Clairol Root Touch-Up Semi-Permanent Hair Blending Gel, 5 Medium Brown

This is by far one of the fastest easiest ways to touch up grays in my opinion. It’s my go to for color. Squeeze and brush it on clean dry hair, wait ten mins and rinse. It has great coverage. It doesn’t always cover every gray but that’s because I didn’t put color on it. LOL Great product and it gets a 5/5 rating.

Terrible result. I applied the gel per box instructions; specifically I shampooed my hair, towel dried and even blow dried it slightly to achieve damp hair instead of sopping wet hair. I saturated my grey roots along my middle part as well as my face framing grey hairs with the gel. The instruction recommends letting the product sit for 20 minutes for stubborn greys, which I did. I then washed it out and applied conditioner, per instruction. Sadly, it did not work and my grey roots remained the same. Not only did I waste time, I also applied a chemical on my hair that did nothing, probably slightly damaging my hair. I have black hair so it’s possible that this product does not work well on dark hair. But, the color I purchased was black, so I’m not entirely sure what went wrong. I won’t waste my time with this product again and I’m sticking to permanent hair dye going forward.

I normally do not write reviews but I am on this one because I am aware of all the negative reviews and do not want the product to be discontinued. I have been using this product for about 2 years, every month to a month and a half between my salon gray covering. I am Asian with very dark hair, and even with "dark brown" the result has been somewhat mediocre. The last couple of times I noticed that it hardly covered anything. Then I found out that this product can be used on the wet hair by reading the Q&A, and also read on the internet that the tip for the home hair coloring is the heat. So, I suspected that the reason it didn’t work very well is due to this extreme cold weather, and tried following: - Got in the shower and shampooed the hair to wash out all the hair product - Towel-dried the hair and applied the product on damp hair - Briefly blasted the applied area with hot air with a hair dryer (not completely dry, just to apply a little bit of heat) - Put the shower cap on to retain the warmth and left it for about an hour (probably too long but I wanted to make sure) - Rinse with cold-to-lukewarm water, apply conditioner, and repeat the rinse And Voila! It worked, covering the gray probably the best ever in my previous touch-ups. This time, all the gray was colored, enough to blend in with the rest just right. No more eye-sore white sticking out! I feel that the key is the heat so I will play around with other parameters little more (no pre-shampoo, shorter leaving time, etc) next time.

I think this does the job sufficiently. At first I was worried because though I purchased light brown, the gel was very dark. I didn’t realize it wasn’t the full chemical stuff. It did not do as well as my permanent touch up but I’m going to use the advice given about the heat. And I like that it can go on damp hair…so I can wash, towel it some then apply and maybe put some conditioner on the ends while I wait. Being semi permanent at least it won’t accumulate so the real touch up will look and work better.

The first time I used the hair color I followed the directions and the dark brown color barely covered the white hair around my temples, but in the product reviews people recommend leaving the color on longer, not rinsing and several other methods to make the color take and cover grays better. Not to be deterred I applied again and left it on longer, the color took, but now I still had to rinse. We are over 30 minutes now. The color tube can be closed and the remainder used for the next coloring. The color held up okay, so the next time I left it on the longer length of time and rinsed, the next morning my pillow case was stained. I have been coloring my hair for thirty years and that was a first. For me the extra processing time was the same for when I used the permanent root touch up and had the color lasts longer.

Just what I was looking for. I needed a product that would get me thru a few days before my colorist appointment, and this is perfect. Follow the instructions. It is NOT meant to be permanent. It was easy to use. I didn’t have to mix anything. I did not shampoo afterwards, just rinsed and I was ready to go. It comes with a cap so you can use the same tube more than once. I left it on for 20 minutes because I have stubborn grays, and it did a decent job covering and the color looked good. I will be buying again.

Best if applied on a paper plate with a q-tip or a finger but wear plastic gloves. The item is super runny and stains your fingers. It is also permanent until hair is washed out. The red color makes hair look natural but do not use the bottle straight onto your hair roots.

I really wanted this to work but it just doesn't. I've tried the product three times explicitly following the directions and it completely does not work. My skin tends to absorb dye and I usually have to use remover where ever the dye touched the skin, it didn't even effect my skin in any way. I've used Clairol products for years and have never had an issue until now. Please do not buy this product, you will be disappointed.

No me gusto , ni pinta el cabello como dice .

Have to try it and leave for at least 30 mins hoping to get better coverage. The applicator brush is great and the tube can be used twice, coverage wise is not great but will give it another try and revise again, possibly with black color as I got the dark brown and is not enough for black hair

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Excellent product very easy to use

Nooo pinta las canas, no lo recomiendo.