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Review: Fanci-Full Temporary Haircolor Rinse by Roux & Shiny Silver Ultra Shampoo by One 'N Only

**DISCLAIMER:  I am not a professionally licensed cosmetologist.  This review is based solely on my personal experiences.

Hello everyone.  For the past month, I've been slowly lightening my hair to try and get it to a platinum blonde level so I can temporarily have white/silver hair, and then eventually I'd like to dye it grey.  I know that actually WANTING to have grey hair sounds silly!  However, I'm very interested in having the look of black hair with a large color chunk of grey.  I think it would look neat with my post apocalyptic/cyber/punk/industrial WHATEVER my style is!  I just need to be able to hold out and take my time with achieving this color.

I've only bleached my hair twice so far and basically I've been able to bring it up to this color:

Honestly, I've been using drug store hair bleaching kits to get from dark purple (Punky Colors Plum) to this blonde color.  Currently, it's part platinum and mostly yellow (the really light parts are hidden under a lot of the yellow tones) I've used a good number of drug store bleaching kits in the past, and I've found that my favorite one is Clairol's Born Blonde.

Not only is the bleaching powder blue (which attempts to eliminate all the brassy/yellow tones), but I've found that it works MUCH better than L'Oreal's Super Blonde.  For some reason it doesn't seem to damage my hair as much and it lightens my hair much faster.  However, I think I'm at the point where I'm going to have to bleach it one more time, so I'll probably spend the money on a better product at Sally's and try to find the least damaging product.  My hair is basically straw-like at this point (the fact that I'm constantly teasing it doesn't help) and my scalp is starting to suffer the effects of the bleach.  I've been using some deep conditioning treatments to try and repair some of the damage, but it's really hard to get your hair back to a healthy state without using a protein treatment.

In between bleaches, and every time I wash my hair (which is only twice a week due to its current state), I've been attempting to lighten my hair even more by toning it with a toning shampoo.  I've been using this:

I bought the shampoo at Sally's Beauty Supply and it was $14.79 plus tax.  There is a smaller bottle that's a little cheaper.  The other brand, which I kind of wish I had bought, is Shimmering Lights, however it's more expensive than Shiny Silver by a couple bucks.  Even though my hair is not platinum yet, I do find that this shampoo is managing to lighten my hair a little bit each time I use it.  Some parts are even turning white, but there still is a lot of yellowy blonde to lighten up.  The shampoo is basically only meant to be used on white and grey hair, but each time I use it, it keeps lightening my hair by a tiny bit. 

To use this product, I apply it to clean, slighty wet hair and let it sit on my head for about 20 minutes, and then wash it out and condition it.  You will notice that even though the shampoo says it's revitalizes hair and conditions it, that the shampoo is actually pretty drying, not only on your hair, but also on your hands, so a conditioner and hand moisturizer is necessary after use. 

As you can see, the shampoo is purple, and it kind of looks like lavender hair dye when it's on your head. It won't stain your hands, so don't worry about wearing gloves.  I will tell you though that if you have platinum hair and want to use this to tone your hair, I wouldn't leave it on for longer than 10 minutes or else it may tint your hair lavender purple.  The company also makes a conditioner, hair spray and mousse if you want to try those out.  I've heard the conditioner works better than the shampoo does.  Now onto the Fanci-Full!

The reason I decided to try out the Fanci-Full in True Steel on my brassy hair now was to see the effect it would have on the parts that are actually light enough to take the color.  The cool thing about Roux's Fanci-Full is that it's a temporary color rinse.  It doesn't work like a real semi-permanent dye and it's only meant to hold you over until you can get to dye your hair again, so it washes out as soon as you shampoo your hair.  This way, you don't have to worry about getting stuck with an ugly color if it doesn't work (SPOILER ALERT: it didn't really work yet lol).  I bought Fanci-Full at Sally's and it was around 6 bucks.  Now, the directions on the bottle say to use this on shampooed and slighty wet/towel dried hair.  However, after reading reviews and watching videos on this product, it seems to work better if you just directly apply it to clean, dry hair, and that's what I did.  I just squirted a bunch of it on my hair and then combed it through to make sure I had even coverage.

As you can see, the color goes on pretty dark and it kind of looks like your hair is being dyed black or even a dark purple, however, it doesn't come out either of those colors.  Also, you're supposed to wait and let it just dry, but after waiting for an hour my hair still wasn't dry so I went and blow dryed it.

This rinse is SUPER watery.  You will need to wear gloves because it totally will stain your hands.  I'm not sure if the rinse in Silver Lining will stain your hands, but this stuff seriously got EVERYWHERE.  I had to keep wiping it off my sink, floor and walls.  I don't even know how it got on all that! So take caution: wear gloves, lay a towel down, have some toilet paper ready to wipe up spills and if any drips on your skin.

So, here are the results. 

Basically, it was completely uneven, dyed some parts dark grey, some parts were light grey/purple, some parts didn't dye at all, and some turned an ugly ashy blonde color.  The entire combination just looked really stupid.  Now, I knew that it wasn't going to be super even because my hair is a mixture of blonde colors right now.  What I can tell you is that it completely just didn't work on some of the most lighter blonde spots and I was kind of surprised at how it just didn't even take in those places.  I have a feeling that I'll only be able to use this rinse once I can actually dye my hair grey with Wella, and then use this rinse in between touching up roots and color.  Unfortunately, it didn't all wash out.  A bunch of the color came out with two shampoos, but it still left a good amount of light grey and lavender tones in my hair and it looks pretty horrible and super patchy. It doesn't appear that it's meant to be used on blonde hair, just dyed grey hair.  I will continue to keep attempting to wash it out, but I'd really recommend that you do not use this product on blonde hair.

Anyway, I hope this write up/review will help you on your quest to achieve grey hair, or provided you with some information on these two products.  I know how difficult and time consuming it is to achieve white/silver/grey hair and you need to do a lot of research on it.  Hopefully this will help you with deciding whether or not to buy certain products and can save you some money and heartache!