Glaze Super Gloss Color Conditioning Gloss – Lustrous Ebony for Natural Black Hair – Rinse Out Semi-Permanent Hair Gloss that Enhances Color and Boosts Shine & Hydration

I am a natural redhead whose hair has faded to a dark blonde/light brown at 40. So, I decided to try to brighten it back up with this glaze. The first time I used it on damp hair for 20 minutes and felt the results were nice, but rather patchy.The second and subsequent times, I used it on dry hair. I used a toothbrush to apply it from roots to ends and focused more attention on areas that hadn't taken it as well. This worked much better. 20 minutes, then I got into the shower and used a small amount of water to massage it all through my hair and set for another 5-10 minutes while I exfoliated and shave etc. This gave a much better result.My hair is curly, low porosity, lightweight and fine hair. As a result, this gloss will not last ten shampoos. I wash my hair 1-2 times a week and redo this routine about every 2 weeks. My hair looks very similar to what it looked like as a kid with this routine. In bright sunlight it has a little rose hue that doesn't look as authentic.

I had blonde highlights until I got my hair colored a beautiful, rich mid-tone brown about 4 months ago. I've colored it brown now twice professionally at a salon, and love it for the first few weeks, but found it fades within a month or two since the professional brown color was applied over previously bleached hair. So instead of spending another several hundred dollars at a salon I thought I'd give a home semi-permanent glaze a go..Do not.This product is really best for natural brunettes or those who have never bleached or colored their hair in a way that opened the hair shaft. I had the color on my 10 mins as prescribed and it turned by ends BLACK. Blue-black to be specific. Then after 1 wash, they're a dark teal (as in this photo). It looks like manic panic and is uneven and patchy.Ease of Use: This product is really no easier than a regular home box dye. It gets absolutely everywhere, doesn't come with gloves to protect you from staining, which by god it stains everything immediately. My nails were dark blue/black for days and it immediately stained the marble in my bathroom.Packaging: The bottle is poorly designed and doesn't let you get the product out without crushing it, which rendered it impossible to use for future uses.The instructions were useless and said nowhere on the packaging itself not to use on highlights or that the bottle was 2-3 uses worth of product. No one is going online to read what a bottle should tell us. They cheaped out on packaging by not giving an external box with surface area for more text to explain how to best use the product and chose a poor bottle shape and hardness instead for a cuter aesthetic experience.Update:I had to spend 5 hours in a hair salon professionally removing this dye from my hair. It took the colorist 2 rounds of 1 hour applications of color extractor sulfur to pull the blue dye out. She stressed that this is not a semi-permanent dye if it is this difficult to remove. The labelling of this as a "tinted moisturizer for your hair" is super misleading and not true to the staying power of the dye on highlighted hair. This attaches permanently to highlighted hair. It cost me $400 to remove and color over. Won't use again.

I've been doing my own hair and some others for years. Primarily coloring and some corrections. Helpful tips below:-My hair is straight/wavy, and the more sealed the cuticles are, the more wave clumps my hair can form and of course, less tangled-I use this GLAZE instead of semi-perm dye alone because it's good for sealing your cuticles temporarily (makes my frazzled ends presentable before I decide to chop them)-IF YOU HAVE LIGHT YELLOW BASED HAIR/Blonde-IF chose BLAZING BROWN which I knew read as Ash Brown, some of the bad reviews for this color might be from someone not used to dying with "ash" colors. If any dye reads ASH in it and is medium toned, it has blue in it. Blue and YELLOW turns greenish. Blue and blond turns blue lol. And if you have light ash brown hair, use at your own risk, do a PATCH TEST, because leaving it on too long may turn it blue.-BLAZING BROWN is AWESOME if you have medium black/brown hair with orangeish brassy highlights. The blue in the product neutralizes the brass well. If you have blond ends like me be careful as they may turn blue, I mix it with light pink at the ends to counteract the blue abit. PINK(red) cancels out green, so it helps prevent my ends from turning green.-Sometimes the badish reviews are user error, I've been doing hair for years and I still look at the color wheel as I'm mixing 😆🌚PACKAGING:-I nearly have up on this even though I love the product itself, because the terrible packaging. I hope this company puts this in a squeeze tube.-Some of these are liquidly and perhaps newer?? Some may have been sitting in the warehouse under who knows what conditions or time lol.-SOLUTION : I diluted it just barely with hot (hot to the touch not boiling, like I wouldn't be able to hold my hand in the water) water at a flat quarter size for half the bottle. Less is more, if I could avoid diluting it I would. The goal is to use the water to just get heat moving though the product and loosen some viscosity because if you had trouble with the packaging like me your product probably looks like viscous jello and is a pain to get out of the bottle. Cap it and shake it, should come out easier. You do NOT want a liquid texture, so go a little at a time with the water only using what you need. You'll need to shake before use once you add water. You want a thick LOTION texture. Lmao. For those of us at home 😆Have fun guys.