Product Details
- Item Weight: 4.3 ounces
- Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
- ASIN: B0001XKA38
- UPC: 075724210028
By : Roux
Price : $32.29
You Save : $7.21 (18%)
Product Description
Roux Lash and Brow Tint 40 applications CAREFULLY READ DIRECTIONS INSIDE. FOR PROFESSIONAL USE ONLY.
Product Features
- Gives fast and effective results in just 10 minutes
- Lasts for 4 weeks
- Covers gray 100 percent
- Specially designed to tint lashes and eyebrows
- Natural looking color
ROUX Lash and Brow Tint BROWN (40 Applications)
Customer Reviews
I have been using this product for about 6 years now. I have found that with a large magnifying mirror and a lot of q-tips I can easily apply to both my brows and lashes. It lasts about 3 weeks on me (I am a med blond) and by the end of that time it is pretty light. I buy the bottles (both brown for brow and black for lashes). I was excited when they introduced the blister pack packaging. I felt I would have less waste. WHAT A HORROR. It is extremely messy and wasteful. They give you a huge amount of product that is basically wasted or spilled. It also messes up your trash can by leaking everywhere. Don't like the blister packs. If you get this stuff on anything write it off. Your bathroom counters etc. The foil is too thick to easily remove and if the two chemicals mix basically the kit is destroyed. Waste is also an issue with the bottles. Despite attempting to be very very careful to not cross contaminate the chemicals between number 1 and number 2 (using q-tip only once and throwing it away, making sure the cap on 1 stays on 1 and is never put on 2) I find that in about 6 months or less (with 75% of the bottle still unused) usually I start to see contamination. By this I mean when I put a clean q-tip it comes out with "tint" on it. It should be completely clear at all times before you apply it. To me that tint indicates something has gone "off". Because I want to maintain my eye health I usually discard the bottles at that time and replace.
The chemical will burn if it gets in your eye and I would have to agree that the remover is very pungent and unpleasant (even though I only use far away from the eye itself). Usually the fumes drift into your eyes and burn. I try to avoid using that and just live with the smudges for about a day after which they naturally wear off.
I do like the product better than paying the salon and even having to throw it out twice a year still makes it cheaper than going to the salon. I would like more alternatives and also I WISH they still sold the blue color. I like blue black on my lashes but they only seem to have brown and black now.
Summary of Roux Lash Tint: much better than mascara or paying too much at a salon, works well enough, but if there is a better alternative I will go with that.
I paid $60 at a boutique salon to have my lashes tinted, and while I didn't much care for the experience (even though I kept my eyes closed, apparently they fluttered as they stayed closed, and some of the dye ran into my eyes and made me tear up excessively, so some of the dye ran down a bit with the tears - cleaned up ok, but the dye stung my eyes a bit), I LOVED how my eyelashes looked. Like mascara, but natural (ok, maybe the wrong word, but they looked natural!) even the little blonde tips. I recently found out that you can buy lash tints online (and while FDA has a warning against home lash tinting with certain ingredients, neither Roux nor 1000 Hours have those ingredients, from my research), so I'm doing an experiment, side by side.
What I have found - I think Roux is the kind of lash tint the salon used. It cost me about $5 (including shipping) on eBay for a single application (I recommend trying it that way). Nice little mark-up for the salon, even accounting for labor.
The draw-backs of the Roux lash tint experiment:
1) All the ingredients come in blister-pack plastic trays with foil over, and the foil does not come off easily. I had to pierce some of the chemicals with a safety pin to open it, and even then had trouble dipping the wands into the chemicals.
2) The second dye (I guess the first dye preps the hair, the second turns it coal black) turned my fingertips black. The instructions said to use petroleum jelly (Vaseline) anywhere you don't want turning black, and I faithfully ringed my eyes below and to the eyebrow, but never thought of putting it on my fingertips! :) Now I look like some kind of medieval scholar. Oh well, it'll fade.
3) Because I was doing a self-tint, I had to do one eye at a time. I found that the first dye stung my eyes (again) but I just kept a folded-up piece of toilet paper below my eyelashes. The eye I did first is not nearly as black or luscious as the one I did second. That tells me there's a bit of a learning curve.
4) My lower lashes aren't really dyed at all. I went back over them at the end, but they just didn't dye. I think maybe there was petroleum jelly on them.
So... that is my review of Roux. I will be glad to provide an update about 1000Hour lash tint once it comes in from eBay (btw, that one is about $1 per application, but you have to buy a whole box). I have heard from other feedback that with 1000Hour you don't need to keep your eyes shut the whole time, it doesn't sting the same, and the application wand is much easier (like a mascara wand). But I will have to see for myself.
