Adore Semi Permanent Hair Color (112 Indigo Blue) | Vegan & Cruelty-Free Blue Hair Dye | No Ammonia, No Peroxide, No Alcohol | 4 Fl Oz (Pack of 1)

I LOVED ADORE RUBY RED. I HAVE DARK BROWN HAIR AND I DYED MY HAIR. I DID NOT EXPECT THE COLOR TO SHOW UP, BUT IT DID. MY ENDS WERE WINE RED. IT WORKED EVEN BETTER THAN I EXPECTED. APPARENTLY, IT DOES NOT SHOW UP ON BLACK HAIR BECAUSE MY SISTER HAS VERY BLACK HAIR AND IT DID NOT SHOW UPON HER HAIR, BUT IS REALLY GOOD FOR BROWN/ DARK BROWN HAIR. IT WAS WORTH THE MONEY. IT LASTED FOR ABOUT A MONTH.

Great color, easy to use, and long-lasting! I really love this hair dye! The color came out exactly like the picture and looked vibrant and fresh right after I applied it. The instructions were easy to follow, and the dye went on smoothly without making a big mess. What I liked most is that it didn’t leave my hair feeling dry or damaged. My hair still felt soft and healthy after rinsing it out. The color has lasted really well and hasn’t faded too fast, even after washing several times. Overall, I’m very happy with the results and would definitely recommend this hair dye to anyone looking for a bold, beautiful color at a good price. I will for sure be buying it again!

Crimson is my new favorite red hair color. I've been dying my hair for over 20 years. For a long time, I did my own hair and used Punky Color and Manic Panic dyes. Then, for years, I had my hair professionally colored using mostly Special Effects dyes. I love the staying power of SE, but not the bleeding! Adore dyes have pretty good staying power, but only really bleed the first few times getting the hair wet. Now, I am growing it out and instead of spending $$$ on a pro, just keeping up my ends in color. The formula is pretty liquidy like Special Effects and unlike the gels of Punky Color and Manic Panic. This makes a little harder to apply, but not too bad since I am only really working on my ends. Even though my hair is nearly black, if I apply this dye to my roots I get a purply/burgundy sheen on the black parts. I spent a long time choosing a red color and looking at swatches online. Crimson was my first pick and I was very satisfied with the final result. Recently I also picked up Ruby Red and Raging Red to compare/contrast and also to dye some extensions with highlights and lowlights. Crimson is a deep red with pink undertones, but almost neutral when compared to other reds in the range. All three reds I have tested from Adore have cool undertones, but Raging Red is very very cool - I am hoping that the darkness hides a lot of the coolness. None have the very warm and orange undertones of PC/MP colors like Vermillion Red, Pillarbox Red and Wildfire. (I tend to prefer these warmer shades.) I've been doing my hair so long I forget that many people don't know how to get the most out of semi-permanent color (which actually is MORE permanent than permanent dye for me). Here are some tips: 1. Wash before you dye, with a harsh "clarifying" shampoo, or dish soap w/o hand softeners if your hair will tolerate and rinse with warm/hot water. WHY? - this opens up the cuticle where color can be deposited as well as strips out other color and junk. 2. Do not condition before you dye. WHY? - this will close/smooth the cuticle and you don't want to do that until after you color. 3. Apply dye, wrap in plastic to contain moisture and apply heat and leave on for WAY longer than directions say. WHY? - this helps penetrate more color deeper. You want to keep it wet and activated, bc once it's dry, that's pretty much it. (This only applied to semi-permanent non-developer dyes.) 4. Rinse in COLD or lukewarm water. WHY? - to smooth down the cuticle again and keep that color in! If you have ever had a Brazilian Keratin treatment, they do the same think when rinsing it out. 5. Condition only after dying. WHY? - to close/smooth down the cuticle and keep the color in. Personally, I don't protect my hairline with Vasaline because it makes more of a mess for me. I just swab off the color with rubbing alcohol. If you bathtub is stained, bleach and AJAX are your friend. I'll update this review when I dye the extensions. I am also going to mix Ruby and Raging and see if the color tuns out sorta like Crimson.

Review for Mocha (3/5☆) This is a tough product to rate because it has pros and cons. I got the color mocha with the intention of covering my hot pink hair. A lot of reviews say the mocha turned their hair green, which I wanted to neutralize the pink. Pros: smells good, easy to use, easy to clean, not damaging, covered pink very well (to an auburn color). Cons: the only con, but it's a big one, is that it did turn the ends of some of my hair, mostly my face framing pieces a greenish dark brown. I ended up trimming as much of it off as I could, but don't be like me and please do a strand test. For the process, I put it on completely dry hair, shower cap, heated with blow dryer for a minute, left cap on for 30 min, rinsed out. I have above shoulder length hair, natural level 2 roots, ends were lightened to a 7/8. I doused my hair and used about 60% of the bottle. Update: It faded fairly fast after only one shampoo, but I made a color depositing conditioner and left it on dry hair for 40 min. If I had done this to begin with, I might have rated it higher. The pic with straight hair is after the color depositing conditioner. Review for Paprika (5/5☆) I'm unable to make a separate review, so I labeled the paprika pics. After the mocha faded, I permanently dyed my ends ash brown, which made it a murky color! I put paprika on shampooed and fully dry hair (curly shoulder length, natural level 2 roots and dyed level 6/7 ends). I fully saturated my hair from roots to ends (60% of bottle) and covered with plastic wrap for one hour, then rinsed with cold water. It turned out a beautiful true auburn color with a copper shade in the sun. It did not stick to my undyed roots, which I preferred. I will be making a color depositing conditioner with this shade too after shampooing. Paprika does bleed a lot, as most red shades do, so wear gloves. It came off my skin easily, and I bleached my sink, and no color stuck.

It comes out very bright and covers my gray. I do leave it on longer than listed in the instructions and I use a conditioning cap while it's on, but it always turns out amazing and I get tons of compliments.

Let me tell you: I’ve been on a personal journey through the rainbow, and Adore has been my trusty sidekick the whole way. I’ve been buying their fantasy colors off Amazon for a couple years now because a) I only dye my money piece, and b) I like to switch it up more than a toddler in a Halloween costume aisle. My most recent adventure? Indigo Blue. This shade is chef’s kiss if you want that deep, ocean-at-midnight vibe. It starts out looking like you stole pigment from Poseidon’s favorite cloak. It is semi-permanent, though, so don’t expect it to cling to your hair like your cat clings to the warm laundry. I got a solid couple of weeks before it started fading into a soft pastel seafoam vibe—not bad, just a different kind of cute. The fade is gentle, not patchy or weird, and it never made me look like I lost a battle with a Smurf. Now, let’s talk consistency. This dye is not watery like those runny nightmares from some other brands. It stays put, which is great when you’re trying to paint your hair, not your bathroom walls. Plus, each bottle is 4oz and you get two—a total steal for under $10 depending on the shade. That’s salon color price on a ramen noodle budget. Here’s my own Adore color lineup: Rich Eggplant, African Violet, Violet Gem, Purple Rage – All queens in their own purple way. Long-lasting, vibrant, and fade like a dreamy pastel. Neon Pink – WARNING: It's so neon you might start glowing like a Vegas sign under a blacklight. Not actually glow-in-the-dark, but close enough. Jet Black – Ehh... the one I wouldn’t recommend. Fades fast and gives a weird greenish cast. Use a true permanent black if you’re going dark-dark. Back to Indigo Blue—while it did fade faster than the purples, I still loved it. The blue washed out beautifully and didn’t stain my bathroom like an abstract art project gone wrong. Oh, and it’s vegan, cruelty-free, and free of ammonia, peroxide, and alcohol, so my money piece stays shiny and happy instead of fried and crunchy. In short: If you’re fantasy-dye curious, broke-ish, non-committal with color, or just a long-time color addict like me—Adore is the move.

I initially liked the color I got after I dyed it, but the color seemed to go away after 1 wash. The bottle is unclear on how much you should use and I disagree on the "wash hair before use" instruction. With wet hair I really don't think the pigment has too much to cling on to. I've included the before and after pictures of my hair. The targeted area is around 2 inches from my roots (where as the rest of my hair already had a very red faded box dye. I got a hair cut 2 days after and witht he salon wash, I feel like my hair is basically like it was before dying. There's still some color but barely. I give 3 stars because I still like the color and I feel like if I used the whole bottle on dry hair I'd get better results. My bottle was the French Cognac. I did not use gloves and be warned, obviously stains a lot. The color also looks very very dark initially out of the bottle, unlike other dyes where the color emerges after being on the hair for a while.

It’s a beautiful color. Rich color. But it does not cover your gray. So let me just state that. If you’re looking for this color to color your gray, it’s not gonna happen. It’s gonna tint your gray in the color family, but your hair won’t be all one color. But saying that, when it does color, your hair all the color is so rich and so pretty. I love it and I’ve learned from the first time that I used it that my hair needs to be all one color before I put this rich purple color on it. It’s not permanent die. And upkeep is easy.