Finally, purple hair!

Hello again, doing a quick update on my current hair. So after I did the Crazy Colour and it faded to pale turquoise, I kept it that way for almost 3 months. Then the roots started growing in, and it started to look really awful.

So my birthday was coming up and my mum and dad said they would take me to the hairdressers to get my hair professionally done. I was thinking about getting some kind of pastel, maybe pale pink, but I wasn't so sure if it was possible as it would have to be bleached several times. 

I asked about it at the hairdressers and they agreed, would need to be bleached a lot to get it light enough to put pink over the left over green, so I needed a plan B, and of course that was purple!

I decided to get a darker purple than what I'd been doing myself, and also asked for a dark blue dip dye. It looks amazing and I love it, but trying to get pictures to all look the same has proven hard haha, keeps changing colour depending on whether I use my phone or my boyfriends, and also depends on the light too. So I'll put a bunch of photos up. 

Bleaching my hair part 2

Ok so in my last post I'd managed to get my hair to the pale yellow stage. The roots were almost white blonde, with the underside very pale yellow and the mid lengths of the top layer a darker yellow. So very patchy all over. Now when I did this bleaching and toning I'd left it a couple of weeks so I had to re do my roots but they came out fine, same as before. I used all the same bleachibg products and measurements as I did in part 1. After the bleaching the underside was as light as the roots so nearly there, but once again the top mid lengths were just a bit darker, you couldn't tell properly inside but in bright light it was quite obvious so I thought toning might help. I used Loreal Luocolour P01,with 25% developer. And this worked amazingly all over. I think it said to leave it on for 20 minutes, I left it for just a bit longer, maybe half an hour as I'd read from other reviews it can give a lilac hue to your hair as it is a purple based toner. The roots came out a platinum colour with a tiny but of purple, and the mid lengths went pure blonde, no yellow. Once again it was a tiny bit darker but still light blonde. So because I'd got it all very light I thought I'd go ahead and try the all over pastel dye. I had Crazy Colour in Lilac and I diluted it with a looooooot of white conditioner. Too much. I used the full bottle of dye and god knows how much conditioner. The roots once again turned a nice colour but it didn't affect the midsection. Gutted! Here's a picture of my roots, I really liked this.

So the overall conclusion is I think it needs one more bleach and tone, primarily on the dastardly middle part! The Loreal Luocolour is amazing, I would definitely recommend it for completely taking away brassy or yellow tones. I've also been using Provoke Touch of Silver which keeps the roots a great colour. The purple has pretty much all washed out and I've been left with a slight green tinge which is just unfortunately how the purple fades.

Hopefully just one more post to go till I get it a nice white blonde everywhere! Here's how it looks just now.

Bleaching My Hair part 1

After doing my hair a million times to try and get my desired purple, I decided to maybe try a different colour. Right now, I've still not dyed it after bleaching, but I'm either going to do a pastel lilac or maybe a light pinky purple. Something like these.

So, having incredible dark brown hair, the first thing I had to do was bleach it. I watched a lot of tutorials online on how to do it, and found reviews for the best bleach. I settled on the crazy colour bleaching kit, the reviews were good but it did say there wouldn't be enough bleach for hair past shoulder length, so I bough an extra sachet of powder and developer. The kit was good, it came with a mixing tub and a tinting brush, the tub was tiny so I used a bigger tub I had, but I did like the tint brush. So I mixed up the 50g of powder and 100ml of developer, which is 30 vol (9%), and also mixed the same amount of the extra I bought which was all in all 100g of powder and 200ml of developer. That did my hair length fine, which is about boob length. Now here's the stupid part, I sectioned my hair into 4, bottom and top and respectively left and right, and just went ahead and slathered the dye on, bottom half then top. But I didn't account for my virgin hair, which is about 2ish inches. So after I'd left it on, literally about 15 minutes after the roots were very light, like a banana yellow and the midsection was still dark. I left that on for about an hour, maybe a bit more and went to wash it out. While wet it looked hardly any lighter, but when it was dry, the roots were so light! And not even a weird ginger colour, still quite yellow but if my hair was all that colour it wouldn't be so bad buuuuuuuuuuut, I'd done it stupidly and had half yellow half ginger hair. The midsection was very orange. Oh and the ends were light because I had ombre hair before, so it looked pretty weird.

The annoying pink patch is actually glow from the tv haha, but yeah that was the extent of the difference. But after one bleaching it had lifted a lot of the dark out but made it fairly ginger. So I left it a day and then bleached the midsection. Once again was kinda stupid and started bleaching the underside, which turned out lighter but overall after a second bleaching it once again lifted the darker orange and made it slightly more yellow. This picture doesn't show much of a difference because of the bathroom light but it wasn't too bad.

So that was part one, I'd managed to get it lightened, but I still have a long way to get it blonde enough to pastel over! Gonna do part 2 soon, after another bleaching and also toning, so stay tuned!

Schwarzkopf LIVE Color XXL Ultra Brights Purple Punk review

I've had purple hair on and off since about 2009. I first got it done when I was at my mums hairdressers and it was done over a layer of blonde through my hair so the top layer went a dark plum colour and the bottom was an amazing kinda royal purple (?), is that even a colour. It was closer to blue than it was to pink and didn't have any red tones in it. I loved that, and the bottom colour is what I've been trying to find without going to the hairdressers. Everything else I've tried always is a plum pink colour, always got red tones in it. This was it back in 09.

So, onto the review. I finally saw this purple punk, and it looks an amazing colour on the box. Before I dyed my hair I had the whole ombre thing going on so I was aiming for dark purple on the top and bright purple on the ends for a dip dye look. 

You've to use this on damp hair, and rather than faffing about with the creme in a tube then the developer bottle, there was only one tube to deal with. It came out an electric purple, so bright, but my god did it stain everything it touched! Make sure you wear old clothes and stay away from everything!

I covered my whole head, and I think I left it in for about half an hour, maybe a bit longer and rinsed it all out completely. It takes a while to get it all out. When it was dry, I was a bit disappointed, it didn't make any difference to the top section of my hair, but to be fair it did say it would be best on bleached hair. I did think it was give it a bit of a tint in the light but nothing. 

The bottom section I really liked. It looked nothing like it did on the box haha but I still liked the colour. It's more of a pink purple and really really bright. The box said it's only temporary and lasts 6-8 washes. I'd say that was about right. It faded quite gradually but then one day I realised it was almost a peach colour and just looked ombre again. 

Overall, I wouldn't but it again, not purple enough but if I was going for a pinker colour then I'd definitely go for it.