What is Sun-In?
Sun-In is a bleach that permanently bleaches hair by bringing out the “natural” reflections in your hair…
Now, you are probably wondering how healthy this product is for your hair. Sun-In is not the best product to use on your hair. For hair that is light brown to blonde, it lightens it, however, hair that is darker will only turn orange.
Sun-In will generally lighten all the hair you have and not just highlights like it’s supposed to. If it doesn’t lighten your hair the way you want, the company recommends that you reapply it 1-6 times. This is a recommendation that as a stylist, having seen the effects of Sun-In with clients, I would not recommend you follow. Once again, IT IS BLEACHING, you should never apply bleach to anyone’s hair more than twice at a time! That should never happen, in a salon or at home.
With Sun-In they advise you not to perm or dye your hair for 4 weeks. Personally, I do not recommend that you perm or color any hair that has Sun-In. In my experience, women who have permed with Sun-In have broken their hair where the product was applied.
As a stylist and color professional, I will not even dye or perm the hair of someone who has Sun-In unless we are cutting all sections of the hair with the Sun-In product. If we dyed or permed the Sun-In areas, the hair would break or be so damaged that you would have to cut it anyway… although that sounds redundant, the point needs a level of emphasis to understand the significance. Why don’t you color or perm over this product.
Because of Sun-In’s metallic elements, it does not work well with store-bought or salon-bought chemicals. Although it may be tempting to try Sun-In because it’s quick and easy, don’t! You better go to the salon and have it done the right way. Otherwise, you’ll pay more to fix it than you originally wanted.
For your own good, stay away from Sun-In. If you’ve already used it, be sure to let your stylist know the next time you go to the salon, so they can take steps to give you the best possible service.
