Help please! eyelash dye :)

Gingernutty

Colorsport have changed away from hydrogen peroxide to a silver nitrate based formula.

I did my hair (Perfect 10 Medium Reddish Blonde), eyebrows (Colorsport Dark Brown) and eyelashes (Colorsport Black) today and opened the new, improved and faster formula for my eyebrows.

!!OMFG!!

Instead of mixing two components together and putting the resulting glop on the hair, one must use a cotton bud to paint the hair with a clear, watery solution before putting on the gel dye with a teeny mascara wand.

The instruction diagram shows a procedure rather like putting toothpaste on a brush.

The instruction hints that the length of time the watery solution spends on one's hair, determines the intensity of the colour.

As soon as the dye brush hit my eyebrow, it turned black. :eek:

I cannot describe the panic.

Everything went black. Skin and hair. It took hours to get the eyebrows matched with frantic scrubbing, plucking and dyeing.

I've now got a pair of Scouse brows with the skin around the roots still brown. They look like solid bars stuck to my face.

Help me!! I look like this!

Silver nitrate? Who thought of silver nitrate as a flaming hair dye. FGS!

imho

I think its Vosene shampoo that you can use if your hair has been dyed to dark so maybe try that on your eyebrows .
Good luck.

ali-t

Gingernutty wrote: »

Colorsport have changed away from hydrogen peroxide to a silver nitrate based formula.

I did my hair (Perfect 10 Medium Reddish Blonde), eyebrows (Colorsport Dark Brown) and eyelashes (Colorsport Black) today and opened the new, improved and faster formula for my eyebrows.

!!OMFG!!

Instead of mixing two components together and putting the resulting glop on the hair, one must use a cotton bud to paint the hair with a clear, watery solution before putting on the gel dye with a teeny mascara wand.

The instruction diagram shows a procedure rather like putting toothpaste on a brush.

The instruction hints that the length of time the watery solution spends on one's hair, determines the intensity of the colour.

As soon as the dye brush hit my eyebrow, it turned black. :eek:

I cannot describe the panic.

Everything went black. Skin and hair. It took hours to get the eyebrows matched with frantic scrubbing, plucking and dyeing.

I've now got a pair of Scouse brows with the skin around the roots still brown. They look like solid bars stuck to my face.

Help me!! I look like this!

Silver nitrate? Who thought of silver nitrate as a flaming hair dye. FGS!

There used to be a silver nitrate product for brows/lashes that I used but I could never get it to take on my lashes. My brows were ok but not lashes. How did u get on with it on lashes? I'm allergic to all the hydrogen peroxide ones

Gingernutty

ali-t wrote: »

There used to be a silver nitrate product for brows/lashes that I used but I could never get it to take on my lashes. My brows were ok but not lashes. How did u get on with it on lashes? I'm allergic to all the hydrogen peroxide ones

I still have the old hydrogen peroxide stuff left for my eyelashes so I don't know.

That's still to come. :eek:

theoretica

I would rather have silver nitrate near my eyes than hydrogen peroxide. I am actually contemplating buying some because of the change in formulation you mention - but will take care to learn from your brow experience!

ali-t

Gingernutty wrote: »

I still have the old hydrogen peroxide stuff left for my eyelashes so I don't know.

That's still to come. :eek:

When I used the brow stuff I would slather the liquid on everywhere but would use a file eyeliner brush to apply the colour one rather than the was area wand. It meant I had more control of where the colour went.

Gingernutty

Gingernutty wrote: »

Colorsport have changed away from hydrogen peroxide to a silver nitrate based formula.

I did my hair (Perfect 10 Medium Reddish Blonde), eyebrows (Colorsport Dark Brown) and eyelashes (Colorsport Black) today and opened the new, improved and faster formula for my eyebrows.

!!OMFG!!

Instead of mixing two components together and putting the resulting glop on the hair, one must use a cotton bud to paint the hair with a clear, watery solution before putting on the gel dye with a teeny mascara wand.

The instruction diagram shows a procedure rather like putting toothpaste on a brush.

The instruction hints that the length of time the watery solution spends on one's hair, determines the intensity of the colour.

As soon as the dye brush hit my eyebrow, it turned black. :eek:

I cannot describe the panic.

Everything went black. Skin and hair. It took hours to get the eyebrows matched with frantic scrubbing, plucking and dyeing.

I've now got a pair of Scouse brows with the skin around the roots still brown. They look like solid bars stuck to my face.

Help me!! I look like this!

Silver nitrate? Who thought of silver nitrate as a flaming hair dye. FGS!

UPDATE

I've got the hang of the silver nitrate dye for the eyebrows but couldn't get on with the eyelash tint - the liquid kept running down the hairs and into my eyes.

Trust me, it's extremely painful. :eek:

I'm used to the slower acting, hydrogen peroxide goop which doesn't drip or dribble anywhere and which, after years of practice, I can control with some precision.

Eylure now do hydrogen peroxide based eyebrow dyes/permanent tints with warnings all over the box NOT to use it for eyelashes.

So I used it for my eyelashes. Never straying too far away from the bathroom basin and being extremely careful, it worked.

It's a deep black and it looks great.

So. I'm using Dylash for the eyebrows and Eylure for the eyelashes.

Sod's Law now decrees that Eylure will reformulate one of these days......