- Hi, I'm Parris, back, unwashed for another shampoo review.
For the past week, I've been using my charcoal shampoo,
which has been working pretty well, but I saw over the
weekend, a new product on the shampoo shelves,
it's Control GX by Just For Men.
This isn't just a shampoo and conditioner, it's a
"de-grayifying" shampoo, it actually, with each use,
makes for less gray hair, though I'm not sure what color
it's going to turn it, over the course of two weeks
to a month, you actually will see your hair darker,
but not completely dark, it leaves some gray, so maybe
you can fool people into thinking that's
your natural hair color.
Today, I'll see what's involved in applying it,
I'll try it out in the shower, see how it works
as a shampoo, and see if after one application,
I have any noticeable change to the color of my hair.
I'll also do follow up videos at one week, two weeks,
and one month and see who's fooling who.
My question with this Control GX product is
how does it know what color my hair was before,
in order to restore it to that color?
Now supposedly Just for Men worked eight years
on developing this, and were even given a couple
patents for some of the advancements they made,
in hair care and hair coloring, so maybe this will
surprise me with what it can do.
If you'd like to try it out, I picked up this pack for
about eight dollars, and there's a link to it
down below this video.
Now as I understand it, I don't need to wear gloves
and go through the whole procedure, when you are...
It looks pretty simple.
When you are dying your hair, this is in some way different.
There are no gloves in here.
There's a coupon.
Lots of instructions.
I imagine the people using this are of a little bit older
age, they could make the type a little bit bigger.
And other than that, it's just a tube of shampoo conditioner
that is this "de-grayifying".
It's a light brown color, there's no strong smell to it,
no dye or chemical kind of smell, but not a strong
shampoo kind of smell either.
Here's what a little dab of it looks like.
The instructions are pretty straightforward,
they're on this side, and over here are the warnings,
and the safety tests that they want you to do,
a patch test, to make sure you're not going to have an
allergic reaction to it.
Among some of the interesting points in the instructions,
you should leave it on for about a minute after you've
applied it to your wet hair before you rinse it out,
so that gives it time to soak in and to activate.
Down in the FAQs, there's a mention about it does react
with oxygen, but I think that's a clue to how it works,
somehow exposed to oxygen, it does something,
and that something changes the color of your hair.
Normally it won't stain your fingers or your scalp,
just be sure to rinse everything real well before you
get out of the shower, and rinse off any splatters
from it that has gotten onto the shower curtain,
or tile, because it might stain those if you leave them.
It also says it won't rub off onto towels or pillowcases,
but to be sure, why not use an old one,
or a darker colored one to get started?
Just to see the consistency, I dipped my finger in
that little bit that I spilled out onto the card,
and there's some color change already here, but this
should wash off with soap and water.
My skin patch test looks like I'm not allergic,
so I am off to the showers.
Shampoo-wise, it's a little bit expensive, eight dollars
for this size tube of shampoo, but I'll use as much as
I normally use with shampoo, and see how that does.
Starting out my hands wet, maybe it won't stain from
putting this in it.
About that much, here we go!
I didn't feel like it went quite far enough,
I could have used a little bit more.
I have a little bit of staining on the fingers of
this hand, but not this hand.
Don't know what that means, let me try to clean these
with soap and water.
Even after using soap and scrubbing a little,
still some discoloration on the nails, and a little bit
on the tips of my fingers.
They do suggest if this is an issue,
you can just use your palms to apply it,
don't get your fingers in it.
It's been about a minute, I'm going to rinse it out
and see if there's any change in day one.
Okay, I thoroughly rinsed my hair, I'm gonna see
what my towel looks like afterwards, but for now,
here's my hair.
Any different?
I don't see any yet.
Well that went pretty well, it worked like regular shampoo,
my hair feels nice and clean, doesn't have much of a scent.
Again, I'm kinda surprised they didn't put some scent
in this, but there is no dye or chemical smell to cover
up at least, so that's nice. As for the towel,
I see no staining from this at all.
So none of it rubbed off, so that's a good sign
too for the rest of the day, leaning back on the sofa,
lying down on the pillowcase at night, hopefully I won't
have anything to show there.
If I do, you'll see that
in the follow up video next week, I'll let you know.
Now I've decided I'm going to take a picture each day.
I don't, honestly, I see no difference whatsoever in my
hair color right now, but I'm going to take a picture
each day and I'll post it on Twitter, so if you follow us
on Twitter @EpicReviewGuys, you can see the day by day
progression, assuming there will be some.
You won't have to wait a whole week to see what it's doing.
The only staining was the back of my fingernails,
the only thing I couldn't get rid of easily,
everything else pretty much washed off.
I think when I got my hand wet to put the shampoo on it,
the back of the fingers may have been dry,
and so it may have been dry fingernails that I worked
that into my hair with, and it did a quick job of
giving them a little bit of coloration.
Now the point of buying Control GX is to reduce the
amount of gray in your hair, and I don't
see a change yet, so I can't comment on that,
but I do like the fact that it's basically just like
shampooing your hair, you don't have to think about
anything separate, you don't have to wear gloves,
once you know to get your hands wet first,
it didn't stain my scalp or anywhere that I could
see on my neck, the shower, I didn't see any stains,
I made sure I rinsed everything down, so other than just
a little bit of precaution, you can use this,
and assuming it will "de-grayify" my hair,
you can use it daily until you get to the point of the
shade that you like, and then they recommend using it
maybe every other day to keep it at that shade.
As a baseline, in upcoming videos you can go by my beard,
because they say not to use it on facial hair,
though I'm sorely tempted to try it, but they say not to,
so I'm not going to do that.
So my beard will remain this color, but the hair on my head
should slowly start changing to shades darker as I do my
regular product review videos, each day this week and next
week, and on the specific follow up video that I do next
week for this product, find out more about Just For Men's
new Control GX at the link down below this video,
and you can watch the evolution of my hair color
in my daily product review videos.
To see those, you can click on that subscribe button
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see you on the next review.
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