 Hi, beautiful. Today, we're exploring the wonderful, horrifying, scariest world ever, the world of sunning. I've never used these before. Don't have any experience with leave-in products that lighten your hair. I'm just so curious if they work and if there is some applications for them that I would recommend for you. Mainly when I think of sunning, I think of these images. Brassy, yellow, orange, dull, awful, damaged hair. Does this stuff actually work? Will it give you sun-kissed, beautiful, blonde locks? Will it lighten your dark hair? And lastly, I mean, should you use this on your hair and skip the salon visit is the real question. Can this be a substitute for getting your hair done professionally? Because that would save you a lot of money and a lot of hassle. That sounds so easy, like I would do that. I'll be using four different products today and I'll tell you all about the ingredients of these products. We will apply them to the hair of my special guest today. We will let her sit in the sun for an hour or whatever the directions call for. Then after that, I will inspect what happened to the hair. Hopefully something happens. Hopefully the hair is lighter. And I'll give you guys my honest, real opinion about these products. If they're good, I will tell you that they're good. If they're bad, oh, you best believe, honey, that I will tell you that these are terrible products. Let's find out if sunning products are something I would recommend for you. Let's do it. So I have Miss Manny Quinn here and she has this beautiful, luxurious, brown hair and hopefully it gets a little bit lighter. Maybe some highlights going through. It is 95 degrees in New York today and it is very, very sunny. So it's the perfect day to try out these products. I'll be using four different products on each quadrant of her head, leaving out the front just for comparison once we're done so you guys can see what actually happened to the hair if anything. Fingers crossed that something actually happens. I'll be so sad if nothing happens. We'll be leaving her out in the sun for a few hours. I'm gonna reapply like hopefully twice or three times. I will let you know. But first, let's go over the products I'll be using, what their main ingredients are and how to apply them. So let me introduce to you the first product we'll be using which is the classic, the one, the only sunning. This says enriched with aloe, chamomile, marigold, flaxseed and alcohol free. Okay, I'm into that. So sunning is main product which is the same in pretty much all of these. I think actually all of them do have this as main ingredient, hydrogen peroxide. That is what lightens the hair with the heat from the sun. Hydrogen peroxide is pretty much like number one, number two after water. And as we know, hydrogen peroxide goes in the hair cortex and removes the pigment from the hair leaving the hair looking lighter. So this is hydrogen peroxide like I said before it also has aloe which is nice. I like that, I'm into that. There's lemon in here, chamomile. There's a few other things mixed in with the hydrogen peroxide giving you a little calming, beautiful spa experience. So we'll see if we get that combined with some lightening on her hair once we put her hair in the sunlight. So to lighten the hair all over it actually says spray damp hair generously. Comb through evenly and blow dry. And then it says repeat above steps until you get the brightness you want. So that's interesting. They actually don't even say to leave her in the sun. What? Okay, well she's going in the sun today because I feel like most people would use this in the sun. It just says to blow dry in. So we'll apply it on damp hair and we'll blow dry in and then we'll leave her in the sun with the other sides processing as well. Let me dampen her strands. I'll be putting some gloves on because I don't want hydrogen peroxide all over my hands. No, thank you, ma'am. Let's dampen this up. So now we have this section damp. We'll take the sun in. I'm gonna shake it just a little bit. I don't know if I'm supposed to but I'm gonna do that because it feels natural. But this beautiful yellow bottle with this gorgeous sprayer is gonna help her go lighter and I can't wait. Let's just do a beautiful even coating on her hair. I really like the sprayer though. Okay, son, give it to me, babe. I hope it doesn't lighten my jeans because maybe these are expensive, honey. Let's not lighten them. Okay, I do have to say it smells very good, which is weird because it's hydrogen peroxide mostly. It's kind of like hair color mixed with natural oils. That sage extract definitely is there and present and I'm really into it. I'm gonna put a lot on. Don't mind me. Okay, I think that's good. I think I coated her hair. Now let's blow-dry it in. Okay, now that's blow-dried in. It looks no different but I don't think it's supposed to. I think it needs to process. I don't really know if this is gonna work but we'll trust the process. Okay, next section and next product. We're gonna use Sun Bum Blonde Hair Lightener, premium hair lightning enriched with Costa Rican Pineapple and Meyer Lemon. This is vegan, we love that. Gluten-free, paraben-free, formaldehyde-free, false-fade-free, I live. And of course, second ingredient, hydrogen peroxide. This also has pineapple fruit extract which I don't know much about pineapple but I don't know how that relates to hair lightning. Maybe it's just a fun additive to put in here to make it feel more summery. And then lemon of course helps with lightning because it is acidic and some fragrance. It's actually a really short ingredient list and I really enjoy this packaging so good for you Sun Bum. I'm really open to this actually working so hopefully something happens today. This says, our blonde hair lightener is specifically formulated to brighten and highlight your hair by amplifying the natural effects of the sun. Infused with pineapple and lemon, our special UV-activated blend creates natural, subtle tones and beautiful highlights. We're stoked to share one of our best secrets with you. They literally say we're stoked, I love that. How to use, spray generously on clean, conditioned and towel-dried hair for sun streak highlights expose hair to direct sunlight. Do not apply more than once between shampoos. Lightning results are permanent. Do not apply more than once so we will not be applying this one more than once today. Okay, that's interesting, I wonder why. It doesn't say what kind of hair to apply it on so I'm expecting that it can lighten naturally dark hair. I don't think any of these actually specify what tone you should start with. It's interesting that this one says to expose your hair to sunlight and the sun in says to just blow dry it in. I don't think we finish the directions on the sun in one. I think you are supposed to go in the sunlight. I just don't think they added it in there for some reason, I think they forgot which is a little concerning but let's spray this on. Ooh, this mister is even better, baby. We love a good mist. Oh, wow. Smells like that tropical sunscreen, like oil. This stuff that makes you really dark. I used to put it on as a kid and just like lay out for hours. Oh my God, RIP to my skin. But it smells just like that if you know what I'm talking about. It's like very tropical scented. I'm into it. Let's put it on every single layer of her hair. Make sure we get it all on there. This has a really good sprayer. It is so even. It comes out so fast. I really dig it. Let's get that in there again with my hands. Make sure it's all throughout and I'm not gonna blow dry it because it doesn't say. Up next, we have the John Frida Go Blonder Controlled Lightning Spray. This one was impossible to find. My assistant went to so many stores and apparently only one store had it and oh my God, this bottle is so tiny and little. He's so cute. This says, gradually lightens for a natural looking blonde. Prior to use, please read directions and warning statements. Create lighter blonde or blend away dark roots up to two shades lighter with sheer blonde Go Blonder Controlled Lightning Spray. Not intended for use on naturally brunette or heavily bleached hair. It says not to use on brown hair but we're gonna do it anyway. I'm sure something will happen. I'm still confident but we're not gonna take my other race yet. So for ingredients, this says also hydrogen peroxide, the second ingredient. This one also has natural ingredients like chamomile extract and lemon juice, fruit extract. This one seems like a little bit less natural than the other ones. Like Sun Bum had a very short ingredient list that only included very few things and not too many unnatural products. This one has polysorberate, 20, disodium phosphate, phosphoric acid, and then fragrance and so on. Sun Bum had none of that stuff, which is interesting. It only had hydrogen peroxide and those are very high up in the list on this product which isn't a bad thing. Like chemicals are not always bad. They actually can really help your hair. So if that doesn't bother me, I'm just pointing out a little bit of a difference I saw. But the directions say after conditioning, apply this spray throughout towel-dried hair and then style as desired. For optimal lightening, use a flat iron or curling iron after blow-drying, huh, for the heat, okay? Only use once between hair washes. Use only on clean, wet hair. Use no more than 10 times between coloring. That's interesting. Okay, so we are going to spray this in, blow-dry it, and then flat iron it. Cute, cute sprayer. I think the Sun Bum one was my favorite sprayer though, honestly. Okay, let's get it all in the hair and now let's blow-dry. I almost forgot to talk about scent. This one had not much scent at all. It is kind of nice that it doesn't have a scent. If you're the type of person that doesn't like scent, maybe this is for you. Grab my trusty Dyson flat iron and we will flat iron our hair at 410 degrees because why not pulverize it? My nostrils are like kind of burning. I think it's from breathing in all these fumes, but that's all right, nothing new to me. And we're just gonna slowly flat iron this hair. Beautiful. All flat ironed out and honestly, it's looking like oddly lighter, but I think it's just in my head and I think I want something to happen, but that is what it looks like now. Okay, and lastly, we are doing a DIY formula. This formula calls for Equal Parts Developer, 20 volume I'm using, just this Clare All Stuff you can find literally at any Sally's. Then I'm using Equal Parts Hydromaniaconditioning Mist and lastly, Equal Parts Lemon Juice. So all Equal Parts of all these, no matter what you do, just do them all the same. We have my little concoction right here and we'll just apply with a brush. I really wanna see what happens in the top of the head so let's put a lot there. I feel like this one is going to be the one that works the most. I'm honestly a little bit nervous about how this is gonna come out on this side. I feel like it's gonna be really orange. I don't think I've ever actually applied straight up peroxide on somebody's hair without mixing it with color or bleach. I don't know, it just feels very unnatural to me right now but all in the name of science, we're gonna figure out what this stuff actually does to the hair once and for all. I'm gonna comb it through to make sure it's on all of the hair strands and I will blow dry this in also. Okay, done. So the hair feels very heavy, greasy and dry. Like it's disgusting. I kind of hate that but all in the name of science. So I know I said before that I'd be reapplying sun in but that's actually the only one that says to reapply and I feel like that's not fair. I feel like we should see what happens when you apply it once and go from there maybe. And then if I do another round of sun in then I'll do all of them again. I just don't feel like it makes sense for me to do one and not the others. You know, that's an unfair advantage and I don't wanna do that. I'm gonna bring her outside for an hour baking in this very hot sun today and hopefully something happens. Beware that I feel like nothing will happen probably so don't get your hopes up. I'll be back in an hour. Don't miss me too much baby. Okay, so let me bring you up to speed with what just happened. I brought Miss Miniquin out in the sun for an hour. Then I ended up reapplying all of the products. I feel like a little bit more could happen so I wanted to just push it and see what could be done with these products. But anyways, let me just show you the results. The results are interesting. In the close-ups you can really actually tell that these front strands are a darker color than everything else on the head especially on the side that we used the at-home formula but you can tell that her kind of like bang pieces are a bit darker. I do ultimately feel like her hair is lighter and it didn't make it so light that it turned red which is great. Overall, decently happy with the outcome but let's dive deeper into this situation and let me explain everything that happened that I like and I don't like and what I suggest for you. Okay, let's move Miss Miniquin off set. Thanks for your help today. Now of course I use these Sun and Formula as on brunette hair. Some of them did recommend to use them on blonde hair. Just because your hair is blonde doesn't mean it's gonna get lighter faster necessarily. So doing it on brown hair I feel like would have given me the biggest results. That way I can really see if it went from brown to lighter brown. It's kind of hard to tell on blonde hair if it increased in lightness or not sometimes. So doing on the brown hair of course might be a little bit different than the blonde but they should be very similar in result. And of course these products are going to work a little bit. They all have hydrogen peroxide in them which is a lightning ingredient. You're not gonna put hydrogen peroxide on hair and nothing's gonna happen. So yes, they do work. Is it a lot? No. These formulas with hydrogen peroxide in them are made to gradually and slowly lighten your hair. This is not bleach and you don't want it to be bleach. If you're using these products you're wanting something that's gonna be subtle but be a little bit effective and give you kind of a new feel to your hair without it being like, oh my God, do you go to the hairdresser? Like did you get your hair done? So it's definitely a viable option for somebody who wants a gradual change of lightness in their hair that has patience for this. That doesn't have a big budget. This is totally for that consumer. However, a little bit of a downside on hydrogen peroxide is that of course it is damaging. You can't really lighten your hair without damage. That's the thing. It's just not gonna happen. You're always changing the composition of your hair fibers so you're not gonna make your hair healthier by using this. It is the slightest bit of hydrogen peroxide in these products. I don't think your hair is going to fry off or melt off like it could with bleach but you're going to get a little bit of damage and the more you use it the more damage you will get. And by no means is this gonna give you salon quality highlights. This is not going to give you the balayage look. It could possibly but highly doubtful that it'll give you the perfect balayage highlights. If it does highlight your hair this will be more sporadic and uneven. I also want to touch on the fact that you are supposed to do this more than one time like I've been saying. And for this experiment today I just did it twice in a short time period. This is something that will work better for you if you do it over a long period of time. I don't have the time for that today so I didn't do that. I still did see a noticeable difference which I'm happy about. But if you want a much more noticeable difference you can keep using these products over and over again. The most expensive one we used today was the Sunbump one which was $15. The second most expensive was the John Frida one which was $10. And the least expensive one was the Sunen which is $3.50. That's crazy. That's really cheap. And lastly if you're wondering what my favorites were my ultimate favorite product that I use in this video was the John Frida one. I feel like it made the biggest amount of difference. I really liked the nozzle it came with. I liked the way it sprayed and I liked the trigger. I liked the feeling of the bottle. I liked the scent it wasn't really there. I like scents but I don't really love tropical scents so either ones weren't my favorite. And my second favorite was the Sunen one. I mean $3.50 for that you can't beat it. So it's definitely a great product. It smells decently good and it works decently well. And then we have Sunbump which was my third most favorite. The smell was very tropical and overpowering to me. I don't love overpowering scents. This sprayer was good. You know the bottle is good. It's expensive compared to the others in the market. I don't think it was that effective. I just didn't love the whole experience all around. And the homemade one was nice. It was just really messy and I don't like messy. I like the spray way better. So that would be my fourth most favorite was my own concoction. It was just too much work. I'd rather buy a $3.50 thing than spend all that money, probably like $30 to buy all those things to make the solution with and then have to apply it and it'd be really messy. I'm not into that. So that's my full opinion. If you're gonna try this, go with the John Frida one. I recommend it. It was pretty good. This is going to be something that you have to monitor closely. You cannot push your hair too far, right? Because if you push your brown hair too far it'll turn bright red. So you don't want that. So just don't use it too often, too much. And if you have blonde hair, you don't wanna push it past its breaking point with this product or else your hair is going to be fried. Only use it once in a while if you really have to or you just want a very natural glow to your hair. This is not going to give you that highlighted look, okay? You're not gonna get like a salon highlight from the sun. So just don't push it too far if you're gonna use this product and don't come crying to me if you don't like the way it looks. It's not my product. So I can't, I can't say anymore. And that is all for today, guys. Thank you so much for watching. Hit the bell icon to get notified every time I post a video and of course, subscribe if you haven't already, like, what the fuck. Make sure you follow me everywhere else. Here is all my social media links. There is plenty to choose from. Have fun. Make sure you check out my haircare line xmondohair at xmondohair.com or at xmondohair on Instagram. Make sure you guys text me. I will be choosing a few of you guys every day to text back and have a little conversation with. This will also give you updates on everything happening in my life. And here is that number, text away. And if you made it this far, well congratulations because I have a special secret for you. I am bringing back my Instagram shout outs. 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