors those enough that they blend in better and look like something that might have been done on purpose even more than they did before. I've got one small streak at my part line and a couple of small Bride of Frankenstein things at the temples, and it also blends those in fairly well. I think that makes the whole thing look more natural, so I'm happy with it. YMMV, of course. This review is based on former copper hair faded to mousy brown, with a little silver hair throughout and a couple of small clumps at the front.

I’m not one to dye my hair. But it’s like Coronavirus Color Challenge since I can’t go to the salon. My hair comes in a mousey-blonde naturally, then lightens to almost platinum on its own in the sun. So I usually just get highlights to deal with the darker blonde color at my roots. ...It’s been months. I was like whatever, I’ll try something new - it’s not like anyone will see it. I’ve always liked Kelly Osbourne’s hair. I didn’t know how to do it without making my hair fall out...so I started with a box dye, One you’d get from CVS and did a whole head color of light/ash blonde. I didn’t bleach it...too scared. The box dye lightened me up a bit, but the roots looked orange-brassy. Still feeling a mess...I decided to go for the pink look. I saw the reviews and pics for this product and was like “meh, this will washout.” Why not!? I DID put it everywhere the first time, following the instructions to apply it to wet hair. It was easy to apply, it’s just like a conditioning mask texture. Doesn’t drip. Kinda’ idiot proof that way. Anyhow, it produced a nice light color - not quite as bold as I thought - but I enjoyed it and my hair was soft and various colors of pink. I did it! Gold star! Then I got greedy for more cowbell! ...I mean pink. So I took everyone’s advice and ran through that process again - wet hair, rinse, and blow dry. Not bad! It looked a TAD darker and I was pleased. Honestly, I don’t have thick hair or much of it but I suck at getting ALL my hair covered with the conditioner and I had blotches. I could use a friend to get that stuff everywhere. I did use a comb throughout application. I’m not patient enough to apply it differently in certain areas and blah blah blah So...yeah that’s why it’s blotchy. My fault. But it does comb through nicely without tangling - if your worried about your hair being a tumbleweed, that’s not gonna’ happen. Ok Ok ...Scrooge McDucked it the next morning because when I woke up the next day, I put a room full of coins you can dive in amount of it on my DRY hair. I let it sit for probably an hour. Mind you, despite having naturally blonde/light hair (and since I didn’t bleach it) nothing really tends to “sticks” to my hair very well. Even permanent dye from the salon washes out of my hair in a few days! Anyway! These pics are from the rinse off after the DRY application. By the way, the bottle is huge-or a little goes a long way. I think doing this 3 times on my full head of hair I probably still have 75% of the bottle left. Also, It doesn’t smell heinous. Actually, it’s got an enjoyable maybe sweet-floral sent. HOWEVER, You WILL get a little “burn” if you let it touch your face/forehead for a tad too long. Oops! It goes away quickly. And yes, will also get pink hands if you’re like me and take like an hour to get the stuff in your hair. I just used a magic eraser and some alcohol/nail polish and warm soap and water and it came right off. Again, My hair is still very soft. In fact, I would say since using this, my fine hair has had fewer and fewer little rats-nest tangles in it from just daily wear (wind, chores, lipstick getting in it - cement last week - look, I said I’m a mess). I’ve gotten a lot of compliments on my hair with this, since I sent pics of it to my pals who actually wouldn’t have seen it if it sucked because Coronavirus! Yay! It seems like it will rinse out within a month - for me - probably much sooner. But as it rinses out, it also seems like it will look decent - maybe NOT a mess. If it’s kinda’ meh, I was thinking of trying a peachy color. Final note: even if you’re not one of those people that are good with hair and makeup and girl-stuff, you CAN manage this. It’s just like a regular conditioner you’d have in your shower - except it dyes your hair. Also, I didn’t find it stained my sink or shower. I don’t even think it stained the little “hair towel turban” I used to flip it up when I let it sit. Maybe slightly pink? No more than if a brush full of makeup fell on it. (Yes FULL of makeup - I usually look like Harley Quinn when I “try” makeup so...yeh, a brush full). It’ll prolly wash out, though! So, yeah. Don’t be a mess. Even if you are a mess...you should try this. You won’t MAKE a mess; you’ll look cool? I don’t know...can you pull off pink when you’re almost 40? Whatever - you might have a moment of clarity about covid-coloring your hair and your coolness or lack thereof as correlated to age ...maybe profession. Prolly shouldn’t have done this before a job interview...meh, color cabin fever, what can you do? I’m glad I took a chance and put the effort in! Do it up, it’s fun! ^_^

My graying hair is very very gray in the front, but mostly very dark on the rest of the head. Regrowth is SUPER noticeable after permanent dye. My stylist said we can "just add some platinum highlights and it will blend right in".... holy 2002, batman! My hair is very dark brown, almost black, and the upkeep on platinum highlights is, frankly, way beyond my price point, in addition to not being a look I aspire to. This espresso color is a very dark, cool brown, so I mix 2-3 pumps of this with 1 pump of the auburn color, and get a nice neutral brown tint on my silver strands that blends into my natural color and looks a bit like balayage as it fades. Note: I am not using this as directed. Just putting this on in the shower would be a slow process and not catch all my roots, so about once a week I glob this on DRY hair, wrap my head in plastic, cover it with a bonnet and putter around for 3 hours before rinsing. Does it need to be 3 hours? I dunno. I literally pulled that time from nowhere and it works so I kept doing it. Is it messy? Ummm....in comparison to what happens when i use permanent dye at home, no. Otherwise...I think it depends on how clumsy you are. I am VERY clumsy, so I do have to clean stains from my skin and the bathroom sink, but soap and water take it off skin and a bathroom cleaner with bleach takes it off the sink. I try to shampoo twice a week or less, I use As I Am cleansing conditioner or Tap Secret powder dry shampoo on the non wash days. Both are holy grail products for me. Is all this a very complicated way of avoiding ammonia fumes and damage from constant permanent dying and/or bleaching? Of course! Does everyone have three hours a week to spend with their head wrapped in plastic? I'm guessing probably not. Will the process of eventually going completely gray be INFINITELY less traumatic than if I was growing out gray roots under permanent dye? Why yes, thank you for asking. If I don't refresh the color, it slowly fades away until the full lengths of my silver strands are silver again. No damage, no elaborate, expensive mix of highlights and lowlights, just time.

TL;DR Easy to use. Didn't turn my virgin hair orange. Applied on wet natural red virgin hair for 8 minutes. Smell isn't bad. Hair left soft and conditioned. Achieved desired results. Reapply once a week (or as needed). Highly recommend! (update at the bottom) I'm 43 years old and my hair is starting to darken out to an auburn I don't really care much for. People are starting to call my red hair brunette. Makes me sad I'm losing the vibrancy of my red!! After reading the reviews I was scared to try this. Many were way more orange than I wanted. Most are on already bleached/color treated hair. The application times and methods were all over the place. I wanted only subtle change and nothing drastic. I wanted to keep my red hair natural looking, but make the color pop again. I read through SO MANY of these reviews trying to decide if I should and how to execute this flawlessly. Lol APPLICATION METHOD I USED: I decided to stay on the safe side and apply it in the shower on wet hair for 8 minutes. If it wasn't enough I would up the time. I know it washes out but I didn't want to have to take 3 showers to tone it down and waste unnecessary product. I washed my hair with shampoo first to make sure my scalp and roots were clean and free of oils. Then used approximately 6 pumps total and worked it into my hair (like shampoo) again. Then ran a comb through it all from root to ends to ensure even distribution. After my 8 minute timer went off, I Rinsed with cool water and got out. I used a hair dryer to dry my hair. Curled it all then took the photo. ROOTS: I noticed many mentioned their roots not being touched and I'm not sure on those if they were all on people with color treated hair. I felt like I read one natural that felt the roots got neglected. There was no issues with my roots STAINING: I had no issues with staining. Applying in the shower I just worked it into my hair and didn't get it everywhere. Rinsed my hands immediately once I got it in there. SMELL I personally liked the smell. It's not very strong. I'm honestly surprised it even has been mentioned. CONDITIONING It left my hair feeling soft. It was nearly slipping out of my curling iron afterwards. COLOR I am happy with the color it has added. Very subtle, but I can tell. It did not completely cover my greys but I do think one wash with it toned them down. Is exactly what I was looking for. I might wait a couple washes and then leave it on wet hair for 10 minutes. Then update with a photo. MAINTAIN COLOR: I apply this about once a week and apply it more to my roots than the rest of my hair. Then comb out down through my wet hair with a large toothed comb so that it blends in, but doesn't continue to overdue the ends as much. EYEBROWS: I've applied this to my eyebrows so that they match better. Must do so carefully unless you want stains around your brows. ;) REMOVE COLOR: I accidentally discovered that Apple Cider Vinegar shampoo will take most all of the color out in one wash! I wanted to add this for anybody that would like to reverse the process after undesired results. I LOVE that this has and will revived my natural red hair!! Highly recommend to my fellow natural redhead sistas!! UPDATE: It's really hard to get the red to show up in pictures, but I wanted to update how things were going on this product. It is now April 3, 2024. After a few applications I received the shade I used to be. I use this once a week and only for about 5 minutes on wet hair. UPDATE: I have now been using this for over a year as needed to blend in at the roots to keep it looking vibrant and natural. In Sept 2024 I received a complement from a flight attendant telling me to never color my hair. Trust her that she used to be a hairdresser. So pleased she couldn't tell I touch up my natural red hair. Made my day. :) Last picture is today after a year use. Dec 28, 2024.

I got the cinnamon color. My natural red hair has looked very faded and dull for a long time. I did not want to dye my hair because I’m avoiding damage. I have used other color depositing conditioners in the past. This one is better than all of the others I’ve tried. It is not full coverage or monotone. It brightened and deepened my color at the same time, working beautifully with my natural highlights. It left my hair feeling clean and soft and did not weigh it down at all. I have fine hair, so that was a concern. I don’t leave many reviews, and I wasn’t expecting much from this product. But it’s worth every penny. I don’t have pictures to share but my hair was a dull, pale reddish brown, untreated for over a year. It’s now a shiny medium auburn red and I love it. I only left it on for about 5 minutes. It didn’t strip it when I washed two days later with regular shampoo. I’ll probably use it twice a week to maintain the color. Also, it did not stain my hands. The color washed right off with soap and water. This really is an excellent product.

I like this shampoo-conditioner combo, but it's not without its problems. So let's start with what I like: the shampoo cleans my hair well, the conditioner leaves it very soft, it provides a nice hint of color, and a little goes a long way, so it's actually very reasonably priced if you consider the cost per use. But... the packaging is dreadful. When I first open a new bottle, I usually spend about 5 - 10 minutes trying to engage the pump, and then just give up and pull the old pump from the last bottle out of the trash. And when I get to the end of a bottle, the pump no longer works so I have to open the bottle, set the pump aside - trying not to get the dye all over the place - and pour the shampoo out into my hand, which is easier said than done because the shampoo is very thick and the bottle opening is not designed to dispense a small amount at a time. And the dye color you see in the product illustrations is not the color you will get. I have never gotten that vibrant hot pink you see on the bottle, even though my hair color is very pale blonde - it's the color your hairdresser is shooting for when they bleach your hair out to accept a dye - so I can only imagine how much worse this is for people with darker hair... Despite these issues, I do like the product, and I have been using it for years to jazz up my barely-there natural hair color. But I'd like it a whole lot more if came in a more user-friendly dispenser.

I’ve been using it for almost four years now, and it works wonders keeping my fashion colors vibrant. I dye my hair royal purple once every six weeks or so, and this stuff keeps it from drastically fading over that time. There is going to be some fading near the end of the six weeks, but that could also be because I’m cheap and don’t like using a lot at once. It says you can use it as a 2-in-1, but I always shampoo first anyway, and it keeps my colored hair fresh, soft, and vibrant. Plus, it always lasts me a while (probably because again, I don’t use much, and my hair is very short), and $22 is way cheaper than redyeing every two weeks, so it’s worth the price to me.

I really love this color conditioner. It does a great job refreshing my color while still feeling like an actual conditioner and not something harsh. The color payoff is noticeable but not over the top, which I appreciate because it looks more natural and even. My hair feels soft and hydrated after using it, not dry or stripped like with some color-depositing products. It’s easy to use, works well in the shower, and makes maintaining color between salon visits much easier. I also like that you can control the intensity depending on how long you leave it on or how often you use it. It blends nicely and helps keep my color looking fresh without damaging my hair. This has become a staple in my routine. It does exactly what it promises and actually makes my hair look and feel better.