Whose hair was victimized by Sun In?

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willeminadafriend@reddit

I think this could be the definition of xennial 🍋

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Miami_Mice2087@reddit

i know girls who did that and the sun on their lemony hands got hella burnt. Happens to bartenders too.

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Reasonable-Wave8093@reddit

that makes sense since lemon essential oil is photosensitive

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MsElena99@reddit

Me too!!!! My mother hated it and cut my long hair into a bob 😂😂😂

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Reasonable-Wave8093@reddit

oh the horror of an older lady just hacking your hair off!😭it made my big nose look even bigger

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MsElena99@reddit

My mom didn’t want my black hair with those orange highlights for my freshman picture day, lol. The lady was Chinese, I didn’t understand her shit talking about my hair color, lol.

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Reasonable-Wave8093@reddit

It made me cry from going in my pimple!

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MyNameIsNot_Molly@reddit (OP)

Same! But I would splurge sometimes and buy a bottle at K-Mart

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SteveEcks@reddit

My girlfriend... And and all her friends

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zeravlaf478@reddit

I can’t see this without thinking of javadoodles animation for “sun-in and parachute pants” https://youtube.com/shorts/QDdDVuwfZmI?si=ECaIoh6mjowz9JpM

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DaqCity@reddit

No, but my hair was AWESOMIZED by Sun In

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jaymoney1@reddit

I used it last summer. There is a tropical smelling one now.

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It has it in it, yes. But if the #1 ingredient is water and then hydrogen peroxide 3%, and then other stuff...putting 3% peroxide itself as half the bottle would still increase the overall percentage, no?

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PrincessSarahHippo@reddit

Exac

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Wendy-Windbag@reddit

Yup, I also have dark dirty blond hair that naturally photobleaches. I wasn't allowed to color my hair, but when a friend doused me in Sun-In at the rec center pool, my parents actually loved my new highlights. Looked super natural.

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MyOthrCarsAThrowaway@reddit

Spooky

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Werm_Vessel@reddit

Looool

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Wendy-Windbag@reddit

Haha, I didn't catch that!

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PsychologicalBoot997@reddit

It made my brown hair copper orange and my friends started calling me Archie, then the whole school did. This was in a Mexican border town so we were pretty Americanized. I felt cool when people would joyfully greet me with "El Archie!"

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MajorMiners469@reddit

Heyyyy, que pasa El Archie?

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suspiciousyeti@reddit

Yup, I had to dye my hair back to brown because I looked like a sun kissed Cheeto.

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MyOthrCarsAThrowaway@reddit

This exact thing happened to me— I wanted to bleach my hair blonde and my parents wouldn’t let me. After I became El Archie, they succumbed. I bleached my shit platinum blonde lol

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mr_ckean@reddit

El Archie 😂

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Careful-Use-4913@reddit

Mine too!

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FirePoolGuy@reddit

Did fuckall to ol ginger over here

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superficialdynamite@reddit

My hair up vs my hair down was a totally different color!

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EcstaticCompliance@reddit

Yes! My hair looked awesome with sun in.

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TaylorBitMe@reddit

Radical

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vitonga@reddit

Tubular, even!

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lazyMarthaStewart@reddit

I loved the auburn color my hair would turn!

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GelflingMama@reddit

Same! 😂😂😂 Worked fine for me.

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trav1829@reddit

Hydrogen peroxide- like out of the brown bottle in the first aid kit - my boss/ girl I had a massive crush on suggested it - she was the head lifeguard at the pool we worked at- she was two years older than me so I never had a chance- but she did touch me on my right forearm and told me she liked my hair - fairly certain Aerosmith’s “I don’t want to miss a thing “ was playing in the background

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ChemicalOle@reddit

she was the head lifeguard at the pool

Was her name Wendy Peffercorn?

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trav1829@reddit

This make me laugh because she would have definitely been Wendy

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Key-Shift5076@reddit

The right forearm, eh? Saucy minx.

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flat_four_whore22@reddit

Between sun-in, and bleach highlighter caps, my hair was like 50 different tones at once, all through highschool.

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elphaba00@reddit

That cap was another level of pain

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nosleeptilbroccoli@reddit

What cap? I just let it rip (and burn). Also, I’m bald now.

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Maximumi-Awkward@reddit

I gave myself a chemical haircut

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Real_Preparation_573@reddit

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_ism_@reddit

mom wouldn't let me have it but i noticed peroxide was the ingredient so i put some of our peroxide from the first aid kit on my dark blonde/ash brown hair. it was orange for 6th grade pics

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Physical-Name4836@reddit

Me and all my friends used it before the big final dance at school.

We all had red hair. It was too funny

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Brief-Morning-6747@reddit

Bruh… Sumer going into 8th grade 😎

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Lancaster1983@reddit

We used this shit all the time. Soak our heads in it, then ride our bikes around the neighborhood. I don't think it worked at all.

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iheartnjdevils@reddit

Can't believe I had to scroll this far to find someone else it didn't work on. I infer what's different about our hair?

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Lancaster1983@reddit

It didn't work on my friend either. I had medium dark brown hair and my friend was more of a ginger. We ended up just straight up dyeing our hair blonde and did so throughout the late 90s. Everyone was doing it back then.

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iheartnjdevils@reddit

See, I have light brown hair with natural blonde highlights (I guess what they call "dirty blonde") and it still didn't lighten my hair.

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Lancaster1983@reddit

This was taken in 2000 but still my hair was the same. I think I actually had it highlighted for my senior pictures.

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iheartnjdevils@reddit

I miss my hair, I really do...

I can empathize why you would but many of us women find bald men sexy. Pros and cons, ya know?

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Charleypieohwhy@reddit

My hair is black and all it did was give me some weird orange streak at the front

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ItsDarwinMan82@reddit

My mother was so mad! I have super dark and very white skin. I used this and an awful self tanner. My hair was ORANGE.

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gertrudeblythe@reddit

Me tooooo and I was growing out a perm when I used it!

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alles_en_niets@reddit

Oh honey!

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Jolly_Ad_1698@reddit

Brown hair here, definitely went orange also.

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Ms_Rarity@reddit

I tried an insta-tan once. Oompa-loompa skin. 😆

I decided after that, I'm good with being pale like a corpse.

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PersonalQuestion6027@reddit

Same thing happened to me 😬 My mom took me to her hairdresser to get it fixed. She was so mad at me. 😆

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bzjenjen1979@reddit

I had the opposite issue. Tried to go back to dark after a few years of sun in and my mom bought too much of an ash color so I ended up with green hair.

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Haunt_Fox@reddit

Same. My natural colour is... Was ... '"house mouse brown". Getting stuck with orange hair when I was already incessantly bullied is why I will never bother with hair colourings again.

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djskribbles@reddit

Same - I got called Copperhead for weeks

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FunnyGoose5616@reddit

I wish I could find my 7th grade yearbook photo, because this exact thing happened to me, thanks to Sun In. I can laugh about it now, but my hair was orange like a clown

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GF_baker_2024@reddit

Oof. Same here. I was 12 and not allowed to use hair dye or makeup, but I managed to smuggle a bottle of Sun-In into the house. I was in SO much trouble with my parents, plus I had to walk around with fried orange hair for all of 7th grade. I don't think my mom ordered my school photos that year.

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Haven@reddit

Oh god you brought back a repressed hair memory. I had dyed my hair auburn and then put in this crap turning it orange as well.

I walked in the house and my dad was like well hello Dennis Rodman.

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edWORD27@reddit

Sun in, orange out

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mountednoble99@reddit

I did this every summer from 1994-1996! Why I thought orange hair was a good idea, I still don’t know!

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caryn1477@reddit

Ah yes, my orange hair days.

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Gogo83770@reddit

This stuff actually works for me! Born blonde, and then got darker blonde as I aged. I would use it when we visited my grandparents in Hawaii! The key is already being blonde, and then using it as intended, in the sun.

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_WeSellBlankets_@reddit

I was born blonde, but my hair was brown when I used this, not dark blonde. It worked on me. It was definitely an interesting look. I tried it summer after freshman year of college. I put a lot in, but only did it once. I feel like it affected my hair for a while though.

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GroundbreakingCanary@reddit

I still use this shit. Not "Sun In' obviously, but I use it to lighten naturally blonde hair.

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amayain@reddit

If not Sun In, what do you use?

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Me_meHard@reddit

I do too 🫣

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_Internet_Hugs_@reddit

Yeah, I was dark blonde and used it to get lighter.

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goneswimming21@reddit

What you talking about, calico hair was all the rage

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nucl3ar0ne@reddit

My sister used it all the time, only problem is our backyard was all shade.

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Miami_Mice2087@reddit

my friend used it at the pool and it interacted w/ the chlorine and turned her hair green. Which I thought was awesome.

Not like manic panic green, she was mostly blonde with green tinges, like anne of green gables

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pseudonymmed@reddit

how to get unevenly orange hair, lol

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LillyTabbyCat@reddit

I'm naturally blonde so it worked pretty well on my hair. I do remember being at the pool and my dark haired cousin using it and her hair turned orange lol

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Intelligent-Deal2449@reddit

I loved the way my hair looked with sun in! I forgot all about it. Does it still exist?

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consumethedead@reddit

I can still smell it

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West_Masterpiece4927@reddit

Used a small bit of lemon juice diluted with plenty of water combed through my hair a number of times to accelerate bleaching in the sun.

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wendellbaker@reddit

It did not work on my chest hair and i was very disappointed 😂

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ChaoticForkingGood@reddit

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SMVHS@reddit

I used it but then was mortified by the roots line that slowly grew out, revealing my dirty blonde normal hair. Did regret it

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EducationalBread5323@reddit

Omg I can almost SMELL this picture!!!!

My mom was BIG on using Sun-in for herself and us girls... execpt when we would go swimming it turned our 'blonde streaks' green

And the smell... so distinctive. Sun-in and Nair.....my nose remembers

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wellaby788@reddit

My mom put lemon juice in my hair

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ucantharmagoodwoman@reddit

It's just watered-down hydrogen peroxide.

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Lostinwendysmaze@reddit

This gave me the best hair of my life, I sprayed it at the start of the summer, and it went bright orange, then spent 6 weeks surfing and after it looked amazing.

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irishpwr46@reddit

I used to peroxide my hair before I started straight bleaching it. I'm pretty sure it hasn't helped with retaining what I have left now.

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kitterkatty@reddit

Me lol it made mine peach. About this color. (Naturally light brown)

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WhysAVariable@reddit

I'm a guy and I desperately wanted to have blonde hair for reasons too stupid for me to even remember (it was before Eminem, so idk), so yeah. I also got my hair highlighted professionally by the lady who cut my hair, it worked a lot better than Sun-In. I would get it lightened and then dye it blue, green, red, etc. with a mixture of kool-aid powder and conditioner.

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SportyMcDuff@reddit

Didn’t notice much change in my hair but got great blistery peeling sunburn for my efforts repeatedly one summer. Probably thirteen at the time.

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Quick_like_a_Bunny@reddit

NOT ME having beautiful sunny highlights that even my snotty hairdresser was mildly impressed by 🌞

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neems_79@reddit

My sister sprayed like three sprays in the exact same spot and she had a big blonde circle in the middle of her bangs. This was after she BEGGED for Sun In. It was hilarious. To us at least.

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antlers86@reddit

This did nothing for my hair but certainly victimized my wallet.

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Evening_Warthog_9476@reddit

I have thick course hair and it did nothing to mine lol I ended up bleaching my ear platinum and kept it that way for about 10 years anyways lol

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Addamall@reddit

This shit only work if your hair already gets easily sun bleached.

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MilkSlow6880@reddit

I went to prom with orange hair.

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MysteryIsHistory@reddit

Oh, geez. I had orange Sun-In streaks throughout 8th grade. And I wish I could say it was the worst my hair ever looked, but in 9th grade (‘96-‘97), I entered my goth phase. Yikes.

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HumpaDaBear@reddit

🙋‍♀️

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theluzah@reddit

I can smell this picture. And Nair.

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exitlevelposition@reddit

Let my Hanson obsessed GF talk me into it. It did not turn out like Hanson.

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Skinslippy3@reddit

Mmm Flop

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Reasonable-Wave8093@reddit

I was looking for dudes reactions! I know the skater boyz used it on that one long “bang” hanging in front of the eyes on an otherwise buzzed head

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Wendy-Windbag@reddit

Ugh, sixth grade me melted for those boys.

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Reasonable-Wave8093@reddit

😁 Gleaming the cube

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corkey855@reddit

One orange bang here!

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Reasonable-Wave8093@reddit

not a pineapple bang!?

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maceilean@reddit

I prefer horchata

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simondrawer@reddit

Oh yes, mate. Smelled of vinegar but looked awesome.

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LstCstLdy@reddit

Thank God, I saw what happened to similarly hair-colored friends and noped out lol. I have almost black hair, but I never was particularly interested in being blonde anyway.

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malica83@reddit

😔

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mamajulz83@reddit

Worked great for me. Dumped a whole bottle on my dark blonde hair in 7th grade and sat in the sun for 3 hours. Golden blonde all summer long.

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AdultDisneyWoman@reddit

🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️

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PlasticPaddy79@reddit

I was just thinking of this randomly last night! And my orange hair for prom.

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itoshiineko@reddit

When I had my first good job at 17 I went to get mine professionally colored after a couple years of sun in and the stylist was like omg your hair is like ten different shades LOL

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the805chickenlady@reddit

so orange. it was so. orange.

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ThrowWeirdQuestion@reddit

Not my hair but my nose… the smell was absolutely awful and my hair didn’t change at all.

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fluffychonkycat@reddit

My brother used it on his bowl cut and it was OK on his born-blonde dark mousy hair. I was skeptical it would do anything nice to my very dark brown hair so I somehow had a moment of wisdom and snipped a strand to test it. Good call, I would have been a very bright auburn

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LiminaLGuLL@reddit

I remember it smelled nice

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waywardsundown@reddit

You’ve just triggered a buried memory of my mum asking me ‘…why has your hair gone so ginger?’ 🫠😂 I was very heavy-handed with it!

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ScreamQueenMarceline@reddit

Sun Orange

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Caro1275@reddit

I learned my lesson the hard way during the summer between 6th-7th grade. All of my friends’ hair had lovely blond highlights. My hair turned orange. Too many red undertones! 😂

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BillsMafia40277@reddit

Can y’all smell this?

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fritz_ramses@reddit

Oh my god, THIS! My dark hair became a hideous copper.

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The-Green-Penis@reddit

I was also turned into a Duracell battery.

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remoteworker9@reddit

Yes! Went from brown to orange.

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0sqs@reddit

We just put 9% peroxide into spray bottles and went ham. That shit was like $3 at Sally.

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jqlil@reddit

It is still around $3

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caramelpupcorn@reddit

I did this but with regular 3% drugstore peroxide! Works in the sun or with a hair dryer. Turned my midnight black hair into a nice brown shade. My parents were absolutely pissed 😂

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0sqs@reddit

My brown hair turned Duracell copper with that stuff.

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caramelpupcorn@reddit

I found out that by reapplying it every morning in certain spots, you can actually lighten your hair into blonde. I had mini blonde face framing bangs until I either quit or they broke off from the dryness.

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Guilty-Sundae1557@reddit

I wonder what it would do to my greys? I have so many!

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MyNameIsNot_Molly@reddit (OP)

So I'm actually a hairstylist. This won't touch grey hair (which is actually semi-clear and colorless). To cover grey, you have to use permanent color and a moderately strong developer.

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eat_like_snake@reddit

I always like how people tried to use this on dark hair and expect it to just... make them blonde.
That's not how that works. Even a single bleaching session isn't likely to get your hair platinum blonde, much less this shit. Lmao.
If you already have blonde hair, it works as intended, though.

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phoenix-corn@reddit

It made my hair a beautiful honey blonde. It was a pain in the ass though as my hair grows fast and i lived in a place with a lot of snow for a lot of the year. I ended up using it with a blow dryer, yikes.

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Kuma_the_Dog@reddit

I went with a Brad Pitt buzz from the end of Fight Club sorta thing plus this ridiculous product. Totally turned orange and the crazy thing was every other dude had a similar look so it was 'cool?' Good times.

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aerodeck@reddit

What do you mean by victimized?

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XDariaMorgendorferX@reddit

Ah…Sun-In. With just two full bottles I was able to turn my dark brown hair to a horrible orange. When I then tried to dye my hair back to brown, some sections of my hair were so damaged the color wouldn’t take and I had leopard spots. My other friends were dirty blondes and they ended up with gorgeous highlights. Lesson learned: DIY, store bought bleach doesn’t work great on dark hair 😬

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Schleprock-syndrome@reddit

Amateurs. I used to pour straight peroxide in my hair. (Like a dumb ass.)

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MiniRems@reddit

I didn't need it. My hair lightened all on its own in the summer. To the point where when I was in elementary school, someone accused my mom of dying mine and my brothers hair.

Still did a homemade spray of peroxide & lemon juice when I layed out slathered in baby oil when I was a teenager!

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if_a_flutterby@reddit

It was tan, actually tan, like those weird bricks, and it audibly crunched and snapped

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soopirV@reddit

I was naturally blonde, as a dude, so never had that fun, but the chlorine in the pool would turn my hair green halfway through the summer.

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Boo-erman@reddit

Yup! Blond-ish til July 4th, then green til school.

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al_brownie@reddit

I couldn’t afford it so I used to mix peroxide and water in a spray bottle and put it in my hair before I laid out. Even though I have brown hair it always worked fairly well on me.

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Prudent-Acadia4@reddit

Everyone I’ve ever done it with, turned their hair orange

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DullNeedleworker3447@reddit

I wished mine was but my mom wouldn’t let me.

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anonymoose_2048@reddit

There was a guy that didn’t wash it off his hands properly and it made his palms look like leather.

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No-Garlic-3407@reddit

I can still hear that jingle "Sun In and sun light and you'll be blonder tonight!" 🎶

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fairlyaveragetrader@reddit

I'm a natural blonde and I remember that stuff turning my hair almost white. I don't know what exactly was sun about that but there had to have been bleach in it 😹

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Electronic_World_894@reddit

I’m not ready to talk about the trauma yet.

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GimmeFalcor@reddit

I believe my parents started using that on me when I was 3. No regrets. Who doesn’t love platinum highlights.

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Robbievanred@reddit

lol I still use Sun In!! ☀️

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DrMcJedi@reddit

This was the only time having blonde hair was to my advantage. This stuff worked fabulously for me…

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davidpridy@reddit

Hahahaha I use it on my pubes.

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Diego_La_Puente@reddit

I had totally forgotten 14 year old me had had a cool patch of orange on the top/front of with my nearly black hair in 1985 from this product.

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effitalll@reddit

This stuff actually worked on my hair. I was blonde as a child and get blonde highlights if I actually go out and spend time in the sun. I sort of want to go pick some up again and live my best life

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Equivalent_Remote_39@reddit

My hair turned gingah!

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femmebrulee@reddit

My mom wouldn’t buy me Sun In so I put Jolen Creme bleach in my hair. It was a look.

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FletchMom@reddit

Omg Sun In! This shit turned my brown hair a very terrible shade of orange, lmao. I would lay out in the sun in my Walmart bikini on our back deck with this stuff in my hair. I was 15, lol

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Munk45@reddit

My hair turned orange

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guriel@reddit

I was about 12 (m) and my 16 year old sister got me. I had orange hair for a solid 2 years.

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Ants-pajamas@reddit

Orange-cised by Sun In.

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hipstercheese1@reddit

Mine. It took two years to grow out and I looked like a fool with my black hair and blonde ponytail.

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DungPedalerDDSEsq@reddit

I have brown hair. I did it the summer before 6th grade when my folks were at work. My hair was short and orangish.

I looked like a dirty Q-tip.

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DrSadisticPizza@reddit

My brother sprayed half a bottle of it on my head while I slept. He lost an eyebrow the next night.

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aenflex@reddit

I only sprayed the top of my head. My hair was black. So I got called coppertop for most of 5th and 6th grade.

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Mmphska@reddit

I still use it, or things like it and it’s awesome! But my hair is dark blond/light brown to begin with and Im pretty sure that’s the only shade this kind of product is made for. I like that I can gradually apply it until it’s the shade I want

A few years back a girl cutting my hair said she loved my color and where did I go for it, it looks natural, I said “oh it’s just Sun-In” and then she scoffed and decided she didn’t like it. I dunno, sorry that it’s better than I could pay you $toomuch to do not as well I guess? Lol

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kishbish@reddit

I had dark blonde hair and used this to try and lighten my hair. Turned it copper colored instead.

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Wild_Manufacturer555@reddit

It never worked for me

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Optimus_Bonum@reddit

My fringe had a streak. Blunder years.

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Expert-Start2896@reddit

I think this contributed to my baldness lol

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UnfairNight7786@reddit

I’m GenX and was addicted to it!

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elMurpherino@reddit

I used it one summer on my darker blond hair. It Worked but nothing crazy, so the next summer I ended up just dying my hair bleach blond.

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SadApartment3023@reddit

Ooooh, that smirk. Like she knows how bad it's gonna look.

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MuffStuff3000@reddit

Watching everyone’s dry orange hair crust over into straw.

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UnluckyCardiologist9@reddit

We just used lemons. lol.

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araloss@reddit

I was looking for some old, completely unrelated photos from the mid 90's and found a photo of me, VERY tan, with my sun-in highlights.

My own son didn't even know it was me. 😂

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Unusual_Cupcake9812@reddit

I use this sometimes.. I don't fry my hair with it though.

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LadyVioletLuna@reddit

Raises hand 🙋🏼‍♀️

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lollipop-guildmaster@reddit

Oh gods, my mom did that to me when I was 10-ish and I stopped being a towhead. Absolutely fried my hair.

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No_Introduction_4766@reddit

It ruined my perm 😭

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FiftySixer@reddit

I've used it fairly recently. You can just spray it on and blow dry. It makes me hair super blonde.

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Fit-Implement-8151@reddit

This stuff actually worked great for me. I had really light brown hair and it made it gold.

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littlekatie3@reddit

MEEEEEE. Hair turned 🍊

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violetflux@reddit

I found my forever hairstylist because of Sun-In. I was 20 years old and was spraying it on everyday and then blow drying my hair.

Eventually a large chunk of my hair fried off and I had this half-inch or so long piece coming off of my scalp. It started sticking up as it grew out and my aunt was like what have you done to yourself?!

She sent me to her stylist, who then became my stylist because she was able to hide it for me until it grew out.

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DangerousLoner@reddit

I’m in my 40’s and still put it in my hair before a solid day of gardening or time at the beach. Love the reds and golds it brings out in my curls

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NotBadSinger514@reddit

I have light brown hair and this gave me a nice honey blonde color

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yespls@reddit

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sun-in was my gateway product. within 2 years I was dyeing my hair bright red.

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FunnyGoose5616@reddit

I used Sun In for a whole summer, but the tone of my hair is a warm red, rather than cool. So my 7th grade picture had me with bright orange clown hair. Thanks, Sun In!

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Cutthechitchata-hole@reddit

I used some this summer. It worked well!

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Legal_Scientist5509@reddit

Turned my brown hair orange with this stuff in the summer between 7th & 8th grade.

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javaper@reddit

As a former redhead, my hair was subjected to this until the auburn turned orange and then a sickly blonde. I was a child and I wish my mom hadn't used it. Doesn't matter much these days, but I miss the dark red hair I had.

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chunkalunkk@reddit

🙋🏻‍♂️

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oakleafwellness@reddit

I wasted so much allowance money on this stuff. Wish someone would have said hey..it doesn’t work on dark brown/black hair.

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drunken_monkeys@reddit

My wife and I have been together for more than half of our lives and the entire time, my wife has had absolutely to-die-for hair. Always gets compliments. Best hair in high school. The whole shabang.

Literally the only product she uses in her hair other than shampoos and conditioners is Sun In. She's been using it since high school, and people to this day don't believe her when the best head of hair they've ever seen on a woman is only treated with Sun In and $25 haircuts. She was abnormally lucky in the hair lottery when she was born, and I was lucky to convince her to get hitched.

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TalinKaleth@reddit

Guilty

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Icy_Hippo@reddit

god, I can still smell it! lol

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_Internet_Hugs_@reddit

I made my own and then got that blistering sunburn (Phytophotodermatitis) you get from lemon juice, on my scalp. Not fun.

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hyjnx@reddit

I put some in before a soccer camp and my brown hair came out blonde

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Eeeeeeeeehwhatsup@reddit

I wanted my hair to be victimized by Sun In but was never able to buy it 😅

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JumperSpecialK@reddit

It’s still out there selling on shelves

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Eeeeeeeeehwhatsup@reddit

I believe it. Haven’t had a desire to use it since I was 11 😅

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Oomlotte99@reddit

I have a great 8th grade picture with a brassy top on my otherwise brown, curly hair.

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LazyZealot9428@reddit

I used this all throughout my childhood on my dark blonde hair to make it lighter & give me highlights with any ill effects. I don’t understand the Sun-In hate.

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Do_it_My_Way-79@reddit

One time. I got in trouble because I was in the Navy at the time.

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Potential_Shelter624@reddit

I have dark hair and wanted red highlights, it worked perfectly lol.

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SamHandwichX@reddit

That crispy blonde look 👌

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NotEvenHere4It@reddit

Except orange.

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NotEvenHere4It@reddit

I can still remember the terrible smell.

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Wonderful-Athlete-83@reddit

I had orange hair for most of sixth grade

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Electronic_Dog_9361@reddit

My dad wouldn't let me dye my hair so I used sun-in which gave me orange highlights. My dad commented on my hair, and I told him it was just from being in the pool and sun.

He also wouldn't let me wear anything but red or pink nail polish. I now only wear everything but red and pink nail polish. Mostly blue which he hated, and I dye my hair purple every so often.

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