Back when we rounded up some ’90s fashion mistakes, one item markedly left off the list was Hypercolor, because fashion that changes color based on temperature is still cool. (Well, at least when it’s not near your crotch. Jennifer from seventh grade will never live that one down.)
Now the same principle of “reactive fashion” has been applied to hair dye with FIRE, a new chemical creation unveiled by The Unseen at London Fashion Week, which is currently under way. Inventor Lauren Bowker formulated the dye to be safe for the scalp, no worse for hair fibers than other dyes, and supposedly less toxic than conventional hair dye, although testing is still ongoing and the product isn’t available in stores yet. That’s a bummer, but OOO PRETTY:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BQq8AJeAxRF
How the heck does that work? Wired UK explains:
When the temperature drops or rises, the carbon-based molecules at the core of the FIRE dye undergo a reversible reaction. Above a certain temperature change, one of the molecules in the carbon bond is more stable than the other, and so a reaction produces a molecule with a slightly different absorption of light, thus creating a different colour.
The FIRE dye comes in at least two versions (bright red and light pastel), as seen in these videos and photos:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BQs0B2mgFLN/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BQpdUVvgkLQ/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BQpbqiIAdYs/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BQvxcgKApRv/
(Via The Unseen, Laughing Squid, and Wired UK)
