I use my hands to paint it on my hair, wait 15 minutes, rinse, and am blessed with a new shock of pink hair that looks like I just had it done at the salon. I first bought the pastel-pink set and used both the daily and deep treatments, but I soon realized that the miracle worker is the deep treatment. The site also has a handy color chart for reference, and you can order sample sizes of Overtone products in case you want to test just a small section of hair. Though it works best on already-light or bleached hair, the Overtone website says it can be used on darker hair, with caveats (“If you’re working with medium-brown hair, for example, our Extreme Red line will give you a beautiful mahogany tint,” the FAQ reads). Each color is available in “pastel,” “vibrant,” and “extreme,” depending on how bright you want the color and how dark your hair is going in. The system centers around two kinds of products: a daily conditioner and a weekly deep-conditioning treatment.

Overtone was founded in 2014 by Liora Dudar and Maegan Scarlett, two women who understood the lazy-girl’s hair-coloring struggle (dyeing, touching up, putting forth any effort whatsoever) and developed a line of vegan, cruelty-free, color-depositing conditioners in fantasy, unicorn, and millennial colors. Finally, I found it in Overtone’s deep conditioners. I searched the internet in a panic, looking for a low-maintenance, easy-to-apply, non-damaging solution that wouldn’t destroy my bank account. Two-and-a-half weeks later, I was horrified to see that almost all of the pink had faded from my hair. About eight months ago, my hairdresser bleached my hair and covered it in a baby-pink gloss as I bandwagon-ed onto the pastel-hair trend.

Pastel pink hair dye