Color fades. Not dramatically, not overnight — but a few weeks after the salon, the shade that looked so alive in the mirror starts to read flat, brassy, or just less. Davines Alchemic exists for exactly that stretch: a color-enhancing shampoo and conditioner in six shades, each made to intensify and illuminate one family of hair color, natural or cosmetic, for a quick touch-up between appointments. The catch is choosing the right shade — and that is what this guide is for.
How Alchemic Works
Every Alchemic shampoo cleanses while it deposits color-enhancing pigment matched to its shade, so the tone you paid for stays intense and reflective — and the shampoo formulas are enriched with Vitamin B for strong moisturizing power that helps prevent damage, leaving hair healthy and soft. The matching conditioners carry the same shade pigment plus Jojoba oil for high shine, softness, and a conditioning finish. Used together as a pair, they refresh your color with every wash — a maintenance step, not a dye. Browse the full Davines Alchemic collection as you read.
The Six Shades, Matched to Your Hair
Silver — platinum and cool blondes
The Alchemic Silver Shampoo (280ml, ₱1,550) is the line's purple shampoo: color-enhancing pigment for platinum and cool blonde tones, natural or colored, designed to intensify and illuminate silver reflections on all hair types. Pair it with the Alchemic Silver Conditioner (250ml, ₱1,850) to condition while it enhances. If your blonde is cool, ashy, or platinum and you fight yellow between appointments, this is your shade. (For golden blondes, keep reading — Golden is the one you want.)
Golden — golden blonde to honey blonde
The Alchemic Golden Shampoo (280ml, ₱1,550) and Golden Conditioner (250ml, ₱1,850) intensify natural or cosmetic golden tones — golden blonde through honey blonde. This is the warm-blonde shade: where Silver cools, Golden warms and brightens, keeping honey and caramel highlights glowing rather than fading to flat.
Copper — warm reds and copper
The Alchemic Copper Shampoo (280ml, ₱1,550) and Copper Conditioner (250ml, ₱1,850) enhance warm red and copper tones, natural or cosmetic — ideal for copper and light-brown hair with a warm cast. Copper is the pair for anyone whose color lives in the warm-red-to-copper family and wants a quick touch-up between salon visits.
Red — cool reds and pinks
The Alchemic Red Shampoo (280ml, ₱1,550) and Red Conditioner (250ml, ₱1,850) are for cool red tones — think cherry, burgundy, and pink — intensifying natural or cosmetic red reflections on all hair types. The Copper-versus-Red decision is a temperature question: warm, orange-leaning red is Copper; cool, blue-leaning red or pink is Red.
Tobacco — medium to light browns
The Alchemic Tobacco Shampoo (280ml, ₱1,550) and Tobacco Conditioner (250ml, ₱1,850) are made for medium-to-light brown tones — the lighter brunette shades, natural or colored — intensifying and illuminating them. If you color to a soft brown or lightened brunette, Tobacco is the shade that keeps it from looking washed-out as the weeks pass. Light brown that leans copper is Copper's territory; otherwise, it's Tobacco.
Chocolate — dark brown to black
The Alchemic Chocolate Shampoo (280ml, ₱1,550) and Chocolate Conditioner (250ml, ₱1,850) are for dark brown or black tones — intensifying and illuminating natural or colored dark brunette shades. Dark hair doesn't fade to yellow; it fades to dull. Chocolate restores depth and reflection to natural or colored dark brown and black hair.
Which Shade Is Mine?
| Your hair color | Alchemic shade | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Platinum, ash, cool blonde | Silver | Purple pigment — cools and illuminates cool blondes |
| Golden blonde, honey blonde | Golden | Warms and brightens golden tones |
| Copper, warm red, warm light brown | Copper | Intensifies warm red and copper |
| Cherry, burgundy, pink, cool red | Red | Intensifies cool red reflections |
| Medium to light brown | Tobacco | Illuminates lighter brunette shades |
| Dark brown, black | Chocolate | Restores depth to dark shades |
How to Use It — and What to Expect
Think of Alchemic as a color maintenance wash, not a color service. Reach for the shade-matched pair, in place of your usual wash, whenever your color needs a quick touch-up between salon visits. Each shade comes as a shampoo, a conditioner, or a shampoo-and-conditioner pair, and every shade is in the Alchemic collection. One honest boundary: Alchemic enhances the color you already have — it cannot change your shade, lighten hair, or cover regrowth — so follow the pack directions and let the pair do its maintenance work. For the routine around it, our guide to post-color care covers the rest; blondes chasing brightness with bond care should also look at Heart of Glass, and if what you want is plain color protection without pigment, MINU is the Essential Haircare line for that.
Six shades, one question: what color are you keeping alive? Answer it from the table, pick the pair, and let every wash do a little of the salon's work. Everything above lives in the Davines Alchemic collection at HairMNL, within the wider Davines range.
