Review Time: Davines Alchemic Conditioner (red)

Review Time: Davines Alchemic Conditioner (red)

Hello, yes, it is me, Samantha- comin' in hot from a long as hell hiatus.

It's nice to see ya'll again.

No more excuses and introductions, let's just get right into this review!

So lately I've been blonde, and by blonde I mean, holy hell, blonderexic Barbie, baby girl what is you doing?! blonde.

Ok, I was also doing extensions too. No judgments. I don't know who I thought I was but I was feeling it.

So after the extensions and the blonding my hair was starting to get a bit crunchy, and not in a cute hippie granola kind of way but in a full on crunch city, hair breaking off in the brush kind of way. And I thought, hey... I'm already blonde, I don't have side jobs anymore where I have to worry about having "natural" hair colors anymore. Let's be weird.

So I threw a lavender/silver on it.

(I swear I'm getting to the review, I just wanted to show off this sick color.)

But as the lavender faded and my hair was just looking more and more ashy blonde, I really wanted to go for another color but didn't want anything permanent or anything super staining.

Enter- Davines.

Davines Alchemist Conditioner in red

$30

I work with Davines quite a bit at my salon. The majority of my hair product is exclusively Davines in fact, but this was one of those outlier products I never really had a chance to use before. So when I told my friend/coworker/bff that I wanted to try pink, she immediately tried to talk me out of it because she knew it would stain my hair something fierce and instead talked me into color conditioners. 

Color conditioners are exactly what the same implies, it's a conditioner with color pigment inside. Originally it was meant to help keep colored hair pigmented until your next touch up/color refresh BUT on super blonde/light hair, it will act like a color stain and wash out in a handful of washes. Super fun, really easy right? 

This is the Davines red conditioner after we applied it to wet hair (we used about 1/3-1/2 of the bottle to cover my whole head), and left it on for about 15-20 minutes. (basically however long it takes to braid someones hair and watch most of an episode of Grace and Frankie on Netflix (which all of you should watch, btw).

AND BAM, HOT PINK! Cute right? We did this before Valentine's Day so it was super appropriate.

So to test this out, I used whatever products I wanted (which ended up being Davines' Nou Nou shampoo and conditioner, or the AG balance shampoo and conditioner) and used hot water in my shower and basically did nothing to help this color last to see how long it would truly go. 

This picture was after about 4-5 washes.

Definitely still had the pink and all, but it was a much softer cotton candy pink. (If you wanted to achieve this straight away you could mix the red conditioner with a regular conditioner until you have a more pastel color to work with).

But in 4-5 washes, it's got a pretty strong fade out.

And I was pretty much back to blonde after 8-9 washes. There's still a tinge of pink at the very bottom layer of my hair, but my hair is also notoriously stubborn and hates to let go of colors. 

All in all-

Pros: Super fun, lots of colors to choose from, doesn't last forever, easy to apply, hydrated my hair and didn't leave any damage, smells nice, didn't stain my shower

Cons: Doesn't last forever, only lasts about 8-10 washes, kinda pricey? (not really though)

The Davines conditoner is formulated with a lot of really nice ingredients like hydrolyzed milk proteins that will coat your hair to soften and add shine, and although it has a steep price you don't really need to use that much unless you're pulling a Samantha and coating your entire head in it. And frankly, even if you did, you don't have to do it EVERY time you use it if you're trying to keep the pink going. Now if you're trying to make a pastel pink, you can definitely use equal parts Davines red and a regular conditioner and that will DEFINITELY stretch out your stash for awhile. 

There's also a few other companies who've made a similar product like Joico's Color Butters and Viral Wash shampoos and conditioners. Temporary hair colors have gotten really really sophisticated lately! (Like did ya'll see the color changing color Pravana put out for a brief time? Super cool stuff!)

If you ever want to try a party color but don't want the commitment, or if you have some wild colors and don't want them to fade fast- I would seriously give it a try. 

If nothing else, it's a suuuuuper boujie conditioner that makes your hair feel amazinnnngggggg!

-SamanthaK