ARCTIC FOX Vegan and Cruelty-Free Semi-Permanent Hair Color Dye (8 Fl Oz, BLUE JEAN BABY)

First, understand this is probably a full day process if you want electric blue.I assume you either have naturally white hair, or you have already bleached the heck out of it.Here’s the process:- Wash your hair the day before & don’t put product in it- Put ample color blocking jelly (I use aquaphor) on your whole face, your ears, your neck, your shoulders, your arms, your friends… anything that might touch the dye. Don’t put it on your temples because sideburns are a beast.- Wear real rubber gloves, not hair dye gloves or latex gloves.- Work in sections, starting at the most visible places first. Your bangs, your part, and the back of your head (I have forgotten it and it was embarrassing)- Pause to wonder why you’re doing this. Is this worth it? Too late. Carry on.- Put extra coloring around these high visibility areas and, with your fingers, work it through the hair sections thoroughly. Don’t miss your sideburns.- Move on to the rest of your hair, working in sections so you can track where you are. Use clips. Use rubber bands. Use anything. Run out of clips. Find your binder clips from the office. So many sections. These chips don’t need a clip. How did you get so much hair?- Panic every time you drip dye on the sink. Wipe it up quickly. Put toothpaste on it if it left a mark. No, I’m not kidding.- Once you have fully colored your hair (probably with 8 full oz), slowly and painfully work the dye through every section of your hair. The thing is, this is important. It feels like overkill, but it is not. If you don’t do this, you’ll end up with weird and blotchy dye, and that isn’t good. You’re going for a nice, natural blue, just like you were born with.- Wonder again, “is this worth it?” Too late for this. Now you’re an hour into a six hour commitment. No turning back now. Also, yes, it’s worth it. Because you’re an icon.- Put your hair into a bun or two. Now, we are going to bake your head, and we’re going to use your own troubled thoughts as fuel. Did I forget to mention this is therapy? I meant to.- Find a shower cap. Put it over your weird, Medusa-themed mass.- Find a towel you don’t like. Perhaps the one you used last time. We’ll call him Mark. Mark and you are spending the day together. Wrap Mark around your shower-capped head with the tension of Mike Pence in the presence of a non-wife female. The point is to contain heat, like Mike Pence does, but perhaps less toxically (this is Arctic Fox, after all).- Some people like to add extra heat, but I find that my own bonnet of bees provides enough raw friction to sufficiently heat the situation. I should mention it is summer in Nevada. Our existence is the surface of the sun- I hang out with Mark in my head sauna for a minimum of FOUR HOURS, but usually more like six. I clean, I dance, I watch TV, I sort pens, I fold clothes. I write Amazon reviews. We all have hobbies right?- I don’t know your life, but if you can, sleep in it.- Rinse in a sink you don’t like (the laundry room sink is my go-to), USING YOUR RUBBER GLOVES, and use THE COLDEST WATER YOU CAN. People say we aren’t tough, but my dear, you and I are NAILS WITH NAILS. We bleed for days and don’t die… every month! No one is tougher than we are. Valkyries are our sisters. Cold water. Until it runs clear. Don’t miss your sideburns and behind your ears.- I usually am about to die at this point. I’m not gonna lie. It’s a process. It’s spiritual, it’s mental, and it’s physical. So I find Mark’s cousin Stacie and wrap her around my head and go to bed. You do you. If you have to shower (at this point, all that aquaphor has made you either so soft or so slimy), wear rubber gloves. You may dye your shower. I have no advice except toothpaste. (Someday, I’ll have to tell you about the time I stayed in a Berlin hotel and when I showered, my hair bled on their fancy porous tile. I got 10 tubes of toothpaste from Aldi and spent all night painfully smearing toothpaste on their light gray tile that looked like it was in a Smurf murder… But when I checked out, it was pristine and totally fine. looks like that someday was today)The color lasts about 3 - 6 weeks and fades quickly if you’re in the sun. Wash your hair as infrequently as you can.Pro tip: get matching fingernail polish because your fingernails might turn blue and blue fingernail polish makes that look intentional.If this seems like “a lot,” or “not possibly worth it,” you don’t understand how good this color is.

I have purchased Arctic Fox a bajillion times, lol. I usually stick with pinks, purples, and reds to color over my salt and pepper hair. Virgin Pink is one of my essential colors, but even combined with another color in those families, it typically fades out to a baby pink or lavender.I have no idea if I am an anomaly, but I have always had great luck with Arctic Fox covering my greys. I do not bleach out my hair, and it still covers well. The only issue I have had is that the color does tend to quickly fade at my roots; before I started growing out a side shave, there was no point in dying it before the color would last a day or two. I have been using fantasy colors for 30 years (off and on), and AF works great for being pigmented, fading out nicely, and not really staining. In my experience, the staining mostly occurs if you did not get everything washed out fully. (I always miss a spot or two along my hair line.)I have used AF on bleached hair (both virgin bleached and bleached over box dye) and have never had a problem with it coming out right.If you are concerned about staining, cut your dye with some conditioner and that should help a lot. If you concerned about fading, wash your hair less and wash it under the coldest water you could stand. If it’s too intense, and you want it to fade faster, use dandruff shampoo. I’ve included pics of what my hair looked like before dying and what it looked like freshly dyed using a combo of Electric paradise and Virgin Pink.

i started off with level 8 to 10 bleached blonde hair and was so worried this was gonna come out horribly based on the pigmentation and uneven strands in my hair but once again, Arctic Fox hasn’t let me down!!!! i’ve been using their products ever since i started dying my hair when i was 12, i’m now 23 lol. the only hair dye i’ve ever trusted and the best vibrancy you can ask for out of any dyes!! i didn’t even have to use a full 8oz bottle to cover my hair and still have an extra 4oz for touch ups now! :) thank you so much arctic fox, you guys will always be my favorite and you keep proving why every time! ❤️

I’ll start by saying I LOVE how the color turned out and how vibrant it is! Now for why I only have 4 stars. My hair FEELS so healthy but I did lose a lot of hair after washing it out, more than I do with other hair dyes but it wasn’t a substantial amount. Also don’t do what I did and rinse it out in your shower if you don’t want stains everywhere because lemme tell you it STAINS everything. I used gloves to apply but just washing it out stained my hands which sucks. Overall I’d probably use it again… just more carefully😬

After my colorist scolded me for using permanent dyes and had to fix it I switched over to arctic fox so I can switch up my hair color without damage. This smells nice, and on a red base it’s lasted a super long time. It does bleed after first application and you need to rinse with cold water. Stains your bathtub. But the color is pretty sweet and it smells good so I’m all good with it. Arctic fox is the perfect brand for people who want to switch up their hair color more frequently. My hairstylist used it on me when I actually had the money to get my hair done and I’ve never gone back.Side note, on blonde this will turn blue. You need a red filler color unless you’re okay with teal. Just something to keep in mind.

I bleach my hair blonde and ALWAYS color the tips of my hair! Usually pinks, purples, and blues- and I’ve been wanting a really deep, violet-toned blue and this is IT!!!I actually had seen a dude in my restaurant come in with gorgeous blue hair, asked him what he used and it was this! I ordered it straight away and I’m totally in love with it!You don’t need much; it’s pretty well pigmented and after a few washes, it still looks vibrant! And, it blends well with the pinks I use so I can get different shades with it- great stuff! It also left my hair feeling VERY soft.