Overtone Semi Permanent Hair Color Conditioner, Espresso Brown, 8 oz, Nourishing, Damage-Free, Color Depositing Mask for All Hair Types with Shea Butter & Coconut Oil, Vegan & Cruelty-Free

I was looking for an easy self-apply, healthy and gentle product for my hair. Overtone came up in my search. I will start by saying the smell was minty and fresh and it made my hair baby soft. My hair looked nice and cleansed, refreshed in some sense. However, I had trouble getting color pigment in my hair. I had to leave it in for an hour a second time to grasp some color and apply very heavy handed. I would say after multiple attempts the product did seem to blend my roots with my colored hair somewhat but I wouldn’t say it’s saturated. The application is thick and clay like and wasn’t really easy for me to apply. It seemed to stain just about everything besides my hair lol. It never really seems to wash out of my hair after washing multiple times. Sink, bath and hands (gloves applied) but even just the water washing out stained my hands/nails. A lot of clean up needed and messy product. I am left feeling conflicted but it just doesn’t seem to be the product for me. No harm done but just not the color deposit and application process and cleanliness that I’m looking for.

Great in theory but does not turn out as pictures and descriptions describe. I bought the dark brown hoping to extend the need to fully color my roots. I attempted 3 times. The first time I left the product on for the suggested time and it left me with a very light color and horrible hot spots. Next I left on for 10 minutes longer. It gave more color pay (still not a dark brown, more of a medium brown) off but still hot spots. Next attempt I left the product on 20 minutes longer than advised and I ended with a red brown color. It never went to a true dark brown and leans towards red. Because I have very dark brown hair, the color and tone it deposited wasn’t even close and I had to immediately recolor with my normal permanent color which I should have just done to begin with! There is no mixing with this product which saves time but in the long run, it took much more time after multiple applications and then having to mix my professional permanent color and do a full color on my roots. Thankfully that covered any color pay off from the semi permanent color I purchased. This may work for someone with lighter hair color that doesn’t have any warm tones. I will save my money next time and forgo a semi permanent color. It did take a very large amount of product to cover just my roots and wasn’t ver easy to spread evenly therefore I couldn’t see someone getting more than two uses. I had to use two for 3 applications on normal thickness hair. I wouldn’t recommend this to anyone with brown or black hair for sure but maybe a blonde. I didn’t notice any horrible smell but It does stain so be careful and don’t let it dry on your sink, shower walls, tiles or grout. If you do, scrub immediately!

I got the 8oz Espresso brown conditioner. First 2 pictures are my natural hair (I did not bleach or change it before adding the conditioner, so what you see is dye over that exact color.) The 2nd two pics are the day after I dyed it. The 3rd two pics are 7 days after I dyed it. I did two pics each for different lighting. In the last two pics you can see that it fades reddish, but in bluer lighting it looked chocolate brown. This was so fun to test out dark hair on me. It lasted as that gorgeous rich dark color (see pics 3&4) for about 3 days if I'm being generous, and I don't wash my hair every day. I was it every other day at most. I have fine hair and its about shoulder length, I was able to dye my hair with this stuff twice. It feels almost like a thin clay going on, and has a strong smell. MY HAIR WAS SO THICK, SOFT, AND BOUNCY THE DAY AFTER DYEING IT!!!! IT WAS AWESOME! I got tons of compliments, lots of people said my hair looked much thicker. Also, if it gets on your skin it'll dye it purple for a day lol. I dyed my eyebrows too and it did great, just keep it off of skin you don't want to look like is part of you eyebrow. This stuff definitely has more of a reddish tint so expect it to fade kinda red. My hair naturally has a TINY bit of red in it if ANY. It's naturally very much a true dirty blonde color. Its worth it for the money if you're getting it to TRY a color or use for a cosplay/costume. but it does not last as the color advertised for very long. I had red hair for like a month tho after lol. So it stayed like the last two pics for a whileee. and my hair is very porous and has a history of holding onto temporary dyes for much longer than they say it will. took down one star just bc it didn't last long enough for me, but it was still a very fun experience!

The texture of this hair color mask is quite dense, which made it a bit challenging to apply evenly so it took for a long time, but I absolutely love the color! Just be careful because even i used gloves, it did stained my nails brown when I washed my hair and stained the bathroom.

The color was better than I expected, but I felt my hair wasn’t shiny. Maybe after I wash it, it will be normal shine. I’m 50% grey and I love the color results.