Side by Side Comparison of: Joyous vs Ion

Fairly easy to use and looks great! I haven't tried the pink yet, but the blue and purple are amazing!

Just as described! Recently we dyed my daughter's hair at a professional salon. She looks fabulous. To add extra color we bought professional hair chalk to add more color and so far so good! It is excellent and we are happy with this particular purchase. What fun!!!!!!

I got this for my 4 year old to play dress up with. Easy to apply and very easy to wash out. Have had them for over a month and haven't had any issues with it coming off on clothes or fabrics.

Does what you expect--goes onto hair easily, seems to cover the native color, then washes out with shampoo and water. Transfers a bit to fingers and cloth, but if you don't want that, just use some real dye! :)I like it a lot, anyhow. The colors blend nicely too--if you put pink and blue beside each other and comb, they mix nicely.

The colors are great, I got pink and green. The instructions included are for the mascara and not the chalk, but it isn't hard to use. The colors have a texture of a eye/lip liner and the colors are saturated enough to show up nicely on my dirty blond hair. And you can vary the intensity by applying more, or a second coat. The color stayed on my hair all night and didn't come off on my pillow which was nice, but they also washed out easily with shampoo. The little i got on my fingers while applying easily rinsed off.

I really like it! It stays fresh looking and it doesn't flake off like the powder chalk which would fall onto my eyelashes . colors are nice bright!

Very pretty shades. Not my favorite hair chalk, but my second favorite. Never buy the hair chalk than comes in disks, it does not work. These pens are fabulous to use and they show up more.

Product works great and washed out of my daughters blonde hair the first time using shampoo. As expected, the vivid color can fade during a long day, but that does not take away from the fun. My only negative, the directions on the back of each box indicated that color was to be applied with a "mascara" wand. No wand with this stuff. Just "draw" it on the desired spot.

I ordered these because my 3 year old daughter wanted pink hair! I thought it would be ok if it was temporary. We first tried the kool-aid method which was a huge mess and I had to have a 3 year old sit for 45 minutes sitting still! And then it didn't even stick. So I ordered these. They are small, the size of a longer chap stick. It says it's chalk, but it's not dry like chalk, it is more of a chalk with oil in it. You have to pull hair taught to apply the color (like chap stick) so you will lose any curls you have since its oily. You can brush through it afterwards to break apart the colored portions and it looks cuter and looks more dry. It also washed out in 1st bath. Overall, I would say it is a good product for someone who just wants colored hair for 1 day. She has light hair, so you can see it well. Mine is dark brown and you could see it, but not very well. The colors are cute.

This product is a bit waxy, and it took longer to apply than I anticipated. You can build color slowly by adding more product, so it's very easy to control how much color you have. I have light brown hair, and the colors did not show up as boldly as I had hoped. In the first attached photo, you can see the purple, pink and blue after doing about 10-12 passes of color. On the next photo, I ran a large toothed comb through my hair 3-4 times to break up some of the waxy chunks. The color became lighter with each pass. So if you are someone that brushes your hair throughout the day, this probably won't work for you. I was a bit disappointed that the purple almost disappeared once I combed it, so as a test I added a ton to my bangs, which have the lightest highlights. The color did better there, and definitely showed up more than on the darker hair sections. The texture was a bit weird, and my hair tended to tangle. Although it looked totally normal. Everything washed out completely in 1 shampoo without leaving any residue.

I must say that I received this item in exchange for my honest opinion. I received these chalk hi kites and my daughter wanted to use them immediately. I was able to make her hair so beautiful. It gave her a rainbow of colors and was extremely easy to use. I do recommend that you use an old shirt the 1 or 2 times you use these. My daughter wanted colorful hair, I said ok, but no dyeing it. These are so cool. They have her the ability to have colorful, but no commitment to it.

These are so easy to use. You just rub then on strands of hair and you have cool colors. Best thing is they wash out easily with your regular shampoo. Fun product.

I purchased the hair chalk as part of a costume. I have dark blonde hair and it took a dozen or so passes per small section to color my hair. While the chalk did eventually color my hair, it left an extremely oily and weighed down look.It's nice to have the ability to control how much color your hair gets, but isn't worth it if you're looking for a fuller color. I'm sure this would be great for light blondes (or white hairs).

Its chalk that colors hair.... What do you expect, gets on everything and washes out on everything.. but if you are into colored hair and matching top... its great..

It is what it is: some not-so-great chalk for about eight bucks that I can use on my kid's hair and that satisfies the part of her who wants dyed hair. It doesn't last and it's not that bright, especially on kids with darker hair. My youngest is blonde, though, and you still don't really see it on her. You have to really use a lot, which ends up getting elsewhere, on their clothes, etc...

I bought these fire my daughter who has dark brown hair. The blue did not show up well at all... Even if she caked it on. The purple and pink were okay on dark brown hair but if you have curly hair and want to blow your hair out and use these crayons it wont work well because you need wet hair to use these.My other daughter who has strawberry blonde hair used these and all the colors showed up well. Again though she has curly hair so even when her hair was straightened she had to wet the piece that she wanted colored....which curled her hair back up . Not good for a person who goes curly to straight.

But should apply more more more even for very small portion of hair and even very light to! Not as expected:(

i bought these for my kids first day of school one of my kids has blond hair it look really nice in their hair my other 2 kids have light brown hair it did not show up as well in their hair. i only reccomend this if your kid has lightly colored hair. it does wash out easy

Not a great product. This brand does not adapt to the hair very well and the colors aren't great. I'd search for a different brand next time.

Left my hair extremely greasy and after washing my hair I am still a grease ball. I have dark blond hair and it took a lot of back and forth to get some color.

When I read "chalk" I expected a chalk like feel to it. It's more like a greasy crayon.

This stuff will get everywhere. Your clothes, skin, car. It looked kinda cool but not really worth it.

it came with Purple Pink and Dark Blue. Looks nothing like the product picture. Dark Blue did not even show up on brown hair. must have light or blond hair for this product to work

While the chalk worked well enough on my wifes light hair, it did not show on my daughters black hair. She was disappointed as were we.

I use it on my cats fur this stuff doesn't show well on darker hair colors

I have fine straight hair so I thought it would be easy to use. I have only tried the green one, but the tip broke off as I was trying to color my hair. I would not recommend this product if you plan on doing it yourself and holding onto the ends of your hair as you try to apply it.

This product only works on blond hair. My daughter has light brown hair, & even after using almost half of the stick on one section of hair, it cakes up on the hair, makes it sticky, but barely shows up. The hot pink shows up a little bit, but this product is definitely a waste of money!

This product doesn't show up as well as I expected even with low expectations. It feels very gross and you might as well just smear lipstick on your hair because that is how it feels.

Looks awful in hair, kool aid is even a better choice. Makes hair tacky, clumpy, as if you rubbed melted candy in it. Washes out easy, so that was good.

I haven't tried any other hair chalk.. but it was more like a soft crayon. It sort of clumps in the hair and makes it heavy. Hard to see unless you put it on thick.. and then it just feels gross! I wouldn't buy it again.