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Hair Dye to sufficiently cover gray without changing hair color
  • Qwerty
    I want to keep my gray roots colored without changing the natural color of my hair. I am a female but have used Just For Men to touch up my gray roots several times. It works well in the sense that I do not have to color all of my hair. I assume that is because the roots get dyed 3 or 4 times before they grow out of the range where I put the color and at that point the color sticks. But at the root itself I find the color fades and shows a little gray at first wash. By the 3rd wash I need to color it again and I want to know how to prevent that. I would like to only have to touch up my roots due to gray regrowth. So I was wondering is there a product out there that is going to stick better to the gray upon first time coloring without lifting color from my brown hair or making the brown darker? I like my dark brown hair and don't want to make any permanent changes to it at all while I try to figure out what shade colors the gray best. Thank you Beauty Brains and Beauty Brains Community for any and all helpful recommendations.
  • professorauntie
    I use a good temporary dye that's easy to apply--Clairol Beautiful Collection, which I buy from Sally or other discount beauty supply stores. It looks good for about 3 weeks, then it looks faded so I have to re-dye every 3 weeks to really look good. It dyes the lengths of my hair and is add-only--no peroxide or ammonia, so it doesn't damage the hair and it looks natural. BUT I have the same problem as you--it doesn't stick very well at the roots.

    One product that I like a whole lot for a very temporary color fix is a temporary dye in the form of a hair gel, that lasts until you shampoo. It's called Fanci-full and is in a pink squeeze bottle in the hair dye section at Wallgreen's drug stores. You put it on just like a hair gel, when your hair is wet. Don't rinse it out. It works as a detangler and adds light hold and shine as well as natural looking color. A similar product is sold in beauty supply stores: Roux Fanci-Full. That comes in a thin liquid that is very similar to the drugstore kind, or a foam that has more of a stiff holding quality.
  • Qwerty
    Thank you professorauntie for the information. I am interested in trying the fanci-full.
    Is it messy?
    Does it get on skin or stain skin?
    Can you get the product on the gray at your hairline without it showing on the skin? I have never tried the fanci-full before but with other cover up products if you get the gray covered at the hairline then the skin/scalp has noticeable color on it too. If you try to get that color off the skin then it also removes some from the hair. I would love for this product to be different.
    I would assume you can't go swimming with this product in your hair but does it run when you sweat a lot from working out or get caught in the rain?
    I am certainly interested in this and appreciate you suggesting the fanci-full. I would just hate to get caught looking a mess because it gets on the skin or runs when you sweat or get caught in the rain.
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