Temporary Gray Touch-Up Color Stick with Comb, Hair & Beard, Washes Out, 0.7 oz (20 g)
Temporary Gray Touch-Up Color Stick with Comb, Hair & Beard, Washes Out, 0.7 oz (20 g)
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One twist-up stick with a comb built into the top, 0.7 oz (20 g)
A color wax you comb through gray strands, and shampoo out again
Take the cap off, twist up a little, and draw the comb through the gray at your temple, part line, sideburn or beard edge. The fine teeth carry a solid color wax onto the strands and lay them flat in one stroke. It stays until you wash your hair.
It is the size of a small deodorant stick, so it lives in a bag, a desk drawer or a wash kit. It is meant for a few visible grays and the days between color appointments, not for a whole head. It is a cosmetic that sits on the hair; it does not change the hair.
Read this before you read anything else
The label is in Chinese, and it does not list the ingredients in English
The stick you receive is made for the Chinese domestic market and carries the maker's own brand, O'CHEAL, printed on the body, almost entirely in Chinese. The front of the label gives the product name, the net weight and a manufacturing and expiry date. In every photograph we hold of this item, and every one the supplier has published, that is all the label shows. We have not seen an ingredient list on it in any language.
So we cannot tell you what is in it. Sticks of this kind are normally a wax and oil base carrying pigment, and the maker's sister product names petrolatum, squalane and polyisobutene as its base, but that is a different item and we will not borrow its list. Until we can print an English ingredient declaration here, we are not going to describe the formula as natural, plant-based, gentle, scalp-safe or anything else we cannot document.
If you need to know the ingredients before something touches your skin, do not buy this one. If you have a known cosmetic or dye allergy, or sensitive skin along the hairline, the same applies. Everyone else: put a small stroke on the inside of your forearm and leave it a day before it goes anywhere near your face.
How it works
Three things the format does well
The applicator is built in
A row of fine plastic teeth sits in front of the wax. You comb and color in the same stroke, so the wax lands on the strand rather than on your fingers or the skin behind it.
Nothing to open, mix or rinse
A twist base pushes up a little wax at a time. No bottle, no bowl, no gloves, no waiting. Cap it and put it back in the bag.
Gone with your next shampoo
The color is a coating on the hair, not a dye in it. Your normal shampoo takes it off, which is also why it is a touch-up and not a color change.
The trade-offs are real. Wax on hair is not invisible up close: at a temple it reads as covered hair, and on a wide patch it can look flat. It is dry-hair only. And because it comes off with water, it can transfer onto a collar or a pillow before you wash it, and a sweaty run or a rain shower will loosen it. We do not call it waterproof or sweatproof.
Shades
Three, all dark. Pick the one that matches the hair around the gray, not the gray.
- Black. For black and very dark brown hair. The default in the buy box.
- Brown. A deep dark brown, close to dark chocolate. For dark brown hair.
- Coffee. A step lighter and warmer than Brown. For medium-to-dark brown hair with warmth in it.
If your hair is lighter than a medium brown, is red, or is blonde, this range does not have your shade and we would rather say so than sell you a stick that shows. The shade photographs in the gallery are of the stick and a swipe of its wax on a white surface; on hair the color reads a little softer than the swipe.
Using it
Four steps, and the first is a patch test
Patch test
Inside of the forearm, one stroke, leave it a day. Stop if it stings, itches or reddens.
Start dry
Dry, brushed hair. Twist the base until a sliver of wax shows above the teeth. Less than you think.
Comb in short strokes
Hold the section flat and comb from the root outward in short strokes until the gray is covered. Go over it again rather than loading it up.
Let it sit, then hands off
Give it a minute before you touch it or put a hat on. Wipe any wax off skin with a damp cloth. It comes out with your next shampoo.
Keep it out of your eyes and off your eyebrows and lashes. Do not use it on broken or irritated skin. It is not for children. Store it capped and out of heat: it is a wax and a hot car will soften it.
What this page used to say
We took the pictures we could not stand behind off this listing
An earlier version of this page led with a supplier graphic showing a gray-haired head beside a dark-haired one as a before and after. We cannot show that the two pictures are the same person, or that this stick made the difference, so the image has gone rather than being moved down the page. The supplier's own product photographs, which carry the Chinese label and a printed batch date, now sit at the end of the gallery behind our own pictures of the stick as it is.
The description itself was mild and we kept its substance: a twist-up color stick with a comb, for dry hair, for temporary touch-ups on hair and beard. What we added is what it did not say: that the label is not in English, that we cannot show you an ingredient list, and that a wax which washes out will also transfer before it is washed.
What we can actually state
Deliberately not stated, because we cannot document it: the ingredient list, the pigments used, whether it is waterproof or sweatproof, how many applications a stick gives, and any certification. The body carries the maker's brand in Chinese and a printed manufacturing and expiry date; the supplier states a three-year shelf life. We do not relabel it and we do not sell it as our own formulation.
A comb-on color wax for a few gray strands, described accurately
If you want something in a pocket that hides the gray at a temple or a beard edge for the day and washes out at night, this does that. If you want a color that lasts, a shade lighter than brown, or an ingredient list before you buy, this is not it, and we would rather you knew now.
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