Trends, a thing that comes and goes like the wind. One of the recent trends that dominated the hair industry would be temporary hair colour. What particularly caught my eyes are temporary hair coloured treatments. Personally, I love coloured hair. Just look at my dip dyed red hair and ombre pink hair. However there's a simple reason as to why I only chose to bleach half of my hair for this colours instead of the whole head. Bleaching kills the hair and having other hair problems like thin hair and slight hair loss makes it worst. Thus, I always decide to bleach the lower half of the hair. Plus, I always show the same photo to the hair stylist over and over again.
As experienced in my first bleaching session in 2015, I realized that I should not jump into normal colours after your first colour wears off. I should try out some wacky hair colour. With so many bright, party hair colours on the streets these days, it only encouraged my will to have rainbow hair. When temporary hair colours first came out, I was rather hesitant for I preferred permanent colour rather than temporary. On the other hand, brightly coloured hair does not last as long be it permanent or temporary. Therefore, this secured my decision for trying out the new temporary hair coloured trend.
Etude House Two tone Treatment Hair Color in Mystery Purple
I have decided to choose the Etude House Two tone Treatment Hair Colour to try for it is a treatment as well as a hair dye. I do not want my bleached part to turn anymore grass-y therefore a treatment is perfect for me. Besides that, I can't find the April Skin Hair Treatment anywhere at my local drugstore anymore. Hence, Etude House it is!
Mentioned in the video, I wanted to purchase the Fantasy Blue colour but somehow, my eyes navigated it's way to Mystery purple. Before I knew it, my hands kidnapped the purple bottle and I purchased it. I guess, I just can't stay away from the colour purple no matter how much I try to deviate from it.
Etude House Two tone Treatment Hair Color Characteristics
With that, here are the specifics for Etude House Two tone Treatment Hair Color:
- Produces rich, vivid colours. - You can mix and match different colours to create your perfect K-Pop Hair.
- Only have to leave the product on for 5 to 10 minutes. | The longer you leave the product on your hair, the more vivid the colour is.
- Semi-permanent - only lasts for a week on average | It lasted longer than that for me.
- No unpleasant odor
- Add healthy shine to your hair
- Doesn't irritate scalp
- Can be used on damaged hair. The product contains nourishing ingredients that increase strength and shine
- Minimal Colour Staining on skin and clothes once it's completely dried | Means, it will still stain when it's wet. When your coloured water dripped on anything when it's wet, that thing will be stained.
How to use Etude House Two tone Treatment Hair Color
- Towel dry your hair after shampoo. Do not use conditioner or any other hair products.
- Put on a pair of disposable gloves. Apply the product on your hair evenly.
- Leave it in your hair for a minimum of to 10 minutes. Rinse with warm water.
- Blow dry your hair. Colour will bleed. Avoid using a towel.
You can view the different hair swatches when different hair dye were used here.
My Before Hair Situation
As mentioned above in and in the video, what was left was the bleached parts of my pink ombre dye. Therefore what you can see is the orange bleached part and the pink parts inside. Although my hair looks orange, it have been bleached twice. Thus, there would be a more vibrant colour turnout. I will also only be dyeing the bleached areas for it takes 2 bottles to dye the whole hair.
The instructions also did mention that one should dye on towel-dried hair. However, after several DIY dyeing and salon dyeing experiences, I learned that putting the dye on dry hair will have a more vibrant colour. As followed, I applied it on dry hair.
Etude House Two tone Treatment Hair Color Verdict
First of all, I shall touch on the packaging. The Etude House Two tone Treatment Hair Colour comes in a vibrant purple colour that suits its purpose fully. It also comes with a packaging that could be easily stored for further usages. On other hand, the tube contains 150ml of dye that is only enough to dye half of my hair. The hair treatment costs SGD$15.90. For a hair treatment/dye that only contains the tube of dye and no other accessories eg. glove, it is a rather steep price.
Next, onto the state of the hair dye. The hair dye was in a semi-solid state and felt easy to spread on the hair. It also had a blueberry colour to it. I like how it smelled like sweet berries and not the normal chemical pungent from the hair dye. In fact, it's scent is similar to the organic hair dyed that was used on my hair in the salon. Although I only dyed half of my hair, the dye did grazed my hand multiple times and my skin was not irritated.
Since I self-dyed my hair, I did struggle to dye the back of my head. I also find the packaging of the dye difficult to use during the application process. Therefore, it's easier if one would squeeze the dye out on the tray before the beginning of the application process.
After 2 hours of molesting my hair, here are the results. I left it on for over 30 minutes instead of 5 minutes because I needed a longer than 5 minutes break. Plus, leaving it longer creates a more vivid colour.
A factor I like to comment is the long period that it takes for the dye to rinse out of my hair. It took me 30 minutes to rinse my hair or at least give up in rinsing the colour. The next few washes, I could still see the purple/ pink water dripping from my hair. Two washes later, it finally stop bleeding. Maybe I am not supposed to fully rinse my hair but I assumed this was what I supposed to do since this is a DIY dye. Subsequent to rinsing, I felt the texture of my hair rather soft and smooth. At certain places my hair did feel rather tacky and patchy. This may be the cause of uneven hair dye application or other factors.
Overall, I like the colour payout. Due to my orange-pink bleach, the colour did come out reddish purple. I was rather fond of that colour combination for the purple was quite obvious. I did noticed that there was a distinct red part in the middle of where my dark brown hair and bleach meet. I'm not sure why the colour became red in that specific area but that was larger because of uneven dyeing process.
On the other hand, the front part of my hair looks awesome. I like how you can see the ombre effect from my dark hair to the purple part. When the sun hits certain parts, you can even see the reddish parts. It looks so cool!
Now for images that showed the front of my face. Who says Asians can't pull off coloured hair? I think it suits me ;)
The After Process
The first images was taken at the start of the day using an iphone so it not only looks yellowish but it's not as sharp. On the other hand, it is observed that the coloured clung on to the hair after washing it with shampoo and hair mask. My hair did feel smooth and light. The tacky and patchy part was not there any more. In fact, my hair had a subtle healthy shine after every wash.
After almost a month
Finally, the final update on the hair dye. Although the website did said that it will only last for a week, I felt that it lasted longer for me. This is due to the number of times I wash my hair or should I say not wash my hair. The rule to having longer coloured hair is not to wash as often. Since I have oily scalp but dry hair, I wash my hair every 3 to 4 days. Therefore, it lasted longer.
Anyways, I did not expect this colour after the purple faded at all. It looks greyish black. Some parts looks brown and others looks white. It looks like a splash of colours mixed together. Even with this colour, my hair did feel soft and natural so props to that.
In Summary
All in all I would give the Etude House Two tone Treatment Hair Color in Mystery Purple 3 and a half IreviewUread smiles. I like how the colour payout was actually purple - although I know this is largely because of my bleached hair. I like it's sweet berry scent and how it nourishes my hair at the same time. Additionally, I like how my hair did not feel dry and felt soft and natural at the same time. I did find the price a little hefty for only a tube of dye. However, it had a long run through time that requires at least 2 washes before the colour stopped bleeding.
