MENFIRSTGray Hair Darkening Shampoo - Gradual Hair Color for Gray Coverage, Hypoallergenic & Chemical-Free, Dark Shades

This is not a miracle product. But it will make your hair darker and healthier looking. This is not permanent hair coloring. It builds up on your hair. It will not make your hair jet black but will make it darker. For best results apply on dry hair 10 minutes before showering. Use a separate conditioner to seal color in place after rinsing. Pat your hair dry and finish drying with a hair dryer. I never had any stains on my skin. I have been using it everyday for a year. P.S.: I never make reviews in exchange for free products.

Leave the Santa Claus look, or embrace going bald, but at all costs, do NOT buy this product. It comes out of the tube looking like dark jelly, with about the same consistency. The instructions say to leave it in for 5 minutes ... DON'T DO IT!In the interest of easing in very gradually, I left it in for 30 seconds ... and the skin under by beard now LOOKS GREENISH-BLACK, so even if the beard didn't darken appropriately, shaving it off is not an option. I washed my face for a really long time with shampoo, and the skin staining got lighter, but it is not gone. Thank god I can work from home for a few days, if needed.Not only does my face have a dark section underneath the beard, the dye doesn't work very well on the beard itself — maybe 10 percent of which looks a little darker.The rest of the tube went rightt in the trash — a lot of money spent to dye my face ... which was not the goal.This stuff is expensive and absolutely horrible.

Old stuff worked as described, a gradual shampoo. But this new stuff in the green bottle is like actual hair dye. Almost red. Dyes skin for about a day.

I purchased this product for the first time because I wasn’t able to find the product I normally use. The first time I used it I placed roughly 1-oz of the product in my wet hair and distributed it evenly. After no more than 30-seconds I could see a variety of dark stains on my skin and shower so I immediately washed it out. After shaking the 5oz bottle for several minutes to hopefully mix up the ingredients and mitigate the stain effects I tried it again using a little less product and a bit more care regarding what it came into contact with. After 1-minute my head looked black so I rinsed it out again. That took care of 90% of my grey hair and I am roughly 50% grey. The stains came out after washing my face and head several times and a thorough bleaching of my shower. It seems that people are experiencing widely varying results with this new version from not working at all to problems similar to mine. I am not sure if this is secondary to poor ingredient standards or if there is perhaps another variable (temperature, settling, poor chemical longevity, etc) causing such a wide range of quality issues, but it would be great if the manufacturer could isolate the issues and remedy the huge differences in product effectiveness. I will continue to use the rest of the bottle I purchased only do so in a more careful manner. This product is either very good or very bad, and the fact that there are many other reviews similar to mine and many others that rave about how great the product is makes be believe something is amiss with quality control.

Working really well for me. I am a 57 year old man with gray to white hair that was dark brown many years ago. I wanted something to gradually darken so the darkening would be less noticeable. As instructions and web site state 2-4 weeks for visible results, that is what I was anticipating. Instead, my wife could see visible changes after two days / applications. The next day, after another application, she was concerned people would start to notice. I am now disciplining myself to use it every few days so I don't get too dark too fast.I apply the shampoo first thing after getting in the shower. Then I shave, which takes about five minutes, then I wash, which takes another three minutes, then rinse everything. So shampoo stays in hair around eight minutes. It takes a lot longer to apply the shampoo than normal shampoo. This is due to thick consistency and desire to thoroughly get it evenly applied to all hair.I will update review if something goes wrong, but right now I am super pleased. My only challenge is not getting dark too fast.Three months later: Using it every day now. Still very happy. No one who doesn't know I am using it has commented on my darker hair. Good stuff.One year update: My usage over the past year has averaged about 6 of 7 days each week. No one except the few I have told are aware I am using it. No one has noticed due to the very gradual progression. I really like the fact that it retains, to a degree, the original light and dark shades of my hair to start with. It doesn't darken all the hair the same shade. This way it does not look dyed.In December I got the conditioner to try out. It is okay. I don't really see a use for it unless you are into extra super conditioning. The one impact it had for me for the two months I used it was to add extra darkness and lengthen the time it was in my hair, this caused my hair to get darker, quicker. I checked the price per ounce and it is close to the price of the shampoo. So if you want conditioner, use it. Otherwise you could get the same effect by applying more shampoo and leaving it in longer. I have added pictures so you can see how much darker the hair has become over the year.

didnt work out for me.