For many of you, dry shampoo is a magic wand to draw when the ‘hair situation’ is pressing and needs a real transformation. Batiste has a new solution that refreshes, boosts and conceals your regrowth in one spritz: its Dry Shampoos & A Hint of Colour for blondes, brunettes and dark brown.
Meanwhile, Batiste raised as the global synonym for dry shampoo, this quick fix-in-a-can – this expat confirms. After declining its top product in many scents and collectables, Batiste has just launched big news…
Batiste Dry Shampoo & A Hint of Colour: the idea
Batiste‘s novelty is ready explained: a dry shampoo with a pinch of colour that’s enough to revive and conceal the root without looking fake. It absorbs extra sebum, gives volume – as all dry shampoos usually do – and doesn’t leave white fall-outs or white marks.
Product and packaging
Batiste Dry Shampoo & A Hint of Colour comes in regular 200-ml cans and in three different shades with matching label and coloured cap. Picking the right dry shampoo is visually easy; there’s one for blondes, brunettes and dark brown hair.
Formula and scent
The scent is classic and elegant, the very familiar fragrance of a hair spray, which refreshes and makes you feel ‘on point’. Batiste new dry shampoo formula consists of alcohol and those components you’ll find in pressurised spray such as butane, isobutane and propane. The game-changers are rice starch as the absorbing agent and fine pigments.
How to use
To enjoy a refreshed mane just:
- shake the can;
- spray onto your roots – by keeping the can 30 cm away from your head;
- massage to distribute the powder;
- style your hair as you like (comb, tease, just massage with your head up-side-down).
Brunette vs Dark Brown: which one is better?
Batiste has three coloured versions, but there are so many natural hair shades, without counting possible dyed results!
The question comes natural, between Batiste Brunettes and Dark Brown, which one is the best option if you have dark hair or your naturally brown hair is dyed? What if you dye your hair with henna, for example?
Let’s take my experience to help you out. My hair is the darkest shade of brown you can imagine but, months and months ago I dyed it with henna powder (click here for the how-to), and now I have a stark dark regrowth with noticeable platinum hair.
Scenario A: if I use Batiste Dry Shampoo & A Hint of Colour in Dark Brown, my stray white hair is bearably concealed with a taupe veil, while the top of my head looks fuller but ‘heavy’ because darker than the rest of my lengths.
Scenario B: I gave Batiste Brunettes a try. It blends better with my regrowth and henna-dyed hair, even though it doesn’t exactly recreate the exact shade(s). My white hair is camouflaged with a hazel brown hue like my regrowth. The final effect is visibly more uniform, hence natural.
Let’s wrap all this up: to choose the right Batiste Dry Shampoo & A Hint of Colour, take into consideration both the shade and the warmth of your hair colour. If you want to conceal a regrowth, look at your dye shade, instead. Batiste Dark Brown is the best choice for those dark and chocolate hue with a cold undertone; Batiste Brunettes is the one for light to medium browns, browns with a warm undertone and those with copper, gingerish shine.
PROS:
- it’s easy to use,
- it instantly refreshes;
- absorbs excess oil;
- adds/enhances hair colour;
- conceals the regrowth;
- volumises the roots;
- makes hair look fuller (see how in next section);
- hair is easy to restyle.
CONS:
- it just lightly camouflages white hair;
- is not suitable for travelling by plane;
- is not cruelty-free;
- leaves staining marks/fall-outs on clothes;
- can be felt on the scalp.
More volume means fuller hair, but what these two brown coloured dry shampoos do is actually surprising: they can disguise any empty spots or receding hairline. In fact, the sprayed powder get deposited onto your scalp and, as you massage it, you distribute it onto your hair. If you simply spray your Batiste onto your scalp, it will colour it; hence it will work like hair fibre powders do (i.e.Toppik and similar products). Batiste recreates the illusion of more hair (where there’s not or a few) at a fraction of the cost.
Let’s compare the fact: Batiste £3 (source Boots.com) vs Toppik spray thickener £18.95.
I found that this dry shampoo combines 3 or maybe 4 products in 1.
I think this new Batiste is a smart solution and feels very refreshing, but I must be honest with you. Before buying or rebuying this version, I would think twice. I suggest you ask yourself: in which occasion would I need and use this coloured Batiste dry shampoo. To refresh in-between shampooing or to quickly cleanse the hair in case of emergency? With ’emergency’ I mean when your hair is in a pitiful state, but you must leave the house without having the time for a complete shower.
I test these shades in both situations, but I usually resort to a dry shampoo when I have strict necessities (the ’emergency’). Many dry shampoos work brilliantly with very oily and dirty hair. Still, Batiste Dry Shampoo & A Hint of Colour makes my hair feel heavier after a couple of hours compared to a regular dry shampoos (i.e. Nioxin, Percy&Reed); and I can actually feel the fine pigment sitting on my scalp.
True are: the concept is brilliant, and these dry shampoos leave no white marks but a pleasant volume. Hair instantly feels refreshed and mattified (almost satin), easy to restyle because hair doesn’t stiffen. However, the two dark versions (Brunettes and Dark Brown) fail with quite evident fall-outs which inevitably stain your clothes.
Do I really need it? What if I’m on a rush? Batiste‘s newest dry shampoo line isn’t a flop but sits in uncomfortable ‘NI‘ state, the Italian way to say ‘neither yes nor no’. I would honestly feel more comfortable with a classic or fancy scented Batiste, although I haven’t tried the classic formula so far!
Valentina Chirico aka Valens
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