8 oz , Sunset Orange : ARCTIC FOX 100% VEGAN SUNSET ORANGE SEMI PERMANENT HAIR COLOR DYE 8 OZ by Arctic Fox

I’ve been a fan of semi-perm brands, with Arctic Fox being a favorite, for a while now. I love the ease of use, lasting results, great smell, lack of damage and the ability to customize colors through blending and diluting. I’ve had purple, silver, pink, blue, and teals in my hair over time. However; I want to share about my current use as it isn’t the “apply to pale blonde hair” experience most need. If you can’t tell from the above… I was very blonde for a while. My hair is naturally soft black. So a lot of bleaching happened. Ever since, the parts that were blonde have been unable to hold permanent color well. I’d been maintaining this very blah medium blonde to combat this. When I couldn’t take anymore, I applied a Wella permenant dye. To no surprise, my regrowing looked beautiful and my mid lengths to ends were various shades of muddied and watered down color. Hair masks (love Four Reasons) were helping to even things out but they didn’t last past a shampoo or two. I knew the staining factor of arctic fox would last but didn’t want bright fashion colors. Thanks to the internet I found that mixing Sunset Orange with a dash of a dark purple will make a more neutral copper. It’s easy to make your mix in a bowl and play with it to your preferences by adding little bits of purple at a time. I applied my mix for an hour on damp hair. Again, I started fairly red on the top half, medium muddy blonde on the bottom half. The results are a punched up copper that still isn’t “too” much. My color has held from roots to ends and has a fun highlighted effect that is still very cohesive caused by the varying damage in my hair. Long story short- don’t discount this brand just because you want more natural looking color. Save yourself the damage and see if Google has an arctic fox mixture instead.

I've used Manic Panic in the past, gotta say- Arctic Fox runs circles around Manic Panic. Accessibility: 'Round these parts, we've got Sally Beauty and Shoppers Drug Mart. I've only ever been able to find a handful of MP colors in-store. AF is readily available in most shades in either size right here online. 👍 Price: The LARGE bottle of AF is about the same size as the small jar of MP. More color concentration in the Arctic Fox, so it also goes alot further than Manic Panic. Ease of use- AF comes in a squeezey bottle, MP comes in a jar (I know they sell bottles, I was never able to find them.) Personally, I like the "squeeze into my hand from the bottle and smoosh it onto my head" method. Longevity- AF: Minimal fade after 10 shampoos, MP: 40% color/vibrancy lost with one shampoo. =( So I've used 5 colors so far: Sunset Orange: MUCH redder than the swatches would have you believe, even on light blonde to start. It looked like a nice, natural auburn, but undiluted it wasn't 'orange'. Washed out kinda fast. (To be expected with reds) Easy to remove with a few Vitamin C Treatments. Cosmic Sunshine: BART SIMPSON YELLOW! Even on level 7 blonde! lol (used this to loosen up the Sunset Orange, and roots/regrowth were yellow!!) Virgin Pink: 80s fuchsia!!!! Good color, minimal fading after a few shampoos. Lifted right out with a quick bleach bath. Aquamarine: The only one I didn't like so far. MUCH DARKER and greener than the swatches/models show. Didn't like this one bit. After every wash it got a little greener, and a little greener (2 washed in 5 days). Since I only color the bottom half of my hair, this wept into my uncolored section on top. None of the other colors bled like this. Removed it after 5 days, took 4 days to remove. Stained green, Vitamin C nor dawn/baking soda loosened this up. Bleach bathed to a light seafoam green and colored over it. Violet Dream: I was torn between this one and Purple Rain. PR seemed to be on the bluer side, so I went with this one because it kinda reminded me of the Virgin Pink and that one worked out ok. (And I was covering the leftover green, figured blue was the WRONG choice). This is my new favourite color. Definitely not pink, but not reeeallly purple, somewhere in between. VERY vibrant! It changes color in the light. I thought Virgin Pink was vibrant, this one is soooo bright. It easily covered over the leftover green. **whew** I love this product, I'm sure I'll have gone thru the rest of the rainbow by the end of the year! lol

I'm one of those people always with the coloured hair. After years of using Manic Panic in all colours, I decided to try Arctic Fox. This orange is POPPIN. Fair warning, upon first application, it's so dark, it's nearly red. But as you wash your hair over time, the colour begins to slowly fade and is gorgeous. I use the Curly Girl method with my hair, so I do not do frequent washes. My colour lasts months. I only have to touch up roots with bleach and a reapplication of Arctic Fox, every couple of months. Love the colour. Love the brand. Smells good and applies easy. It does stain everything, as my wall can attest to. So be careful, and use old towels when you can. Try to dry it as much as possible after washing because your wet hair can transfer colour splotches on to clothing and linens. I get compliments all the time on the colour, so Arctic Fox is where it is at.

This is great for freshening up a more expensive permanent dye job like the nobleach London Vivid copper, and it doesn't fry your hair as well as conditions it If he use it to liven up dulling dyes which is how I use it until I do my seasonal bleach and dye with the vivid copper. This gets very close and you can even mix some into your conditioner and it works pretty well. Much like the nobleach London It's a little overpriced but it does color match that die pretty well and is perfect to refresh the color in between treatments of the harsher bleaching effects of other dyes that lighten your hair. After I bleach dye my hair I got a bottle of this for the couple months in between my next one.

I started off with my natural medium brown hair. This product reacted exactly as shown online. I LOVE the subtle results that show even on darker hair (it’s hard to capture in photos, but it’s very evident in person)! It smells great, it’s not damaging or full of chemicals and does not stain skin if you follow the instructions! I have crazy long hair and this bottle did my full head plus a touch up later on! The colour stayed perfectly vibrant for probably 4-5 washes then started to fade. I could still see tinges of colour even after 10 washes. FYI this will not cover greys though.