Adore Semi Permanent Hair Color, 068 Crimson, 4 Fl Oz (2 Pack)

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've been using this brand for a long time and I mean years. I like it better than alot of the other competitors still. It stays bright like this for around 2 months and fades to a nice light blue towards 5 months ( if you use color safe shampoos and conditioners and weekly toners and rarely use heat after treatment). Before using the blue dyes, I make sure that my hair is very light and toned to be a platinum blonde to white as possible so your starting with a "clean canvas". I use both purple and blue toners in my bleach (40 dev. along but with a lot of serum, if you forget to add it your hair will be ruined and won't hold color at all.) I only use bleach on my untouched roots and only 4 times a year. If after I bleach it once, and don't feel comfortable with another round or it's light but not the right color, I'll just use a 20 peroxide based toner and more serum to lift more color and color correct. The purple toner kills the orange and the blue kills the super yellow. If you attempt to use this color on un bleached dark hair or incorrectly toned hair it WILL NOT look good. I see people try it because they liked mine and were very disappointed. It comes out poop green alot of the times. I only use shampoo before and skip conditioning and any type of oil because this will cause the dye not to attach leaving spots of undyed hair. I don't dry my hair all the way because i feel like it helps to distribute the color and it blends better if using 2 colors. It's important while dying your hair to be generous, and thorough. I use salon dye brushes and go section by section, then come back with a decent amount to the roots cuz I always miss a spot. I use my fingers and work the bottom color in first when doing 2 colors or else the top color will run to the bottom and your hair likes to take the first color. If you do it that way it also can come out blotchy since the colors weren't blended well. It says to use heat for 15 min. Don't just blowdry your hair. You don't want the liquid to evaporated. Once it's dry it's not soaking in anymore. I use a shower cap or ceram wrap or just a plastic bag tied around my hairline to keep it from drying up while I use the blow dryer. This also helps distribute the heat and hold it in. Just don't melt the plastic. The grocery bags shrink some but not melt. Use your dryer on lower settings or further away if it's too much heat. This dye definitely adds some health back into your hair but not as much as some other brands. After I treat it I rinse my hair in cold water only and use only products for color protection. Be careful some toners will strip colors and stay away from sulfates and alcohols. I like adore for how long it lasts in my hair even compared to the ,"permanent"vibrant color dyes which I feel have very little vibrancy in comparison to semi perms.

I've tried multiple products trying to get my hair to a dusty mauve color without having to bleach my hair to almost white. Although it's not perfect - it's kind of blotchy, so far this is the only product that has left any color in my hair. I plan on trying again with a darker shade since my hair is darker than recommended.. My process: I will say do not follow the directions on the bottle.. the bottle says to wash it afterwards but that will wash the color out as well (I tried it on a test piece.) I did some research on this brand before trying it and combined a few technics I thought might work for mine. I started from a dark ash blonde with light ash brown roots (dyed right before applying Adore). I used a mix of 2:1 Adore 192 pink petal: Adore 193 soft lavender applied to towel dried hair using a dye brush applying in small sections for a more even coat. I covered with a plastic cap and left on for 1 hour (outside in the heat). I rinsed with cool water to lock in the color and applied a 2nd application of the same mixture combined with about 3Tbsp of conditioner. Lathered into my hair and covered it with 2 shower caps for extra heating effect. Left for another hour and rinsed again with cool water. I conditioned my hair again as normal and blow dried and straightened. I'm actually really surprised at the results (I half expected it to do nothing). There was still a lot of brassiness left in my hair from the previous products I tried that wouldn't tone out. Those are the main spots that didn't take the color but the darker roots took really well. The purple tones showed up better than the pink tones. I will definitely try again with more purple colors in darker shades. The only other thing I think I would change in my process is apply the first application to dry hair instead of damp hair to make sure it is evenly coated. Also leaving it on longer would probably help as well (the color was definitely more vibrant after the second application.) Update 2026: I just wanted to add since writing this review I've used many of the adore colors and absolutely love them. The darker colors work the best especially the purples. Also it's not nearly as complicated to use them as I did in my original post. After getting used to them I realized all you got to do is put the color directly into your hand (gloved) mix a little bit of conditioner and spread it through your damp hair while in the shower. Let it sit for 5 to 10 minutes.. longer if you want and rinse it out.. do not wash it after. You can wash and condition your hair before but if you wash it after it will remove some of the color. The colors fade after each wash. Your second wash will give you about a pastel color if you started with the deeper colors. Lighter colors will probably wash out within the second wash. By the 3rd and 4th wash most of the colors will be completely gone. The green tones stay longer so if you're having trouble getting those out use a red tone and it will neutralize it. After the red washes out your hair should be back to the original color. I changed my hair color constantly with these. My favorite is doing a rainbowy mermaid look. I absolutely love the teal color but it's one of the ones that leaves the Green in there so I usually go with red or a deep pink for my next color to get the green out. These work best in dark blonde and lighter hair colors. I tried on my kid's hair which is a light brown to medium brown and only the deep pink showed up but it was gone after the first wash. I also love that it doesn't damage your hair so almost every time I wash my hair in the shower I'm putting a different color in. Since I changed it up so much and I only use it on the ends of my hair one bottle of color lasted me half a year to a year.. purple's lasted less because I used those more. But as cheap as they are it's worth it!

For the price, adore has always been great. My hair was bleached to around a level 8 and i used Truly red and Cajun spice. Cajun spice did come out a lot more orange than the pictures showed which was annoying, but truly red was, truly, red. Ive used this dye both mixed with conditioner and straight from the bottle and both times i had around two weeks of brightness before it began to wash out. However it didnt come out straight away even with my hair being washed with very hot water, which is good if youre looking on keeping the same color for a while. Smell was nice and it comes out like a gel more than a conditioner based dye. It did stain my sink in places where i didnt wash the mess off in time, but my skin was not stained.

Great color! Lasts along time. This hair color brand is a million times better than Pravana! So many colors to choose from and so easy to use. The directions say to use it on wet or damp hair, but I use it on dry hair. It leaves hair healthy and shiny.

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.

First of all, the color is gorgeous –exactly as pictured. I used this dye on my entire head of bleached hair, and it worked...extremely well! I didn't use a color safe shampoo or anything special to keep the color, so I figured it would fade pretty quickly as most semipermanent dyes do. I was wrong. This dye lasted me weeks with very little fading. I tried removing it with a color remover. That did nothing. I tried bleach, and even that only lightened it around 1-2 levels. So, I was left with a greenish blue stain, unable to be removed... Personally, I like changing my hair color really often, so I didn't care too much for this dye, BUT if you want blue hair for a long time, this might be for you.

It’s a nice color, came out kinda dark on my hair & I dyed it twice over my light teal hair. I don’t think it causes that much damage because it is only semi-permanent and has no ammonia. just know it doesn’t come with anything to dye your hair with like a bowl, dye brush, mixer, etc. I had to buy all of that seperate, so just know that! besides that it’s a nice hair dye at a good price. faded after 1-2 months.

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I love this stuff. I started on semi-permanent dyes because I’ve damaged my hair so badly from years of bleach and wanted to be kinder to my hair. I applied this, left it covered with a cap for an hour and my hair was beautifully coloured and felt so soft. The colour fades slowly and After about 2 months I was ready to reapply to bring back the original vibrancy. I have shoulder length hair and I only used half the bottle for my first application so when top up time came I didn’t have to order more, I still had plenty left for round 2. I’ll be buying this exclusively from now on.

Beautiful color and very elegant