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!

Crazy Colour Hot Purple review

So in my quest for nice dark purple hair dye, I came across Crazy Colour. My cousin used it on me about 3ish years ago and I think she used Violette, but I quite like the look of Hot Purple so I thought why not!

There was a deal on at Sallys where I could buy 3 bottles for £12, I only bought 3 of Hot Purple which now I realise is silly, anywho, on we go!

It only comes in one bottle, no having to mix any developer or anything so it was fairly easy to apply. I used the full bottle on my whole head and left it in for about 45 minutes.
It looked quite blue on my head and washing it out, the water was kinda blue but the end result was pretty much what I was looking for. It stained my pillows blue for a few days before I washed it again and it lasted about 8 washes before it started to fade. The picture on the left makes it look a lot more pink that it was, it doesn't look like that on my phone haha.

After washing it good few times, it started to go a bit blue and some bits are a tiny bit green, so I have a turquoise dip dye which doesn't actually look too bad, but I think I might try Violette again and see if that is a bit more true purple. Right now I have my weird blueish hair to sort out.

Anyone got any suggestions on purple dye? I'd like to hear peoples thoughts. 

Barry M Gelly in Passionfruit and Mango!

I love these Gellys! I got these two for my birthday plus a light green which I think is called kiwi, not used it yet.

I was supposed to post this before the last one I did, and now I'm annoyed its not chronological, but here we go!

The red is Passionfruit, the orange is Mango. They're both so shiny, only needed two coats, one would have been alright but it can be a bit streaky, so two it is! 

Quite summery colours but it is nice to have bright nails when the weather is getting crap! 

Barry M Raspberry and Gelly in Guava

Went into Boots the other day and it was buy one get one half price on Barry M, woohoo!

It's getting hard to find colours I don't have, but I found a Gelly in Guava, one of the newer ones I think. And then there was a normal nail paint in Raspberry. I realised the only red I have is a glitter and a new Gelly called Passionfruit.

The Guava is so bright and shiny and the Raspberry is a nice darkish red, subtle and sophisticated both flattering and go quite nicely together!

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.

Barry M Gelly Blueberry!

I saw this colour today, and even though I'm going through a glitter phase, I had to get it. Such a cute pastel colour, which I don't have a lot of. And I have no blue pastel!
I used this in my last mani, using it on my ring finger with some sparkle over the top, then I decided to put my holo topcoat to see what it did and it was amazing.
So I ended up taking all the Goldmine glitter off (which was a complete pain) and putting this on my other nails, complete with holo topcoat.
The topcoat makes it go a shimmery cornflour blue, and in bright light it's super sparkly. I'll put two photos up, one with flash and one without. I just love it.

Barry M Gold Mine

Haven't posted in quite some time, since I've got a job with later hours I've not had much of a chance to do cute nails, but I went out today and got Barry M Goldmine, Denim and Gelly Blueberry.
So I decided to do Goldmine on all my nails except from my ring finger, which has the Barry M Gelly Blueberry on it, and I also used OPI Servin' Up Sparkle and placed a few of the larger hex glitters at the bottom as well as a one coat over the top.