Sun-In Hair Lightener, Lemon, 4.7 Ounce

I have used Sun In for many years on and off. I recently was using the Tropical Breeze variety and it worked great on my dark brown hair. I didn't even realize how much lighter my hair was getting until I compared pictures from before I started using Sun In and after. The Lemon kind is fine as well. Some say the Tropical Breeze has more peroxide and is "stronger". I haven't really noticed much difference between the two. I spray Sun In on my dry hair and just leave it in. I don't even blow dry it or go in the sun half the time. Sometimes, I spray it and blow dry. When it gets warmer, I will certainly go out in the sun with Sun In in my hair because that will speed up the lightening. I like lighter brown hair but it gets damaged when my stylist does it. I get no damage when using Sun In. It's gradual but that's fine with me. It looks natural too. The only thing is that I don't really get highlights. I get all over lightening. It's probably because I don't spray just a few strands separately but just spray it wherever. Obviously where I spray, it will lighten. I have seen pictures of black haired women going blond just from Sun In but that wouldn't happen with me. It just takes me down a few shades which is all I want. In all, it's a cheap and easy way to lighten even dark hair. I have had my hair professionally highlighted and still used Sun In to brighten my look. It CAN turn a bit brassy at times. I recently dyed over my hair with a dark blonde hair color which toned down the brassiness but didn't lighten my hair overall since you can't go from dark to light without bleaching or peroxide. So now, whenever I see that my hair is looking a little yellow or brassy, I will just dye it with the dark blond and I am good to go. I'm pleased with the product and have been for decades. NOTE: The photo I attached is me at my darkest natural color. The second photo is after three bottles of Sun In and sun exposure. It was starting to get brassy so I eventually toned it down but you can see it really does lighten! I do think though that the second picture makes my hair look a bit lighter than it really is. It really depends on the lighting.

Old school product..does a great job in lightening your hair. Wash your hair after you come in from being out in the sun because it leaves a slight odor of hair dye.

Definitely will lighten your hair. I used on vacation to help lighten and hide grays. Just be careful and don’t use TOO MUCH. Overall it did what I wanted it to do. And no damage to my hair.

I am naturally dirty blonde with long hair. I use to get highlights every couple of months and it got so ridiculously expensive, I stopped 6 years ago and haven't had my hair professional highlighted since. My sisters and I put lemon juice in our hair during the summer and I am very happy that I found a product that provides the same highlights, if not better, year around. Winter time is always tough because my hair gets darker and I'm tempted to go to the salon, but with this product, I will never be tempted again! I think the trick to this product is to start slow, very slow. I purchased a bottle of the tropical and started with spraying a little on my fingers and adding it to a few strands around my face because I was afraid that it would damage my hair or turn it a funky color. I would do this every other time before I would blow dry my hair, and I really liked the results. No damage and no strange, unnatural color - I also should mention I use this when my hair is towel dried before blow drying. I then got a little braver and started to directily spray it on small sections on the top of my hair, framing my face and then running my fingers through that section to distrubute it. I didn't saturate with the philosophy that less is more. The top half of my hair is now really, really blonde and I am asked all the time if I get my hair high lighted. When I reply with Sun In, people usually do not believe me. I really did not use very much each time, and one bottle lasted my a year and a half. I was shocked it lasted me that long. It is a very good investment for the price. Now my next step is the under layer of my hair. It has gotten significantly darker now that it is January and there is a definate difference in color from the top layer of my hair. I've started to spray about 3-5 times around my bottom layer, towards the roots, and I am fairly confident that I will get the desired results. Through my experience, the key to this product is patience, patience, patience - less is more! I have always heard negative things about Sun In my whole life, but all of those myths are busted. I ordered one in lemon and one in tropical and that should last me a few years. I'm very glad I took that chance and started to use this product and I really hope they never stop selling it!

I like it!

Does not work

awesome product. Does what it claims to do.

As I neared my 44th birthday, the gray hairs were starting to come in. I have always hoped that when the gray struck, I'd be an enlightened woman who didn't feel that she needed to hide her gray. My hair is short and curly, so I wash-and-go. I don't wear make-up. But, alas, as I was looking under the fluorescent lights in the bathroom at work, I did not like seeing those gray hairs popping up. Where I live, many woman have kids at age 20. People already mistakenly assume that I am my children's (ages 11, 9, and 8) grandmother. And that's without gray hair. So, what to do? With 3 kids and a full-time job, I can barely make it to the hairdresser's every 3 months for a quick cut. I really didn't see how I'd fit in a color. And then there's the expense. Coloring at home was not attractive, as I'm not very coordinated when it comes to arts and crafts. I could only imagine that I'd do it all very unevenly. "If only there was something easy, like Sun-In," I thought. Back in the early 1990's, I used Sun-In during my college years. I was a lifeguard in summer, and I loved having my hair look lighter. I continued through the school year with Sun-In and a hair dryer, and my dark brown hair turned into a nice caramel. I loved it. Well, what do you know? Sun-In still exists! I read a little bit about it, and bought a bottle. After just 2 treatments with the hair dryer, the hair on top of my hair is lighter and the grays much less visible....even under those fluorescent lights. So I'm going to continue with once a week treatments to achieve a very subtle, but meaningful, change. I don't think the grays are gone, but they aren't showing up against the lighter hair as they did against my dark hair. It really is a remarkable difference. I know that won't work forever. But perhaps by the time I'm all gray, I will have become that enlightened woman who doesn't care and embraces her age. A girl can hope!!

Great product

OK, it dries the hair but the result is worth it, I love it, used to buy it all the time when it was still sold in stores, nice blonde color

Me encantó, puedo aplicarlo y secarlo con la secadora y noto cambios desde el primer uso. Si deja el cabello seco pero con una mascarilla se soluciona, mi cabello está más claro y puedo aclararlo a mi gusto poco a poco. Recomendado.

I used this product twice and I already achieved the results, guys it’s really worked on my dark hair and I am really happy, I heard many people telling don’t use this product because it will damage hai but in my experience i am telling you should know how to use it, don’t use it every day and don’t leave it on you hair for long time, I applied on wet hair and sat in the sun for 1 hours and washed my hair after 5,6 hours , I just used two times in a week , it’s really worked, thank you 😊

Aclara mucho !!! Super pronto me encantó