Punky Colour 3-in-1 Color Depositing Conditioner & Hair Cleanser - Bluemania, Semi Permanent Hair Color Conditioner, Long-Lasting Hair-Dye, 8.5 fl oz.

UPDATE: I’ve now tried the green, blue-green, blue, purple, red, blonde, lavender and pink. I will tell more about those at the bottom of this review. I don't care what other hair dying products you have in those tabs behind this one, they're not as good as this one. I don't care if they're cheaper or promise to last longer. THIS one is the one you've been looking for. I have used permanent hair dye, semi-permanent hair dye, and color depositing shampoo. This one, the Punky Color 3-in-1 beats them all. Yes, I know I sound like a commercial but I'm serious. Let me 'splain... I've been alive a very long time. I always said I didn't care what color my hair turned as long as it didn't turn loose. But after waking up for the millionth time and seeing Benjamin Franklin staring back at me from the mirror I decided I'd had enough of "going gray". Now, I had no interest in dying my hair back to its original color. I'd lived with that for decades and, really, what's the point? I decided I needed a bold color, something shocking. I couldn't go red because my sister is a natural redhead and the last thing you want is your sibling pestering you with: "why are you copying me? why are you copying me? why are you copying me?" over and over...no matter HOW old you get. So, I decided on blue. I started with a regular blue hair dye. It took half an hour and stank like rotten meat. The smell lingered inside my sinuses for three days afterward. The color was okay but going through all that and watching it fade in less than a month was very disappointing. So I dyed it again. This time with an ammonia-free dye. This one looked okay and smelled much better, but it faded even faster. This was becoming exhausting. So I bought a color-depositing shampoo...sadly, not the Punky one. The shampoo was a complete mess. It took almost as long as the actual hair dye and stained everything it touched blue except the hair! It was gone in less than a week. In my desperation, I turned to the Punky Color 3-in-1 and I WISH I had done it sooner. Firstly, this is important...Punky will stain everything - including your skin and your clothes so make sure you wear gloves when you apply it and be diligent about wiping it off your skin as you do it. This is best NOT done while you're in the bath, so apply the shampoo before you get in and make sure you get it on all the hair as well as you can. Then let it sit. You can do it in about 5 minutes if you're very blonde, but if you're gray or dark haired then you want to leave it in longer. It says on the bottle that 10 minutes will leave a better color. And the best part is that it smells like bubblegum! Once you've left it in the correct amount of time, THEN get into the shower and rinse your hair or however you want to work that out for yourself. Rinse thoroughly until all the leftover color comes out. There is a LOT of excess color. But once it is done it has the brightest and shiniest color of any of the methods I've tried. And this is the part that Punky really gets wrong...they position this as something for a younger crowd but they should really market it for older people who want to get rid of their gray! The gray turns almost metallic with the shine and shimmer it gets from this product! It is beautiful! I wanted to add this too. The instructions won't tell you this but I think someone should. When you dye your hair for the first time and you get out of the shower you'll have one of two reactions. You'll either think: "gee, that doesn't look too bad I wish I'd done this sooner..." or "Oh, no! What have I done!". If its the former then welcome to Punky Color! If its the latter, don't panic. After the first day, when you do the dye and its fresh, it will look very intense. Give yourself 24 hours and then wash again. After that, it should even out and calm down and you'll see that it actually is wonderful having these fun colors. You had the courage to try it and that is the part that matters! It is okay to be unique. Celebrate yourself! GREEN: Not the poison apple green you want, more a bluish version of green, but still really vibrant. BLUE-GREEN: My favourite of all the colors! This is the Mermaid-esque color you want. I think they should rename it from “Tealistic” to “Viridienchanted”! If you know, you know. BLUE: Very dark but fades fast. Make sure you leave it in long enough or it will highlight your grays to almost white instead of actually dying them. PURPLE: Very dark, fades fast, but the fading is particularly beautiful, my hair looked like an autumn sunset. RED: I call it “red” because that’s how they’re selling it, and it goes in like cinnamon! But… After you rinse it settles into an almost burgundy color. This is NOT the candy apple, fire engine, stop sign, beef bouillon cube, Christmas morning wrapping paper red that you’re hoping for. Try their new line of Cotton Candy Foam colors for that. I think it’s called “Sugar Cloud”. Sounds delicious! BLONDE: Okay, this is only going to be for people with REALLY light hair. If your hair is darker it won't show up at all. If you're trying to highlight your grays so they're gold instead of silver...people won't be able to tell the difference. You can convince yourself that you see gold in them thar frills but everyone else is going to think its gray. I was really hoping for something more intensely blonde. LAVENDER: Like the blonde, if you don't have VERY light hair this isn't going to do anything but leave the merest hint of color in your hair. When I rinsed, the color was so pale you couldn't even see it in the water! There was a stronger concentration of color at the edges of my hair but most of it was so faint you wouldn't notice it. My suggestion is, if you want lavender then use the purple and just don't leave it in as long. PINK: I had such high hopes for this one but it really doesn't hit "pink" so much as it hits maroon. It is only a shade pinker and redder than the purple. If you're as blonde as Marilyn Monroe you might get this to be pink, but if you're anything darker than that, you're going to be marooned.

Bought it for the color but this is honestly the best shampoo I’ve ever used which is crazy since it’s a three in one. It smells like bubble gum, it revitalizes my punky red color, and it leaves my hair silky smooth and so soft and shiny. It will stain your tub pink, but it’s easy enough to clean off with most cleaners. I’m very generous every time I use it but it still lasts a long time. I use it once every ten days or so. You just put it in your hair like it’s hair dye and leave it for about ten minutes or so, then hop in the shower to rinse it out. Ta-da! Now you have colored and clean hair. I’ve been using this product for years now and I absolutely love it.

I ended up having a hair dye job that turned out to be a light green when I wanted like a dark green emerald bluish color and I was very unhappy with it and the lady who did it ended up doing like a super patchy job and I just felt grossed out by it. So then I had my friend use what I knew I liked which was the brand Arctic fox phantom Green. Which by the way, is an absolutely beautiful color whether your hair is bleached or not. However, unfortunately that color did fade very quickly on my hair and my hair was previously semi-bleached because like I said the lady did a really patchy job, and so I had my friend do the phantom green on my hair and it turned out beautiful faded. But then I found this and I put it on my hair after it faded back to its lime green color and I used this for 10 minutes last night and this is how it turned out. I'm absolutely in love with the color. The texture is super soft. My hair feels healthy even though it may not look super shiny, It's cheaper than buying hair dye. However it's probably not something you want to use everyday, maybe once or twice a week depending on how often you wash your hair, it does stain but can be cleaned off pretty easily, it does have a tendency to run when you're rinsing it. It'll look like a lot is coming out and you won't be able to get all of it out to where the water is clear. But if you just towel dry or blow dry it it'll work and it turns out beautiful gloves are definitely recommended, and if you have a shower cap that would help the process as well. I will be buying this again. I just won't use half the bottle next time and my hair is pretty long. It's down to the center of my back so half a bottle isn't bad. However, it being shampoo three and one I would say dye your hair, the color you want it to be and then find it in this shampoo and use it once or twice a week and you will upkeep your beautiful color. ❤️❤️❤️

I have been using Watercolors shampoo for several months and tried out this brand because Watercolors doesn't make a red. The most important thing is that it does work - if you use it on bleached hair every 1-3 showers, that's all you need as far as dye goes - it will absolutely color the hair an intense color on its own. The things that make it worse than Watercolors is that even if you're careful to wash your hands ASAP, they will still be stained. The bottle suggests you use gloves and I agree that that would be a good idea (although I don't because I can handle my hands being a bit red for a couple of washes). Also, it smells like bubblegum and I'm not a fan of that scent.

This is a great coloring depositing conditioner. It does not run out of your hair everytime your hair gets wet and does not stain your towels. This shampoo leaves my hair soft and it has a nice scent.

UPDATE 9/28/24: It’s been about 4 days since I colored my hair. It is STILL silky, full and shiny. I can live with the color, just darker than what I’m used to. I haven’t washed it yet so don’t know if it will come out. I guess overall I’m okay with it, however as much as I like it, I prefer the pump brand as the bottle doesn’t get dye all over it. Will prob stick with the original brand. FIRST REVIEW: There’s an old saying “learn the hard way/we learn by our mistakes”. Well I just learned the hard way. I’ve never left a review before bc I’ve never had any issues. I’ve been using another company’s Hair Shampoo, Conditioner and Depositor (3 in 1) for four years and thought I would try this one bc it had more natural products in it. Mistake. I thought if I was really careful I would be okay with the application. (I used rubber gloves for both). First, it was so thick I could barely get it out of the bottle and that was with taking the cover off and squeezing as hard as I could leaning it on the sink. It finally came out but kept sucking back into the bottle. It was a struggle to get it out. The bottle was a complete mess and slippery bc of the dye. (The other company has a pump bottle which is so much easier and comes out perfectly). My counter on my sink IS stained and I was sure to wipe it up right away. It’s still there. I wasn’t able to get it out. I let the depositor sit for 10 minutes and rinsed. It came out good/easy enough but left a lot of color on my forehead and side hairlines. Disappointing. Used makeup remover and still can’t get it out. (I made sure to do use it on a day when I didn’t have anything important coming up). Right now I’m letting it air dry. I have 2 positives. One, the bubblegum smell is amazing and two, as of right now my hair feels silky soft. Hopefully when completely dry it will continue to be soft and give it body and fullness. Not sure about the color yet ~ completely different from the purple I usually use and really don’t like it. I will come back to update after a couple of days, however I won’t be purchasing again. Sorry for the negative review. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Excellent quality, works exactly as it says, not greasy, leaves your hair well conditioned. Will buy again. Color shows as advertised.

Absolutely nothing about this tonic works the way it's intended. I tried to use this supposed 3-1 in SEVERAL different ways, in the colour AuburnAmazing When I first received it, I was startled at how strong the pigment was. I was pretty apprehensive about it being too strong, but after reading the reviews, I still chose to followed the directions as written. Applied a generous amount to wet hair, worked it all in, and allowed it to sit. I chose to do 5 minutes since I was kind of scared of how strong the color deposit would be in refreshing my hair colour. After the five minutes, as I went to 'wash and rinse' this stuff did NOT have any kind of lather whatsoever. It just kind of slicked through my hair as the water ran through it. There was no kind of washing going on, and it did not condition in any sort of fashion, either. My hair was dry, and stringy, and felt sticky, even after the water rinse began running clear. Later on, when I brought my hair down and dried it, I braved the mirror and was appalled - at how NON COLOURED it was. My hair was still dull, dingy, and even more brown than auburn/coppery. It literally had made not a single difference whatsoever. The next day, I decided to be more dramatic. It was a strong pigment and perhaps, even tho it was intended to be applied to wet hair, since it didn't lather, it would take better to dry hair. So, I applied again - a generous amount - to my dry hair, this time. I allowed it to sit for 10 minutes, thinking perhaps my hair was the problem and just needed more time to absorb the pigment. Again, it didn't lather and left my hair even drier and stringier, so I used the tiniest bit of regular shampoo and some normal conditioner. When I got out the shower this second day, my hair was a touch brighter by the hairline, but other still unrefreshed, and still a duller and dingier brown, rather than brightening up my more auburn/ginger-y colour. About a week later, I decided - well, maybe my hair colour is just TOO old! Maybe it's been too long and it can't refresh what it doesn't see there. So I decided to purchase some of my regularly hair colour and do a full dye job. It was the colour I wanted, with even, and beautiful coverage, but was just a touch too dim since my hair was a little darker. It's suggested to wait two full days before washing freshly dyed hair, especially if you're using reds, so I waited three days before trying this shampoo again. Not to refresh an old colour, but to keep this new colour bright and vibrant! AND IT RUINED IT. The colour deposit shampoo finally did one job! It finally deposited colour! But, it did NOT deposit the colour it promised. Rather than being an Auburn, coppery fall colour - it coloured my hair - AND ONLY SOME OF MY HAIR, mind you! - bright, bright crayon red. Like, Spider-Man red. The red that some women have referred to as "mental breakdown" red. The kind of red I absolutely abhor and detest. And it wasn't even everywhere. It was in bits and pieces. Not at my hairline, but in streaks of my bangs. I had JUST dyed my hair with even full covereage, and have been doing it for 15 years. I am well versed in making sure I get even colour for my hair. THIS, however, deposited wherever it wanted to. The other strands it touched - couldn't be bother. It RUINED my beautiful even dye job. I have never had such a poor experience with a product, and certainly never multiple experiences. All of the reviews made me safe and secure in my purchase and I cannot believe I was burned so badly. Perhaps maybe it only works for more unnatural colours, as auburn/ginger is a very natural colour. It's the colour I grew up having, and slowly dims/browns oevr the years so I've been upkeeping it with dye since high school, so maybe my expectations or needs were unrealistic, despite my successes with normal dye over the years. Perhaps I just got a poor bottle, tho nothing indicates as such. It smelled fine, it stains my hands and tub for short periods, so I knew the colour was there. It wasn't clumpy. I truly have no idea, but I did everything I could have possibly thought to do with it and it is by and large the worst beauty product of any kind - facial, eye makeup, hair, nails, body scrub, you name it - the WORST beauty product of any kind I have ever had the displeasure of wasting money on and regretting, in my Life. If you're aiming for more natural hair colours, don't bother yourself with this mess. Just redye your hair and use a normal Colour Protecting - NOT a colour depositing - Shampoo. Saves yourselves the heartache.