I have tried them along with eSalon.
I have been coloring my gray roots for over 20 years and always use a box. In other words, I know what I'm doing. I color every 3 to 4 weeks.
I took the quiz which is quite thorough. It gave me 6 or 7 suggestions based on the quiz. I selected one of those colors.
It does need to stay on longer than the typical box color. For gray, 45 minutes and they give you a cap (nice touch). I kept it on at least 50 minutes. I stepped out of the shower, looked in the mirror and had hot roots which is bright red roots. My hair color is meidum to dark brown. I have never ever had hot roots. I work outside the home in a what I would call a highly visible position, lots of meetings, presentations, leading daily Agile sprints. I used my holy grail Gray Away spray to cover my red roots and called their CS the next day. She was very helpful and sent me a free kit with ash (I believe it also had violet undertones) to use.
I understood her advice. My point was that on the quiz I indicated my hair color, my history of coloring (every three weeks) and that I was trying to cover gray and whatever else. The color I chose was one of their suggestions. She said I chose a color with red. Well, then why the heck did your data base make the suggestion of a red undertone for someone who was trying to cover significant amount of gray?
Fast forward. I think they should have FedEx'd the replacement but they sent it regular mail. I could not wait. I went and bought Garnie ash brown something and redid my roots. Worked great. Red was gone. Fast forward again. Three weeks later it is time to do my roots. I used the replacement kit they sent me, the new more ash color. Although I did not get hot roots, it did not cover my gray. There are sections where I am still gray near the scalp, and other sections are a lighter shade of ash brown. I kept it on 55 minutes.
There is zero smell, zero stinging, it is very gentle. The kit is very nice with two pairs of gloves, good size shampoo and conditioner for several uses, color barrier for the skin, color remover in case you still stain your skin. The formula is very thick and somewhat difficult to squeeze out of the bottle. This was true of both kits. If you have arthritic hands, you might want to cut lower on the nozzle so the hole might be larger.
This was my experience based on my hair and my desired results.
eSalon was not any better than the boxes I get at the drug store but you do feel special since they imprint your name on all the bottles and the box. I think the eSalon was a bit more irritating on my scalp than Garnier, L'oreal, etc. I had more sting and itched for a week afterward. I usually get sting and some itch but this was worse although not unbearable.
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