If you’ve ever tried to paint your hair utilizing a house package, you get why salons cost an arm and a leg for good shade. In an try and take the mess out of the method and make the outcomes a bit of extra salon-quality, L’Oréal has created a handheld gadget that sounds as straightforward to make use of as merely combing your hair.

L’Oréal claims its new Colorsonic was developed in response to the continuing pandemic, by which hair salons around the globe have been compelled to shut or severely restrict their capability in makes an attempt to gradual the unfold of covid-19. Combine that with hundreds of thousands of individuals being caught at house and searching for one thing to do and the consequence has been an uptick in gross sales of DIY hair-coloring kits over the previous two years. What hasn’t modified? How messy and hit-or-miss the method of dying your hair at house might be.

The Colorsonic is designed to alter that. What appears to be like like a comb with a big deal with is definitely a handheld dispenser with a nozzle that oscillates backwards and forwards in a zig-zag sample 300 instances per second, which helps guarantee even and correct distribution throughout a self-application.

When you purchase a Colorsonic—which sadly doesn’t begin delivery till 2023—you should buy reusable cartridges on-line with 40 shades of shade to select from. The cartridge retains the colour and the developer (an oxidant cream that helps the pigments deeply penetrate hair fibers to noticeable alter their shade) utterly separate till the Colorsonic is activated, at which level they’re combined in exact quantities to maintain each substances as recent and efficient as doable.

To use the Colorsonic, you run its oscillating nozzle bristles by way of the hair from roots to ends and the gadget will mechanically be certain that simply the correct quantity of coloring is utilized to stop leaking, dripping, and over-saturated outcomes. Thirty minutes later, hair might be rinsed after which styled as regular.

If the hair coloring within the cartridge hasn’t been utterly used up, the cartridge might be faraway from the Colorsonic and safely saved for doing touchups or reapplications later, because the unused pigments and developer are saved sealed and separate.

Sounds fairly excellent, proper? Well, we nonetheless don’t know the Colorsonic’s value (or the worth of the colour cartridges), as a result of the gadget continues to be greater than a yr away from launch, however for many who don’t shade their hair typically the preliminary funding could probably be a costlier answer than simply visiting a salon and leaving the job to knowledgeable. For frequent DIYers, nonetheless, L’Oréal additionally factors out that every Colorsonic cartridge “uses less plastic per application than home box haircolor” and comes with gloves that can be utilized as much as 10 instances earlier than being discarded. So the cartridges will probably be cheaper, and barely higher for the surroundings, along with serving to you keep away from a still-raging virus.